Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-11-21


| PRESIDENT POLK
attendance. Mayor Thomas L. Sulli-
van was introduced and welcomed the
alliance in the following words:
Iconsider myself fortunate that am per.
mitted, in the name of the city Of Indiana
polls. to welcome you gentlemen to-day.
| You have come from all parts of the country
for the purpose of consulting together in
| regard to the best interests of that great
| body of citizens you in part representative
farmers of the United st ites. No Office could
| be more honorable than that you have come
| here to discharge, ana no guests could be
more Welcome 10 Indianapolis than you,
gentlemen. coming with your credentials in
| your hands.
The citizens of Indianapolis are deeply in.
| terested in the conclusions to which you
may come. May they be founded in wis
dom. May you always remember that be-
| cause the farmer and the farm are the basis
| of all prosperity in this country of ours
when you consult as to your interests, you
at the same time consult to the interests
| OF everv class of American citizens.
Permit me- again to welcome you to Indi-
| annapolis. 1t is goodly city. full of .hospit.
able people in who name greet and wei.
| come you. whose guests you are. May your
| work of tn. comm week result in good to
| your country; and after it is over may the
recollection of your visit here give you
| pleasure and satisfaction all the days Of
| your lives
| j. F. Tillman, secretary of the alli-
ance executive committee, responded
| to Mayor Sullivan. After thanking the
people of Indianapolis for their warm
welcome and paying tribute to Presi-
dent Harrison, he continued:
1t Is the farming and the laboring people
who feed the world, who fought the battles
| of this country and to whose energy and
patriotism this great an glorious land of
ours is indebted for its richest blessings 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 ille-
climate combinations and monopolies that
tend to destroy the very spirit and
intent of the constitution. We are
not here politicians, seeking to
disrupt partisan political parties
or to promote the fortune of any political
aspirant. nor are we here in the interest of
any third party, for by the very organic
teachings We have the right to vote with
| whatever political party we may think will
best advance good government
desire to call your attention to the last
llfon-dollar congress. Its expenditures
reached the grand total of .0D9, 27O All, whsch
| is nearly two thirds of all the existing
| United States money. More money was
| spent by that profligate billion dollar con-
gress tn IN was spent bv all the other con.
crosses during the frs. s. venty-two years
| of this government 1t is more than 81. IT,
900 for every day from the time that the
| Fifty first congress met in December, 1889,
till it adjourned March 4, 1881. You can
| easily calculate it for yourselves and you
will find it TO be So day for every day since
| the birth of the Saviour of man kind; SIG
| minute for every minute since the Declare.
| ton Of Independence. billion and nine
million for two years Is more than half u
billion for one year. It Is more than s. for
| every man, woman and child in the United
| States. And counting the families to con.
| tain five persons e sch, it makes tax of sd
a family 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 a tax of $40 upon the head
of every family? Yet this Is exactly
what we have. How long would they en-
dure It If collected directly from them in.
stead OF indirectly. as it Is now collected
through our tariff? Say what you please
about the tariff, but it must and shall come
down to a reasonable basis OF taxation, and
these reckless expenditures by congress
must be stopped, or we will continne to
change the personnel OF every congress-.
Yet this IL not all. nor is 1t at the bottom of
that which brought about the uprising OF
the people of all parts of this great country.
] can best illustrate it by the use OF the
three Us that are the first letters OF the
three words These words are Transporta-
tion, Trust :nd Tariff Here is the trouble.
and there are three C's which are the first
letters Of three words, Crush. Change and
Control, the unwrittcn and ironbound oath
that our friendly political newspapers abuse
us so much about Twill now tell you what
this oath is: 1t is to crush the trust, change
the tariff and control transportation. What
ia the condition of the farmer to-day? Mo-
nopolies, high tariff and combined trusts on
one side of him. unjust Determinations by
railroads upon the other side and q billion
dollar congress on top; money powers ana
the unmerciful manufacturers controlling
high protective tariff by bribery in behalf OF
their own interest: railroad kings controll-
ing unjust Determinations in their own in
terest and against the farming masses.
PRESIDENT Folks ADDRESS
INp1ANApoLIs, Ind, Nov. 1S-Last
evening President Polk. of the National
Farmers Alliance, delivered his annual
address. In opening. he said:
Assembled here as the accredited repre-
sentatives Of the farmers Of almost every
state in the union. you cannot be unmindful
OF the weighty responsibility attaching to
your position Upon no body has greater
responsibilities fallen than upon this since
the meeting of the continental congress
The demands OF the latter for equal
rights were no more inst than are
yours against the inequalities which
threaten to undermine the liberties OF
the people and destroy the great agri-
cultural interests OF the country. Diligent,
earnest research as to the causes which
have forced the American farmer to the
verge Of bankruptcy have forced upon him
the conviction that the most sacred func.
-tions Of the government have been usurped
hy favored few to the detriment and ruin
Of the neglected millions 8
What are tho alleged grievances OF the
farmers Let the record show. From l6o 70