The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1891-05-22

piny wood roads, in his tramp from
Weir Park to the picnic grounds, he go
decidedly off of his beat, and ere Ii,
could appear on the ground, covered ter
miles when four would have covered the
distance. In his absence, Mr.. w. d
Condor, the oratorical Hugh Beaumont
of Florida, on all industrial and Allianct
interests, took the stand and for nearly
! TWO hours rolled forth such a fearful
array of statistical data, shivering the
selfish and monupolistic tendencies oi
the plutocrats ofthe day, that he foode ed
every ear within sight and hearing.
! His cry was "equal rights to all
special privileges to none," that the
government had the right to make and
issue money; that the government in
stanter issue $10,000,000,O0 lega! tender
notes and with this money buy up and
control all railroads and telegraphs,
| charging for transportation only actual
cost; the National banks must go, sub
stituting government banks at every
post Office and county sight in the land;
| free coinage of silver; a law regulating
the class of immigrants that shall land
on our shores; the abolition of convict
labor; equal pay for equal work irrespec-
tive of sex or previous condition of serv.
itude; that the government loan direct
to the people money at / per cent. a
year, in limited amounts; prohibiting
alien ownership of land; that all re-
ceive sufficient lands for self s"pro'',
that the governnlent pass JAWS TO pre-
sent dealings in futures"
From this, the reader can easily i'm
agiue the magnitude of ms theme and
the porlentiousness OF his language.
The acidity Of Mr. Copdon's facts 80
sharpened the appetites of his hearers
that no sooner did he bt ar himself
gracefully from the stage amid we'll
sounded applause, thao the order was
issued for the spread Of the dinner.
when the sialwart yeomanry quickly de
llvertd boxes, baskets, trunks and ham
pers which were slowed away i'll their
vehicles, and the nimblc fingers Of the
fair maids and their noble mothers, on
damssk white AZ the driven snow, ar
rayed the we'll cooked and tempting
viands, when grace was pronounced and
all fell to with will.
1t was All elegant feast and empha-
sized the fact that the Alliance men of
Moss Bluff and their neighbors Lived
at home"
After the good things Of earth hal
tickled the palates Of the crowd to sali
ely, and much pleasant converse was
INDUCED in, the chairman called the
''ftasted' to again take up the thread of
reason as spun by the takers, and in
troduced the Banners man, who if ap-
proving smiles, mods aud hearty con-
gtatulati0ns are any evidence OF salts
faction given, the speaker has no regrets
to indulge.
At this juncture, Mr.. Thomas r. Gary,
of Ocals, was loudly called for and after
much searching he was found behind
and clinging to sturdy oak, and his ex-
cuse for it was that he had prepared
genuine Sunday school address, and
finding he was at an Alliance picnic and
expected to talk Alliance doctrines, his
courage failed him and he was seized
with bad case of shiver fever, hence
his intimidation" But finally yielded
TO the persuasion of friends, he mounted
the stand, and after neatly thanking the
people for their kind invitation and
generous feast, he stated that he had
formerly been a member of the Alliance
but was no longer connected with it.
That the trouble with the order was
their differences on subjects vital to the
good and prosperity of the organization
He thought the present banking system
prevailing in this county, was the best
the world had ever seen. The farmers
trouble was, they wanted something for
nothing. In his opinion if the farmers
es.ss.s ~sss.ssss.ss Z ..i'ss
cultivated their crops in lieu of this
waste of precious time, they would pros
per more and hard times DO nursery
H. rnpo1.NifarafoA l.
lance oration, it scarcely reached high
water mark, but all the same, the speak
er was Justify applauded.
Captain Pillians was next called on
and gave an admirable talk, emphasis
ing in strong words, the necessity of the
people being educated and taught to
think and reason.
DR.. Louis Aver, of Lake Weir and one
of Marion's commissioners who was in
the audience, was surprised with a call
to express his views on the questions of
the day.
We must confess that our local SCION
was anything but complimentary 20 the
tillers of the soil and the wealth pro-
ducers of the nation, and by saying he
could not see that their organization had
effected anything in righting their
WTODXA UT lACAt COIQbiOns
THE Doctor momentarily overlooked
the 100 per cent. reduction the Farmers
Alliance had secured on cotton bagging.)
He admitted they had grievances and
WRONGS to right and an unequal tax to
bear, but they lacked the mental caliber
to grasp the situation and properly ad
Just it. He said times were terribly out
of i0int, and admitted that the farmer
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should only be assessed $40 and the re-
mainder should come out of the Nation.
al banks, bankers, capitalists, monopol-
lists and those who lived off of the fruit
of their labor. The Doctor very amuse-
farmer: said it reminded him of the
poor, lean, lang, gaun', slab sided and
poorly fed mule, upon which Ssmbo was
mounted with O sack of corn under him
and riding to milk The abused animal
knew it was inhumanly and unkindly
treated. .lashed itself with its hairless eau
dial appendage, bumped its back ard pre-
tended to "buck" bit it's rider returned
the animals audacity with an extra dig
in its side with his spur and q harder
Jerk on the merciless bit of the poor
beast of burden for attempting to as
s6FL lt4 HhluTal TISuj ~ iuuuhu ticaI-
ment, only had the lash and thumb
screw of torture more vigorously ap-
nlied by its merciless and exaeting
owner.
The money power owns the poor
.people of the country aad for every de-
mand for relief only draws the lines the
tighter.
The Doctor said ne had no hope of
the Alliance succeeding until they
called in the women TO their aid.
He also paid the women a beautiful
and eloquent tribute. He said every
great wrong was righted and moral re
form came through them.
Ho instanced the condition OF the
Confederacy after Lees surrender. He
said all WAS gone but honor; aud des
pair brooded over the Southland's
strewn and hushed in desolation.
It was then the fair, determined, reso-
lutte and undaunted women of the land
came to the front, infused new hope and
| life into the defeated warriors, sought
them to put their hands to the plow,
| and from that hour until now the country
south of Mason and Dixon's line had
thriven and prospered as no other
country had under tho canopy Of high
heaven.
| The. Doctor SURPRISED his hearers with