New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-11
SOME ALLIANCE FALLAClES
MISREPRESENTATION BY president
POLK.
HIS DISREGARD OF FACTS IN A RECENT SPEECH
"A FEW THINGS THE List CONGRESS

DID FOR FARMERS.
rBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSEI
Washington, April 1O-President Polk. OF the Farm
ar Alliance IA in washington and he spoke last night
before what is styled the Citizens Alliance Ills
barange excited good deal OF enthusiasm, ana beiore
the Meeting adjourned IL was resolved TO PRINT ana
circulate 900 900 copies Of the speech sever'i nun
dred thousand Of which, II Is said, are 10 DC oIstio
IN Ohio during the coming State campaign. II ludseu
by some OF his assertions, the president Oh tue an
ers' Alliance has been emanclpated from the las' seT
tge of bondage to facts that he is man OF bouncess
imagination there can be no doubt OF course nc hau
great deal TO say about the fearful ravages OF e
money powerr; and yet his remedy Is to invite inc
@money powero commit still moro rightfui raYage'
siere is choice excerpt from President roiAs
harangue:
The List Congress- but recently adjourned was IN ses
sion thirteen months. During thai time II expenISSe
I'm round numbers 81 ,000,0OOOO0 OF the peopi.vh
money sum equal 20 S77,OOO,OOO per m0ntn'
AZ 500 900 per week S2,500O00 per day, SlO4,
600 per hour, 81 1913 per minute ana go Yer %
Let ms bear steadily In mind that 80 Genus Oh cVey
doar Of this vast sum came from the agcuturist OF
tins country These suffering millions besleged th9
doors OF the Capitol during that time pleading s Tor se
tunes dsregarded their entreaties Ignored ana tey
were insoently admonished 70 Hesp ou' Vi PO""'''
to " live closer and work harder
Mr.. Polk did not say who gave the "insolent ad-
montion," o. which he speaks, but ne doubtless Ano"
Perhaps 1t was the Democrats who voted soidy against
the Tariff BILL against the Meat Inspection DIS ana
10 benefit the farmers and all other citizens Neither
ad no say how he discovered that the farmers pay 50
uer cent OF the taxes but be surely Knows for ne d
clared that they are worse of now than they "ero
forty years ago. in the palmy days OF "red oos anu
wildcat, money. He says that the farmers "ero
turned away empty-handed" and that they pay oo
per cent OF the taxes.
Both these statements cannot be true II the farmers
maid s53 900 of tho S6621s 900 Of revenue tariff
o,ected on sugar last year then they were not turned
awav "empty-handed" by Congress which not only
relieved them from that burden, but provlded that
American farmers and planters who produce sugar Shall
he reimbursed In the amount OF the former reVehue
duty. Neither were the farmers turned away empty
hansedn nv Congress which, by raising the rates OF
duty on large number of agricultural proouctS eaNe
them a market for millions Of dollars worth OF Such
nroducts which had hitherto been raised by foreign
FARMERS on foreign soil and shipped to the market OF inc
United States TO compete with the products "a .no
American farmer - - ov
Again. Conuress did not turn the farmers away
bandedn when it enacted laws which, perote ,he
ext crop is ready for market, open new markets ior
Amarican provisions and breadstufs when IL ehacVoo
wise laws which will insure the reopenns OF Europes
no,,ots now closed against US, and OF extending W
thor Euronean countries the market for American 'e
CATTLE and hogs as we'll for fresh and cured Deci ~
| pork. oorors.s nassed
| such laws3 Does ne know what the markeos vi ' o..
and Germany for pork bacon and other hog proouo.S
alone are worth to American farmers VI course nos
In 1891 those markets alone swallowed such american
nrodncts worth $22OOOO00. Since then tne same
markets have been virtually closed against thS
and admitting that there might have been no
| of the trade-wlich is Wild admssioh-iai "a,
lost more than 5000, 100000 in sales Is IT worm
nothing to American farmers to have those markets. ~
stored as they soon must be, under the operation .,
laws enacted by the List Congress. When France anu
Germany laid that heavy embargo on the farmers u .'
United states there the farms OF e' 81 ali in
ro Than AZ 600 900 swine, nearly 0nea o Va and
the world OF the aggregate value Of alone
this counrys foreign exports OF hog ptS swine on
,ornted n about 1856 10000. Ot tle s"LaGe g.,
SNmercan farms at that tme more tnah oh snad on
nnmher and about two-thirds in value were io""O y"
! The farms OF ten States, as follows: ,,o,o