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alliami bepartmrnt. ./. F. XISliET UHtor. bll'k at brabham. ! Congressman Stokes Replies to an Open Letter. PROTECTION THE POINT 1 i On Which Alliance Ihvthercn ' Hitter. on lYincii le;' and Prolil. The Alliance Lash. . Congressman Stokes asks The , ... State, injustice to him. t<> rcpun i. lisli the lollowing letter Iroin the , Mews and ('ourier : ! , Capt. .J. 1 >. Bradham. Manning, jj 8. C. j , ! )ear Sir : Through 1 he t bought - j fulness of a friend I am in receipt , of a marked copy <>!' The News , and Courier in which you publish , jny private leiler to you. and \ our j reply. Though ample time elapsed, you gave me no intima | tion of your purpose. I do not '. object to the publication, how-i t ever?in fact I am rather glad L now that it is published.since von '. in>ist upon public discussion at ' , this time. Hut, mark this?mv \ willingness in the premises, not , having been ascertained by you f beforehand, will not take away | from the transaction the suggestion of bad faith; nor lift the | llavor of sharp practice. , The close personal and Alii , ance relations heretofore subsist , ing between us might have war- . ranted a more direct appeal to < you to stand true to the doctrines , we had together stood for in the j past ; but I merely asked your . careful attention t<? a published ' argument, and emphasized some 1 additional points. Head in con- nection with that argument much of your ill humored criticism falls ] utterly pointless. j I stand by every statement of i fact in my letter, as touching ] matters that came under my per , sonal observation or from contact ] with liepublican members; and'] time will prove the correctness of i my prent? iions. 11 I>111 let all thai pass. Since | vow insist upon discussion of tar- < ill'now let us discuss it without '; heat, di pas-ionat vly. Vou are a | fanner : .so am I. Wo an* hoth i producers ol short staple cot ton ; < so are your people and mine. | \\'hatever t he hearin^ of tlie ?j 11. > lion may he it hears upon our in - i I crests alike. If we are to obtain , the relief we <1 - ire for our ileitis 1( try we must keep together. We i can't atl'ord to divide, l-ut it we . cont inue to t ravel ?:. / (her we , must he patient anl tolerant. ; Hence I pas- over inueh in your , lettei that seeins ill considered < md unjust, not to say ill temper : ed. and will conline myself to the i question at issue. . Since von seem to resent con I sideration from I lie standpoint ol 1 ,, .. -i i in.- i /( !;i m'r.'uic pianoim, ..ml challenge Hie as alt Alliance titan 1 to 11 < ]'<*11?1 my position, I will on i deavor to treat the <|iicstion ?pe ? ciallv with roleronce to Alliance < demands. Von seem to forget, t however, that on the t a rill', ami i many other issues, the Alliance | demands and t lie Democrat ie plat | form (Slate and national) are c identical. You seem to lose siyht \ of the fact that we trained the 1 Alliance demands because we 1 thought they were right; and for llie same reason we placed those w leniands in the State Democratic p< platform. So that, in appealing e: Lo the platforms,! was simply ap it pealing to that which you and 1 11 ind others had accepted as right p iiid heneticial from the farmer's tl standpoint. t( In the first place, then, you say In hat I and other Alliance leaders S industriously taught you that "Ihe p money question, not the tariff, in a as the is.me." That is true hut In alio is agitating the tariff issue fr ind insisting upon its discussion i r; low ; 1 have pleaded with you i ni ind with others not, to agitate it j ii low. In my published article, u ivhicli you say you read. I di<- w incfly protested against agitating, M t.tlins diveiting attention from j ai he money question at a lime oi .. 1 1 ii i * k\ nun wo snouiu do nosing iij) si >ur ranks for the grand assault p ipon gold monopoly in lS'.KS and tl 11 1900. \v 1 plead with you not to agitate ll lie taritr question now, and you t< -rem unaccountably irritated and p onsumed with indignation on ac- p ount of it. I am singing the a< 'same old tune'' now that I sung at .vhon 1 was, as you say, "indus- tl riously teaching that the money juestion. not the taritf, is the is ni me." Vou took us "at our word" p hen?why not now. ai In a modest way I did teach st .hat along with others, and I am p still protesting against any diver y don of attention from the money p juession, especially since you ai ulinit that the proposed taritV on oi ml ton could not benefit producers a< jf short staple cotton. That the e< proposed tax cannot he adopted n it his time is conceded all round, ri 1'ho present taritf bill will prohablv remain in force at least four ci years. Then why agitate it ? Hut ri what did the Alliance and its ci leaders really teach on the taritf issue? 1 lie < )cala demand on the Cl taritf, which you and I and others helped place in our State Demo ' [ ratio olat l'oriii- r?'i?D lhii< ..II.. Ii< vi11ir in the doctrine of equal j u 81 rights to all ami special privileges to none, we demand that our na 1 u lional legislation shall he framed in future as not to build' 1 nit' industry at the expense of p mother. We further demaml ajn removal of the existing heavy | arill" tax from the nocossitie.- of u >1 life that the j?oor of our land tl nii-t have." tl You quoted that preamble to d Jial dem itul in your letter?why ; w li>! \oii not quote all.' ^ oil 1* diallonged llie to t he Alliance view, and then vou quoted onlv .. t ( i part. Why quote half a truth .vlien tin- whole truth ia\ riuhl * ' Ci iIon., ide I'id VOU believe thai 1 e leinand wasriirhl. <-aptaiii, when 1( VOU helped to place it in the Nitllfi* I li'tHMCI- ll I/1 til'if Inrni t* "" p a 11? i? > <>u endorsed it as an A ! 1 i tj uirc man? Ifvoii were sincere _ lien, ami !ia\e not changed since, ?l iv11 it right have yon, as a con p -i.-t iiit Allianceinan, not to say tl hemocral, to advocate building ? ij? one industry at the expense A another, and thus add to rath- ( r than remove, taril! Iaxe> ('an ?. tl he tact that the benefit, it any, s coming south alter the princic< Me involved or change the corn 'j dexion < ! the act ' It' we advo ' , ; Ol ate a protective tarifl on cotton, H| ve cannot consistently oppose a e iue tarilT on other necessities of K| ife. is If a protective tarilf on cotton ould yield any benefit to your eople and mine I might see some tense for agitating, even though is practically a fruitless issue, ut you yourself admit that the roposed tariff tax could not help le producer of short staple cotni, though you think it would elp the price of long staple, appose it should increase the rice of long st aple. My people do r>t pioduce long staple cotton, ut they do use the goods made, oni long staple. II the price be | lised. as you profess to believe, i ly people would have to pay the icreased price upon what they <e ; so would people every where j ho do not use long staple, i liat light have, volt as an Alii iiceman, sojealou of consistency ; a my part, to build up the long aple cotton industry at the ex-J imiso oi outer industries ? -vcs, ml ie expense ??1'my roust it iicnts ho produce short staple ' While ie long sraple was soiling at IT > cents per pound, short stale ranged at *? to 7 cents per mind. Your proposition is to lvance the price of the .'10 cent rticlaal the expense, in part, of ie producer ot then cent article. If you believe the Alliance delaml was right when you helped ut it in Democratic plarform, lid have not changed since, you and just where 1 do as to the rinciplnl involved, and when on admit that so lar as my poo le, the short staple producers, re concerned, the proposed tariff a cotton could not benefit you linit evervthiny I have contend 1 for. Then why find fault with ie and indulgein in considerate liling ? My position is, "stand to priniples that wo profess to believe ight, whether the benefits are oming south or not." You say, l effect, "this proposed tariff on ritton is wrong in principles, but' it tends to brinir benefit enntli 1 will adopt it." In .essence your doctrine sets' p the dollar standard as the upreme consideration in politial conduct. At bottom your octrine on this point is the doc- j rine of the old reprobate who, aid: "(Jot money, my son. onestly if you can, but net loney." The unthinking and tho sordid lay follow you for a time, until hey realize, as they surely will, hat your proposed tarifV tax is a elusion, but jxood people every hero will value principle above urse or policy as a rule of connet in public men. and you canot hope to escape responsibility >r the doctrine yon teach. i in- .inimii i i ;i,\ uii wiipki aim iin i? < 1 <>m 11 with in my puldishii article?did vou really read ? If they prove anything, they rove in their practical operation ie correctness of my proposition -that an import tax cannot help ie price to producers of an exort crop. The statistics show cat in spite of the import duty n wheat and corn, and in spite, io, of decreased production of oth, the price to the producers f each steadily declined after ie tax was placed. As one of the few farmers in nnirrooo I Ixivn a/ill rrli ? (n "in"' I r* i " """h1" ?" > " " us question from the standpoint f the farmer?the. producer of lort staple cotton. I know,* by , xperience tlio struggle of the I iort stable grower. All 1 have invested in growing short staple cotton. I have given the subject the closest study of which 1 am capale from all aspects. 1 believe 1 have gotten at the bottom facts and I can see nothing for the producer of short staple in the proposed tax. 1 have set forth my tindings in my published argu ment, and all 1 ask of my brothel farmers is what 1 asked of you, a careful reading. 1 do not wisli to force any man's judgment. 1 believe my fellow producers ol short staple cotton will give me a hearing, and 1 believe they will pause before committing them selves to a proposition whose ad vacates admit it to be .wrong it principle and incapable of benefiting the short staple producer 1 offered in my argument the only method by which the protective idea could bo made ell'ec tive to the producer of the short staple. You fight shy of that, in your reply. You admit the propostal import tax on cotton cannot help the short staple producer. and yet when I suggested the only method by which, upon the same principle, you could helr> us short staple growers, you ar< dumb. Do you favor a bounty on short staple cotton 1 And, ll on short staple cotton, are you willing to extend it so as to include all the other export crops! And if so you should point out how the bounty is to be paid,and how it is to reach the producei with certainty. It is not sutli cient for a statement to deal witl the what: he must also point out the how. Your undine ninating sneer at conventior .ility and laudation of innovation are bot) irrational. It is wise to respect conventionality when it is based on principle. Innovation foi mere sake of innovation, without principle back of it or benefit, be fore it, is foolish. Your tiring about none of ui introducing sub-treasury bills etc., I answer so far as it appliei to me. I stand by all our de mands, but I never do anything for buncombe merely, and no on* who knows the situation believei for a moment, that any sue! measure could receive considera tion even in committee, as tin house was organized in the las congress and dominated in tin prosent one. Then who censuri U8 ior noi uoing a tortile thing After long and painstaking ef i'ort people fr? in all parts win think alike on our financial de niund have gotten together. The; would be widely apart on tin sub treasury and other demamh (Mir effort is to cement tog the the forces we have have, and ad* to them. Do you think tins eai lie done by diverting attention t demands that they would fee compelled to fight us on? lint it i< right for the people t< watch their representatives, do not complain at your watch mg us, and stimulating us ti greater activity along Alliauci lines. < >f course when you conn to congress you will expect tin same treatment. If I wore not fearful of arous ing your resentment again !>; reference to spliting the party o financial reform, I would sugges that the only ground upon whirl an Alliance man or Demorra could oiler such a preposition a ttie tariff on cotton would be a a matter of party strategy, t< show up the insincerty of the l\e publican protectionsits. Hut, a I understand you, not only ofl'e it, but would actually suppor and vote for it. This reply has been delayed le wirknoBs, in addition to the dola attending receipt of your publi cation. Very truly yourn, .J. Wm. stokks. Washington, I). 0., May r?, 1 * 1 ^ , t For fear the Reporters lor the sub-Alliances do not fully understand our contract with tho Kntkh i'lusk I'tjumsiiino Co.miwny. I will try to explain. The Enterprise allows us the use of four^ columns in the paper to publish such matter as we see proper and the diil'erent Alliances are each to have a Reporter who shall j furnish the editor of these [jcolumns with articles to help fj lill up our part of the paper. And A i each and every one of those RoI porters shall act as agents for the Enterprise to solicit subscriptions to the paper and to I colli ct the suhscrition price therej to as well as arrearages, and tho Enterprise people are to furnish each Reporter a list of delinquents that he is expected to collect. Now, brethren, let us try to do our work properly and come up j to our part of the contract. Let ! us <|iiit. ourselves like men and show that we are in earnest about it, ami about Alliance mat' tors generally. Lancaster <'. 11. Alliance meets . Ilex; Sat unlay 'J'Jnd in^t., at .'1 o'clock, p. id. K. KVKKAI.L, ^ , Secretary. [ ()ur State exchange is doing a great work in the way ot keep ing prices down and by keeping i us posted 011 prices by publisht ing a weekly price list and wo ' have special prices on buggies, ' wagons, harness, etc., sent us by 1 our exchange agent that we would t j be glad to hand to Alliancetnen any time. t a m /vwirsv^fiMir/ .'WiVi ^ ^ A _ Prof. W. H. Peeke, who nmken a specialty ot M A ^ ^ Epilepsy, has without doubt trcntcd and cur3 H " M cclmorecnsi'tilinnnny M living Physician ; hit k W success is astonishing. J^k Wo have heard of rases 3 of so yenrs' standing cured by ; rnrrfM Llli lllil 1 ??large bottle of his absolute cure, free to any sufferers . xvhomay send their P. O. and Express address. We adviso any one wishing n euro to address 3 Prof. W. H. PEEKE, 7. 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