The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-12-02
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AiLtEMGE UAf IN auuU5rh.
The President of thr Georgia State Alli-
ance Makes Al Address.

AUGUSTA. NOV. -o.-4o o'o~y "do
Alliance dag at re Exposition and
Pre- ~iden! Livingston, Of the Georgia Al
lance. was here ard made aa address to
several hundred Georgia aud Carolina
farmers this afternoon IN Muslc Hall.
He was introduced " the lion Martin
Y. Calvin.
Mr.. Livingston .cgan by explaining
the pcincipl Of the Alliance a1d the
meaning Of She suh-,reaeuty bill. az he
believed Il at macy il; lis audience, not
teinL members OF I';a Order. did no.
know clearly v l'a,: Lie :'"ri.oses ii tae
Alliance we're. Hc sa> Very earnest IN
his talk ana Laid great stress ~ every
word he uttered. IL said he had heard
il rumored thai thr Alliance d d not have
enough money 20 ;nJ The Geiy gales who
attended tue National Convs ntlon in IT,
! diaaapolis last we,k. II he2lHNipg lie
said be would pr"n ,uuce The report; un-
true. He said ih,2 the pNrpnses Of The
Order were fixed ar,i definite ami .;;:lll-
ers were bens on havii.g the financial
system changed. He xuew there was
strong opposition 70 lac ALI ;uce. bat its
members did not L: nd l.ai; il !,ct rather
like it. tor by discussion o.. questions
farmers would be educated and would be
| able 10 finally sIrike Oh some plan that
would give them re!iet.
He said That tie sub blrsasury bill vas
! the only scheme tina. had yet been ioIud
that could furnish Improvement. aud If
any better plan cculd Ge suggested the
farmers were ready and willing 10 accept
it. The only hindrauce to the Order.
the Colonel said, was from within and
! rot FROM without their ranks. He en-
phatlcally said that this country IS IL
| depressed condition. and that merchants,
| bankers and cotton .:en were trembling
in their boots simply ca account OF the
uncertainty Of the financial CorGltlon.
He said what farmers demanded was
financial relief aud tax relief, aId wll.n
they get those two things they sill have
plenty and live happily.
In substanLiatlon of his charge OF the
uncertainty of liilauc!a! affairs, he re-
marked that Bradstrees reporto;l silat
| % per cert. CT business WAS done Oh
time. Lack of confidence is the Cause
OF this uncertainty, he said, aud he
proved 1t by saying that money could DC
| borrowed in New y ork at 4 jow :uteres'.
subject to call, BIZ: not OF time. As To
the Ocala platform and suh-tceasu:y bill
Col. Livingston sad they were aot un-
democratic or impraclicab,r, as some
writers think. Referring to Federal
taxes the speaker said that il 1880 there
was torty-three billion dollars Of busi-
ness done in this country. and oct o:
that amount only seventeen and hall
billions was taxed.
MIR Livingston said that farmers we're
sufferers by all taxes not being paid.
He said there is cry that there is over
production Of cotton, 0as ii IS cot So
Nothing is overpcoduced except fools
and rascals, that Divine Providence.
who rules over the uuiye: 81, never wasted
His gifts. lie said farmers were selling
cotton now at less than it cost them to
make it, and it was because OF The poor
financial banking system and because
spectators are holding cotton. In his
experience cotton always brought the
! highest prices when currency reached
the highest point. One great trouble
was, ne said, that 81 per cent. OF the
wealth Of this couuJrf was controlled oy
| five Eastern States outsIdc OF where the
crops Of this cOunry are grow. lie
advised farmers this year 10 hrst make
crops OF the neccssaries Of life needed at
home, and then afterwards to plant cot
teD.
Col. Livingston referred to the talk
I We y eaSeHIag aLu- dat the rG2r "eulo
soon be dissolved. Il answer to that
he said that the VISA was father TO The
thought. for the Alliance vas stronger
now th.. u ever before aud that 1t Was
going to lenaciously hold together and
accomplish its object, though it will take
wears to do it. He said be wanted East
err political domipa.io broken: that the
North not onlv controlled the finances
| and commerce. ther even are masters,
dictators and controllers OF political al
fairs, he sail that the East IS So strong
that it elects the President aad thai 3
combination Of Southern aud Western
States could not destroy their power.
He asked who is going to fight The oouta
in its elors to have the Government
improve the Savannah River and deepen
the harbors on the Southern coast OF tAe
Atlantic? New York aud Massachusetts
are States which will figh5 i. because II
the improvement :s mads it ma. give
the South commercial trvedo \ 10 the
deiriment Of the Narsh.