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THE PKOGRESSIVE F AKMEK, DECEMBER 3. 1
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L. L; POLK, - - - Editor.
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Rsdeigh, N. C.
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A BAPTIST FEMALE COLLEGE.
THE Baptist State Convention at
Henderson adopted the report of
the committee appointed at its session
last year recommending the establish
ment of a Baptist Eemale College,
and appointed the following Board
of Trustees : L. L. Polk,- Raleigh,
Dr. C. A. Rominger, Reidsville, Rev.
W. R. Gwaltney, Greensboro; Rev.
R R. Overby, Belcross; Rev. T. H.
Pritchard, D. D., Wilmington; Rev.
J. D. Hufham, D. DM Scotland Neck-
Rev. R. T. Vann, Edenton; N. B.
Broughton, Raleigh; Rev. R. H.
Marsh, D. D., Oxford; Rev. A. G.
McManaway, Charlotte; Rev. H. W.
Battle, New Berne; Rev. C. Durham,
Raleigh; Rev. J. W. Carter, D. D.,
Raleigh; Rev. B. Cade, Louisburg;
Rev. G. W. Green, Moravian Falls;
W. C. Petty, Manly; E. K.. Proctor,
Jr., Lumberton ; J. M. Currin, Ox
ford; J. H. Lassiter, Henderson; W.
G. Upchurch, Raleigh; Hon. W. T.
Faircloth, Goidsboro; Dr. R. P.
Thomas, Bethlehem; D. F. King,
Leaksville; Rev. Dr. Chas. E. Taylor,
Wake Forest; Rev. J. L. White,
Durham.
The Board held a meeting on Sat
urday, November 16th, and L. L. Polk
was elected President, and Dr. C. A.
Rominger, Secretary.
A committee of five, consisting of
L. L. Polk, Dr. C. A. Rominger, Rev.
Dr. C. E. Taylor, Rev. J. L. White
and Rev. W. R. Gwaltney, was ap
pointed to advertise the purpose to
build a Female College of high grade
in North Carolina, to receive bids
from" any town in the State which
may desire such a College located in
their midst, to visit such places and
examine the claims and inducements
of each, and to report to a call meet
ing of the Board of Trustees to be
held m the cny of Raleigh on Tues
-day February 1 1th, 1890, at 7:80 r
A committee of three, consiiS
Rev. C. Durham, L. L. Pol?1 '
B. Broughton, was appoint j dra"
a chart? and to rerxfr - said meet"
a charter and to repor
ing in v ebruary.
Rev Dr R. ' UitttBU
Cade and TV H' Mtchard
Marsh, Rev. B.
were
aonoint''" p10940 wusumuuo
jy-iaws for the government of
a constitution
:iis Board of Trusteesahd to report
"to the said meeting in February.
Rev. G. W. Green, Rev. Dr. Marsh,
B. Cade and Rev. J. D. Hufham,
were appointed to suggest a course of
Btudy for said College and report to
the meeting in Raleigh.
We rejoice at the movement. The
more we care for our sons and daugh
ters at home the better for them and
for our State. We venture' the as
sertion that there are enough young
ladies sent to colleges out of the State
every year to afford good patronage
for at least one such in our own bor
ders. OUR HIGHWAYS.
COIi. ALBERT A. POPE, of Bos
ton, delivered an address before
the Board of Trade, of Syracuse, N.
Y,xon Wednesday last on '? American
Highways." Col. Pope is well known
as the founder of the American bi
cycle industry and president of the
Pope Manufacturing Company. His
arguments cover the ground very
thoroughly, and evidently are the re
sult of a careful study of the ques
tion. He says:
i-ne enormous increase in railroads
has resulted in a proportionate neglect
of ordinary roadways. The average
country road is far from being - what
it easily might be, and even its pres-
ens condition is not maiuiaiueu xu u
economical manner. This is the natu
ral result of rapid transit between
markets. But a reaction already be
gins to show itself, as the popu
lation of the rural districts multiplies
and the demand . for good, highways
increases in proportion. . . Col. Pope is
laboring to stimulate this improve
ment by laying before the people the
best ideas upon road-making and road
mending:. 'His connection with the
bicycle trade naturally interests 'him
in this subject and has led him to
make a thorough study of it. ' While
wheelmen are anxious for the im
provement of the roads, it is a subject
of still greater importance to those
who employ teams of any .kind to,
transport produce. Ninety-nine per
cent, of evvry load by railroad, steam,
boat or express freight has been carried
in a wagou or truck over a highway.
Thus even steam . transportation is
measurably, dependent for support on
the draught-horse and his load. " The
prosperity of any city," says Col.
Pope,; ' depends largely upon the sur
pounding country, and" the better the
road facilities the faster the country
will grow in population." This makes
the advantage of good roads mutual
to both city and country.
Here in North Carolina there are
farms, only a few miles from the
railroads, whose value is at a mini
mum, yet which, were the roads inter
secting them of the first class, woulo"
at once rise in value were they twice
as far from steam transportation.
(Jood roads are a national benefit. All
business originates in a natural
product which must find its way over
a common highway before it can reach
a market and attain its full value.
The farmers of our land are its main
stay and if, from any cause, they be
come weakened the cities and towns
must suffer loss. Therefore if we
would build up our cities and towns,
and would have our farmers to pros
per, we must have smooth, hard
roads, well drained, over which to
transport the produce.
" DOES CONTRACTION AFFECT
VALUES ?"
UNDER the above ' headline our
editorial of the 26th has met
with the approval of some of our most
thoughtful men. undoubtedly, con
traction affects values, both in this
country and in England, and everv-
wnere it exists, ana ordinarily affects
most where it most exists. Contrac
tion here, of course, affects us in
finitely more than contraction in Eng
land would affect us. The less cur
rency in a given country the greater
ii. ii Pi a- t
mo emiigeiicy mere; oitumes, aiSO,
there is stringency to a greater or less
degree felt elsewhere. In a certain
sense the price of the world's cotton
is determined very largely at Liver-
i .
pool, and the prices in the United
States for the most part vary with
the prices there. But the value of
our cotton is first measured here in
the United States in contracted money
(the currency that the farmer has to
receive for it),- and the profits of this
contracted currency in this transaction
goes into the pockets of third parties
just as effectually as if they had fixed
prices without consulting with their
Liverpool friends.
But while it is well to mdul in
this discussion about, the effe' tne
volume of the currency uPn the
prices of our commodes Decause it
brings to light a v "eal of rascality
which had oth18 not een heard.
of by the ryrAC .uu Puls mem m a
proper f-me of mind to be impressed
witbi other truths, we very well
1.0 w that-even a sufficient volume to
do the business of the country, if left
m ine control of Wall street, would
not be sufficient long. The vital truth
lying behind all this is that itisnot
contraction, but the control lot the
currency which renders contraction
and a thousand other ills which now
affect us, possible. The restriction of
the coinage of the precious rnetals,
the restriction and degradation of
silver the poor man's money. the
restriction and control of the paper
currency within its present narrow i
limits may be evils which might well
arouse the indignation of Thk Pro
gressive Farmer and every other
friend of the people, but the parent
evil the f ruitful source of all others
is -a pernicious financial system, which
by restriction and otherwise gives to
private individuals the political con
trol of so great a part of the common
currency of the country that by com
bination (for their interests are the
same), they can in certain limits fix
the price of our great staples, and
thereby levy their tax, which is meas
ured by the enhanced value of the
dollar,' and collect their other profits,
which are measured by the degraded
prices of the commodities. In short,
being in control of the currency,, they
have done what every one sees they
easily can do; they have loaned their
money at a rate of interest fixed by
themselves, and they have bought our
commodities at a price fixed by them
selves. Can anybody devise a more com
plete bondage , than this? It has all
been brought about because it has not
been properly discussed before the
people for the past twenty years.
STAFF CORRESPONDENCE.
Salisbury, N. C, Nov. 22, 189.
The inhabitants of Rowan county
mostly are of German decent; but
there is a mingling of Irish and
Scotch blood and altogether it is a
h an nv combination. .
The land in Rowan is generally.
rolling and a small portion of it quite
hilly. " A small section of the south
fim nartiof the countv is sandv. but
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generally it is red clay land adapted
tl .1 - 3 1 TV
to all me: gram auu uiuver. joeiier
stock cannot be raised in any part of
our State. Most of the land ; is rich
and produces fine clover. The public
school sy stem of the county, is not the
best, but is being improved rapidly.
Salisbury, the county seat, has long
been known as one of the oldest,
slowest and 4 mucldiest towns in' the
State. But in r the last few years a
great change has been made. A large
cotton mill has been built, also1 two
tobacco factories. Many handsome
nrivate residences adorn her streets.
..The town is situated on the Richmond
& Danville railroad 44 miles north
from Charlotte. It is also the eastern
terminus of the Western N. O. R R.
These two great roads make things
seem lively.
Rowan county contains about 40
Sub-Alliances with a total member
ship of about 1,500, Capt. Jake
Fisher, the President of the County
Alliance, is a man of sense and ener
gy. No county has . a , leader more
zealous in the cause, and if the mem
bers throughout the county will only
stay close behind him, emulating his
examples as a member, as a farmer.
and as a citizen, the victory will be
won.
It is observed that the roads of this
county are fearfully bad; that the old
way or wording tnem Dy throwing in.
a few brush and some dirt, making
"breaks across the road, is followed
to a dot. It ought to be a penitentiary
offence for a road overseer to vut
breaks across a road.
In numbers of fields I see fodder
standing out in the weather. The
tops were cut off, shocked, was excel
lent feed at one time but the rains
have ruined it. Why not haul these
in before they are rotten ? Do any
Alliancemen leave fodder out until
this time of year ? If so his Alliance
should draw him over the coals.
Never before has so much small
grain been seeded in this part of the'
State. The manner in which it has
been done bristles with improvement.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Democrat savs there is ?ttk
of Charlotte's having a soap factory,
and expresses the hope that it won't
end in bubbles. " - V;
The Stanly Observer says that
the cotton crop in that countv is
variously estimated at from one-fifth
to one-tenth of a crop.
Col. W. .T Marti n nf th a David
son College faculty, has been selected
bv the North Carolina University
faculty to deliver an address on the
late Dr. Charles Phillips,
An exr-hamm ;ays short CrODS
JC 3C O
are producing distrous results in the
East. Muse I'03 at Rocky Mount,
and Webb, Idale & Co., at Selma,
have be1 forced to make assignments.
, The Charlotte Chronicle says the
.nonage in Charlotte's cotton market
up to date, over last year's receipts is
4,161 bales. 40,217 bales having
been received so far for this - year, as
compared with 14,376 in 1888.
Noah Biggs, Esq., informs the
Scotland Week Democrat that he will
have green corn in his garden De
cember 1st. He planted the corn in
August and will have natural green
corn in open air December 1st.
The total value of exports from
the United States for the year ended
October, 1889, were $798,468,752,
against $678,428,844 in 1888, and im
ports $765,413,777, against $722,
.978,245 in 1888.
. The corn crop of South Caro
lina this year is put at 20,000,000
bushels, several millions bushels more
than any year since the war., The
cotton" crop is reported at 639,000
bales. The value of the principal
field crops is $59,000,000, which is
$11,000,000 over last year.
A swindler sold a Clinton CoJ,
Mich , farmer a receipt for making
his wheat weigh twice as much as it
ought to, and signed a contract to1
divide the money gained by the extrf
weight with tba scientific swindler'.
The contract" eventually turned up
as a promissary note and the farmer
paid $300 for it.
It is said that at a conference of
the business men and the Farmers'
Alliance of Edgecombe, it was shown
from careful reports that the losses by
the shortage by the cotton crop was
as compared with last season, is at
least $400,000, and this in one of the
most fertile counties in the State. The
people are greatly concerned at the
prospect, aiidwell they may be.
The total absence of horns, says
the Colorado Farmer, would save an
ualy in the United States, 200 human
lives, 20,000 horses and cattle, a great
number of sheep and hogs, one-fourth
of hay in winter, one sixth of the corn
to feeder, one-tenth of the car-room to
the shipper, more than one-half of the
shed-room, nearly all loss of calves by
abortion and all loss in the shipping
of cattle. All --this in the State? of
Missouri, would give a grand aggre
gate saving in. one year of more than
$15,000,000; and in the United States,
largely over $100,000,000.
. WQ learn - from the Newton
.Enterprise that Mr. J. R. Cline's acre
of upland corn which was entered for
the prize offered by the State Agri
cultural Society, "was gathered two
weeks ago. It was measured ac
curately, by a surveyor with a chain,
and the corn measured and certified
to by a committee of disinterested
parties. The yield was fifty-two
bushels.
, Mr. Green Russell, of Goose
Creek township, who is , about 75 yeais
of age, was in to wn Tuesday, says the
Monroe Enquirer, trying to engage
some pork which he wishedi.to bring
to town. Mr. Russell never bought
a pound of flour or pound of meat in
his life, and corn only once, ana never
owed a debt that he didn't pay. He
now has a sufficiency of this world's
goods to comfort his declining years.
Economy and good judgment com
bined with industry, will bring a com
petency to any man who will practice
them.
AJk There is a good deal of com
plaint now among those who want
office about the farmer in politics and
fear is expressed that the Farmers' A1
liance will become a political organiza
tion. If anybody supposes the
farmers have actually gone to the
trouble of effecting a' great organiza
tion for the purpose of apportioning
among themselves the spoils of office
he has read to little purpose. Ifaey
have a far deeper interest than this.
If anybody supposes that the farm-
ers will De deterred rrom pursuing
their interests even into politics or
anywhere else by these oft repeated
warnings, he too, has been reading
with eyes shut. The truth of the
matter is, that the farmers are special
ly interested and also organized to ac
complish certainwell defined reforms
and without antagonizing any of their
friends seeking the same ends they
propose to pursue the straightest and
the safest way to their accomplish
ment. Whenever an existing law op
presses them and is at the same time
unjust, they must see that men go to
Congress and to the Legislature who
will secure its repeal, and in doing this,
he will be meddling with politics and
doing exactly what the politicians
have always told ua he should not do,
viz: attending to his own business.
ALLIANCri NOTES.
TAlwavs give the name and number of
your Alliance, your postoffice and your
county, piainiy, wnen you write 10 ine
President, Secretary, Trustee, Business
Afloat or Chairman of Jkxecutive Com
mittee of the State Alliance.
r G. A. Carroll, of Neatmat PiD.,
and S. A. Hauser, of Winston, have
been appointed Deputy Organizers for
tatokes county.
'. ' The next meeting of the Stokes
County Alliance will be at Mt. Olive
Baptist church on the first Friday and
Saturday in January.
Bro. M. A. Abernethy, of Alli
ance No. 431, Catawba county, send
ing us a list of subscribers, says: "I
tell you Dr. D. Reid Parker is a grand
man and is doing great good for the
Alliance .in our county. We want
him to come again."
A memorial committee of Love-
lady Alliance, No. 1,358, notifies us
of the death of Bro. G. e. Kamsey
which occurred during the month of
Septembers Besides being a faithful
and devoted member of the Alliance
he was also a consistent member of
the Baptist church. He will be great
ly missed by his Alliance and the
community.-
IBro. T. L. Jones, of Tyrrell
county, writes:, , The Alliance m this
county is progressing. We now num
ber over three hundred in this county.
Much good to the laborer generally
has already been done in the buying
of his produce, etc. Crops are yields
ing poorly, and the farmers need every
possible aid. We hope to introduce a
mode of farming in the future that
will be more self-sustaining, and . try
and educate ourselves up to the stan
dard of an independent citizenship
rather than looking to the dictation
of the trixter'spocketbook for support
and advice. We have m this and
Dare county some unoccupied terri
tory that could be judiciously used
had we an organizer or a deputy could
be made f orthe special purpose.
W. G. Crowder. Secretary of
Auburn Alliance, No. 41, furnished
the following resolutions for publica
tion which were passed unanimously
on the 19th of November: Whereas,
The North Carolina Phosphate Co.,
under the management of Messrs.
Hawkins & Hogg, has wisely con
sidered the condition of the farmers
in this tiae of sore distress, and
whereas said company has been gener
ous enough to sympathize with the
farmers not with pathetic words alone
but by sharing the losse3 of those who
purchased their fersilizers; therefore
De it resotvea, i nai audutd Amaiiue,
No. 41. unhesitatinelv approve and
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commend the action of said company
ix other companies doing business
this ' otate. ine waKBAuuuij'
ance reauested the publication of the
above in. The Pboghessivk Jb armeb.
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W. G. Crowder, Sec'y.
Secretary Witherspoon, of Ashe
countv. writes: .We are quite young
in tne AUiance cause up nere i joi the Roman Vrn- m0Qev
mountains, and it is a hard matter to
get me memueis w uuUClBiaiiu
'a A. 1 I ' 4- J X rf
ter tne next time, ror wo mean ousi
BU1..- rice T tuwou
modities, greatly to the surprise .
Keo Un mieh a elinrt-Hni-otinTi- and
we win produce sua more w meir BB-
tonishment in the near future. -,Unr
I county organizers, are .at worJ.; their
commissions came in good ume i,0 m
sure them successes there w an Am,
ance boom on the breeze m 010 Asne.
rx . j j
Kjur organizers are gouu aup..,
men andwiUbe ; prompt in .the per-
rormance of duty, and l further assure
you they will be no drag to the cause.
AN AWAKENING.
But many of those who slept have
awftk-priftfl. and nthnrs &m walrintr
Ihe farmers plundered these many
' ' : ; e-
years t6 enrich the favored monopo
listic manufacturers are waking and
are; asking why the plundering pro
cess should be continued.
The toiling millions who work in
the 'shops, who build houses, and rail
roads, and otherwise toil for the bread
thev eat: are askW whv thev ahonld
be plundered of their hard scanty
earnings.
And even some of the "nrnteeted
manufacturfirs aro hfiOTnnino- tn aalr
whv thev should be reouired to clok
their doors because they are denied
the raw material free of onerous duty
which they find necessary now to en
able them to continue in business.
O, -yes. There is an awakening and
a revolution will follow the awakening
A political revolution or a square dtal
is the ultimatum, and to that it will
come, ihe people are again oegin
ning-to assert themselves and they
will be heard. Wilmington Star.
SELECTIONS FROM " THE PHIL
OSOPHY OF PRICE."
" Dunningisms."
COMPILED BY OLD FOGY.
VALUES.
There is a difference between value
in use and value in exchange. Value
in use is the holders' value; values in
exchange is the sellers' value. Value
in use is an absolute term; value in
exchange (that is commercial value)
is a relative term. '
The intrinsic value of a thing is
w .i rrr, w it t v :
The commercial value on the other
hand is what some one else will give
me for it.
Does the law of supply and demand
establish prices ? The theory of sup -
ply and demand will not admit of
want and hunger amidst plenty and
low prices. If overproduction means
anything, it is that our business enter -
prises have been too successful.
mere is an abundance of food and
yet many nearly starve. The demand
m their cases is urgent and the supply
aoundant and yet the supply in this
case is not lessened nor the demand
satisfied. Why? Because there is a
lack of ability to purchase. There
can be no real overproduction unless
a large surplus remains after all the
people have been fully supplied with
the necessaries and comforts of life.
It does not matter how urgent the de
mand or abundant the supply there
must be some ability to purchase be
fore the! demand can be satisfied.
, PBICE.
No nation is, or can be, happy or
prosperous with low prices. The con
dition of every nation is guaged, as
regards advancement and social privi
leges, not by the cheapness of its
product or labor, but by their higher
commercial rates.
The civilization, grandeur, position
guaged- absolutely by the amount of
. .... ir. .
tne necessities anu comions oi me tnat
a day's labor wUl purchase for its
iri t. ; t
i,' "p.1 rr,nr
in Page county, Ta., and the farmers
of Page county are more prosperous
than those of Wake county, N. C,
and just in proportion as wages are
higher in each county. Or compare
the wheat producer in Indiana with
the grain raiser in Wisconsin.
labob.
Money never goes in advance.
Labor takes the lead. It is the incen
tive f or all production. Capital does
not employ labor. .Labor employs
capital always, but does not employ
money. Can a man cut down a trf
f '
with a five dollar bill. You must first
DviA VUVUCLU WA. TUUL 1UUUC V L1J III I Ul 1 II
an axe. and with that product of labor
cut down the tree. Capital is sold for
labor. Men who have money part
with' it for labor. When you buy
good
person
money
wucjf oi cswjr. o may not navo jlk,
H riTT rmi. TTT A. I Z-
but soma one else has.
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uumii x
Money or currency is a medium of
exchange and a measure of value for
s it only represents some other homes to keep the lightning oi - r
8 labor. There is just as much and thunder of combinations .
When times are hard as when killing their occupation, ana
n FuxFuB vi exchange.
M
onev
i - oi law
power that makes
puwcx tuau mases money 08
can designate its form Sh der
consistency. ' aP and
After all the great QUpaf; .
,U-,rI
quantity. At the beginnin.: r
the. metfliu! 01 the
was si on '
uuu.uuu. rirteen t,,.:.. mu,
centuries
wag lesg thaQ
200.000 nnn U
, wealth k J.
- H -.i awftw T,
" 7. r J- arst c
of .light came when nanP
billsof exchange) were intr T
of V nnpinff fh. . wre troduced
6 naL INnrth
nn mnn(,v ,, o . epi ltg
fr6m h e g'nth Xf
6ther countri .
- amouni b th 'issue ft7
me Wh -o. ,t
- - fh -ir-ni.n . Wttr n
oyer tne circulating medium r
ded oyer th g- ,
fess per and th '
per capita, and the govemm-.
now decreasing cirnnlatmn .u:i 18
ulation is incrfiaafnop r
.. n -vu w 1 1 1 1 u r-
Tn fton.lnainTi" lot-, rvm .
. Uvise everv
one to read the Philosophy of pM
hJ brother Dunning of the Rational
1 -cu7ti7twt..
THE INSURANCE QUESTION.
Resolutions adopted by prmi..
Spring Alliance, No. 107, Nov. 23d
1889:
i
.Whereas, We believe that tUr
fhould. Je some Plaa of life insurance
established in our order.
nesoivea, inat we endorse the plan
VJ xauuo kjiwk Alliance,
" w'w"- Luat ea.cn memoer pay thrA
Cent3 for each member of the Allianr
tnat- dies good standing.
Resolved, That we earnestly request
each Sub-Alliance in the State to give
- tms ""er uue consideration and re.
port the decision to the State Secre
tary.
CT. N. Campbell, Pres.
W. A. Campbell, Sec'y.
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FROM THE LONE STAR STATE.
Cbandall, Texas, Nov. 12, 1889.
Mb. Editob: I have had the pleas
ure of reading your valuable paper
through the kindness of Bro. Hub
bard. It is like reading a letter from
a relative to peruse the letters in Thi
Fabmeb. My father and mother were
raised in Granville county, moving
from there in 1848. Perhaps some
of the comrades of Major Peace that
mustered back m the forties remem
ber him.
I have never attained any title as a
military man, but as an Alliance man I
u"un ai , om aoor-
f!?er to P"d fe.eI . Fd
have had all the titles from dnnr.
Sl f8 11 1 naa.won tm m bat-
lor.uio war against monopoly is a
"S1! T? .Vana every, Iarmer
BU"U1" eu"86 lor w,ar not .M
I ' ine Alllance 18
ana tnen orop out, and say, l told you
it would do no good, when in fact
I they did nothing themselves to make
1 it a success. Brothers and sisters, we
I must each one do our duty, then we
I will succeed in the Alliance, and not
wait for a leader to say so and so
1 must be done, but do right, read our
papers and attend the Sub Alliance
I and you will be happy The farmers
I of Texas do not raise hogs and corn
I as they should do. .We buy our bacon
in the North, our flour in the West,
and raise cotton to pay for all, and
sell our cotton at 8 to 9 cents which
leaves us without money in the falL
Yours fraternally,
W. T. Peace.
THE INSURANCE IDEA.
Mackey's Febby, N. C, Nov. 19, '89.
Mb. Editob: Having noticed in
your valuable paper a discussion con
cerning life insurance within our
fraternity, I brought the matter be
fore my Alliance last meeting, and
after a little talk we concluded that it
would be a great help at a little cost.
I know well that there is not a mie
member of this Alliance who hafnot
been benefited more ' than such a
course of insurance win laturany
bring upon us. There was lot many
J ?ur. meeting but all preset seemed
I tn ha in svmnathv with the rovement.
; , , , T
1 thl.nk 1 l?nnTaa
ment of the whole Alhano) that it
would be better, instead o mry A a-
paying one dollar or t every
member paving three cents to 2
definite amount, say, $1,'00.
every one who will join the ife
insuaance part of our sciety pay
his prorata part monthly in advance.
T,t. oAmo hflttAr informed bjotber f?rtt
the full membership and fc. i'
rate monthly and inforn the A
through The Pboobessive Fvti
we can tell exactly now muc 1
I be the cost monthly should tie ic
bershiD keep pace of the d
I hope to be able to send som ? mo 7
I n hnsincss afrent's fund iorj.. e
1 w " o , I
have forty dollars subscribed &nd &l
to
I niir T1MX 1. IIIKKLI 1 1 T Uf ill I LiiU
I mftp.t the enffasrement) I continue
to
keep before mv Alliance the all 1
portant fact of having The PsBESi
sive Fabkeb in their pockets 'i
1.1 .1 I '
i tnrow tne oreao upon - )r
I hnna m oaliVa tht return bT & .
u s mtM m. a imu wx4v a w w r . ti r
i list oi suoscnoers in tuo
W. M. 3&'
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