Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-11-25


which was replied to on the part of the
Alliance by Mr.. Tillman.
SECRETARY TILLMAN'S REPLY.
MIR. J. F. Tillman, secretary of the alli-
ancs executive committee, replied to Mayor
Sullivan. After thanking the people of
Indianapolis for their warm welcome and
paying q tribute to President Harrison, he
continued:
'sIt is the farming and laboring people
who feed the world, who fought the battles
of this country, and to whose energy and
patriotism this great and glorious land Of
oo re is indebted for its richest bless ings of
liberty and peace. 1t is not our mission to
tear down nor disintegrate our honestly
conducted industries, but to preserve them.
Yet we do mean the death knell to all lille.
gitimate combinations and rnonopolists that
tend to destroy the very spirit and intent
of the constitution. We are not here as
politicians, seeking to disrupt partisan po
lsicaI parties or TO promote the fortune of
any political aspirant, nor are we here in
the interest of a1y third party, for by the
very organic teachings we have the right to
vote with whichever political party we may
think will best advance good government.
BIILLION.D0LLAR CONGRESS-.
II desire to call your attention to the
last billion dollar Congress. It's expendi.
lures reached the grand total of 81 ,0C9, 27O,.
All, which is nearly two. thirds of all the
existing United States money. More
money was spent by that profligate billion
dollar Congress than was spent by all the
Congresses during the first seventy two
years of the history of this government. 1t
is more than 80, 177,000 for every Gay from
tho time that the Fifty. first Congress met
in December, 1889, till it adjourned, on
March 4, 1891. You can easily calculate it
for yourselves and you will find it to be $50
a day for every day since the birth of the
Saviour of mankind, $16 a minute for every
nioute since the Declaration of Independ
Bnca. A billion and nine million for two
gears is more than a-half billion for one
ear. II is more than So for every man.
woman and child in the United States.
And counting the families to contain five
persons each, it makes tax of $40 fami,
" to support the government of the United
States alone, and remember, this does not
include one cent levied for State, county
and municipal purposes. What would the
people of the United States think Of tax
Of $40 upon the head of every family? Yet
this is exactly what we have.
THE TARIFF MUST COME DOWN.
Show long would they endure it if col
Iected directly from tsem instead of iudi-
rectly, as it is now collected tnrough our
tariff? Say what you please abous the tar.
it, but it must and shall come down to a
reasonable basis of taxation, aud these
reckless expenditures by Congress must be
etopped or we will continue to change the
personnel of every Congress. Yet this is
not all, nor is 1t at the bottom which
brought about the uprising of the people of
all parts Of this great c0untry. can best
illustrate it by the use of the three Ts that
are thu first letters of three words. These
words are transportation, tariff and trust
Here is the trouble, aud there sre three Cs
which are the frat letters of three words
crush, change and controlled-the unwrit-
tea and iron bound oath that our friendly
political newspapers abuse us so N ICE
about. l viii noH tell you ybst this oath
is. 1t is to crush the tiust, change the tar.
if and coutrol transportation. What Is
the condition of the farmer to day? Mono
poles, high tariff and com bined trusts On
one side of HIM, unjust determinations By
upon the other side and billion
dollar Congress on top; money powers and
the unmercful manufso turers controlling a
high protective tariff by bribery in behalf
of their own interests and of railroad kings
controlling the unjust Determinations in
their own interest and against the farming
masses.
WAR ON KING MONOPOLY.
"Thank God for the Farmers Alliance
and all kindred organizations. We are 60
ing to succeed in our efforts TO obtain a
large circulating medium. We must have
more currency, and will have it. The
farmer North who wore the blue has reach
ed South and taken the Southern farmer
who wore the gray by the hand and said to
him, We have never asked you to surren-
Ger to King Monopoly and partial legisla.
ton, but only to preserve the Union. alike
good for all, and no brave Southern farmer
ever surrendered to such circumstances.
Though defeated, it was but to save the
Union, and the chivalry of the entire South
to-day is determined to preserve the Union
and tbe constitution at all hazards, and the
result is sectional strife and partisan pref
udice are buried face downward to scratch
On to hsdes. And the politician who raises
snch issues in the future will go like Wade
Hampton and John J.Ingalls. Mr.. Mayor.
the Farmers Alliance means the greatest
coed for the greatest number and is deter.
mined to have exact justice for all and
esE ecial favors to zone. 1t plumbers in CO
operation near four hundred Thousand and
1t has come to stay and will be held intact
as non partisan organic alton. Msmbers
Of all political parties may join the organic.
atian and it will never become third poll
tical party. There is big political signiti-
csnce in it, but not party political eiguifi-
on hooay hot uunuld hnna1acH
run. We have already taken party ex-
tremes out of tho United States, made a
few governors, foctS. seven Congressmen
and bid fair fer 200 next year."
Mir Tillmap's reference to the non par
t.san nature Of the alliance caused some
thing of ssnsarion,. and were receiv ed
with about equal evidences of approval and
disapprovsl.