The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-11-24
PLANS AND OBJECTS.
ADDRESSES BEFORE THE BIO
ALLIANCE MEETING.
secretary TilIman Defines the Position
OF the Alliance, Its Aims and OBJ
Jects-President Folks An.
nual Address.

,alled TO order yesterday in Tomlinson
nall at l0:40 o'clock by President Force OF
the Indiana Alliance, with nearly all the
10 delegates and 500 spectators in attend
ance. Mayor Thomas L. Sullivan was in
PRODUCED and welcomed the Alliance.
The Alliance and It's Objects.
JF. Tillman, secretary of the Alliance
executive committee, after thanking the
oeople of indianapolis for their warm
welcome and paying tribute TO President
Harrison. he continued: at is the farming
and laboring people who feed the world, who
fought the battles of this country and to
whose energy and patriotism this great
and glorious land of ours is indebted for
is richest blessings of liberty and peace.
Il is not our mission TO tear down nor dis
INTRICATE our honestly-conducted indus
tries, but to preserve them Yet we do
mean the death-knell to all illegitimate
combinations and monopolists that tend to
destroy the very spirit and intent of the
constitution. We are not here as poll
ticians, seeking to disrupt partisan polit-
cal parties or to promote the fortune Of
any political aspirant, nor are we here in
the interest of any third party, for by the
sery organic teachings we have the right to
cote with whatever political party we may
think will best advance good government.
81 desire to call your attention to the
asst billion-dollar congress. Its expend-
.tures reached the grand total of 81 co.,
5O,47l, which is nearly two thirds of all
The existing United States money. More
money was spent by that profiigate billion
dollar congress than was spent by all the
congresses during the first seventy-two
Of is
lhan $2l17,0OO for every day from the
time that the Fifty-fr congress met in
December, 1889, till it adjourned March 4,
1891. You can easily calculate it for your
selves and you will find it to be SO day
for every day since the birth of
the savior of mankind; SIG a min
ate for every minute since the
declaration of independence A billion
and million for two years is more that
:, billion for one year. 1t is more than s.
for every man, woman and child in the
United States. And counting the families
20 contain five persons each, it makes tax
Of $40 family to support the govern
ment of the United states alone;
and remember this does not include
one cent levied for state, county and
municipal purposes. What would the peo-
s4O upon the head of every family. Yet
this is exactly what we have. How long
would they endure it if collected directly
from instead of indirectly, as it is
now collected through our tariff
Say what you please about the tariff, but
it must and shall come down to a reason
able basis of taxation, and these reckless
expenditures by congress must be stopped,
,,-,1l 20 .hn h<a
nel of every congress. Yet this is not all,
nor is it at the bot tom of that which
brought about the uprising of the people
Of all parts Of this great country. I
can best illustrate it by the use of the
three rs that are the first letters of the
three words. These words are Transpor-
cation, Tariff and Trust. Here is the
trouble; and there are three C's, which
are the first letters of three words,
Crush, Change and Control, the unwritten
and iron bound oath that our friendly po-
;itical newspapers abuse US so much
about InOwaell you what this oath is:
1t is to crush the trust. change the tariff
and control transportation. What is the
condition of the farmer to-day! Monopo-
lies, nigh tariff and combined trusts on
one side Of him, unjust determinations by
dollar congress on top; money powe rs and
the unmerciful manufacturers controlling
a high protective tariff bv bribery in be-
aai1 Of their own interest; railroad kings
controlling unjust Determinations in their
own interest and against the
farming masses. Thank God for
the Farmers Alliance and all
kindred organizations. We are going to
succeed in our efforts to obtain a larger
circulating medium We must have more
currency and will have il. The farmer
North, who wore the blue, has reached
South and taken the Southern farmer,
who wore the gray, by the had and
said to him: We have never asked
sou TO surrender to King Monopoly and
partial legislation, but only to preserve the
unicn alike. good for all; and no brave
Southern farmer ever surrendered TO such
circumstances. Though defeated, it was
but TO save the union, and
the chivalry of the entire South
to-day is determined to preserve the
Union and the constitution at all hazards,
and the result is that sectional strife and
partisan prejudice are buried face down
ward TO scratch on TO hades. And the
politician who raises such issues in the
future will go like Wade Hampton and
John j. Ingalls,.
MIR. Mayor, the Farmers Alliance
means The greatest good for the greatest
aumber, and is determined to have exact
justice for all and special favors for none.
II numbers in cooperation nearly 1000,
and it has come to STAY snd will be held
intact as a non-partisan organization.
Members of all political parties may
ioin the organization and it will
never become third political party.
There is big political significance in il, but
aot party political significance, because
chat would mean hopeless ruin. We have
already taken party extremes out of the
United States senate and made few gov
.rnors and forty-seven congressman and
eve bid fair for 200 next year"
Approval and Di,approval Equal.
MIR. Tillman's references to the nonpar-
tisan nature of the Alliance caused some
thing of . sensation and were received