Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-10-25
secret password OF the alliance.

'ii''h NNN'N 81 blS oAlNh NliN ~
for him. / wish | knew the distress
that hangs like milestone over my
friends, Gus Bates and Tom Lyon,
and old man Burge, land G. NJ. Jones,
and Cannon, and Tumlin, and John
Brown, and host Of other big far
mers in the county. They have all
got rich enough to leave home when
they please and send their children
off to college, but still they are not
happy, They seem to think we have
been doing something against them,
but declare upon my honor /
haven't. They say they want a
warehouse and loan from the gov
eminent, so they can hold their cot
ton and force the manufacturers to
pay Is cents a pound for it. Just so
the great west wants warehouses
for their grain, so as to make us pay
50 a bushel on wheat and 81 for corn.
If this thing all happens, what is to
become of me? l won't have more
than shirt and half all the year
round, and my wife viii wear her
eyes out patching undergarments.
Carl and Jessie won't have but one
biscuit a piece and nothing but
'taters to carry to school. What will
become of the shoemaker and the
blacksmith and the carpenter and the
brickmason and the day laborer ?
What will become of all the poor
folks and the negroes and the cotton
pickers? l have before me the tables
of the last census, and find that there
are 1850 900 farmers and planters in
the United States, and there are 49,
100000 laborers-toilers- working
people who are not farmers. There
are over 100000 laborers on the
farms who work for wages. What
will they say to -four at So 100:
There are over 100000 mechanics
and nearly as many railroad opera
tors and half as many milliners and
factory hands, women and children
What is TO become of them if the
farmers get up a corner on the neceS
saries of life? One of England''
greatest statesmen was Richard Cob
den, whose powerful speeches abol
ished the duty on grain aud the in
scription on his monument is "HC
gave the poor cheap bread"
l tell you my farming friends, thi
will not do. You have gone far be
yond reason in your demands. Dem
agogues have led you astray-I say i
acknowledgements have lee
you far away from the original pur
poses Of your order. Don't you
know that you will never live to SCI
your cotton in government ware
house? Don't you know that yol
will never see dollar Of that $64,
OOO, 600 that your leaders say is com
ing right away from England to ad
vance on your cotton? Don't 20,
know that all these promises are
delusiOn and a snare and will fade in
to mist after the elections are over
| do confess to some grief an,
modification over the credulity c
my farming friends. | feel but littl
interest in politics. My politics
for the South to go on prospecting a
she has done since the war. The fal
mer, the laborer, the mechanic, tn
merchant-every class has prosper
ed. Diligence in business, and cor
tented disposition will make US IA
happy. There are no people upo
earth that have as much to be thank
full for as we have, | feel like / az
alone in these views, for | know th1
the press is against me, and most
the people, but l feel better for havin
had my say whether it pleases any
body or not. see politicians dane
ing and prancing around the alliance
and talking big about corn and cOttO
who don't know the difference bC
tween bull>tongue and twiste
Heard of one the other day who sal
that there would be very short Gro
: of cotton for he had noticed that til
red blossoms were all falling off. II
said that just as soon as a poor farm'
had anything to sell the price wei
down. Cotton was down, and fOddt
had dropped from 81 hundred to 5
and sweet potatoes had already gor
down to GO cents a bushel, and in tW
months corn would fall % (
80 per cent. We must have b
a.. warehouse, said he, and store II
, produce and keep it until the specl
lators and the. monopolists are Will
, ped out.