The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-12-01
aLLANcE IN nuausrA.
.fhs Prssident ofthe eeorGia State Ant
anos arakos an Address.


II AUGUSTA. Nov. 25.-Totday was
Alliance day at the Exposition and
President Livingston, of the Georgia Al
~liancea was here and made an address to
several hundred Georgia and Carolina
iarmeys this afternoon in Music Hall.
He was INTRODUCED by the Hon Martin
". Calvin.
Nj. Livingston began by explaining
the principles OF The Alliance and the
meaning OF the s~ub-treasury bill. as he
believed that maay in his audience, not
being members OF the Order, did not
know clearly what the purposes of the
Alliance were. He WAS very earnest in
his talk and laid great stress on every
word he uttered. He said he had heard
1t fumorcd that the Alliance did not have
Enough money 10 pay the delegates who
attended the National Convention in In
diapapolis last week. In beginning he
said he would pronounce the report n-
true. He said that the purposes of the
Order were fixed and definite and farm
ers were. bsnt on having the financial
system changed. He knew there was
strong opposition to the Alliance, but it's
members did not mind that; in fact rather
like it, for by discussion of questions
farmers would be educated and would be
able to finally strike on some plan that
would give them relief.
He said that the sub-treasury bill was
the only scheme that had yet been found
that could furnish Improvement, and If
any better plan could be suggested che
farmers were ready and willing to accept
it. The only hindrance to the Order,
the Colonel said, was from within and
not from without their ranks. He em.
phatically said that this couhtry is ia a
depressed condition, aud that merchants
bankers and cotton men were trembling
in their boots simply on account of the
uncertainty of tho financial condition
He said what farmers demanded was
financial relief aud tax relief, aud when
they get those two things they will have
plenty aud live happily.
In substantiation OF his charge of the
uncertainty OF financial affairs, he re-
marked that Bradstrect reported that
90 per cent. of business was done OH
time. Lack of confidence is the cause
OF this uncertainty, he said, and he
proved it by saying that money could be
borrowed in NswYork at q low interest
subject to call, but not on time. AS to
the Ocala platform and sub-treasury bill
Col. Livingston said they were not un-
democratic or imprac'lcab'e, as some
writer's think. fieierf & to Federal
taxes the speaker said that in 1880 there
was fortY-thrco billion dollars of bust
ness done in this country, and out OF
that amount only seventeen and a half
billions was taxed.
Mr. Livingston said that farmers we're
sufferers by all taxes not being paid.
lie said there is a cry that there is over
\ production Of cotton, but it is not so.
Nothing is ovcrproduced except fools
ald r~nscals, that Divine Providence,
who rules over the universe, never wasted
His gitts. He said farmers were selling
cotton now at less than it cost them to
mako IL, and it was because of tho Door
financial banking system and because
spectators are holding cotton. In his
experience cotton always brought tho
highest prices when currency reached
the highest point. One great trouble
was, he said, that 81 per cent. of the
wealth OF this country was controlled BY
five Eastern States outside of whore the
crops OF this country are grown. He
advised farmers this year to first make
crops Ofthe necessaries of life needed at
home, and then afterwards to plant cot
ton.
Col. Livingston referred to the talk
that the strength of the Alliance was
weakening and that the order would
soon1be dissolved. In answer to that
he said that the wish was father to the
Thought, for The Alliance was stronger
now than ever before and that it was
going TO tenaciously hold together and
accomplish Its object, though it will take
years TO do it.. He said he wanted East.
err political domination broken; that tho
North not only controlled the finances
cnG commerce, they even are masters,
dlctatorsEanu ee- ,s;sllers OF political al.
fairs. He said that the Isuseis so strong
that it elects the President and Slat q
combination Of Southern and Western
States could not destroy their power.
He asked who is going to fight the South
in its efforts to have the Government
improveithe Savannah River and deeIen
the harbors on the Southern coast of the
Atlantic? New York and Massachusetts
are States which will fight il because if
the improvement Is made it may give
the South commercial freedom to tie
detriment of the North. .
LF.=