The advocate., 1894-02-14
/. E. Deans Response to the Welcome
Addresses.
To the Governor and People of Kansas:

mite Of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, voice the unanimous sentiment in
thanking the Kansas Alliance for their kind
invitation to hold our annual session in your
capital city, and representing the member
ship Of the Farmers Alliance of the east,
thank you, governor, for the most cordial
welcome you have extended to us. Your
words used in extending the right hand Of fell
lowship indicate the heart overfowing With
lore for your kind, and a deep solicitude for
the welfare ofhumsnity and can assure you
your kind words will be treasured up by the
delegates and visiting brothers and sisters Of
the Alliance as rejecting the fraternal love
and b-otherly interest which must be the nat
ural and inevitable result OF the education Sc
cured in the Alliance organization.
The facts and figures stated by you furnish
most valuable food for thought, and l assure
you that the members present will take them
home with them to their constituents and
they shall serve to awaken new interest In the
Alliance education. Your mention Of the in.
crease of the burden OF debt, both public and
private, through the increase in the value OF
dollars is matter Of vast Importance to ev-
throughout the civilized world The power OF
interest to rob- the consequent increase Of the
indebtedness Of the people; the increasing
failures; the increase in rented farms and
rented homes; the aggregation Of accumu-
lated wealth In the hands of the few, are, as
you truly say, but the effect OF a cause. and 1t
is the object and duty Of our organization to
study out the causes which have resulted in
these conditions, and agree upon remedies.
The Alliance is purely educational, and In
this great work invites the counsel and as
sistance of all good and patriotic citizens, re-
gardless Of their politics or creeds AS fast
as we can agree upon any cause that has aided
in producing conditions inimical to the best
interests Of all the people, 1t becomes our duty
to agree upon proper remedies, and regardless
Of past party afiliation, to stand solidly to-
gether in demanding the necessary reforms
Party should never be held as more sacred
than home or country, and to-day millions Of
homes are In danger OF foreclosure, and the
prayers Of millions Of Christian mothers are
going up to the Divine throne pleading for
home, for better conditions which will allow
willing workers to live as Gods children
should.
The 100000 Of idle people in the United
States to-day, many OF them being supported
by charity is living moving prayer to the
god OF nations for change in the policy OF
our government.
The $SOOOOOOOO OF tribute paid annually to
English capital invested in this country must
make the spirit OF our revolutionary foreiath-
ers groan In anguish at the degeneracy OF
| their posterity.
nation only 100 years old with but one
twentieth of the population Of the civilized
world, yet producing one-third OF the factory
! products of the world. Thirty one and four.
| tenths per cent. Of the iron ore, 34.1
per cent. Of the pig iron, 352 per cent.
OF the steel, 30 per cent. OF the lead, 40
per cent. OF the copper, 2S.3O per cent. OF the
| gold and l28l per cent. OF the silver; nation
| whose shops and factories turn out S3,1l5,000,-
! 900 more products than Great Britain, should
| be strong enough to set up In business for IT.
self, and choose its own material for money
without consulting Great Britain or any other
aristOcracy OF Europe.
| AS wonderful as are the productions OF
shops, factories and mines OF the United
States, the wealth produced from the farms
Is still more amazing, for after furnishing
abundance to clothe and feed 65O0OOO0 people,
you have furnished 10 the people OF other
| countries nearly Sl,0O0OO0OO0 worth OF farm
products at the exceedingly low prices OF To-
] day. The constant cheRpenlng OF the pro-
ducts Of the farm by the development and I'm
| proVement Of agricultural production In
| India aud Africa must warn the American
| farmer that he must study the question Of EN-
| ploying the surplus labor OF this country In
| producing those things which, while not
| seeking q market, add to the wealth OF the
whole nation and furnish consumers for all
| farm products at home. In this the farmer
| and laboFer are brought together into
/ such ORGANIZATIONS as ours, to study the great
economic questions that affect oil alike.
| And now, my dear governor and citizens Of
Topeka and Of Kansas, again thank you for
| the invitation 10 visit your city and state, for
| the hearty reception which you have given
| us for the many provisions you have made
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