Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-17
s..iar mann ,a q. Address.

On Wednesday, October 14th, quite
a large and deeply interested au;
dience met Major Mann Page, the
president of the Farmers Alliance of
this State, at the Town Hall in Belle
Haven. Major Page was introduced
to the audience by Mr.. T. T.Wescott.
Mr.. Page in conversational style and
without any apparent effort at ora
tory, began stating the motive of his
being here and the object of the
Farmers Alliance. He said: "When
we begin to think of the inequality
of wealth in the country, of how a
few are dishonorably piling up their
millions, and by their millions con-
trolling this nation, holding a large
majority of our people in subservien
cy to them, thus making the rich
constantly richer, and the poor con-
stantly poorer, by that means pre-
pairing us for landlordism and for
serfdon far worse than African sla
vcry-wlen we remember that this
Government to save the Wall street
gamblers not only pay them the in
terest on the money before it is due,
but pay them the interest on one
hundred and twenty-five cents for a
dollar or one-fifth more than could
ever be due them-it is time to think,
to combine, to act. -
In referring to the beginning of the
Alliance, Mr.. Page said: sit has been
said that the Alliance is Yankee
effort, to disrupt the Democratic
party. So far from that assertion
being true, it was organized in Texas
to protect the Texas cotton growers
from the bagging trust. From that
small beginning-a protection that
was q positive necessity-it has
reached its present proportion. To-
day, if know anything of Jefferson
IAN Andrew Jackson-Democracy it is
who'll in accord with it. But it is
non-p ,rtisan, non-political, and will
never become separate political
party unless driven to it. Some of
the newspapers by lying about us
and misrepresentation, are doing
more to drive us from the old parties
than all Alliance men or measures
combined. We are accused of sccill-
ism, Of anarchy, AMI heaven only
knows what else. If God did by the
liars now as he did by Ananias and
Sapphira there would lie more deaths
than births. y
In referring to taxation, he said:
"There is sixty billions of property
in the United States. Of that amount
forty-three billions are exempted
from taxation. Of the seventeen bill
lions left the farmer pays the tax on
fourteen billions"
In reference to railroad attorneys
in Congress, he said: 1.-The bible says
no man can serve God and mammon
too" No man can serve his people
as q representative and serve the
rail. If man desires to be railroad
attorney, let him do SO. But Go not
allow him to pretend to represent you
in Congress while he is representing
the railroads and trusts. / do not
mean by this to cast reflection upon
all your representatives. You have
some men there that are true to your
interests. But as true and noble as
they are, they are outnulnbered and
outvoted. Hold to your good men
and put other good men with them.
Men that will deal honorably with
the railroads, banks, and everything
else is what you want. Men, that
connot be swerved by the millions,
you must have or our country is a
failure
He read and commented on letter
written by President Lincoln, stating
the great danger of monied monop-
oily.
He paid Senator Daniel glowing
tribute.
In closing his address, he said:
"Fifty-one per cent of the voters of
this county are farmers. We ought
to have our rights. We have ma
jority, and if we combine and unite
our efforts we will have them.
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