Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
SUB-TREASURY PALACES.
The Speech of Mr.. U. s Hall Yesterday
Forenoon

| SUB-TEEASURNE ALLACIES.
The Speech of Mr.. U. s Hall Yesterda,
Forenoon.
Intend to-day to discuss and try anC
point out to my brother Alliance farmers
the reasons that force me to object to the
| Sub-treasury scheme.
1t has been with feelings Of deem regret
that have felt myself forced to oppose any
measure that is held to by the Alliance
with which have been connected for sew
eral years and for which l have lahOred
long and hard.
And the fact that this organization has
placed me at the head of the largest state
Alliance in the United States. and that the
national Legislative council has elected me
| to one OF the most responsible posi-
lions in the gift of our national
Alliance only makes it the more difficult to
| object publicly TO this sub-treasury scheme.
| And will frankly assure my brothers of
| this order that the only consideration that
! has impellGd me to this action. is that am q
farmer, with all that l have invested in my
| farm. Every cent l make l make by farm
| ing, and l am fully convinced that were this
! scheme to be enacted into law and carried
out it would bankrupt me and every other
| farmer in the United States, and hasten, if
| not bring about, our national destruction.
! Some of my brother Alliance men seem to
| think that l ought not to publicly attack
| this measure, especially in view of the posi-
! ton | hold in the order.
If the sub-treaSury scheme is right the
more fully, publicly and oftener it is dis
cussed the sooner it will be enacted into law
If it is wrong, full, free and public discus
sion of it will the sooner bring out its falla-
cleS, and we will be enabled to see them and
quit advocating wrong measure the sooner
We are told that as Alliance men we are
bound by q statute law passed at Ocala last
December which declares that '.all meas
ureS presented for consideration may be
discussed fdirly, fully, honestly and
thoroughly, and when the action of ma
iority has been had all who participate in
the meeting are pledged to support such
action. IL is the duty of every
member, where the body has spoken, to
stand as unit before the world"
deny, in the first place, the right of the
national body TO enact any such statute
for the reason that our order declares in its
constitution and obligation of membership
that our political views shall in no
wise be interfered with, meaning our
views relative to political (that is legisla-
tive) matters. wish the order through
out the United States to know how fairly,
fully, honestly and throughly'' the su5-treas-
ury bill was discussed at Ocala before its
passage.
The members were limited to one speech
of not to exceed five minutes each in which
to discuss this bill
One speech of five minutes to discuss bill
or scheme which, if enacted into a law,
would change the whole financial system of
our government since its foundation. After
the Sub-treaSury advocates had by this |
means gagged free discussion even within
the order and forced upon US without us
having chance to expose its fallacies this
scheme, they then organized every ALI
ance newspaper in the United States to-
gether under an iron-clad aud steel-ribbed
constitution, known by the name OF the Re
form Press association, and these Alliance
newspapers do not dare publish one word
against these demands, under the penalty
of being expelled from the association,
denounced by the executive committee, and /
their newspaper property destroyed.
now appeal to that sense Of fairness and |
honesty and love of fair-play that has ever |
characterized the farmers of this country |
and ask them what other channel |
have 1 to object to or to ex- |
pose the fallacies of any scheme except in |
the old-fashioned wagon the stump and /
through the public presss l have ever ex- |
pressed myself as willing to meet in joint a.,
discussion any advocate of this measure, to |
the end that we might discuss it in a free, |
kind and fraternal spirit.
Now, brother farmers, how do you like |
this method of fastening the sub-treasury
scheme upon US! Do you rot see that its
advocates have bridled free discussion by
US except IN our secret meetings, and there
you have all the literature and argument
that everyone in the order in the United |
States can produce on one side, and no ono
to answer it on the other, and should some
brother oppose it, he is soon informed that
he must shut up or get out.
L maintain that no honest measure that |
was pushed and advocated by its authors |
from honest motives would have any such
methods as this resorted to to carry it for
ward, and would rot fear to have a full,
free, public discussion of the merits of the !
measure, and let it stand or fall, as all pub
lie measures in the past, upon its merits.
now ask you as farmers to give my argu-
nents fair, honest and careful considera-
ton, remembering that am discussing !
measure in which We as farmers and citi-
zens of our common country, are financially
and deeply interested. And in con-
sidering and weighing what L have
to say please bear in mind you are being
talked to by one who has no interest but
farming, and who is not nor never was an
office seeker. L claim, brother farmers,
that this sub-treasury bill was originated
c. ". Macune, for but one pur-
pose and that is to sell US out to
The protective tariff manufacturers of the
Eastern states.
know this is great charge, but have
NY reasons for thinking SO, which 1 will
give you.
was on the National Alliance committee
m demands when we met at ST. Louis in
December, 1889. 1 offered in that
committee resolution demanding
hat the national government remove the
tariff tax from cotton ties. jute
QUITS, binding Irvine, farming implements
md all the raw material that went into
making them. and all Of the necessaries of
ife that the poor OF our land must have,
md it was voted down by Macune's men
It his special instance.
then tried in several other resolutions
o attack that system of protective tariff
" which the plutocratic manufacturers of
he East were by national legislation rob-
ling the farmers of our country, and in
very instance Macune men voted them
own, but al last presented our fifth de-
nand in the ST. Louis platform and got it ,
through by a small majority, and it reads:
Believing in the doctrine of equal rights
0 all and special fayors to hone, we demand
hat legislation neither state or national |
hall be used 70 build up one industry at the
Expense of the others
And when we met at Ocala, Fla, ON last |
december drew our tariff plank SO as to
iemand, THAT the present heavy