Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-12
MR.. M'ALEsTER's ADDRESS.
A Sound Argument by the Gentleman from
Mississippi.

ICr MS SUBJECT "A AlSudhtu fOLlCy anu It's
Inevitable Penalties-Has the Press Treated
Us Fairly"
He began by reviewing the history of the
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
it was necessary to define causes in
which government had its origin
"Man"he said lis 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
cOncIusSely shown by the experienced fact
that in no age or country had man been
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 selfishness, 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 whomSoeycr instituted was
government; that as society was necessary
to man, so was government essential to So
Ciety; that what affected the one affected
the other, and therefore as society was, so
NOulu, through ulUTil lOTGCS. Dt lllt BUNGTu-
ment.
The true mission of the Alliance is to re-
generate society by educating the masses
in the science of economical government in
Il strictly nOn-partiSan SPIRIT thus infus-
ing new life-giving blood into the arteriaf
and venous systems of the benumbed social
organism, and thus indirectly imparting re-
vjtalizing power to the government. That
partisan political action was forbidden both
expressly and BY implications that the Al
lance is secret organization, and when
politics are introduced it necessarily becomes
d 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 a pest-house Of pestilence, or the
fangs of venomous reptiles.
The speaker next took UP the St Louis
platform and said it was conceived in du-
plicity and framed under false pretense;
that It first proclaimed to the world equal
rights to all and special privileges to
nOne,n and wound up with the most gi-
gantic piece of class legislation of modern
times: that the sub-treasury bill was con-
NtlhCl oI4N Nilil Wow W lOiIllliS5
third party and not to re-
lieving the agricultural class; that
il was to force upon the
Alliance secret partisan politics so as to
enable bribe-taking blatherskites and mer
cenary impostorS like G.. w. Macune and
his lickspittles to bargain and sell out ALI
ance legislatures to railroad attorneys, as
was done by Macune 10 Pat Calhoun of
Atlanta, Ga, in the senatorial election Of
last year.
That there was more subs initial relief to
be derived from q reduction of the tariff to
i strictrevenue basis, than frcm all other
relief agencies com bined; that tariff reduc-
ton was an important plank in the Ocala
platform, yet Mdcune had denounced 1t in
the Economist as the galvanized ghost of
sectional strife.'' and "ft emblem OF dis
loyalty and rebellion
That the reason why Macune and his
third party conspirators sedulously sought
TO suppress tariff reduction was because
they recognized that it would make Demo-
tempted to destroy celestial saucity
through the heresy of rebellion there had
been none greater than the sub-treasUry.
That it would take its place in history
with the dreams of the alchemists
and South sea bubble, and should be en-
titled An Act to Ruin and Desolate the Agri-
cal ural interest," The speaker next COM
Hastings, declaring him 20 be the arch
enemy and despoiler of the Alliance, and
that his (Macune's) career verified the as
sertion of Edmund Burke, that 1.-The plane
of humanity was q desert daily producing
new monsters"
The speaker spoke at length upon the i'm
pOrtance of educating the masses. He said:
There is no truth of more universal ac-
ceptance than that republican form Of
government cannot exist unless the masses
are competent for self-government. How
can they govern wisely and judiciously un-
less they have the knowledge requisite to
that end?
1--WE live under form of government
where each citizen is a sovereign, and SOW
ereignty requires as much intelligence
when exercised by the people, as whole,
as when exercised by a single Individual.
\ government of and by the SOW
creign people, therefore, requires that
high degree OF popular intelli-
gence which will enable the masses
OF men TO comprehend the true principles of
government. and so direct its administra-
ton as to insure the greatest possible meas
ure of general welfare. A republican form
Of government really requires higher de-
gree of popular intelligence than any other,
and cannot exist and descend from
to generation unless the
citizen sovereigns are literally educated
in the science OF economical gov
eminent. 1t has been said that as civiliza-
ton advances it will uproot social evils and
afford panacea for all the ills of society.
Civilization is a result of education, and
hence in the ratio as the masses advance in
education will civilization make onward
strides in corresponding degree
The greatest danger to the perpetuity of
free institutions is ignorance among the
masses. 1t Will transform the sunniest
field into desert waste, and viii make the
palaces of princes fit only for tattooed
savages.
knowledge removes the murl1 and mist
of prejudice from the brain, and hurls the
ghost of error from the clouds of super
stitiou.''
He next took up reform movements and
said that they, as a rule, were of slow devel-
opment; that all the bcnefcient elements in
society do not develop at once in equal or in
contemporaneous degree, but to-day one
force springs forth and gains the dominat-
ing position, tomorrow another shoots up
and wins the ascendant attitude and thus
proceeds the refining process of elemental
experiment, when finally the heaven
anointed law of progress will in
terpose5 and select the fittest and
and appropriate their uplifting virtues to
the God-inspired design of "a more perfect
society over more perfect citizenship un-
der more perfect government.
The speaker then grouped and analysed
the causes which Immediately preceded the
French, English and American revolutions.
unjust and uuoearable systems of taxation
and general fiscal Acknowledgement.
Here he said, ARE the three greatest
revolutions OF any race or age having their
origin in the selfsame crimes and condi-
tons. Now, take the history OF the Federal