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nm PKOGEESSIYE FAEMKR. AH v THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. Vol 7. RALEIGH, N. C, JULY 12, 1892. No. 2-2 ".TinMAL FARMERS' ALLI- ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. int H L- Loucks, Huron, Dota. Address, Washington, KC' rv-Treasurer J . H. Turner, Address, 239 North Capitol f3Cr4 W Washington, D. C. -rer-J. H. Wiiletts, Kansas. EXECUTIVE BOARD. r Maeune, Washington, D a i'biizo Wardall, Huron, bouth Da- Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. , ! Colo, Michigan, o' : Beck, Alabama. J; D.' Davie, Kentucky. ttoSAL LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. TT T, Loucks, Chairman. 0 V. Macune, Washington, D. C. tfWi Page, Brandon, Va. L. V. Featherstone, Forest City, Ar- ttF. Gwinn, White, Tennessee. . ,8TH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLI ANCE. . President Marion Butler, Clinton, 'Vice-President T. B. Long, Asho-lSecretarv-Treasurer-W. Q. Barnes, 'eeiareY-J. S. Bell, Brasstown, N.C. Ste4ard-C. C. Wright Glass N. C. Chaplain Rev. E. Pope, Chalk .vel, N. C. . . Door-Keeper W. H. Tomlinson, -ayetteville, N. C. Assistant Door-Keeper 41 . E. Kmg, r5eant-at-Arm& J. S Holt, Chalk vel, X. C. , State Business Agent W . H. N ortn. aleigh, N. C. Trustee Business Agency und W . Graham, Machpelah, N. C. tSECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH "AROLINA FARMERS' 8TATE ALLIANCE. B Alexander, Charlotte, N. C, hainnan; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston, '. C; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. G. JTATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. Elias Carr, A. Leazer, N. M. Cul oreth, M. G. Gregory', Wm. C. Connell. TATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. ; N. C. 4ngli?h, Trinitv College: J. J. oung. Polenta; II. A.'Forney, Newton, Is. O. ::z -th Carolina Reform Press Association. Officers J. L. Ramsey, President; ilarion Butler, Vice-President ; W. S. flames, Secretary, PAPERS .-'rogre.-slve Farmer, '.'ancK-ian, The Woi kinsman's Helper, Watchman, Raleigh, N. C. Clinton, N. '. Pinnacle, N, C. Salisbury, N. C. Farmers' Advocate, Country Lite, yercury, Rattler, Agricultural Bte, 1 arboro, . Trinity College, N. C. Hickory, N. C. Wliitakers, N. C. Goklsboro, N. C .Moncure, N. C. Raleigh, N. C. iiian-e Echo. S-'ciiiU Informer, Each of the above-named papers are quested to keep the list standing on ike first page and add others, provided they are duly elected. Any paper fail ing to advocate the Ocala platform will !e dropped from the list promptly. Our fteople can noio see what papers are published in their interest. THE CRITICS CRITICISED. Answer to Plutocrats Our Ability to Protect Ourselves. Mr. Editor: The old political papers often contain articles from so called farmers giving advice to the Farmers' Alliance, and mingling enough of good advice with perversions of facts to make their articles palpable to those who have not given the Alliance de mands a close study. A nom deplume of a farmer says: "I think all will agree that to adopt the Sub Treasury plan would be entirely experimental, and would involve an immense outlay of money to be raised by increased taxation, which the farmers and wage workers would have-to pay, thus in creasing the great burden of taxation of which all now so greatly complain." The Sub-Treasury plan can and will be carried out without taxing the pro ducers one fourth of one per cent. , and the burden now imposed upon the peo ple will be greatly relieved. The Alli ance plan will increase the circulation per capita to $30. It will absorb a small per cent, of this to build sub treasuries. One hundred millions dis tributed in this way would build large warehouses and refrigerators at all the principle cities and points of distribu tion. These sub treasuries would en able the farmers to fix a price at which they can live and advance our civiliza tion. As all prosperity is bottomed on a prosperous agriculture, legislate so as to make the farmers prosperous, merchants, manufacturers and every class will be prosperous and labor be steadily employed at good wages. Set the government printing press to work running off legal tender United States notes until we have $50 per capita, stop the printing press from running off bonds and mortgagee and taxing the people one thousand million dollars a year to pay interest to the drones in the bee hive of industry. Stop squeez ing two dollars of the products of labor into one of the goldite's dollar. Stop issuing bonds to make improvements that could be done for cash at one-third the expense to the people. The credit of the nation (the people) is better than that of any firm. "Before rushing Z- T?nCOC' AT T T I blindly into financial or other experi ments involving such immense ex pense and outlay of money, forced from the pockets of the people by un just tariff legislation, they should in form themselves, for they will have the larger part of the taxes to pay." The Alliance and those who advocate financial reform have given the subject careful consideration, and they know the Sub-Treasury or something better will give the needed relief. These re formers are the only ones who have studied the question and understand the situation and advocate a remedy for existing de pression. The reformers know the remedy proposed will give the needed relief and bring prosperity. The writer referred to would saddle that fraud tariff reform upon the peo ple. Mr. Plutocrat, you cannot fool financial reformers any longer. This howl about the tariff has been going on for three fourths of a century, and is no nearer a solution than when it be gun. Ther financial reformers will ad just the tariff so as to give relief to all. We had a taste of your method of tariff reform in 1857-47-37, and it cost the people three thousand millions of dollars. It took the coin out of the country ard compelled us to compete with pauper labor of other countries to get it back. It depreciated prices and brought woe and misery to the wealth producers. Th-3 Republican financial policy and your tariff policy works in the same direction ; it squeezes more of the necessaries and luxuries of life into the goldite's dollar. The plan proposed by the Farmers' Alliance, the business men will not face panics, for this plm will eliminate all the conditions that producers think. 44 The Sub-Treasury is class legislation." Class legislation is legislation for one class at the ex pense of another. When each class re ceives corresponding benefit there is no class legislation. If the cotton planter sells his cotton for 14 cents per pound, won't he be better able to pay his debts, doctor bills, buy more of the merchants, and won't the factories use more and labor bo belter paid ? Will pav any of tho 3 plutocrats $50 if they will disapprove this in The Progres sive Farmer. Who opposes this move ment for financial relief? Bankers, money powers, speculators and the gamblers in the necessaries of life, and all who are engaged in rob bing the peop e. The office seekers who hope for office that have grown ia value by this robber system two to four hundred per cent, in twenty five years. There is an immense howling about class legislation by the kickers as to financial reform, but they have not one word to say against loaning the national banks the people's credit at l per cent and compelling them to borro-v it bark at 6 to 40 per cent, to get into circula tion. Every paper and all politicians who oppose financial reform are the champions of all the monopolists that now oppress the people. Thero .is neither sense or rjommon honesty in this cry of class legislation, and tho?e who are engaged in it are doing it for office. Ask one of those howlers for a bill of particulars and they are as dumb as an oyster. The farmers and laborers intend to place themselves where thev can fix a price on all they have to sell and on their labor, and when they have done this they will be where the fac tories are. Republican politician. "Haven't we given you protection of 25 cents per bushel on whe it and other things in the same ratio?1' What does your tariff of 25 cents per bushel amount to when the price of wheat is fixed in Liverpool ? You know the price in Manitoba is the same as in Northern Dakota, and the farmers must compete with Russia and India and sell at the same price. You knew when you levied this tariff it would not add one cent to the price of a million bushels of wheat. You levied this tariff to deceive the farmers. You gave the farmers protection with pro tection left out. You left the finance of this country in a shape so the money devil in England could fix a price on his wheat. When the farmers ask you to give them a financial system that will enable them to fix a price on their wheat, you turn up your eyes in hypo ciitical horror and cry 14 unconstitu tional," "fiat idiots," "crazy lunatics," 4 'you will ruin the country by disturb ing the finance. 44 We must maintian an honest dollar to protect the poor laboring man." Yes, you demonetized silver so you could furnish England silver for 90 cents to make an India dollar worth in India one hundred cents. You have shaped finance so England can buy ten cent cotton for seven cents, and one dollar's worth of wheat for seventy cents You compel the farmers of this country to compete with paupered labor in India and Egypt that work for four to six cents a day. The Republican robbers and the Demo crats legislate for England for English gold and office. The people are going to protect them selves by assuming the reins of govern ment and establishing sub treasuries and issuing 150 per capita of legal ten der United States notes and put them into circulation without anyone interfering. They will form a trust and fix a price on all they have to sell, and get it. They will do for themselves that which you have done for the factories, vice, reserve to themselves the exclusive control of their home market, and when foreign countries have consumed their surplus they propose to make them pay a liv ing price. When the people are m po er, the money devil in Liverpool cannot fix a prize on the farmer's cot ton and wheat. "You lunatics will drive gold out of the country by isiuing $50 per capita of your fiat money." We know you demonetized silver and made gold the only legal tender for debts, and have made it to the in terest of the creditor class to make gold a commodity when we issue $50 per capita, and they intend to do it when we have increased the paying power of labor by doubling the volume of money. "If you lunatics issue your cheap money, the European creditors will send on their bonds and exchange them for United States notes, and present them to the United States Treasury, and demand every- dollar of gold and bankrupt; the treasury and fix a pre mium of two to four hundred per cent, on their gold and make the govern ment pay it." Yes, you have placed the people in a hole where you expect to keep them. When our European creditors begin this we will dehorn the golden calf and let them have all the gold ; then we will have $50 of paper money and a uniform volume to measure values and we will not be tied to the gold basis of Europe and have to compete for Eng lish gold. " The foreign holders of our debts will send them over and demand immediate payment in gold and make you pay four dollars ot your cheap money for one of their gold dollars.' We know you fixed finance so they could do this, but when they undertake it we will have something to say. We will send our cotton to the Sub Treasury, and when they demand four dollars for one and attempt to oppress our people we will charge them forty cents a pound for cotton. We know outside of the United States the world's supply will not last over two months and a half. Let them try it on and they will find cotton is king. Mr Plutocrat, we know France issued seven hundred and forty eight millions of full legal tender paper money when she lay bleeding at the feet of Germany, and it did not depreciate over 2 per cent , though she was compelled to pay her victor one thousand millions in gold, and her indebtedness was over three thousand millions of dollars. This money put every able man and woman to work, and they p od iced a surplus and sold it for gold and the balance of trade was in her favor, und now she has more gold than England and Germany combined. The $50 per capita, with our ability to com pell Europe to pay a big price for cot ton, will dump ihi3 gola of the world into our lap, and we will have no use for it but to pay our debts and use it in the arts. We are not repudiationists, but we do not intend to be robbed, neither will wo allow absentee land lordism in this coun ry. We can and will pay every dollar we owe our European creditors in gold. "The Sub-Treasury is unconstitu tional." So we are informed by your chronic ;onstitutional lawyers. Please inform us how it is constitutional to loan money on the sign of the sign (bonds) and unconstitutional to loan money on the substance that must be sold to get the sign (gold) to pay the sign of the sign. Money is the sign of the sub stance and the debt is the sign of the money that the substance must be sold to nay the debt. , When vou tell the people it is const:, tutional to loan money on bonds (debts, and it is unconstitutional to loan monej on the substance that must be sold t( get the money to pay the debt. Yoij! are deliberately trying to deceive thj people There is not a lawyer with thimbleful of brains but knows better 44 You will ruin the country if yoi buy the railroads." 44 How will yoij pay eleven billion dollars?" You told us during the campaign o' 1890 that out of nine billions of ran road stock, six billions was pure water1 and the roads cost a little over threl thousand million dollars. Did you ter the truth then, and are you lieing now' Don't you know the best authorit? places the value of these roads at nc1 over four thousand and one-half billio;" of dollars? Don't you know the gov ernment report says these roads are capitalized at a good deal more thai their value? A party of the people wih strip the President of his power an place it into the hand3 of the peoplet where it belongs. The centralizing ft atures of the roads i3 what we like It will give us $60 per head where we have $7.50, and eliminate wheels within wheels, and save us several hun dred millions of dollars each year, be sides the three and a half to four hun dred millions annually paid on watered stock. The greatly increased trans portation would enable us to reduce freight and passenger rates two thirds. We can pay for these in nine years out of the savings. We will pay for them in 14-cent cotton and not in 6 cent cot ton, as we now pay the national debt. Our machine is'an expanding one and yours is a contracting one. 44 The whole provision is dangerous, without any elements of constitutional liberty, oppressive and thoroughly un democratic." It is dangerous for the people to take control of the roads and eliminate the hardship-1, but it is not dangerous for soulless corporations to control trans portation and change the thing all it will bear and water stock so as to ab solve all surplus earnings. It is dan gerous for a party of the people, by the people and for the peq)le to take charge of the telegraph, bufe.it is not danger ous for a Gould to wateiMtock 500 per cent, and control the discrimination of news. If the railroads should pass into the hands of the people, it would endanger the liberties of all, but in the hands of soulless corporations the lib erties of the people are perfectly safe "The control of the railroads is un democratic." Yes, it is contrary to modern pluto cratic democracy. The people have had enough of that kind of democracy. They propose to try the people's de mocracy. We have have been aware for sometime that the so called democ racy was opposed' to the people control ing anything. They would keep the control of all roads and telegraphs and money in the hands of soulless corpora tions. The plutocratic editora know nothing of political economy, or they have sold themselves, body, soul, boots and breeches to moneyed corporations. Plutocratic democracy, we propose to have a government of the people, for the people and by the people, and we will have a party that is not$af raid of the people controling. Your day of grace are numbered, and lieing and salt won't save your political sides. James Murdock. A FEW THOUGHTS Taylor, N. C. Mr. Editor: I think the time has come when all true men should come toge her and band themselves together with one steady purpose to stand by and fight for their homes, their rights and their country. If there is one spark of patriotism in this country it should now show itself. Read and study the platforms of the two political parties which you have been support ing for the last twenty seven years They are an insult to the farmers and laborers of this country. During all this time you have been legislated against and burden after burden heaped upon you, until to day you are homeless, oppressed and discouraged. Yes, during this period of our country's life you have made the world rich but you are poorer than when you began. By unjust legislation you have been robbed of your property; and at your expense millionaires by the thousand have been made. The men who par ticfpited in these conventions knew well what oppression had come upon the people by laws passed in Congress by both parties, but not a word was said about the effects they have had upon and how they have operated to rob you of your homes. But on the other hand they boasted of the pros perity and happiness of the people. Yes, they stand up beforeour outraged and robbed people and lied, as all rob oers have always done. Both plat forms are purely English and evident ly dictated by English and x.merican gold 'robbers. This gold business, in the interest of a few men here and in England, has caused us more hardship a'idi';v:ry than all the was and pes tileiic-"! wo have ever had. These two platforms are twins and cannot be told apart, so we will have to call them the Robbers Robbed. My countrymen, you see and realize your desperate con dition. You see how all this ruin and oppression has come upon you. Now the old parties, the direct means by which this oppression has come, have declared that they are going to con tinue these oppressions and even make them worse to bear. They have asked you also to give them 3-our vote to en able them to rob you and enrich them "'rkoc&m'ghaiii crprfiv ay'U.do iuh r.s The crops in Richmond county, 01 every sort, so far as we have been abl to ascertain, are exceptionally good3 ani if no misfortune befalls them bountiful harvest is ahead for thy farmers. The wheat crop,- although somewhat retarded in harvesting by ti little too much rain, is, we believer about safe and is a good one. g Red Springs Comet: The colore people of Red Springs will establish!? a high grade school at an early dat They will erect a building of large prd portions, and employ an able corps ce teachers Mr. T. W. Edens, ors- of our progressive farmers who believee in a diversity of crops informs us theg besides supplying his large family wita butter has sold since January 1st 30e pounds of butter at 25 centt per pound the product or tnree cows. Tarboro Southerner: At Tanner 1 creek this morning the water nonded un within a foot of the tract and the embankment, for a hundre or more yaras, was aimosc a musr The engineer was on it this mornin before he discovered it. Stopping an tion of the people, he will lose one hundred thousand votes in North Caro lina. The time is here when men must vote for their homes and their country rather than fer party. Let every man cast his vote for principle, and let the parties and their traitorous manipulators take care of themselves. Let me say, not only to bleeding Kan sas but to the great bleeding North west and to the oppressed people every where, that one of the poverty stricken and homeless South have clasped your hands and will march shoulder to shoulder with you in the great battle for our rights, which is now on, and the grandest victory ever achieved on American soil shall be ours. Fellow: citizens, you have a cause for which the life of the grandest type of an American citizen has been given. Let us take Col. L. L. Polk as our ideal and take his advice as given when we last saw him, 44 do your duty." If each one will carry out this injunction as this grand and noble man did, then our country is saved and our rights are obtained. May God help the peo ple to see their duty and give them the courage to do it. . . , , -... . Yours fraternally, - H. F. Freeman. Wide awake. What? Why, The Progressive Farmer. Send 40 cents and get it through the campaign. POLITICAL PLATFORMS. A Series of Interesting Documents. Milestones in the Development of Politi cal Parties Since the Organiza tion of the Goven.ment. 1856. DEMOCRATIC, CINCINNATI, JUNE GTH. Resolved, That the American Democ racy place their trust in the intelligence, the patriotism and the discriminating justice of the American people. 1. That the Federal Government is one of limited powers, derived solely from the Constitution, and the grants of power made therein ought to be strictly construed by all the depart ments md agents of the government, and that it is inexpedient and danger ous to exercise doubtful constitutional powers. 2. That the Constitution does not confer upon the General Government the power to commence and carry on a general system of internal improve ments. 3. That the Constitution does not confer authority upon the Federal Gov ernment, directly or indirectly, to as sume the debts of the several States, contracted for local and internal im provements or other State purposes; nor would assumption be just or cxpe dient. 4. That justice and sound policy for bid the Federal Government to foster one branch of industry to the detri ment of another, or to cherish the in terests of one portion of our common country ; that every citizen and every section of the country has a right to demand and insist upon an equality of rights and privileges, and a complete and ample protection of persons and property' from domestic violence and foreign aggression 5. That it is the duty of every branch of the government to enforce and prac tice the most rigid economy in conduct ing our public affairs, and that no more revenue ought to be raised than is re quired to defray the necessary expenses of the government and gradual but certain extinction of the public debt 6. That the proceeds of the public lands ought to be sacredly applied to the objects specified in the Constitution, and that we are opposed to any law for the distribution of such proceeds among the States, as alike inexpedient in policy and repugnant to the Constitu tion. 9. That Congress has no power to charter a national bank; that we be lieve su -h an institution one of deadly hostility to the best interests of this country, dangerous to our republican institutions and the liberties of thepeo pie. .1 -calculated to place the business of the country withia the control of a concentrated money power and above the laws and will of the people; and the results of the Democratic legisla tion in this and all other financial meas ures upon which issues have been made between the two political parties of the country, have demonstrated to candid and practical men of all parties their soundness, safety and utility in all business pursuits. 8. That the separation of the moneys of the government from banking insti tutions is indispensable to the safety of the funds of the government and the rights of the people. 9. That we are decidedly opposed to taking from the President the qualified veto power, by which he is enabled, under restrictions and responsibilities amply sufficient to guard the public in terests, to suspend the passage of a bill whose merits cannot secure the ap proval of two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, until the judgment of the people can be obtained thereon, and which ha saved the American people from the corrupt and tyrannical dominion of the bank of the United States and from a corrupting system of general internal improve ments. Resolved, That the foundation of this Union of States having been laid in, and its prosperity expansion, and pre eminent; example in free government built upon entire freedom of matters of religious concernment, and no respect of persons in regard to rank, or place of birth, no party can justly be deemed national, constitutional, or in accord ance with American principles, which bases its exclusive organization upon religious opinions or accidental birth place. And hence, a political crusade in the nineteenth century, and in the United States of America, against Catholics and foreign-born, is neither justified by the past history nor future prospect of the country, nor in unison with the spirit of toleration and en lightened freedom which peculiarly distinguishes the American system of popular government 3. That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Con gress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made. 4 That the Democratic party will faithfully abide by and uphold the principles laid down in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1792 and 1798 and in the report of Mr. Madison to the Virginia legislature in 1799 ; that it adopts these principles as constitut ing one of the main foundation of its political creed, and is resolved to carry them out in their obvious meaning and import. TO BE CONT(NUED. . m m COINJOCK INDIGNANT. Mr. Editor: At a regular meeting of CoiDjock Alliance, No. 1,249, he?d June 12th, 1892, taking into considera tion the very bitter and abusive lan guage used by Col. R. B. Creecy in an editorial in the Economist Falcon, no doubt with a view to injure Col. L. L P. Ik, our National President, hereby denounce the same a malicious scandal. Col. Creecy should remember that we are Democrats, but we don't propose to let him dictate to us any longer. Col. Creecy has ransacked the vocabulary' of slander and abuse to find words mean enough to apply to our leaders. He cannot say they have lied, miscon strued or attempted to deceive thepeo pie. Why ? Col. Creecy knows to the contrary. Col. Polk challenge d any man, and so have all of our speakers from Maine to California and dared them to deny what they said. Every villainous charge that has been brought against Col. Polk has been proved a lie, and yet Col. Creecy would have us believe them true, and would like to keep in office such demagogues as Z. B. Vance and others like him, whom he knows have defamed the Democratic party and robbed it of its good name and prestige. The party that we have been taught to trust and look to for relief from our infancy has been turned into a machine by these demagogues to rob the laboring class of people and serve Wall street, national banks, trusts and monopolists. Col. Creecy, it seems, is willing for all this to go on, but if Col. Polk or any other man dare to expose such rascality, he will pitch on him with gloves off and use any means he can to silence him. In plain language. Col. Creecy wishes us to understand if bad legislation or lowdown trickery is carried on by any scamp who calls himself a Democrat, we must keep silent and vote the ticket, right or wrong. We think any man a fool to vote directly against his own interest and the interest of his friends and neighbors. In conclusion we will say to Col. Creecy and all others of his class, that we expect to vote for our wives and children, and if he cannot find better employment we would advise him to remain quiet. Yours fraternally, L, N. Simmons, Sec'y, RESOLUTIONS. Mr. Editor: At a meeting of the People's party in convention at Eliza beth City, June 16th, the following pre amble and resolutions wrere unani mously adopted: Whereas, The great reaper death has, with unerring preeission, aimed his arrow at one of the grandes - re formers and organizers (Col. L. L Polk) this country has ever produced; and whereas, his loss appears to be irrepar able, yet when wTe come to look at the great men who have f alien in either party and the ripple caused by the death of these great men was but mo mentary upon the great besem cf the ocean, and we feel that in this case it will be so now, and that God, who took him, took him to Himself to raise up some a3 great or greater, who shall carry in triumph the glorious banner of the People's party until the great bloody chasm shall be bridged over ; peace shall be restored and the gray and the blue shall meet together and the principles for which he sacrificed his life. Therefore Resolved, That we deeply feel the loss of the great and good man, bat we sorrow not as those who have no hope but fully believe that the grand prin ciples for which he fought and died will be achieved. 2. That we, the People's party of the First Congressional district, in conven tion assembled at Elizabeth City, N C, tender to the bereaved widow and her fatherless children all the sympathy that our bleeding and saddened hearts can give them. 3. That the above preamb'e and reso lutions be sent to The Progressive Farmer and Carolina Dispatch for publication. ANOTHER PLAN FOR RELIEF. Faucett, Orange Co., N. C. Mr. Editor: The frequency of ap peals from suffering brethren through out the State for relief makes it the more important that, some different plan should be enacted for the relief of the same, for I think every worthy brother should be helped by helping to bear each other's burdens. It makes county in the State to contribute to the our own lighter. I believe that for each unfortunate members in their own counties, thereby making it local let the one that ha3 been unfortunate in loss report said loss to his lodge then let the President of said Sub Alliance appoint two members of his lodge to asses, the loss stating the loss to the County Secretary sworn to before somo J. P. then let the County Secretary make the calculation of how much to draw from each Sub-Alliance the mem ber that has sustained the loss to re cept the County Secretary on receiving the money which receipt should be filed for future reference. It should be the duty of the County Secretary when he receives all the amounts from the Sub Alliances in his county to notify personally or otherwise the brother in question that his money is ready to be paid. This plan of relief stands open for amendment. I think it would be best to file these different letters on plans of relief in the office of The Progressive Farsier that the delegates at our next State meeting can take the best plan and act at once on-thi3 important matter. The State meeting should have acted on this im portant matter before this time. W. D. King. Watch the labelon your paper and reneiv when your subscription expires. 1