The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-08-26
ALLIANCE BATTLE CRY.
FARMERS WANT MORE MON
Ely FOR TIE PEOPLE.

EY FOR TIE PEOPLE.
The Annu:.l Meeting Of the State ALL
/ ance at RichroEtl-presid.l.t Pages
Address, in which he States the Griev-
2n:es Of the Farmers
RICHMOND, VA, August lS.-Tnc
fourth annual session of the Farmers
Alliance met here to-day at noon, and
was called to order hy President Mann
Page, Of Prince Gsorge County, alter
which the doors We're closed. There
were ninety oda delegates present.
President Page delivered his annual
address, in which he says:
white We are a stanch advocate OF
individual liberty we have been forced
to band ourselves together as an organ
lZatlon of Offence against combines and
trusts, which, under the sanction o! law
have sprung up III the last twenty-five
Years, forcibly al'Sol bing individual en-
terprises and depriving the producing
classes II Il market for the sale OF tier
produce except at prices below the cost
ct production.
"We are told, when Ne complain of
prices being under the cost OF produc-
liOn, that the cause is oTer-productlon,
yet Ex-senator IugallS. who, hy the
Christening hand of the Kansas ALI
ance now poses as a statesman with
out a job, and who, fer many years, as
sisted in the enactment Of laws Which
now oppre>seS Us, says that from 1860
to 1880 wealth has been accumulated to
the amount of Sl00,000,000.000 Yet
there are 100000 of people who never
have enough to eat from one years end
to the other.
Il pause to ask why it is that, with
this accumulation Of b b4lli)ns of wealth
and with an increase of thirty-elght
millions of people, there should now be
S5O2, 600, 600 less money in circulation.
The chief cause, in my opinion, is at
tfibutable to an Act passed by Congress
establishing national banks, for
through the influence of these hanks,
an Act demonetiZing silver was so
adroitly passed that Senators and Rep
resentatives have since declared that
they were ignorant of the provisions
OF this Act, and President Grant was
not aware of it when he signed the
bill
He then cited Chief Justice Chase as
having acknoWle lged when Secretary
OF the Treasury that he made mis-
take in advocating the national bank
ing law and President Lincoln as fore
shadowing the evils that are al.
legged to confront the farmers to-day.
He next alluded TO the Sub-tTeasury
plan submitted at St. Louis, which
received 10 consideration by the
last Congress, but at the iustigation Of
| Wall street has called forth a storm of
abuse, ridlcule and Misrepresentation
If the incoming Congress will not
grant financial relief let us set that
Lheir places be filled in 1892 by those
who will enact laws for the protection
OF the agricultural producer and labor
er. l :.galn appeal to you to stand
shoulder 10 shoulder in sustaining the
demands of the Supreme Council as
adopted at Oca!a. II we are to win
this light for our rights us free and
equal citizens it must be accomplished
by closer ranks and Il determination
that, with the help of God, We will do
and endure until We can again make
this Government of the people, by
the people and for the people.
10 the question now asked with
seeming anxiety by the politicians and
the press aS TO What party the Farm
ers' Alliance belongs, answer we are
not political party. We have plat
form Of principles To which we invite
the aid aud CO. operation OF all, and the
tine has arrived when our intereste de-
mand that We should do our best to in
duce the political parties Of which We
are members to assist US. Yet we ought
not TO subordinate the obligations we
have assumed to the dictates OF those
who prefer party TO principle.
Il nov invite your attention 10 the
elections soon to he held in this State
for members Of the Legislature. 70
leave the selection of candidates to our
parry bosses and wire-pullerS would
prove unsafe. We should attend the
local meetings OF our parties and soe
that the delegates TO all nominating
conventions are instructed TO require
Of candidates pledge 10 aid and assist
in creating railroad commission to act
in conjunction with the Interstate
commerce commission and clothed
with the lull power OF the State to pro-
tect her citizens from unjust discrimi-
nations in freight and passenger rates
on the palt OF the railroads and other
lines of transportation, lEcludlng the
steam boat lines of our rivers and bays
RAILROAD corporations have lOr years
| controlled legislation until the Acts
passed through the inlluence of their
representatives have robbed the State
OF millions of stock, thereby deprlviny
her Of her voice in the board Of direc-
tors OF railroad companies chartered
by her, with the result that the offices
Of these roads are removed beyond the
confines Of the State, thus deprivlng
her of thousands Ut dollars which
would otherwise ue expended among
our people.
would recommend that inquiry ie
made iutO the report that at The late
meeting between representatives OF the
State aud Of foreign hOIdholders there
was ouly a difference OF S60.COO pre-
venting d linal settlement OF the state
debt, for il it can be Shown that the
finances or this Stat, viii justify the
acceptance OF this difference without
increasing taxation or interfering With
the appropriation necessary to aGmnls-
ter our State Govern meut and provide
for our asyiums, scho lis aud colleges,
l believe We would be benefited by the
establishment Of her credit and the
State would he saved thousands OF dol
lars annually now expended in the pay
ment of attorneys fees and costs III te-
defending coupon suits.
lie suggests that The State Secretary
be located in Richmond, refers 10 the
expense OF the present lecture system,
compliments the Alliance press md
closes with an admonition for the ALI
ance to stand together.
At the conclusion Of the president 5
address, which was heartily applauded,
tie various committees were appointed.
| Col Polk WAS present and delivered q