The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-07
ALLIANCE MEETING.

ssPInn' il Innocent Of Any Harm.
Because there can be 10 Reason
able Hope for a Sub.Treasury---It
Serves to ROOst Office Seekers.
However.
The quarterly meeting of the Alliance was
addressed last Friday in the Court House by
Lecturers Joseph l.. keit and j. 5. Graves.
The DRIFT Of their speeches was to show the
advantages OF cooperative stores, and the
great benefits to be derived from faithful
allegiance to the order, which started out
with high aims and noble purposes.
As far rs we have learned the meeting was
without special interest.
No new ideas or propositions were devel-
oped, and no new mischief was concocted.
The apostles had received no new revela-
tionS and the meeting was rather monot-
omns, in that their speeches were old ones,
warmed over.
IT. now looks ms II the order was gettlng
back on It's original platform, which Is as
good as human ingenuity could contrive.
The Alliance. when II sticks to the practi;
cal business of beneftlnS its members and
is not led Off into politics or unconstitutional
acts, always wins.
II beat the jute trust ont of its boots.
Recently, in Greenville County. the ginner-
les took n line Of action which the Alliance
thought was not fair and against their inter-
est. The Alliance stood firm against the GIN
neries until they conquered the fight.
The Allancemcn in this county wanted
bank, and they established 1t, and so 1t has
ods, in every day life, was tackled, the Alli-
ance has been victor.
But backwoods people n thousand miles
from any money centre ana a. Win no speciat az
an ignoramus undertakes to dictate the
financial policy OF the country, they will fall.
will pe furnlsh rTen o. free money to the citizen who
has nothing to sell or exchange for 1t, Will go
for naught.
That ''plan" is merely political, and has for
It's sole object the preferment Of some office
hunter.
There Is. today millions of dollars lying
idle, in the vaults of the money, centres, and
all we have to do TO get as much OF 1t as we
want Is, to make something to sell. There
are enough Idle dollars to-day TO buy many
times over all the products that we can make.
Amy idea that money will be given out
Any idea that.the" "plan" will ever secure
"Sub-treasury" ia fallacious: -.
1st. Because. there will not be more than
forty or fifty members Of the lower house OF
Congress who would vote for IL.
I'd. If the House Of Representatives should
pass the bill, the senate would kill 1t, az not
more than n dozen Senators, out OF eighty
four, would vote for It, -.
3d. If the House and the Senate should
pass the bill the President-would veto 1t.
4th. If the House and the Senate should
pass the bill, and the President should sign II.
the United States Court would decree the law
unconstitutional.
5th. If It. should he cortendcd that the
Courts would be re-organi2ed. If majority
Of Congress and the President should favor
tion would be: The Judges Of the United
states Conrts are appointed for life, and cap
not be deprived of their office except by i'm
parchment and conviction of Improper con-
duct.
With this view Of the question before our
eyes. what's the use Of worrying?
This newspaper will loss no sleep Mt all on
the question, but we will continue to depend
ft1 q in the n0Gt IN
dividual effort for any success that may come
to us.
Having no hope or aspiration for public Of
flee Of any kind, we can afford to express our
con victions that no harm will come to the
country because of the local "sub-treasury"
craze, or the urging of something better"
From the beginning OF the world down TO
the present time. experience has proven that
any agitation Is better than stagnation, and,
as the leaders OF the "plan," or something
better" have many followers who are sincere
money may be made as plentiful rs oak
leaves, by net of Congress. instead OF by their
individual effort TO earn 1t. we think the
whole country might welcome the agitation
have no greater effect than the cast
ing down of one man and the raising up OF
another.
4 little healthy rotation In Office and q lit
tie change in the ofiicc-hoders Is good foF the
people.
stimulates faithfulness to the public trust.
AS the "plan." or something better" Is ut
terly and absolutely harmless-no matter
how absurd-let US all rsIoice that the polit-
ical;Ieadcrs have devised nothing which can
effect, or which can possibly bring mischief.
Let them go into the political fight with
"the plan" or "sOmethlng better" embla-
Zoned on every banner.
Let them make these propositions which
are positively moro absurd than the old cry
OF "forty acres and mule"
Let them grow eloquent in their pleas for
votes and in their protestations OF n willing
ness TO pass law which will do away with
hard times and set at naught the saying OF
our Saviour, that "the poor you have always
with YOU"
But let the readers of the Press and Banner
not loss their heads.
hopes which are held out in the campaigns
by the ambitious politician, are never real
iZed.
Let them not forget that no politician in
this vale of tears can open to them any ely
sion fields, or point TO them an easy road TO
the achievements Of those luXuries and
spleEdors for which the whole human race
Is daily struggling, and In which struggle the
best efforts OF thousands go for naught.
While the winning OF an office by public
favor Is of the greatest Importance to the
candidates and their kindred. yet to the great
mass OF the people, and to the great major
lty Of our readers, IL matters not one cent
who gets the prize.
AS Il prominent citizen lately said. that no
man who was elected to the Legislature on
an issue was ever worth cent in influencing
Legislation, so no man who may be elected to
congress on aS ridiculous proposition rs that
of issuing free money to every man who
needs it. will likely have no more influence
than the weight Of his own vote in passin g