The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-05-20
MAJOR TERRILI'S TALK.
EXPOUNDlNG ALLIANCE PURPOSES
TEACHINGS ANO REQUIREMENTS.

TEACHINGS ANO REQUIREMENTS.
What the Alliance Obligation Demands
The Third Party--Place of tho Order
Between the Parties--The Currency
Question and the Sub-Treasury Eli.
GREENvILLE, S. c., May 13-Lectur'
er Terrill, of the National Farmers Al
lance and Industrial Union, spoke tc
about 800 people at the city park yes
terday. A few of this number were
ladies. The male part of the audience
was made up of city people and country
people, the farmers, of course, being in
large majority.
The foot of the stand was decorated
with stalks of wheat, oats and rye and
ears of corn and flowers. The lecturer
arrived at the grounds shortly after II
o'clock On the stand were the Hon
NJ. l.. Donaldson. manager of the State
alliance exchange, H. B. Buist, presi,
dent of the Greenviile county alliance
the Rev. J. a. Sigh, of NeWberry, j
VIM. Stokes, editor of the Cotton Plant
and others Of prominence in alliance
circles. The Hon. George Washington
Shell, of Laurens, sat with the audience
The farmers present were OF the lntelli.
gent class and they listened attentiyely
to the conservative remarks or Major
Terrill
The exercises were opened with pray
er by the Rev. John 0. Wilson. Chair
man Buist then introduced Major Ter
rill. Tne lecturer spoke for over two
hours and at the conclusion some one
in the audience wanted him to continue
another hour. The substance Of Major
Terrili's address is as follows:
My friends: Again l am here to speak
in behalf of the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union. Many things have
occurred since | last saw you. Our
great organization has increased Sc
that the way it goes so will the election
so in 1892. The organization is a pow,
erful one. We meet here to discuss
those things that are important to u.s.
to see where we are Disseminated
against. We are organized for the pnr-
pose of each others advancement, So
ciallv, financially and otherwise. We
are opposed to class legislation and we
think that the financial management OF
the government is iniquitous. 1t is
sure to destroy popular government II
it continues. The duty of the alliance
men is to discuss this question and all
other questions that are of deep inter
esr to them.
Speaking of the objects Of the alli-
ance for the mutual advancement OF
its members, Major Terrill said that
they were to bring the farmers into
closer social relations. to destroy pre-
judlces, local and national. The farm
ers had had too little social intercourse
with each other. The obligations ALI
Sace men took were to help each other
Prejudice was one Of the main evils the
alliance should eradicate. 1t was re-
sponSible for the condition Of things to
day. No man is fit to hold Office who
is narrow minded and prejudiced. "The
Farmers alliance is making war on
prejudice" be said, "and l am opposed
to that prejudice that prevents the
unity of the people. The alliance
doesn't propose to discuss question:
with prejudice. You have got no right
to bring your political prejudices into
the alliance" Alliance members must
help a brother when he is sick and il
need be plant his crop. They must as
sista brother who has taken the wrong
course in anything; they must kill ou1
immortality, and while the alliance /:
not temperance organization he die
not believe that a amember can:consclen
tiously take the obligation and roll il
the streets drunk. The alliance is op
posed to whiskey drinking and urge:
every brother to prevent another trou
becoming intoxicated.
In speaking of the prejudices that the
alliance is doing away with, Major Ter
rill said that the chasm that once stood
between the farmers OF Kansas anc
South Carolina was being closed. The
first applause of the day was when M
spoke of John j. ingalls, political deatt
in Kansas. The farmers of the Soutf
should do the same thing if man l:
lilled with prejudice like ingalls,.
The four leading grounds of the ALI
ance were the refusal to give lands tt
aliens, or America t0T Americans; the
railroad transportation OF the country
in charge of the government; an homes,
aud equal division of taxes; that every
dollar shall be dollar and the circula
tion increased to $50 per capita. to bf
distributed fairly among the people
Under this last question came tue sub
treasury bill.
After stating that the alliance has
made certain demands, and before be
ginning discussion of these demands
Major reTrill said that to discuss these
issues calmly and clearly the farmer
needed more political education. Ht
held that the alliance must not become
q party and would quit it when it die
So They can have nothing to do witt
the Democratic, Republican or thlre
party as alliance men, but as lndlVldu
ais they could do as they pleased anc
vote for their OWN interests. They
mustn't have leaders that they WoulC
pin their faith to blindly. The princi
pies of the order were above any man
In the Farmers Alliance they sought
the truth and tried to elevate princi
pies. If they voted for a man solely
because he was member OF the ordel
they prostituted their order, bnt If they
found that he represented their posi-
tions vote for him. The howl OF the
newspapers about a third party was
howl for nothing, 80 far as the alliance
as an order is concerned. 1t had moth
ing to do with it.
The question of public lands is, he
said, an important one. Is it best fol
foreigners to own our lands? | say, {
thousand times, no. Let America bs
for Americans. Let the foreigners be
come Americans before the government
gives them land. The speaker advised
every farmer to own his home, 1t the
lands are monopolized popular govern
ment will cease to exist. To make IT.
self loved the government should assls
every man to own his home.
| am not satisfied with the presen
system of transportation. We holt
that transportation, without govern
| mpnt control rOhS the people and con