Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-07-31

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gress to coin money (which means paper az
well as metal) and regulate the value there
OF and to emit bills of credit. 1t has emit
ted bills OF credit (greenbacks) and thu
United States Supreme Court has. decided
that act to be constitutional. If it is con
stitutional to issue greenbacks based OF
nothing, how can the issuing OF paper mon
ey based on land he unconstitutional? Such
statement is an insult to the trainers OF
the constitution. 1t is an insult to their
memory to say that they framed a consti-
tuition under which the rich may revel and
the poor may starye and be id.
They claim the sub-Treasury is class leg
islation. Well, admit that it is. in a sense.
class legislation, can the pinnacle of build
ing complain because the foundation is
strengthened? Can the topmost branches
OF tree complain because the roots are
dug around and WateTed? Are not all inter-
ests in this country standing with their
foundations on agriculture? IT it is class
legislation, it is for the benefit of ''class'
of sixty millions Of people. 1t isn't for the
good of the farmer alone. He doesn It keep
the money when he gets it. When he de-
posits his crop in the government ware
house and draws so per cent of it's value in
money, he doesn't put it IN strong box.
nor loan it out at interest, he paws his
debts. his store bills, his laborers, his
preacher with it. The fish at the mouth of
OF a river had just as well complain that the
mountain trout at its source used the water
before 1T got to them. Every honest indus
try will be benefited by it, and those that
are not honest don't deserve to be benefit
ed by anything.
These are propositions that must be
looked into. They are rising high on the
horizon. The Alliance is merely school in
which we are trying to learn all about these
things. We don't ask any man to step out
OF his political party in doing Alliance
work; we only ask that inside his political
party he will help to throw down the tables
ofthe money changers. (Applause.) Weare
going to have justice. If the two great po-
htical parties wont give us the legislation
we ask for, we are going to have it else
where. 1t the two great political parties re-
fuse it, they had better see that their walls
bestrong. The Alliance is trying to teach
farmers their interests, and to get them to
vote for their interests. If they are fools
enough to vote against their own interests
then the Alliance can t help it.
The Alliance is the last peaceful effort
the people will make to rid themselves of
bondage. We hope it will succeed, but if
it does not, the young men Of this day will
live to face revolution. The French
revolution will be a farce to it. If you love
your homes | ask you to take these things
home with you and think Of them.
A. R. vENABLE.
Maj. A. r. Venable, the Business Agent
at Richmond of the Alliance State Ex-
change, made some brief remarks on the
mode of its operations, with some sugges-
ton, how it might he improved. He said
in months the exchange had done $500, 900
worth of business, but if it had capital to
back it, it could do 81 500, 600 worth year.
In other Southern States the Alliance Ex-
changes had capital to back them, ranging
from SAC, 900 to $17S,000. 1t gave the Agent
the means to buy at wholesale and get bet
ter rates for the farmers. He urged this
feature upon the farmers for their own
profit AS it was now, some wholesale mer-
chants in Baltimore refused to sell him,
being petitioned by retail merchants Of
Richmond not to do SO, but if he had the
capital he need not 60 to them at all but
could go straight to the manufacturers
He urged more secrecy in Alliance affairs
c. II. PEARSON.
District Lecturer G. II. Pearson rein-
forced Mr.. Venable's argument as to the
value Of the farmers getting their capital
together. One dollar from every member
OF the Alliance in the State would give
$40, 900, a good working start, which would
be increased to 5000, 900 soon. The only
way for farmers to fight corporations was
to fight them in their own way-put their
money together as the people Of the corpo-
rations do. When the farmers get money
behind them, the legislature, the corpora
tions, everything and everybody will listen
to them. The Dollar is the one power in
this country.
w. X. LEATHERS.
MI. W. K. feathers District Lecturer, of
Warren, put the audience in fine humor
with some very amusing anecdotes. He
urged loyalty to the Alliance, study of the
great questions Of the day. unfinchlng adj
herence to the principles laid down by the
Alliance and they ''would at last reach that
climax when they would haul from power
every hireling of every party in this coun-
try"
MANN PAGE.
President Mann Page, in concluding the
meeting which had lasted over three hours,
spoke of the great interest the audience had
shown in the proceedings. He hoped they
would take home with them what they had
heard and ponder it, so when they came to
exercise their right of suffrage next fall
they would not have as their representative
in the legislature some one representing
corporations and combines, but some one
representing the farmers interests. We
are not in politics, but we have platform
the purpose of which is to demand from
the political parties our rights, and those
rights we will have. The time has passed
when the farmer only plows, feeds his horse
and lies down to sleep. He is now think
ing and sees that he must now go to the
front OF become slave. The day has come
when the farmers mind as well as his mus
Gle must be used, and we are going to the
convention at Richmond, August 18th, to
show Virginia that we understand this.
Chlldrens Day at Hebron.
HOW SABBATH SCHOOL BOYS RAISED MIS-
SIONARY MONEY.
last Sunday was children7s dav at Heb