The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-26
ALLIANCE WAREHOUSE OPENED.
Gov. Gordon Addresses an Enthust-
asric Audience at Helena

Gov. Gordon Addresses an Enthusi-
astic Audience at Helena
HELENA. GA, Sept. 25-To-day Gov.
Gordon addressed the citizens Of Telfair and
adjoining counties at Helena. Despite the
threatening CLOUDS large crowd gathered
| TO hear the grand old chleftain- The gov
ernor came to McRae on the midnight
train and a large crowd, headed oy
the Cordele Band. greeted hun upon
| his arrival. He was comfortably quartered
at the McRae hotel. Early this morning
your reporter called upon him and found
him resting quietly in his room. Soon the
anxious people began to call and each one
would give him fervent shake of the hand
Gov. Gordon's address was delivered In
the new warehouse built by the Savannah,
Americas aud Montgomery road at Helena
| and presented 10 the alliance or this section.
When he arose be was greeted with a ire
mendous applause. He bsgun by thanking
the alliance for selecting him to receive
! the warehouse for them from the ). \. NJ
road, He next alluded to the progress of
| the wiregrass region. He comphnented
the 5. A. NJ. road not only as developer OF
the resources Of this section, but also for
affording competition, and thus aiding the
farmers and this entire section. The gov
ernor devoted no time to personal illusions
or political discussion except SO far as the
public interest was interviewer with the
material progress Of the country. Flo
quently he laid down two
propositions First. that it was absolutely
essential TO tbs future developme Il and
progress of all the agricultural sections Of
this country TO secure from the general
government a reformation in its industrial
policies and financial system; second, no
less essential is the well-being of our south
ern section was it that our great staple cotton
should be under control of the producers
instead of the moneyed manipulators of
that product These two propositions were
well received by the attentive audience.
In discussing the first proposition he
showed the necessity Of enlarging the
volume OF currency and giving to it elias
ITCHY, and so arranging it by statutory
provisions as to make it less expensive to
the producing Glasses. He said it was better
to have redundancy of currency than in
sufficiency.
The governor spoke of the necessity of the
southern people controlling the cotton crop
He congratulated the alliance on its moves
in this direction. He wanted all the sec
tions TO have alliance warehouses. located
at the most practical points, and these
warehouses would be the first step to indie
pendence. The next step was to secure
relief for the holders of cotton. Let each
warehouse company of the alliance issue
receipts or certificates TO the amount of
80 per cent. of the cotton stored, and these
receipts would be good collateral for money
In any of the markets of the world. On
these money could be gotten cheap from the
money centers.
Gen. Gordon did not think the sub-treasury
bill would pass. He wanted the farmers to
have their own warehouses and be indepen-
dent of the government, and yet secure
He said Georgia was the only remaining
state that insisted on the sub-treasury as a
test of loyalty to the alliance principles.
The Virginia, North Carolina and Texas
alliances had abandoned that position, and
even Missouri. in which it was born, had
adopted different platform. Why, then,
should Georgia alliancemen insist ON it as a
test OF loyalty? He said we
could never expect to carry any point
divided, aud Col l.. L. Polk, president
OF the national alliance had said that the
bill would never pass, but it
was good thing to rally the people. At
the conclusion Of the governors address the
band struck up Dixie" and the people
crowded around the old chieftain and any
iously grasped his hand. This section is
solid for Gen. Gordon.
Special delivery letter was sent by mail
on Savannah and Western to-day.