The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-16
FULTON'S ALLIANCE DAY.
ONLY 1000 TO 1900 PEOPLE AT
TIE BALLY.


Speaking-Sockless Jerry Simpson
the Popular Fagorlte-Sam Small
Speaker.
ATLANTA, GA, July 15.-Between 1000
and 200 people gathered at Piedmont park
to-day for tine alliance rally. This number
is literal estimate. including women and
children. Atlanta people took very little
interest in the matter, perhaps not more
than 250 people being present at the
grounds. The legislators and quite a nuns
ber of distinguished alliancemen. besides
the speakers, were on hand. 1t was consid-
erably tanner than was generally tici-
pated. The governor was conspicuously
absent.
LIVINGSTON SILENT.
Col. Livingston had no speech to make.
| Gen. Weaver's argument was pronounced
an able effort President Polk was anxious
to say something sensational, but afraid to.
Sockless jerry, plain, earnest and shrewd,
was the popular favorite. Last Of all came
Sam Small. Sam is pale. He has lost
something of his old swagger and
superiority. He seems to care more for
| what people think. He has been humble,
may be. He appears to lie thankful for
small favors, and ia grateful for q hearty
hand shake and a word Of encouragement;
| bub no uhs lOSt nOuo Oh MS RllDneSS. his
| hallaluJah lick Is as telling as ever. Warm
ing up with the encouragement of the crowd,
he appeared at his best Not score of peo-
pie in Atlanta knew that he had come back.
he is glad, he says, to get back again.
We said Sam, I'VE, the alliancemen.
be talked 1t as pat as though he was really
the only and the original allianceman.
NOTHING SENSATIONAL.
There was nothing sensational about the
| VN1nA fNaw III M l.
said too much. The meeting adjourned
about $3.50 O'Clock this afternoon. The
basket dinner and the barbecue were all
delusion. The people that carried baskets
had something to eat; the others didn't
Mayor Hemphill was introduced by Presi-
dent Talliaterro of the county alliance, and
welcomed the visitors to Atlanta. Col.
Livingston replied briefly, and then intro-
duced Gen. Weaver, the first speaker. Gen.
Weaver was introduced as a longtime
friend Of the alliance principles.
wEAvER's SPEECH,
He began by declaring that there was O
new America, and that the people were
ready to bury all sectional differences. He
took as sort Of prelude to his argument
the homely subject, "a Loaf of Bread
Labor is a unit, he said. 81 findn he con-
tinued, great discomfort among the pro-
ducers Of this county particularly in the
1 Agricultural class. They are asking the
) question, Why is it that the class of people
! producing the most wealth have and enjoy
the least Of itP The alliance is here to-day
bigger than the Democratic party or the
Republican party or the new party or all
three. combined. [Applause.l
LABOR's DIVISIONS.
There are three great divisions of human
labor--produce, manufacturer and dis
tributor. Under a just government no one
OF these classes should absorb an undue
share Of wealth. All we want is fair play,
and as old Hickory used to say, by the
eternal We'll stand nothing else | notice
the annual report of the Chicago Burliug-
ton and Quincy railroad that after paying
all expenses, salaries, laying up a reserve
and paying interest on all indebtedness,
dividend OF per cent was declared on all
stock, watered and otherwise. How nice it
would be if the farmer could pay himself
a salary, another TO his wife as
vice president Of the concern, and all his
expenses and interest on all his indebted
ness and could lay up reserve for uis-
fortune or accidents, and, over and above
all that, clear profit of per cent on what
his total investment would amount to in
watered stock. After all, these dividends
and the salaries of the distributing class
come from the producers.
MARKETS OF THE FARMERS.
Farmers sell IN a competitive market
country Is controlled In Liverpool by the
price OF wheat exported and is fixed there
in competition with wheat from India. The
American farmers compete not only with one
another but the ryots and wolies of India.
1t is 30 with everything the producer sells.
The producer buys, on the other hand, in a
pool market. The cradle he is rocked in
was bought from furniture trust. His
farm utensils, his kitchen goods, the ties for
his cotton, the glass in his window, the
coffee, sugar-everything he buys comes
from trust After he's dead they buy
box from the coffin trust and bury him in il.
NO POLITICS IN TRUSTS.
"pve noticed that these pools skin demo-
Gratis, republicans, greenbackers and all
! others just alike. There's no politics in
trusts. I asked Dutch neighbor of mine
once what party he belonged to. 'Mer said
he; my platform is so cents a bushel for
my corn, and zwei glass larger beer at 5
cents a glass It's business with these
trusts, and it's high time it be a business
matter with us. These trusts and monop.
olies are blood-sucking wens on the body
| polite, and they must be removed. At the
close of the war there were 25, ,000,-
900 people north, and not over
| 12,O00,OO0 south. Practically the whole
| wealth of the country was in the north.
/ Money was plentiful north, and when the
line Of bayonets was removed, part of it
! OSRdu HOWAuE 6OuJus 1ue pSOple, S3lQ
| Secretary McCulloch, in 1885, are now
comparatively free from debt. Tney are
becoming demoralized. Many of them are
idle and won't work
THE ONLY REMEDY.
"The only remedy, in the opinion of the
secretary, was to be found in a contraction
of the currency. So they did, and issued
interest sbearing bonds. How much was
there in treasury notes in 1865? Three
fifths of S2,S45, ,907, ,426, besides this
was the money in the state and
national bank notes. Now / know
! that as my family increased my expenses
increased. Uncle Sans family is just like
mine, only it's larger. The expenses are
bound to increase as it grows larger. My
friends. you are the government Wash
ington is merely place of business. You
needn't expect good government from there
| unless you send it there [Applause. Now
we have only 81 ,405, 100000 for 63,000,000
people, $500, 900. 900 less than was distributed
among IS, O00,Q QO0 in 1865. There never was
a greater crime against civilization than
this act of congress, and the panic Of 1878
| is the record Of it,"
| AN ILLUSTRATION.
Suppose the father of family, after
seven of his children had left home and ne
hal only two left there living comfortable
on his income, should be called upon by the
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