St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-18
TILLMAN TOkSTS EN-
The Billion-Dollar Congress
Passionately Punetured by
the Alliance Ajax.
Republican Extravaganza and
Incompeteney Laid Bare
Numerically.
Some Startling Comparisons
in the Line OF 'Figup
Folks Points.
Delegates Warned Against
Indorsing or Adopting the
Third Party.

| INDIANAPOL1S, Nov. 17.-On assem-
bling this morning, the Farmers ALI
ance delegates were welcomed by May
or Sullivan on behalf of the city. j. f.
Tillman, secretary of the Alliance exec
utive committee, responded to Mayor
| Sullivan. After thanking the people of
Indianapolis for their warm welcome
and paying tribute to President Har
riS0n, he continued:
ut is the farming and laboring peo-
| pie who feed the world, who fought the
| battles Of this country, and to whose
energy and patriotism this gr; a: ard
| glorious land of ours is indebted Tor its
richest blessings of liberty and peace.
1t is not our mission to tear down nor
diSintegrate our honestly conducted in
| dustries, but to preserve them. Yet we
| do mean the death knell to all
! illegitimate combinations and mo-
| nOp0listS that tend to destroy
the very spirit and intent of
| the constitution. We are not here as
politicians, seeking to disrupt partisan
| political parties or TO promote the for
tune OF any political aspirant; nor are
we here in the interest of any third
party, for by the very organic teachings
VIC IfehO liIC II III W fOlG Will hIdlCNCI
political party we may think will best
advance good government. l desire to
call your attention TO the last
RilliOn-DolIar Congress.
''Its expenditures reached the grand
total of $l,0O9. 270,47I which is nearly
t%O-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 S2.177.000 for every
day from the time that the fifty
lirst congress met in December, 1889.
Till ii adjourned March 4, 1891. Calcu-
late it for yourselves and you will find
it to be 500 day for every day since
the birth OF the Savior of mankind; SIG
minute since the Declaration OF indie
penGence.
"a billion and nine million for two
years is mere than half billion fer one
year. Ii is more than IS for every man,
woman and child in the United States.
And, counting the families to contain
five persons each, it makes a tax of $40
family TO support the government of
the United States-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 ex-
actly what we have. How long would
they endure it if collected directly from
them. instead of indirectly DIS it is now
collected
Through Our TARIFF
Say what you please about the tariff,
but it must and shall come down to
reasonable basis Of taxation, and these
reckless expenditures by congress must
| be stopped or we will continue to
change the personnel of every congress.
| Yet, this is not all. nor is it at the bot
tom. which brought about the uprising
| Of the people of all parts of this great
| country. l can best illustrate it by the
use of the three rs that are the first
| letters of three words. These words
are Transportation, Tariff and Trusts.
Here is the trouble, and there are three
| CS which are the first letters of three
words Crush, Change and Control
! the unwritten and irOn-bound oath that
our friendly political newspapers abuse
us so much about.
81 will now tell you what this oath is.
| 1t is to crush the trust. change the
tariff and control transportation. What
| is the condition of the farmer TO-DAY?
MOnOpOlies, high tariff and combined
trusts on one side of him; unjust dis
ordinations by railroads upon the
other side, and billlOn-dollar congress
on top; money powers and the unmerci-
| full manufacturers controlling high
| protection by bribery in behalf of their
own interest, railroad kings controlling
| the unjust determinations in their own
| interests and against the farming
| masses.
"ThankGOd for the Farmers Alliances
and all kindred organizations. We are
going to succeed in our efforts 10 obtain
large circulating medium. We must
have
More Currency
and will have it. The farmer North
who wore the blue has reached South
and taken the Southern farmer who
wore the grey by the hand and said to
him: We have never asked YOU to
surrender to King Monopoly and partial
Legislation, but only to preserve the
Union alike good for ALL and no brave
Southern farmer ever surrendered to
such circumstances. Though defeated.
1t was but to save the Union and the
chivalry of the entire South today is de-
termined to preserve the Union, and the
constitution at all hazards, and the re-
suit is sectional strife and partisan
prejudice are buried face downward to
scratch on to hades. And the politician
| who raises such issues III the future will
20 like Wade Hampton and John j.
Ingalls,.
1.-The Farmers Alliance means the
greatest good for the greatest number,
and is determined to have exact Justice
tor all, and special favOrs to none. II
numbers in cooperation near 1000, and
it has come to stay and will be held in
tact as non-partiSan organization.
Members of all political parties may
join the organization, and it will never
become third political party. There
is big political significance in II, but not
party political significance. because that
would mean hopeless ruin. We have
already taken party extremes out OF
the United States senate, made a few
governors, forty-seven congressman and
bid fair for 200 next year"
Mir. Tillman'S references to the non
partisan nature of the Alliance caused
something of a sensation, and were re-
celved with about equal evidences OF
approval and diSapproval. Gen. j. b.
Weaver. OF Iowa, was called for, and
made a speech on the general situation,
which was received with enthusiasm
He was followed by Congressman Jerry
Simpson. of Kansas, in the same strain
President Willets, of the Kansas Ali
ance. spoke briefly, and the meeting ad.
journed. At 2 o'clock the Alliance went
INTO executive session at the board oil
trade hall, and the National T. NJ. B. a
at the court house. both discussing the
third party movement.
POLK'S PARALLELS.
The National President Piles ON