The advocate., 1891-05-27
TEXAS VAIL ON THE FARMERS AL
TTANCE


give, and is never satisfied. The Great
Teacher, who spake as never man spake,
X uttered an admonition that comes down
to humanity all through the ages, echo
ing: Show hardly shall they that have
riches enter into the kingdom Of God"
Yet later In the sacred writings we
find In the New Testemant the following
from 81. James:
Go TO now, ye rich men, weep and howl
FOR your miseries that shall come upon you.
VI Your riches are corrupted, and your gar
ments are moth-eaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the
rust OF them shall be witness against you,
and shall eat your flesh as il were FIRE. Ye
have heaped treasure together for the last
days.
Behold, the hire Of the laborers who have
reaped down your fields, which is Of you
kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries Of
them which have reaped are entered into
the ears Of the Lord Of SabaOth.
Thus warnings stand without number
teaching the lesson Of the folly Of wor-
shipping gold. AZ the fifth annual $685.
sion Of the Texas Bankers Association,
held at Austin on May 2, 8 and 8, ex-C Con-
gresBman j. F. Miller, Of Gonzales, who
was elected as one Of the four delegates
10 attend the American Bankers AssociR-
tion, delivered speech on "The Attitude
and Feeling Of the Masses Towards
Banks, from which the following copious
extracts are herewith presented:
There is factor abroad in the land to-
day, which antagonizes the people against
banking, not only against banking, but
against almost anything else in the way Of
progress and capital, and that is the labor
organizations. regard them as the most
dangerous influence that has ever occurred
in tho history Of the government Of the
United States. They are more threatening
TO the welfare of our institutions
and TO the perpetuity of the United
States than anything else. They are
the greatest menace to free government
that has existed in the United States since
it's foundation. The war Of the rebellion,
the wars with Great Britain, all the wars
with Mexico, anything, everything that has
occurred has not been, and is not such a
menace to free institutions and to popular
government as the organizations that we
have to-day Of labor against capital.
While tits true chat labor cannot exist
without capital, and that capital cannot be
made useful without labor, and that one de-
pends upon the other correlatively to make
II successful, yet we have this spirit and
teachings going abroad by which il seems
to be the object and design Of the people to
destroy capital and everything in connec-
tion with it, and render it imperative and
unproductive. So that in all of these labor
organizations the tendency is hostile TO the
banks in Texas.
The organization known as the Farmers'
Alliance, which has come into political
power, is hostile to banks and their systems;
still there Is no farmer in the country, but
wants to borrow money from banks, and
win do IL whenever he can, and whenever
they don't let them have il, he gets mad.
(Great applnuse.) This organization is one
Of The most dangerous political institutions
In this country. Il is rendered more danger
ous by reason Of the character of IT'D leaders.
We all know that most Of the leaders Of the
Farmers' Alliance are not men of ability,
are not men who have been successful in
any line Of life. They are not men whom
any ma of won would emplov 70 MANAGE