Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
MIR. M,ALEsTER's ADDRESS.
A Sound Argument by the Gentleman from
Mississippi.

| for his subject "A Mistaken Policy and Ii.
| Inevitable PenaltieS-Has the Press Treated
| Us Fairly?''
He began by reviewing the history of thu
Alliance, and traced its origin to twenty
five years of Republican class legislation
that TO fully appreciate the Importance OF
the Alliance as originally designed
| 1t was necessary to define causes il
which government had its origin
''Man"he said sis essentially social being
His wants, inclinations and vital necessi
ties compel him to form ties of association
with members of his kind. That this was
conclusively shown by the experienced fact
that in no age or country had man beer
found in any other save the social state
That his individual or direct feelings were
stronger than his social or sympathetic
emotions. and therefore predominated over
them. That this unruly, natural trait IN
his character prompted acts Of wrong,
jealousy, rivalry and often cruelty
and fraud: that if this natural tendency,
prompted by selfshness, was not checked
by some controlling power it would cul-
inmate in universal discord and confusion,
fatal to the ends for which society was or
dained; that this controlling power where
ever and by whomsoever instituted was
government; that as society was necessary
to man, so was government essential to So
ciety; that what affected the one affected
-,
would, through moral forces, be the govern
ment
The true mission of the Alliance is to re-
generate society by educating the masses
in the science of economical government in
strictly non-partisan spirit" thus infus-
ing new Gfe-giving blood into the arterial
and VenOuS systems of the benumbed social
organism, and thus indirectly impartin~ re-
vitalizing power to the government That
partisan political action was forbidden both
expressly and by implication; that the Al
E1nce is secret organization. and when
politics are introduced it necessarily becomes
a secret political organization; that such
institutions were repugnant To the spirit
and genius of free institutions, and if sane.
toned, must inevitably destroy them: that
their unhallowed history was written upon
the darkest pages of the past, and the rec
ords of social disruption, bloody commo-
tons, and the tragic wreck of governments
tell the tale of their havoc and woe: that
the Alliance should shun such policy as it
would 4 pest-house of pestileuce. or the
12ngs of yenomOus reptiles.
The speaker next took up the ST. Louis
platform, and said 1t was conceived in du-
plicity anf framed under false pretense:
that it first proclaimed to the world equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none and wound up with the most gil
gantic piece of class legislation of modern
TIRES: that the suG-trcasury bill was con-
ceiTed only with view to forming
third party and not TO re-
lieving the agricultural class; that
1t was to force upon the
Alliance secret partisan politics so as TO
enable bribe-taking blatherskites and mer-
cenary impostorS like c W. MacUne and
his lickspittles to bargain and sell out Alt
ance legislatures to railroad attornevS, as
was done by Macune to Pat Calhoun of
Atlanta, Ga, in the senatorial election of
last year
That there was more subs gntial relief TO
be derived from reduction of the tariff to
a strict revenue basis, than frCm all other
relief agencies combined; that tariff reduc-
ton was an important plank in the Ocala
platform, ,-et Macune had denounced it in
the Economist as the galvanized ghost of
strife" and '.tit emblem OF dis /
loyalty and rebellion
That the reason why Nacme and his
third party conspiratOrs sedulously sought
to suppress tariff reduction was because
they recognized that it would make Demo |
cratic acCeSsions. That since Satan at
tempted to destroy celestial sancity |
through the heresy of rebellion there had |
been none greater than the sub-treasury !
That it would take its place in history |
With the creams of the alchemists |
and South sea bubble, and should be ell |
titled An Act to Ruin and Desolate the Agri- |
cultural interest" The speaker next COM
Jared its author c. w. Macune to Warren |
Hastings, declaring him to be. the arch |
,nemy and despoiler of the Alliance, and
hat his (Macune's) career verified the as
ertion of Edmund Burke, that 1.-THE plane
II humanity was desert daily producing
lew Monsters
The speaker spoke at length upon the i'm
,ortance of educating the masses. He said:
There Is no truth of more universal ac-
eptance than that republican form of
government cannot exist unless the masses
re competent for self-government. How
an they govern wisely and judiciously un-
esS they have the knowledge requisite to
hat end?
I'VE live under form of government
there each citizen is a sovereign, and soy
reignty requires as much intelligence
hen exercised by the people, as a whole,
S when exercised by n single individual
! government of and by the soy
reign people, therefore, requires that
Ugh degree of popular intelli-
ence which will enable the masses
men to comprehend the true principles of
oVernment, and SO direct its adminiStra-
on as to insure the greatest possible meas
re of general welfare. A republican form
government really requires higher de-
rec of popular intelligence than any other,
nd cannot exist and descend from
70 generation unless the
tizen sovereigns are literally educated
the science of economical gov
1t has been said that as civiliza-
on advances it will uproot social evils and
lord a panacea for all the ills of society
Utilization is result of education, and |
ence in the ratio as the masses advance in
iucation will civilization make onward |
rides in corresponding degree"
The greatest danger to the perpetuity of |
zee institutions is ignorance among the |
asses. lit will transform the sunniest
ED into desert waste, and will make the |
ilaces of princes fit only for tattooed |
wages.
knowledge removes the murk and mist
prejudice from the brain, and hUrls the
loSt of error from the clouds of super
itiou.''
He next took up reform movements and I
i'd that they, as a rule, were of slow deveI-
'ment: that all the 6eneticient elements in I
clety do not develop at once in equal or in
ntemporaneous degree, but to-day one
rec springs forth and gains the dominat-
g position, tomorrow another shoots up |
ID wins the ascendant attitude and thus
oceeds the refining process of elemental
pertinent, when finally the heaven
ointed law. of progress will in
rpose and select the fttest and
d appropriate their uplifting virtues to
e God-inspired design of "a more perfect ]
ciety over more perfect citizenship IN {
r a more perfect government. " /
The speaker then group ped and analyzed | 7
e causes which Immediately preceded the |
'ench, English and American revolutions. a
d showed that they had their origin in ! 7
Just and uubearable systems of taxation l
d general fiscal mismanagement. a
Here" he said, fare the three greatest q
volutions of any race or age having their