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toners. But now since the mercantile agents
have been displaced, | rs the Alliance agent
have sold about S2Q,0OO worth. When receive
price lists from Mr.. Donaldson Immediately
mail them to Sub llianccs.
But | would say, buy from your home mer-
chant, il he offers his goods at fair prices
The Alliance pressure has brought the prices
down. Remove that pressure, and you could
almost see the prices rise again.
The Alliance Is no more political than the
Church. All things being equal however. II
is well to support Alliance men for office
We are determined to have brainy men, men
Of intelligence. We intend to have the very
beat men.
The idea that We intend 10 bolt the Demo
cratic ticket is only an insult-nothing more
nor less.
Who rode day and night in 1876? Farmers
who were in the war, and received seven
tenlhs of the bullets.
Seven.tenths of the bones which strew our
battle fields, are the bones OF patriotic farm
ers.
Where would you go to get a blue.stocking
Democrat, II not among the farmers?
I throw back the insult that farmers are try
ing TO break up the Democratic party by sug-
gcStinS candidate for Governor The Farm
crs Movement simply, met in convention, as
Lhry had right to do, and suggested B. H.
Tillman MS their choice for Governor.
What did LowndesvilIc do in 1876? The
Democratic club at this place suggested IL. II.
Harper rs thei: choice for office. Applause.
Nobody then charged the LowndeSvllle DEM
ocratic club with treason to the party. No
farmer will refuse to vote the Democratic
ticket.
Remember that the Farmers Movement is
different organization from that of the ALL
ancc.
Congress is afraid of the South and North
west Joining hands.
Keep politics out Of the Alliance
Contend tor your rights in the Democratic
clubs.
Get good men for oflce-the best men-trled
men-true men.
i,i Inip ,ota Cos tioy,
men for office. Let Christian men give Chris.
tan candidates their votes.
This is all that have to say just now.
want to whisper something privately to Alli.
place in about thirty minutes, after the adj
journmrnt Of this meeting this evening.
THE IIoNORED PRESIDENT OF THE ALLIANCE
Is INTRODUCED.
Mr.. William G. Shaw, President, then said ::
Ladies' and conference.-the next gentle
man whom will Introduce To you, like his
predecessor, Is we'll known TO the people OF
this county. and he Is not u stranger TO the
people OF South Carolina. He is the honored
and greatly beloved President of the County
Alliance, Mr.. John II. Blake, In whom we all
rcpnse the greatest confidence:
- lie began by referring TO the pleasant aSSo.
cialiOns that attracted him 10 the communi-
IS. 1t was here his mother spent some of her
school days, and here he found the partner OF
his life. He congratulated himself that the
occasion was held under the auspices Of the
Farmers Alliance, and that we had an eXem.
pliilcation OF SOue OF the social and moral
features of the organization.
After dwelling upon these features OF the or
der. which had for their object the elevation OF
society, the restoration Of confidence between
the views of life, he entered upon the finan-
cial benefits derived from the organization.
Wiil II was this feature Of the Alliance that
invoked the criticism OF other professions, yet
N tDunniSDn
pnrt of the ORDER Its principles are broad
and look TO the upDuildlng OF the masses Of
the entire country. He dwelt upon the rela-
ton which the farmer bore to the prosperity
meant more churches, school houses, rail-
roads. manufactures and commerce, and no
country could prosper unless its Individual
France as an illustration Of this fact Her
rapid recovery from the disuster OF the Fran
co German war lay In her myriads Of happy
and prosperous homes.
The Alliance Is opposed to the centraliZa-
ton OF capital and unjust monopoly and
trusts, which tend to oppress the masses oI
the country. And the fact that monopoly and
trust preyed upon the products Of the labor
ing classes, and because farmers felt more sen.
sibly the burdens of such oppression, and
We're striving TO relieve themselves from the
charged by some with Kicking before they
were spurrcd. He illustrated this with an au-
ecdote of boy whipped in school, and did
not tell his father about 1t, and when the old
gentleman found 1t out, he said, "Jobnnie,
didn't know you were whipped last Monday"
The boy SAID, "WclI, Zap, If you had been in
my breeche:s, last Monday you would knowed
all about IT,"
lie referred to instances where centralized
capital, through monopoly and trust, had cor
nercd The cotton crop, wheat crop, sugar, bag
cling. &c" and made millions OF dollars above
legitimate profit, and farmers were the prin-
cipal sufferers. 10 overcome these evils, he
urged the Importance Uf cooperation and
union on tie part OF farmers. All history
and records of tic past teach tie necessity OF
cnOpciatiUn TO accomplish the best results.
In union only Is strength. In this lies the
power Of the Alliance 10 overcame the evils
that threaten the agricultural interests.
lie referred to some Of the benefits already
derived from the Alliance in the sale OF cot
ton, purchase Of guauo, &c. But the object oi
the order was not simply to enable US TO buy
chcaply, but it teaches the principles of econ
omy, to keep out of debt. II urges the I'M
porIuncc of making tho Elrmcr Scfsustain'
Ing. We cnn never be frcemcn so long as we
are in financial bondage, The Alliance can
never relieve Us financially, so long as our
barns are empty and property mortSaseG.
and trust and monopoly will always flourish
upon the necessities of the farmers, so long rs
tie farm Is not selI.suStainlng. y full
granary is death to flour trust VIII lie meat
trust would starve upon full meat house. II
is Il reflection upon the intelligence OF the far
Incr to bc engaged in killing grass six months
In the year, and then buy western hay to ena-
Die them TO cultivate crop.
Above all things. he urged the farmers 10
avoid The credit system, aud to buy for cash.
Merchants would rather have the farmers
cash than his credit. The cash has never
Uankruptcd merchant, while the credit has.
While ihe credit offers great profits to the
merchant, yet the system carries with II In
creased risks, which often prove disastrous 10
both purchaser and seller.
Ic also urged the farmers tG devote more
attention to the study of agricultural science.
No profession can succeed unless there is
knowledge OF the principles when govern IL.
The merchant, lawyer. and doctor must be
conyersant in tho principles CT their proles-
sion to succeed, and the farmer Is no eXcep-
tion to the rule. While lie should not cNer-
else his muscles less, yet he should cultivate
his mind more me a9rlcuI tural p[oiessio,,
needs the aid OF the educated rs much as any
other profession. To reap the best results ol
our labor, the muscles should be directed by Il
well informed mind. Seek wisdom, FOR WIS
dom is rowcr,--hence farmers should reilu AZ
riculiuruI literature, and thus reap benefits
from the experience of GthcrS-inltatc their
successes and avoid their mistakes. Tho ihni.
iIy should also be furnished with literature
calculated to refine and elevate The nome CIR
Gle Ey dirnifying labor and elcvatinS the
and u.Eking home attractive onr
sons will be less inclined to leave the parcn-
tul roof and seek employment III already
crowdrd cities. there to become, rs Is fire.
oucnIly the case, the Victims TO the tclnpta'
tinns OF the world. ..
The questions now engaging the attention
of the farmers OF Inc country HeAI ieSeinSu i,;f
attention While the Alliance Is not pollll-
cal organization. and should not he nSed as
such, vet there were great economic ana iesls-
Iativc reforms that in importance rose above
Mi considerations of Il parts IL character,
that demand the attention of all patriotic ahd
loyal citizens. some of these measures, such
AS transportation, finance, tariff, 90, nave
hccn ciaructcriz"d hy the national orsahizu, !
lions rs the principal cause Of the agricultural
Of III" coEntry. Thcar were con-
>id"rrd the rraSoEs why the Kansas larller
burncd his corn lOr fuel, while the family oi
ihr Pennsylvania coal miner suffered lor
bread. - ,, !
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