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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
RALEIGH, N. 0., SEPTEMBER 8, 1891.
Vol. 6.
No. 29
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Wkj) met?
THE NATIONAL .VMERS1 ALLI
ANCE AND INl TRIAL
UNION.
President L. L. Polk, . h Caro
lina. Address. 314 P. St.. W.,
Washington, I. C. , O
Vice President B. II. Clover, am-
bridge, Kansas.
Secretary-Treasurer J. II. Turner,
Georgia. Address, 239 North Capitol
St N W- Washington, D. C.
Lecturer -J. H. AVilletts, Kansas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
C. W. Macune, Washington, D. C.
Alonzo Ward all. Huron, South Da
kota. J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
II. C. Demming, Chairman.
Isaac MoCracken, Ozone, Ark.
A. E. Cole, Fowlerville, Mich.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The. Presidents of all the State organ
isations with L. L. Polk Ex-ofiicio
Chairman.
SORTII CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLI
ANCE. President Marion Butler, Clinton,
N. C.
Vice-President T. B. Long, Ashe
vide, N. C.
Secretary-Treasurer W. S. Barnes,
Raleigh, N. C.
Lecturer J. S. Bell, Brasstown, N.C.
Steward C, C. Wright, Glass. N. C.
Chaplain Kev. E. Pope, Chalk
Level, N. C.
Door-Keeper W. H. Tomlinson,
Fayetteville, N. C.
Assistant Door-Keeper II. E. King,
Peanut, N. C.
Sergeant-at-Arms J. S. Holt, Chalk
Level, N. C.
State Business Agent W. H. Worth,
Raleigh, N. C.
Trustee Business Agency Fund W.
A. Graham, Machpelah, N. C.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE.
S. B. Alexander. Charlotte, N. C,
Chairman; J. M. Mewbome, Kmston,
X. C. ; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C.
STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Eb'as Carr. A. Leazer, X. M. Cul
bretli. M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. Connell.
STATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
P. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. : X. C.
English, Trinity College: J. J. Young,
Pcienta: II. A.'Forney, Newton, N. C.
North Carolina Reform Press Association.
Officers J. L. Ramsey. President;
Marion B idler, Vice-President: W. S.
Ba rues. Secretary.
PAPERS.
l'roL-:-t i c Fariut-r.
"auea-ian.
Rural Homo,
Watchman,
tati'Ur'Kii, lik-in'b, X. C.
( 'linton, X. V.
Wilson, N. ('.
Salir-hury, N. C.
FariiU'iV Advocate,
l'arboro, N. (
Mountain Home .fuuniiil.
Alliance St-ntiut-1,
C-ountry Lite,
Mercury,
Rattler,
Ar-heville, N. C
;olilboro. X. C.
Trinity College, X. ( '.
Hickorv, X. ('.
Whitaker-, X. C.
Each of the above-named papers are
requested to keep the list standing on.
the jirst "je and add others, provided
they are duty elected. Any paper fail
ing to advocate the Ocala platform will
be dropped from the list promptly. Our
people can now see what j tapers are
jmblished in their interest.
FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
A Brother's View of Some Correspon
dents' Letters.
Spartansburo, Pa., Aug.
Mr. Editor: In our Grange and Al
liance agricultural papers we frequent
ly meet a corresponded t's article which
is devoted to a very skillful method of
sagging back in the breeching. Those
correspondents are very solicitous for
the welfare of the Alliance and the
people, and a. re very anxious to coun
sel them not to do anything to injure
the old party machinery. They say:
Don't ask for too much : a little is bet
ter than nothing: more slowly ; if you
get nothing in your lifetime, your chil
dren will certainly accomplish some
thing if they only become educated;
wait, wait, wait. Wait where'' In a
pit of quicksand, in a quagmire where
every moment you are sinking 1 wer?
Wait where.' Where the mud is up to
your chin? Who says wait, when the
people have waited twenty-six years
and been lobbed of their labor, their
fortunes anil homes, and every condi
tion thtvai-'inug a darker day in the
future i It is the shy locks, the pluto
crats, tin' nullionaires and.their hire
ling boo il- rs. They say : Don't leave
your good old party now: there never
was a time so important as tbe present
to sticjc together-. J ust l.ok and vou
may see we have no gun I ,!,! j,arties.
They are the leaders of two new h 11
born and h 11 bound parties who have
stolen the nani?s of the old parties and
through deception and fraud are run
ning the people into poverty, anarchy,
'onfu?ioji and an imperial government.
These imperial anarchists say to their
coiistitucLts: Don't disturb us; don't
turn us i nit of oiiice, you will get honest
men ia tint may disturb our schemes
oi. m-.neyiii iking and lessen the value
of oui- millions, 'and that, you know,
would be u a fair. Some of us have only
two huii'ii i .1 mailons and our imperial
company ran down as low as two or
three Miliioas .and it would be unjust
to snatch tv-3 ; boring class, the wealth
producers out of our rlutehes all at
once. Go slow. h,,t the old people,
thnt prize liberty, die off and the young
people that gl ow up under our oppres
sion will think we are the government
and have a right to rule and have the
right to own all the property, and then
the conflict will be over." Menials,
workers will then doll their hats, make
their bows and obey orders.
What a strange thing it is that three-
fourths of the people of this republic
were born and reared here and yet
don't know that the government be
longs to the people and that the officers
of the States and Nation are the people's
agents and are bound by Constitution
and law to obey the orders of the peo
ple, to hear their petitions and grant
their requests. Ti e politicians know
their duty, but manage to keep the
people, through deception, divided as
near equally as possible by the use of
any quibble about money, or banks, or
specie basis, or tariff, or public debt, or
transportation, or railroad "inequality,
or pensions, or a solid South against a
solid North. No matter by what means
it is done, so the fool people act and
vote against each other. One of the
imperial anarchists said : We will
nominate our own friends in both
parties ami then let the fool people
elect whichever of our men they
please. What is all this talk about
educating the people for? Does it mean
that the people are in fact as ignorant
and as pitiable fools as the national
anarchists accuse them of being? Does
it mean that a common laboring man
cannot see or understand that a Demo
cratic banker and a Republican banker
will vote together on the banking
questions, all real estate interests, all
interests of the rich to rob the poor?
If the people understand that we have
two parties in elections for the purpose
of deceiving the voters and only one
party in ollice for the purpose of rob
bing them, then they know enough to
unite themselves into one honest elec
tion partv and by our solid vote turn
the rascals out. Let us, by our acts,
inform the knaves, liars and scoun
drels that we have no further use for
them as agents for the government,
whether they are Democrats or Repub
licans If we, the people, know that
the leaders of the two old parties are
but one party, organized for public
robbery, and that they will not give
the people their requests or demands,
where is the wisdom in educating
twenty-live years longer and letting
their Democratic-Republican dog de
vour the heart and suck the blood of
this republic? This all-consuming dog
has two tails but only one body. It
makes no difference to the millionaire,
the syndicate, the banker, the bond
holder, the land-grabber, the standard
oil robber or the public treasnry thief
which tail is up or which is down, the
dog devours all the same. Docs a
farmer or manufacturer know enough
to discharge a hired man when he finds
out that he will lie and steal? These
public officers are our hired men. Look
at their acts. The funding our money
into interest-bearing bonds was a lie
and the greatest steal that was ever
perpetrated in the United S ates, save
only its twin sister, the banking lie
and larceny and triplet brother, reduc
ing the currency to a specie basis.
These national robbers stand out in
plain view with these lies in their
mouths, so large they cannot swallow
them and with public money in their
vaults so numerous that they cannot
conceal it: and yet the boodlers say:
wait, educate; don't turn the rascals
out! Every man that says money is
king is the enemy of labor. Every
man that says money will control is the
enemy of those that earn all the money,
because he places the product above
the producer. Every man wlro has
accumulated millions of dollars is in
possessionof what he never earned and
does not own, and is the enemy of civil
ized society. Turn the rascals out the
very next election and repeal the un
just laws by which such unprecedented
robberies are committed.
1). W. Elderkin.
PLAIN TALK.
Au;ust 3, 1S01.
Mr. Editor: To show you which
way the world is drifting, in a speech
made by old man Robbins, a lawyer,
of Statesville, lie says the farmers are
lazy and loafing around town, not
working half the time, and the fool
farmers want the government to loan
them money and that the people would
have to be taxed to get it. The nation
al banks get it and we are as good as
they. Hold on. Major, we will be most
as big a fool as you in '1)2, and then you
will want to be in the Ramsey, Polk
and Pelfer crowd, but the door will be
sut and the word will be given, "De
part from me- ye workers of iniquity,
we know you not." God bless you,
brothers L. L Polk and Ramsey and
friend-Pelfer.
Tell Uncle Zeb. to pass the free and
unlimited coinage of silver bill and the
Sub-Treasury plan, if he don't when
his time expires to sweep out the house
clean for he will have to give up his seat
in the Senate and we will send men
there who will pass these bills.
Fraternally,
J. W. Bost.
FREE TUITION AT THE UNIVERSITY.
We are authorized by President Win
ston to state that the benefits of an
education at the University shall be
placed, as far as possible, within reach
of every deserving young- man in the
State. The following help is offered :
1. Free tuition to the sons of minis
ters of all denominations.
2. Free tuition to any young, man
preparing to be a minister.
:. Free tuition to bona fide teachers
of public schools,
4. Long time indulgence onluition
to all really poor boys, be repaid when
able.
5. Scholarships to the needy, upright
and talented.
0. Loans to the very needy and very
talented and upright.
DISTRICT LECTURING.
Bro. P. H. Massey Completes His Work
in Johnston County and
Begins in Nash.
Mr. Editor: Having completed my
work in Johnston county. I spent Sun
day and Sunday night in the neighbor
hood of Watkins', and on Monday,
July 20th, I started for my first ap
pointment in Nash. At Chapel Allli
ance I met some as earnest and true
Alliance men as are found anywhere.
After the speech the good sisters pre
sented this writer with one of the
prettiest bouquets that it has been his
fortune to receive. It was greatly ap
preciated by him. May God bless the
sisters, who are bearing such an im
portant part in the great work now
before us. Passing on Stanhope, we
met those who have been studying for
themselves the great issues now con
fronting the people, and they are ready
for the changes necessary to bring
about the relief needed. Next we went
to Nashville, where we met brethren
from different parts of the county,
many of whom expressed themselve j
much pleased with the work of the
day. ome of the business men of the
place came out to hear the speaking,
and expressed their sympathy with the
movement of the farmers. We gained
some friends. At Cold Rock next day
we had a small crowd, owing to rain
and other things, but wo think the
meeting not fruitless. At Fishing Rock
church you may always expect as good
time, audience, and people as can be
found anywhere, and we were not dis
appointed. The3r were there, some of
them from eighteen miles away. After
we had spoken to them for an hour
they called out several of the brethren
on the ground, some of whom re
sponded with very timely, sound and
appropriate remarks, after which the
ladies spread a bountiful dinner, suf
ficient for all, and many basketfuls
were taken up. On Saturday we met
the brethren at Castalia, and after
speaking to them for an hour, we
listened to Bro. Ashton, County Lec
turer for Franklin county, for another
hour, in which he presented some facts
that must live. We left for Peachtree
Alliance at 0 p. m., where we met a
house full of true, tried and enthusi
tic fmen and women.- You can bank
on Petchtree when it comes to the real
issue. Thus ended a laborious week's
work in Nash. We accepted invita
tions to conduct religious services on
Sunday.
Bro. Ashton met us in the evening
and took us to his home to spend the
night and he ready for our work in his
county on Monday. We spent a pleas
ant night and received every mark of
kind hospitality. He accompanied us
through the county and added much
to the enjoyment and success of the
work. lie is doservedly very popular
and on financial questions, is the ablest
man we heard. The readers of the
Progressive Farmer will hear from
him as to the work in his county.
Bro. Dunn has piven you some facts
in regard to Vance county, and to him
1 am under many obligations for kind
ness shown me while in that county.
It will require too much space to
mention by name all to w hom I am in
debted for hospital it kindness and
special favors. All over the district
they have opened their hearts and their
doors, and greeted me with a reception
that will ever be as a footprint on the
rock which time can never wear away.
Suffer a word in conclusion. Since
I had travelled through the district
nearly two years ago, 1 found that the
Order had gained much e-trength.
There is more unity, more work, more
determination to stand squarely by the
principles and demands of the 'Alli
ance. There is greater knowledge of
the situation, and a better understand
ing of the remedies. In 18'.) the fourth
congressional district will bs in the
field, and be there with the wants of
the wealth producers of this great
country, and there to stay until these
wants are supplied, or a measure put
on foot that will bring the relief for
which we toil.
Fraternally. P. H. Massey,
District Secretary.
STILL AWAKE.
Wortmax, N. C, Aug. 17, lMrr.
Mr. Editor:! write to tell you and
all Alliance brethren that we are wide
awake even here in the backwoods of
Western North Carolina. This is a
new era in the history of the laboring
classes. For long years they have
toiled uncomplainingly, not thinking
that another class reaped the f mil of
their toils. But at last, thank God,
they are rousing from their slumbers
Now is their time for united action,
unless they wish to leave their children
a heritage of poverty and vassalage.
We have some bold, eloquent leaders,
and we have plenty of Alliance papers
to flash the intelligence along the line.
A great awakening among the labor
ing classes now like
"The liiiht nincrs flash from pole to pole
Ntiirt r and more nei" the thunders roll."
During the days of negro slavery it
was against the law to teach our slaves
to read or write, realizing the old
adage that knowledge was power.
Now it Ls essential that all the labor
ing classes read the Alliance papers.
I wish the Progressive Farmer and
National Eeono.nist and other good
papers could be read by the toiling
masses all over the United States.
There is going to be one . grand
struggle between labor, and capital.
Farmers do not be deluded into the be
lief that you are going to get any re
lief from either of the old political
parties. The aim of both is to keep in
power and have all of the big paying
offices. Why, when our bosses get to
Congress they are never willing to
leave. It is big pay and little work,
and they care nothing about the
interest of the laboring classes.
In the garden of Eden the Almighty
sent forth the edict that all mankind
should earn their living and now think
poor farmer and laborer, you are doing
much now. You are supporting and
enriching thousands who are literally
doing nothing.
While they are holding their Bacea
Han feasts, and idling away their time
at luxurious summer resorts, or
making big funf ral trips with drunken
horse races (which cost our govern
ment hundreds of thousands of dollars)
you are plodding away on the farm,
in the factory, in the mines, and the
cream of all your labor will ultimately
go into the pocket of the capitalist.
I fully agree with Americus Proctor,
of New York, in regard to what he
said about the old political parties.
Neither care a snap for the laboring
man. All they ask is your support at
the ballot box to keep them in big
paying offices. Just now, remember
Allianceman and laborer, that our
political bosses are not going to give
you up without a struggle. But re
member, too, you still have a chance
to redeem yourselves and children at
the ballot box. If our next Congress
fails to give the relief demanded then,
by all of our laboring classes stand
ing and voting together, we can
change everything from the gulf of
Mexico to Maine. We are all about to
eater a bloodless warefare to struggle
for our own God given rights. Let all
the laboring classes unite and rise in
their might and not only ask, but see
that the- have equal rights, and they
will rear to themselves -monuments
more enduring than all the marble and
bronze that is being put up to Grant
and Davis, for they won their laurels
on the bloody battlefield.
I was in the Confederate army in
the first regiment, and fought through
the whole war; was in the battle of
Bethel Church to the last battle, and
now I would gladly extend my hand
in fraternal greeting to any of the
Union soldiers. The war is over be
tween loyal soldiers North and South.
Our Alliance, No. 87, is alive and
doing all it can. Hoping the Pro
gressive Farmer much success, I am
Yours fraternally,
P. M. Mull. President
Jacob's Fork Sub-Alliance No. 87.
FROM AURORA.
Mr. Editor: As I have seen nothing
vf our valuable paper from this part
of the vineyarc for tome time, I write
to let the brethren know that we are
alive and marching on in the noble
cause of reform. We number 87 males,
a large majority of whom are fire-tried
standing squarely on the St. Louis and
Ocala platform and will allow no side
tracking. Our Alliance had the grand
est picnic yesterday, the 20th, that it
was ever the fortune of the writer to
attend. The number present was
variously estimated from SOU to 500,
consisting of all classes except attor
neys. Some of the best Alliance talent
in the county had been invited to eater
tain us with speeches. As none of
them were present the duty fell upon
the "old war horse," Bro. J. R. Cal
loway, and I say with all candor that
I don't think there was a brother
present but what felt like he had cov
ered the ground efficiently and to the
perfect satisfaction of all present, Mrs.
A, G. Lane opened the exercises with
music by her school, which seemed to
be very much enjoyed. After the
speaking was over, the baskets were
brought forward, and I never have
seen as much gsod vituals at one time
before in my life. If there was a single
person there who did not satisfy his
appetite, I know it was his fault," for I
am satisfied that half the vituals were
not eaten. If never has been my good
fortune to be in such a, harmonious
gathering. I did not hear a profane
word the whole day nor see a single in
toxicated man.
I am delighted to know that the yxl
b r shoes has got back with The Pro
gressive Farmer, for I dou't feel like
their places could be filled by any
other kind with much success to The
Pro i r essi ve Farmer.
R. II . Lane, Sec'y.
RESOLUTIONS.
At a large and enthusiastic union
meetidg of citizens and Alliancemen,
held in the r xnns of the Red House
Alliance, this 22d August, 1SIU. repre
senting Halifax county, Va., Person
and Caswell counties, N. C, the fol
lowing committee was appointed to
draft resolutions expressive of the sen
timent of this meeting with regard to
our future political course: Dr. W. G.
Stephens, N. M. Richmoud, Y. E. Jour
dan, Y. P. Rainey, II. T. Barker, W.
G. Smith, Thos. S. Lea, S. S. Brandon,
Wm. Lea, W. A. Hinton, Alex. Guthrie,
V. L. Mart on and B. S Barker. Com
mittee reported the following:
Besolved, That we demand reform
in the administration of our govern
ment, and we will not co-operate with
any party nor vote for any man for
any political office that does not adopt
the measures we approve.
2d, That we fully approve the Ocala
platform.
od, That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to the National Economist,
Progressive Farmer. Richmond I)is
patch and Milton Advertiser with re
quest to publish.
Unanimously adopted.
W. G. Stephens. Chm'n.
N. M. Richmond, Sec'y.
AN OPEN LETTER
To the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial
Union of the United States.
Olin, N. C, Aug. 14. 1801.
Mr. Editor: On lookers regard the
above named organizations as a reform
movement, and those identified with
it as reformers. The writer is in sym
pathy with these industrial organiza
tions ; in fact, is a loyal member of the
Farmers' Alliance.
So many abuses have crept into the
body politic, that a correction of these
evils seems to be an absolute necessity.
Many efforts have been made by the
suffering masses to get relief, legisla
tive relief, through the old parties, but
monopoly and plutocracy have these
old parties so subsidized that all our
efforts thus far have been unavailing;
hence, an organization of the wage
workers of the country, whether found
in the shop, factory, or on the farm
for self-protection, is one of the im
perative needs of the hour. All good
men are in sympathy with these re
formers, whether they approve of all
their methods or not. At the same
time thoughtful friends are aware that
great changes lie out before them, and
they feel that all those making a new
departure in the interest of genuine
and permanent reform, should feel
their way carefully, and take warning
from the mistakes that have been made
in the past by the old parties. And
why is it that the old parties have so
miserably failed in coming up to the
full measure of their duty as great
national parties? It was not because
of a scarcity of good men in either of
them, but, as a "rule, the unscrupulous
men in both, worked themselves to the
front as loaders in State and National
affairs, and the good men were re
manded to the rear, and supinely sur
rendered the control of the party ma
chinery into the hands of selfish dema
gogues and whiskey and corporation
monopolists. And so tight a grip have
these leadei"s upon these old parties
that most of our best people have
despaired of ever getting relief from
either.
Now these new industrial reform
organizations will have both good and
bad men belonging to them, and if the
good men don't march bravely to the
front and control and run tilings in the
interest of right, in the interest of the
toiling millions, in a little while they
will be as great a stench in the nostrils
of all good men as any of these other
organizations have been that we have
so justly and severely criticised. These
old parties have long since ceased to
enunciate living and eternal principles
in their platforms, State or National,
too much risk in that sort of thing.
Ask a candid and well-informed man
in either of them what their platform
of principles will be this year or next,
and with a sly wink he will answer,
'Get there." That's it. " Get there,"
in whatever way they can, aud stay
there when they get there. They will
remand patriotism, manhood and right
all to the rear if they interfere with
them in getting there.
Now let us, friends, take warning
from these mistakes made hy others,
most of us as individuals, as church
organizations, as political organiza
tions, have too tender a conscience
about what others say and do, and not
quite tender enough about what we say
and do ourselves. That individual or
organization of whatever kind, that is
most careful to correct first, errors at
home, will always servo his or its day
and generation best, will always do
most to build up the true manhood of
the country.
A majority of those identifying them
selves with' these reform movements
are in sympathy with temperance and
prohibition reform, but that sympathy
won't amount to much unless it crys
talizes into definite action. A majority
of both the old parties have been in
sympathy, after a fashion, with tem
perance and prohibition, but what good
has it done? The whiskey influence,
as every well-informed reader knows,
to-day," dominates our government,
and both our great political parties
more powerfully than any other influ
ence in the country. And thus it will
be with these new reform organiza
tions, unless we bring our Christian
manhood to the surface, put it into
exercise, and demands our rights like
men. Hence, while we are demanding
economic aud financial reforms, will
it not be well, indeed, is it not our
patriotic and Christian duty to demand
national legislation to save our country
from the thraldom of the liquor curse?
This liquor traffic is not only a great
moral evil, but it is a great financial,
a great national evil. No greater one
curses our fair land. If we tackle this
along with other evils, all, or most
good men will be with us, but if we
dodge, then the cry will go up all over
the country, "Cowards, no better
than the two old whiskey paities.
weighed in the balances and found
wanting, bidding for the whiskey vote
just like the Republican and Demo
cratic parties have been doing for all
these years, '"straining at a gnat and
swallowing a camel :" away with such
reformers.
A word to the wise is sufficient, or
should be. How . many friends worth
having would we, as Alliancemen, lose
by taking a pronounced stand for tem
perance and prohibition? Would not
our gain be three where our loss
would be one? So think the most
level-headed men ia the land. This
is a question . worthy of serious
consideration. It may be argued
that it would be unsafe to under
take to do too much; that our chief
object now is to look after economic
reforms, and that to tackle the whiskey
evil would carry us into the realm of
morals. That argument won't do : that
has been the cowardly subterfuge of
the old parties, and if we wish to avoid
the rock upon which they have foun
dered, we must do different from what
they have. An evil that absorbs 1900,
000,000 a year directly, and as much
more indirectly, nearly two billion
dollars of the people's money, for
which they get no return of Value,
every cent of winch had better be
burnt up than spent thus, must not be
ignored by economic reformers. Our
best people would not tolerate the
ignoring of such an evil as this.
The writer is a friend of these indus
trial organizations, but he wants them
to load up so as to stay there when
they get there. We had better be a
little longer getting there freighted
down with manhood and stay there,
than to get there sooner without it and
die a premature death. There is such
a thing as going up like a rocket and
coming down like a stick. Xo party
can or ought to live long in this coun
try, that ignores the greatest of all
social, financial and national evils.
This letter is not written in a dicta
torial spirit, but is sounded as a note
of warning. The good men in these
new organizations must come to the
front and stay there. Not dead issues
of the past, but the needs -of the pres
ent, moraband economic, are wha our
people are interested in. The old
parties have disgraced themselves by
truckling to capital, to the whiskey
and other monopolies, by cowardice.
Let us act different from them and
thus avoid their inglorious fate.
J. A. Stikeleather.
LETTER FROM "HERTFORD.
Mr. Editor: I herewith enclose ten
dollars for you to continue to old and
commence to new subscribers. May
you multiply and replenish in the
State and divide and radiate from
Raleigh to every home and hut in the
commonwealth.
A called meeting of Menola Sub Alli
ance to hear from the. delegate and
visitors from the State meeting at
Morehead sat three solid hours last
Saturday afternoon, hot and sultry a?
it was, to hear of the doings of the
Sta e meeting.
To show the interest there is in our
Alliance in the purposes and prospects
of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial
Union, I state that beside the regular
delegate four lay members paid their
own expenses to Morehead City and
back, and two others would have done
so but for sickness. These four paid
between 10 and $50 to attend the State
Alliance as visitors. I regret that
visitors went from no other Sub Alli
ance ir the county. A number of Sub
Alliances in the First district sent visit
ing brethren and paid their expenses.
A higl ly commendable course.
Our delegate to Morehead reported
that though he had been a member of
the legislature, and thought he knew
much of the political trend of Demo
cratic and Republican politicians of
the State, and thought that the Alli
ance would be used onlr to for
ward party purposes, found he was
greatly and gladly mistaken in the
make-up of the Morehead meeting. He
said "there is a deep sealed conviction
in the people of this country to move
on for the benefit of the toiling millions
which cannot be stopped short of suc
cess by anything under heaven?" Ho
was enthusiastic in his belief that the
xVlliance of North Carolina is determ
ined to allow no political party to come
between it and its declaration of prin
ciples, especially the Sub-Tre isury
plan, Avhich he regards as the pith, the
marrow, the financial salvation of the
nation. So said we all, and amen
and amen. He said further the State
meeting revealed to him a regular
stampede from the manners and cus
toms of the past; that a man would
sooner have stuck his head in the fire
than to have gotten up in the State
meeting to oppose the Ocala demands ;
that Polk's speech to the State Alliance
of twenty minutes was equal to half a
day of ordinary speaking; that he had
a dignity and power wonderfully im
pressive; that he (Polk) lias a greater
place in the hearts of the American
people than any other mm; that the
politician and trickster cannot down
this movement by argument : party
money and the party lash is all that
can have a hindering effect, and that
will eventually bring the consumation
devoutly wished.
This gives you a little hint at the
feeling and faith in our Sub-Alliance.
Fraternally,
F. S. Blair.
LETTER FROM CUMBERLAND.
Mr. Editor: -Wo (Wade Alliance)
are still among the living and are en
joying good health. We are solid for
the Ocala demands with the Sub-Treasury
plan not excepted. There has
been two recent occurrences in the Al
liance circle of our State that especially
pleases the brethren of this section.
The first was the return of Bro. Ram
sey to the editorial chair of The Pro
gressivf Faemer, the second was the
election of Bro. Butler President of the
State xllianct though the advice and
leadership of those and alike other
brothers we feel sure that we will
march steadily and firmly on to
victory.
The majority of the brethren of our
lodge used the N. C. P. A. . Official
Guano this year, and they all say that
it has proven so far to be a? good if not
better than any other (standard i guano
they have ever used.
I close with best wishes to The Pro
gressive Farmer and its pafrons.
Fraternally,
J. C. B., Cor. Sec'y.