Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-11-20
10 Tie Alliance.
A STRONG DOCUMENT FROM IA FoRcr-
BILE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
ABLE AND TRUE.

a ABLE AND TRUE.
70 The Georgia Alliance: Ihaye
invitations to address the people
from the counties that lie between
Habersham aud the seab6ard, and$it
is physically impossible for me to re-
spond, and the election is but four
days off, ! have concluded, in lieu of
speaking at two OF three places--all
that I could do--to say to yon
through the press part of what I
would say WereI to speak.
Thought address you by name, /
am speaking to all the people of
Georgia. | am not separating you
and your interest from the}interests
Of those not mombers Of the Alliance.
In the great warfare you are in, you
hold the same relation to the whole
people as did our soldiers in the late
WW, to the old and young, the women
and children who were at home.
Yougare in a war. You have declared
war against the enemies Of the
whole people. You represent the
rights of all. You contend for just
ice to- all. It is sufficient for me to
know, you were patriots in '6l, and
are the same to-day. 1t is enough
for me to know you are the same
Democrats who have preserved the
true principles of Jeffersonian De-
mocracy ever since we furled our
flag. / say, that a knowledge Of
these facts should strike dumb the
man who assails your organization as
undeunoaratic, IS unrepublioan, rs
dark lantern and midnight plotters,
as agents in disguise Of the black
Republican party.
If d%eliverance is not given to the
people by you, | sec no other hope.
You ire the reserve forces--the last
possible levies--for you are the great
body of the people.
TIL FARMER IN POLITICS.
It is gpjected that you should not
enter pG1itics. That is to say your
enemy is in politics-is nowhere else
and you must fight, but must not
enter his territory. To make this as
clear as light, let me say the money
power is your enemy; these methods
are put into operation almost exclu-
sivoly by Federal legislation; Federal
legislation is done by Congress; Con-
gress is controlled by vhe money
power; the people elect Congress;
elections are the only means on earth,
short Of revolution by arms, by
which relief a come; you are or
gained to give that relief. But, say
your opponents, "you should not
have anything to do with politics;
you arc making a big mistake to
:meddle in politics; if you do, you
are bound to go to pieces"
When you hear a man say that you
need not hesitate to decide that he
cannot reason logically, or that you
are in his way in politics, or that no
belongs tc the enemy.
Your m ssion is essentially politi-
cal. 1t is to right our overturned
finances; it is, in short, "to establish
justice, to insure domestic tranquility,
promote the general welfare and Sc
cure the blessings of liberty to our
selves and III posterity." Those
ends for which our Federal govern
ment was founded and which it, I'M
der control of the money power for
thirty years, has almost destroyed.
ono GOOD IN NAZARETH"
Seeing, as your organization did,
that tho fountain of our woes is in
our financial system, the Alliance set
to work to provide q remedy. You
have not maintained that it is per-
feet, much less a panacea. AS soon
as it was born, it was set upon by
tho press and politicians. It's pator-
nifty was enough for them to know.
"Farmers what do they know of
financies Z"
"What is he to Hecuba, or Hecuba
to hlmW
"No good can come out of Naza-
reth." 1t was kicked from Dan to
Becrsheba. It was presented to Con-
grcss. 1t could not find a godfather.
"Takc it away! 1t is unconstitu-
t%ional; it is uidemocratic; it is pa
ternalism; it is class legislation; it
will break up existing political par
Iticsp
And the majority, who, will the
minority buried your illegitimato in
d committee room, turned again u
business, which was "to perfect" the
tariff bill, to force one class (your-.