The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-12-20

ocean, the richest and grandest heritage
ever vouchsafed to man, and whose very
air should be vocal with the thrilling
notes of peace and plenty, but which is
laden with the dismal, universal wall of
"hard times"
President Garfield said, ssWhoever con-
trolls the currency of country controls
the people," This vast aggregation of
capital, enriching the few to the impover-
ishment of the many, is entrenched behind
law, but it has heard the sullen and omi-
nous murmur of an oppressed people.
[Applause.
Over one thousand years ago, the old
Sheik Ilderim, of Medina, said to certain
Roman ingrates: "Do you dream that be-
cause the prophet of Allah dwells now be-
yond the bridge of AL Sirat, that therefore
he is deaf, and dumb, and blind7 I tell
you by the splendor of Godi that tempest
is brooding on his brow, there is lightning
gathering in his soul for you." Do men
dream that because of the Genius of JUS
tice has withdrawn and no longer presides
in the Councils of the Nation. that there
fore it has become deaf and dumb and
blind? Let them not deceive themselves
with such delusion. CONTINUED applause. !
We are told that the unjust and ruin
power are made in conformity to law.
answer as an American citizen-as North
Carolinian, aye, as descendant of our
Mecklenburg fathers, that the tyrannical
mandates of George the Third, were ac-
companied by the boastful declaration
that he, too, was the rightful occupant of
the British throne. [Applause.]
There is no tyranny so degrading as le-
gallzed tyranny-there is no injustice so
oppressive as that which stands entrenched
behind the forms of law.
Thus, Mr. Chairman, have very briefly
referred to some of the causes which have
inaugurated the "new revolution" and
which assumed form and life, and being
in the great convention at St. Louis, last
week. The cry for relief which swells up
| all over the land will nOt-it cannot be
suppressed. Justice, and not charity, is
what we demand. Warning on no legiti.
mate interest, legitimately prosecuted, we
earnestly invoke the sympathy and aid of
all good citizens of whatever rank, or
class, or vocation. Applause.
Thank God! that the farmers of the
great Northwest and of the South-repre-
sentatives of constituency of 5000, 900,
of the most conservative of all our people,
were at last permitted to convene in St.
Louis, without the officious and wicked
interference of designing sectional agita-
tors-those men who were ''invisible in
war and who have been invinclble in
peace" Many of these farmers were
war SCARED veterans who had faced
each other in the red blaze of battle. But
patriOtically and magnanimously turning
their backs to the past, they clasped
hands as brethren and standing around
the grave of sectionalism, they planted
| thereon the white rose of peace, with the
united prayer, that it might bloom per-
petually and forever. Applause
Thus united in purpose and impelled by
common interest and common peril, the
''new revolution" will move forward with
resistless force until the sovereignty of the
people shall be re-established in the glory
of its majesty and power, and justice shall
be re-enthroned. [Applause.
And when old Father Time shall grow
weary with his work of demolition, and
shall sit down mid the wreck of empires
and wasted monuments and extinct gov
ernments to recount his victories, may he
find towering high above the desolation of
the ages, in all the freshness and beauty
of resplendent glory, the Temple of Amer
ican Liberty, and inscribed above its por-
tai, in characters of fadeless light, the
symbols of its immortal duration-Truth,
Justice and Equity! [Great applause
Other Toasts.
| Otner tOAStS were gwen ana responded
| to as follows:
The Farmer Manufacturer T. M.
Holt.
The Aim of the Alliance-Mr. A. C..
Green, President Wake County Farmers
| Alliance.
The A. & M. College and the Farmers
President Holiday.
The Lawyer and the Farmer-Mr. W. J.
Peele.
The University and the Farmers-Presi-
dent Battle.
North Carolina Foremost-Mr. Hal. W.
Aver.
Wake Forest and the Farmers-prof. :. .
B. Carlyle.
The New South-Mr. James Norfeet.
Public Education and the Farmers-State
Supt. S. NJ. Finger
Political Education-Mr A. D. Jones'
The Farmer in Politics-Mr. F. n. Bus
bee
Labor Organizations-Mr. N. B Brough-
| ton.
State Pride-Mr. W. N. Jones.
Letters From Prominent Men.
Letters were read from prominent citi-
zens regretting their inability to be pres
ent. Among them were GOVERNOR FOwLE,
SENATOR VANCE, PRESIDENT CRowELL, of
Trinity College, PROF. II. L. SMITH, of Da-
| VlOSOn COIieS0, MH y ULIAN .. CARR, CAPT.
S. A. AsHE, State Senator JAS. 81. POU. A
telegram of regret and congratulation was
read from Messrs. VANCE, LONG, FREEMAN
and TOMLINsoN, of Buncombe county. We
regret that our space will not permit the
publication of all the letters
GOVERNOR FOwLE wrote: ''It is with
great regret that find that public duty
will require me to be absent from the ban
quet given to one of North Cardinals dis
tinguished sons. In elevating Col Polk
to the Presidency of the National Farmers
and Laborers' Union, there was compli-
ment paid to the whole State. and l look
forward with assurance, that his labors in
that exalted position will bring new hon
ors to himself and increased glory to his
old mother, North Carolina. Please, for
me, present to him, publicly the thanks of
our State, that by his energy, ability and
patriotism he has caused himself to be
thus honOred."
SENATOR VANCE wrote: 81 am greatly
honored by your kindness. and sincerely
regret that my duties here will prevent
my attendance. In addition to the peas
ure it would give me to meet so many
friends, there wonld be also feeling far
deeper and more gratifying in contemplat-
ing the fact, that the honors which you
pay Col. Polk, marks another and most
important step in matter which have