The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-07-31

rendered by this body to the City Coun.
Gil and Board of Trade of the City of
Greenyille for their appreciation of the
temporary location of our Exchange in
this city and for their kindness to our
agent.
It's learned that the stockholders will
move the Exchange away from Green
vile. It will most probably go to Co.
lumbia, as the members are in favor of
locating it in a central part of the State
Columbia has offered strong inducements
to get the Exchange there. The change
is not likely to take place, however,
before the first of January, 1891.
Col. r.. L. Polk, President of the
National Farmers Alliance, spoke to a
large crowd in the Opera House on
Wednesday night. Colonel Polk is an
interesting talksr, and spoke for two
hours and ten minutes, dwelling upon
lall the national measures that are being
handled BY the Farmers Alliance of the
United States. The speaker was intro.
6uced,by DR.. J. VIM. Stokes, Of Orange.
burg, who alluded to him rs the Nestor
and the Achilles of the great Farmers
Alliance I:
Colonel Polk aaid he was delighted at
being able to visit South Carolina and
the grand old town of Greenville. He
had travelled from the Lakes to the Rio
Grande, from the bright East to the
golden gates.of, California, but nowhere
had he received q warmer reception. he
advised the young men in seeking an
Eldorado that there was no fairer spot
than the Piedmont belt of South Caro-
/ lima.
He then went on to speak of the up
heaval of affairs in our country, of the
prosperity of railroads, manufacturing
and other enterprises, and of the languish.
/ ing Of agricultural interests, when all
/ had equal chances. Something was
wrong. In 1850, he said, the farmers
owned seventy per cent. of the taxable
property of the country, in 1860 they
owned fifty per cent. and now it is less
than twenty.three per cent. Taxes had
not fallen of, but increased, and the
smaller farmer had been absorbed by the
larger one. The "great" statesmen at
Washington attributed the condition oi
farmers to q want Of diversified agricul-
ture,. but he showed that in New York,
where the farming is diversified, ,442
farms have been abandoned in year
and the people have gone to the factories
for work Some said "over production y
the ides Of which the speaker ridieuled.
j Fifteen or twenty years ago, he said, the
| farmers could take up 81, 900 note with
ten bales of cotton, now it took thirty
bales. No class of people worked so hard
| and got nothing for it.
For q long time" he said, i've have
had q national government for, OF and
| by tie ring" and the farmers were going
4 to change this state of affairs. He
referred to the Alliance in politics and
asked who had more right in politics
than the farmers. Who did the parties
hslong to but the farmersf
The financial policy of the government,
he said, is to enrich few at the expense
ofthe many. The fight between the two
great parties was side show.
Speaking of the sub.treasury bill he
said that the farmers have measure
which they support. The politicians
| attacked it as unconstitutional, but be
defed the best lawyer to show where j!
was unconstitutional. He spoke of the
i governments policy in regard to national
/. banks and whisky ware houses, and said
| when the farmers made request for q
similar thing it was termed unconstitu.
tional. "The Congressman, he conclud.
! ed, "who will not support the demands
of the farmers We will elect to stay al
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