PEOGRESSIVE FARMER
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THE lSDUSTi. AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
RALEIGH, N. C.f SEPTEMBER 22, 1891.
Vol. 6.
No. 31
THE NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLI
ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.
President-L. 7rolkf North "Caro
lina. Address, 344 D. St., N. W.,
Washington. D. C.
Vice President B. H. Clover, Cam
bridge, Kansas.
Secretary-Treasurer J . II. Turner,
Georgia Address, 239 North Capitol
St N. W., Washington, D. C.
Lecturer J. H. Willetts, Kansas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
C. W. Macune, Washington, D. C.
Alonzo Wardall, Huron, South Da
kota. J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
II. C. Demming, Chairman.
Isaaa McCracken, Ozone, Ark.
A. E. Cole, Fowlerville, Mich.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The Presidents of all the State organ
izations with L. L. Polk E.v-ofiicio
Chairman.
SOKTH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLI
ANCE. President Marion Butler, Clinton,
X 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 Rev. E. Pope, Chalk
Level, N. C.
Door-Keeper W. II. TomJinson,
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. II. Worth,
Raleigh. N. C.
Trustee Business Agency Fund W.
A. Graham, Maehpelah. N. C.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE.
S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C
Chairman: J. M. Mewborne, Kinston,
N. C. ; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C.
STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Elias Carr. A. Leazer, N. M. Cul
hreth. M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. Connell.
STATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
II. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. ; N. C.
English, Trinity College: J. J. Young,
Polenta; II. A. Forney, Newton, N. C.
North Carolina Reform Press Association.
Officers J. L. Ramsey, President;
Marion Butler, Vice-President : W. S.
Barnes, Secretary.
PAPERS.
Progressive Farmer, State Oran, IWlei.'b, N. C.
Caucasian, Clinton, N. I '.
Rural Homo, AVilsoii, N. C.
Watchman, Salisbury, N.
Farmers' Advocate, Tarbovo, X. ('.
Mountain Home Journal, Abbeville, X. '.
Alliance Sentinel, Goldsboro, X. '.
Countrv Life, Trinity College. X. C
Mercurv, Hickory, X. C
Rattler,' Whitakers, X. C.
Each of the above-named papers are
requested to keep the. list standing on
the first page and add others, rovided
they are duly elected. Any paper fail
ing to advocate the Ocala platform will
be dropped from the list promptly. Our
people can now see what papers are
published in their interest.
GRAND MASS-MEETING
At Reidsville, N. C, Aug. 29th, 1861.
Mr. Editor: Owing to the mistake
in The Progressive Farmer stating
that Col. Polk and party would be at
Reidsville the 29th of September, in
stead of the 23th of August, hundreds
of our people missed the rarest treat
that perhaps falls in the way of ordi
nary countrymen more than once in
a life time. I mean that of hearing
in one dav three such speakers as Col.
L. L. Polk, Bro. W. F. Willets and
Hon. Jerry Simpson.
Notwithstanding many were disap
pointed by not knowing the exact day
the distinguished speakers would be
with us, there were hundreds of the
honest yeomanry throughout the sur
rounding country who had heard the
true day the speaking would be, and
left their wives and little ones in the
care of a benign Providence and
wended their way over muddy roads
and in the face of threatening clouds
to the enterprising little town of Reids
ville. The distingushed party arrived from
the south on the 11 o'clock a. m. train
and were escorted to the town hall bv
the Hon. J. R. Webster, editor of the
Weekly, and Rev. W. I). Wall. ex
President of the County Alliance.
Bro. W. F. Willets was the first to
speak, after being introduced by the
undersigned, chairman, in as brief a
manner as possible. The audience had
been impatient for an hour for the
speaking to begin, as it had been an
nounced that it would commence at 10
o'clock.
Bro. Willets had been speaking but
a few minutes before he convinced
every one that the National Alliance
made no mistake when it elected him
Lecturer. I wish every enemy to our
Order in the country could have heard
Bro. Willets. After Bro. Willets
spoke the audience was adjourned by
the chairman until 2 o'clock p. m. Ow
ing to the confusion in the dates, no
arrangements had been mad-; for a
public dinner. The speakers were in
vited by representatives of the County
Alliance to dinner at the hotel
The brethren were perfectlv'carried
away with Bro. Willets' speech. Your
correspondent heard one enthusiastic
Allianceman say if he had his way, he
would put Bro. Willets at the head of
every department of the government
and make him absolute monarch. That
brother was drunk, but not with new
wine, nor hard-head whiskey, nor
strong drink, but with admiration for
Bro. Willets.
Promptly at 2 o'clock the audience
re assembled at the town hall. Col. L.
L. Polk, the beloved President of the
National Alliance, was the first to
speak, and you may rest assured that
his speech was simply magnificent,
and every true xVllianceman present
(and their names were legion) will
stand by Col. Polk now and forerer as
long as 'he carries their standard like
he has been doing. The Colonel called
on every one present who were in
favor of the Sub-Treasury to rise, and
th3 vast audience rose in a body, not
a single dissenter, as your correspond
ent could see, and he was on the ros
trum behind the speaker, and had plain
view of the whole room. The Alliance
has many true friends in Reidsville
who are not eligible to membership in
the Order, but will stand by it through
thick and thin when they understand
its true object.
The next speaker introduced was
the Hon. Jerry Simpson, of Kansas.
Bro. Jerry started off by saying in a
rather pitiful tone that they accused
him of wearing shoes without socks.
I think if some of our good old sisters
had heard the brother, they would
have wanted to knit him a pair. How
ever, he went on to say that he had not
only got into the other fellow's socks,
but had got into his shoes, also. He
then read some slanderous extracts
from a Charlotte paper (I forget the
name) stating that he, Bro. Simpson,
was advocating social equality between
the white and negro races. lie said in
substance that it was a malicious mis
representation; that he said nothing of
the kind, but simply said if the negroes
would behave themselves, te sober
and work and accumulate property in
an honest way, that they would be
respected by the whites. That, no one
will deny unless it is some minion of
Wall street who wants to keep up the
race war for the benefit of his bosses.
He furthermore said in substance that
the Anglo Saxon race always was, and
always will be, mentally, morally and
socially superior to the race. It was
so decreed of God, and no earth! v
power can make it otherwise. He
furthermore said that he was a Federal
soldier and fought on the Union side,
but now the boys in blue wanted to
shake hands with the boys in gray,
and unite in one common brotherhood
to resist the oppressor and to restore to
the laboring classes equal rights with
the balance of mankind. Here some
one said ' amen." followed by loud ap
plause. Bro. Simpson had no mercy
on the little whipporwill Wall street
editors. I don't know whether any of
those gents were present or not, but if
I had been one of them, I would have
crawled into my hole (as the saying is
and pulled the hole in after me. If I
could not have pulled in the hole, I
would have scratched in a right smart
of the dirt I had been tnrowing at the
Alliance.
When it was announced that Senator
Peffer. the honorable Jerry Simpson,
and Mrs L were coming to the
South to speak in behalf of the people's
movement, a certain little tries to-be-Wall
street journal said that the South
wanted no more missionaries from
Kansas; that John Brown was a mis
sionary from Kansas. Now there is no
more reason to believe that Senator
Peffer, the honorable Jerry Simpson
and Mrs. L are any more related to
John Brown, than there is to believe
that the above mentioned editors are
related to Benedict Arnold or Judas
Iscariot. The honorable Jerry has
been here, and if the other two come,
we bid them welcome in behalf of
Rockingham County Al'ianee.
The same journal also said that the
Virginia Alliance wanted to retire
Senator Daniels; that the South Caro
lina Alliance had retired Senator
Hampton, and the North Carolina Alli
ance tried to retire Senator Vance, but
the Senator was too much for them.
The journal referred to is not of this
State, but we would like for it and
everybody else to remember that Sena
tor Vance promised the Alliance legis
lature to "buck" to the Sub-Treasury
bill, and was elected with that under
standing, and it would be well for
Mr. Vance to find time to consider
that bill and let its constitutionality
alone, the people will attend to that
part: He must find as much time to
consider the Sub-Treasury bill as he
did to parade across the continent to
bury a dead Congressman and help to
squander a hundred thousand dollars
of the people' money (the money he
-as sent to protect and defend) to bury
a dead Congressman, while the bulk
of the people would be glad if all the
old Wall street crowd were dead, and
as Bro. Willetts says, buried far down
ward so they could scratch on to where
they belonged. If Senator Vance don't
want to hear the cry all along the line
from every County Alliance in the
State, tk resign, resign,'' he had1 better
4,buck" to the Sub-Treasury like a
clever fellow or give us something
better.
Please tell Col. Polk, Bro. WTilletts
and Bro. Simpson to come again, Rock
ingham County Alliance will meet
them with open arms. Let us know
next time a month beforehand and we
will try to give them a grand recep
tion. You may say to the brethren all
over the State to march along in one
solid phalanx; that Rockingham
County Alliance is neither dead, deaf
or dumb but has awakened from her
fatal slumber and will meet them there
in November, 1802. with her banner
unfurled to the breeze, inscribed
thereon on one side, "For Katie and
and the children on the other, 4 ' Equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none. " Fraternally yours,
W. H. Schofield, Co. Lecturer.
A MECHANIC COMES TO THE DE
FENSE. Sassafras Fork, Granville Co.
Mr. Editor: Seeing how extremely
solicitous the opponents of the Sub
Treasury plan are concerning the wel
fare of the working classes and others
not interested in farming pursuits,
whom it is claimed would not be bene
fited, and directly or indirectly trying
to create an impression that it would
be against their interests to support
the plan, has prompted me to write.
As a mechanic and an Allianceman I
think I have a right to know and to
judge what would be a benefit to my
class, and all this maudlin anxiety"
concerning our welfare is pretty much
of a humbug, fancies of a disordered
imagination, with designing purport
and cunning effect, all for the purpose
of alienating the sympathies and sup
port of the workingmen against the
xilliance and its demands.
In a letter published in your paper
of the 1st in st. the writer states as one
of his objections to the Sub-Treasury
plan (bill he called it): "That it was
class legislation.' (Another rotten
chesnut.) "A gigantic trust! and
would give the farmer special privi
leges, which the mason, the miner and
the carpenter could not share," also for
the benefit of office-holders. If that
were the case nearly every office seeker
and mossback politician is opposed to
the plan, how can such an anomaly be
reconciled when there is no love lost
between seekers after office and the
Alliance, what would the mechanics
be doing all the time the warehouses
are building and after they are built
who will keep them in repair, perhaps
the farmers are going to do the build
ing themselves. That gigantic trust
perhaps includes everything. That the
mechanic would have no share in the
benefits of the plan is a very broad as
sertion. Of course they have no prod
ucts to deposit in the Sub-Treasuries,
but is that a reason why they should
not benefit by the prosperity which
would follow the establishment of Sub
Treasuries, which would issue money
di recti" to the farmer on non-perishable
products, and is it not conceded
to by all parties that there is not
enough money in circulation to meet
the business demands of the country ?
In the fall of the year when the farmer
throws his crop on the market, even a
circulation that would meet ordinary
business transactions is not sufficient,
and to rnet this emergency the conse
quence is, and common sense teaches
us, history proves it, that if there is not
enough money in circulation to buy
the farmer's produce, the price paid
for the products is lowered proportion
ately according to the amount of
money in circulation. The volume of
money being controlled by the present
banking system, aggravates the cir
cumstances. The dollar of the farmer,
invested in the raising of cotton,
wheat, corn and tobacco, decreases in
value while that of the money king
oftentimes doubles itself. The farmer
is placed in such a condition that he
cannot hold his crop and is compelled
to sell at a loss. I would like to know
if that loss does not bear on the me
chanic, merchant, miner, doctor and
others. Will the merchant sell more
goods, the doctor more readily collect
his fees, and the mechanic get more
work and wages Avhen the farmer sells
at a loss and has less to spend ?
The farmer suffers many disadvan
tages which no other class labors
under. He is compelled to market his
crop a limited part of the year, while
it takes the balance of his time to make
it. The purchasing power of the dol
lar increases most when buying the
raw products of the farm, and also
considering the amount of time and
labor it takes to make a bushel of
wheat, a pound of cotton or a pound
of tobabco, does the farmer receive
compensation in proportion to time
and labor expended? Class legislation!
Why nearly every class in this
country has special laws for its own
peculiar benefit and protection. We
mechanics have several on the statute
books of this State, the railroads have
them. Corporations and manufacturers
have accumulated millions and billions
of dollars through class legislation and
not much objection raised until the
farmers want Jaws to help them out of
their difficulties. The whole truth of
the matter is, the farmer has been Jong
considered a legitimate prey by all
classes of non-producers, and hitherto
by his obtuseness has never kicked
against the pricks, and his awakening
up in the Alliance has raised "Hail
Columbia" on all sides because the fat
pickings may be cut off. The farmers'
income being cut off through such ad
verse circumstances, I would like to
know if he can, as a consumer, buy
more clothes, hats and shoes, more im
plements, can he build more and im
prove his place more; will the rail
roads transact more business, will the
mines show a greater output? Nearly
all the Western farmers use coal. Will
the business and building of towns and
villages increase when the farmers are
swindled out of the best part of what
they make by the most iniquitous
money system that ever has been insti
tuted in the history of the world? As
anamolous as it appears in a free dem
ocratic republic, and when the farmer,
who most feels the effects of this hellish
system, after appealing in vain to the
political parties when in power for re
lief ard through the dire necessity
they were placed in were forced to
bring out a plan which they claim will
help them, and who ought to know
better. How are these demands met?
Why both political parties oppose them
and nearly every one connected with
banking and speculative interests, in
fact every calling which preys on the
farmer. "Politicians and jackanapes
who seek cheap notoriety and all
species of humbug oppose the Sub
Treasury plan. Of course there are
some who nonestly oppose it and the
principal reason is that they will look
to only one side of the question. Why,
sir, if the Sub-Treasury plan did have
no other merit than that of the make
up of its enemies and the animus which
pervades all their writings and
speeches, I would support and advo
cate it, and all the opposition it re
ceives from a parasitical tnd suborned
press and vampires who suck the life
blood of the poor farmer only
strengthens me in the belief that there
is bound to be some good in the plan of
relief.
The farmer has asked for bread ; the
crumbs are denied him. Even Dives
did not refuse a crumb. He has
pleaded his cause and petitioned and
has been met only by derision. But we
have passed the asking point and never
no more will we ask, plead, beg or pe
tition. We demand and will get that
which we lacketh.
How can we mechanics and working
men oppose, consistently, the Alliance
and its demands when we labor under
disadvantages caused by" the same sys
tem which nflects the farmer, and if a
"Moses" appears to lead us out of the
slough of despondency in which the
working classes and farmers are floun
dering, let him be a Polk or a Powder
ly or anyone else provided we are
lifted up to a higher grade of civiliza
tion and prosperity. Is it not wise for
us to profit by the occasion?
Yours fraternally,
RORERT J. COEN,
A Mechanic.
VICTORY! VICTORY ! !
Mr. Editor: Financially I may go
to the bottom ; better men have paid
the penalty of their folly (h. Shall I
repine, bemoan my fate? Had I not
counted the cost in advance, this I
might do. Hie result was not unex
pected. Financially one can afford to
sutler that the burden which oppresses
his brother mav be lifted. In this we
do but follow flim who, though rich,
become poor that others might share
in His riches. Sacrifice is the opposite
of avarice one the fruit of Heaven,
the other of the pit the bottomless one,
judged by their fruits. Alas! how
many are wending their way to that
abode ?
One who has long watched a delicate
plant as it struggled to take root in a
su.' overgrown with noxious weeds,
can but rejoice when vitality begins to
manifect itself. The yellow cast gives
place to the green leaf. The tender
head is born in a night, one by one, as
the rootlets grow; so do the limbs ex
pand; anon the tree in its majesty is
the result. Only a short time since,
the Alliance, a puny" babe, was mate
rialized : its advent was not heralded
by pomp or parade emblematical,
'twas a babe born in a manger ; prophets
of old had predicted its coming; nature
was not unexpectant, wise men from
the East, the West, the North, sought
out this wonderful product of Southern
soil ; they wondered at its beauty, its
simplicity, little realizing that it pos
sessed a hidden matter the grain of a
fruit, that on materializing would give
health to the nation. From its insig
nificance of a few short years ago, in
credible what proportions it has as
sumed; and yet its vitality how great?
No grand deed ever dies ; it lives on,
has ever done so. will do so as long as
the ages last. What deed more noble
than lifting the hand of oppression,
giving liberty to the captive, employ
ment to the idle, clothing the naked,
feed to the hungry? These are the
fruits of the Alliance. The good that
she has wrought, the promise of her
great enlargement, has invited the
malignant shafts of her foes. Their
object has been to destroy her. In
this purpose they have failed. Where
has this opposition manifested itself
chiefly? In the two existing political
parties. Who has nurtured, sheltered
this young plant in its struggle for
growth to perpetuate its life? The
people, the common people ; and they,
the people, the common people, are to
be the beneficiaries, to subsist on its
fruits.
Rejoice, ye multitude ! Lift up your
thanks: victory is in the air; the days
of your commutation are well nigh
over. Peace and plenty shall reign
where struggle and want has existed.
Millenium is coming! Who shall say
the Alliance is not a factor to hasten
it? In this glorious word a unit we
will be.
A union of hearts we will preserve:
The union of brotherhood we will serve.
M. J. Battle.
PIC-NIC AT DEEP RIVER.
Westminster, N. C.
Mr. Editor: On the 29th of August
Deep River Sub-Alliance, No. 1,541,
had an Alliance rally and pic nic,
which was attended by a nice crowd of
good people, notwithstanding it rained
nearly all day. Quite a number of the
good people ' outside of the Alliance
helped us to make the pic nic a suc
cess, for which we are duly thankful.
After the dinner was served and eaten,
Mr. Z. T. Broughton mounted the plat
form and ably discussed the issues of
the day in a speech of one and a half
hours. A more quiet and attentive
company has never been at old Deep
River. "We had several applications
for membership before the crowd dis
persed. Wishing you much success, I
am, Yours fraternally,
IT. C. Briggs, Sec'y.
OUR PROGRESS.
Weekly Record of Manufacturing and
Other Enterprises Started Rip Van
Winkle no Longer in the Old
North State.
Manufacturers' Record.!
Tarboro- J. F. Shackelford is reported
as to enlarge his knitting mill.
Wilmington W. P. Oldham & Co.
are changing their corn mill to a rice
mill.
Goidsboro It is reported that a fac
tory for the manufacture of patent
bed-springs will be established.
Salisbury Negotiations are now in
progress for the sale of the Barringer
gold mine, mentioned in our last issue.
Charlotte Margolins & Co. will, it
is stated, establish a factory for the
manufacture of cotton bagging and ties.
Raleigh The Raleigh Plate Ice Co.
states that it will most likely rebuild
its ice factory, reported last week as
burned.
Prosperity Bryan Tyson and others
will develop a gold mine near Pros
perity and are now erecting necessary
machinery. New Berne The New Berne Ice Co.
will, as reported last week, put in ma
chinery to double the capacity of its
ice factory.
Statesville It is reported that O. L.
Williams, of Farmington, has made
contract for the erection of a tobacco
factory in Statesville.
Statesville E. J. & A. G. Stafford,
of Kernersville, have, it is stated, con
tracted for the erection of a tobacco
factory in Statesville.
Raleigh Phillip Taylor is, as re
ported recently, erecting a plug to
bacco factory. It will be 40x80 feet in
size and four stories high.
Ramseur A WT. E. Caples has en
larged his chair factory, as stated last
week; additional machinery has also
been put in to manufacture harness,
etc.
Burlington George Terrell, of Dur
ham, and W. E. Hay will publish a
newspaper, as mentioned last week. It
will be known as the Burlington
J la whey e.
Dallas The Dallas Cotton Mill Co.,
mentioned last week, has purchased
machinery" for its mill for 2,0S0 spindle
warp mill ; electric light plant may be
put in.
Wilmington W. H. Bixby, United
States engineer office, Wilmington,
will receive sealed proposals until
October 2oth for $75,000 of dredging in
Oracoke inlet.
King's Mountain J. S. Phillips, of
Charlotte, is reported as developing
sulphur mines on the Mc Aden property,
near King's Mountain, and as to de
velop a gold mine on the same property.
Gastonia W. L. Gallant and J. K.
Dixon are reported as having pur
chased 19 acres of land from Albert
Smith and Thomas Wilson and as to
lay off into building lots and otherwise
improve same.
THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.
Mr. Editor : There is an irrepressi
ble conflict between the debtor class
and the industrial class as much so as
ever there was between freedom and
slavery.
The creditor class are interested in
increasing the profits of their incomes,
and to do so they must have a small
volume of money and control it. The
industi ial class are interested in com
manding the greatest amount of money
with a given amount of labor, and to
do so they must have a large volume
of money and control it.
The triumph of the creditor dass
means industrial slavery. The tri
umph of the people will end in their
emancipation from industrial slavery.
The creditor class would not exist if it
were not that the industrial class is
nearly equally divided between the
two old political parties, permitting
this insignificant class, in numbers, to
hold the balance of power, and with
their money hold control the floating
vote and dictate all legislation and
finance. It is a war to the knife, the
knife to the hilt and the hilt to the end
of the handle. There can be no more
Politicians may say peace, peace, but
there is no peace but in the complete
destruction of this money power. As
long as the industrial class are divided
the politicians are at the mercy of the
money power and must obey or be re
tired to private life. The industrial
class are responsible for existing con
ditions and not the politicians. Would
you be free? Then fall into ranks. In
union there is strength. In division,
weakness and industrial slavery.
Every industry is vitally interested in
this so-called farmers' movement. The
success and prosperity of the farmers
will bring prosperity to all. If I was
a manufacturer I would champion the
farmers' cause, for his prosperity
would give me a better market. Were
I a doctor I would take up the cudgel
and champion this farmers' move
ment so labor would have steady em
ployment and then I would collect ray
doctor bills. If I was a merchant I
would strip to the buff and enter the
ring and do battle for the farmer. His
prosperity would insure mine his
poverty means mine. Ninety-five per
cent, of those who enter the mercantile
business fail, and ninety per cent, of
the failures are the result of the credit
system. Were I a teacher I would in
still into the insides of the rising gen
eration that a prosperous agriculture
is at the bottom of all prosperity. Any
system of finance that will make the
farmers prosperous will equally benefit
my other class of wealth-producers.
The people must assert their constitu
tional prerogative, abolish all banks
of issue and issue a sufficient amount
of money to do the business of the
country on a cash basis, and every
debt contracting dollar must be made
a debt paying dollar and save the peo
ple the one thousand million dollars
now paid to the creditor class.
James Murdoch:.
LETTER FROM WAKE FOREST.
m Mr. Editor : It has been a long time
since I wrote my last article to The
Progressive Farmer. I will tell you
some Wake Forest news. There 'are
200 students at College. The profes
sors think there will be more students
here thisyear than there ever has been
in any year before. The boys received
an invitation from Prof. Johnson to
meet him at the depot last Saturday at
11 :30 o'clock. He carried us to his v me
yard where we found the vines hanging
full of beautiful clusters of gropes.
We relished them very much. Yester
day the young ladies of the Hill gave
the College boys a reception. When
the bell began to ring at 4 o'clock the
boys came from every quarter to the
reception. They gathered around the
table that was decorated with beautiful
flowers. We enjoyed the ice cream,
chocolate, cherbet, cakes, apples, figs,
and other things too numerous to men
tion. The people of Wake Forest are
clever. They are the cleverest that I
have ever met, taking them as a whole.
The trains bring new boys every- day.
May- Wake Forest never lack for
friends. J. E. D.
ALLIANCE PIC-NIC IN GATES.
Gates vi lle, N. C, Sept. 3, '01.
The Gates County Alliance pic-nic
came off yesterday, and was a grand
success. The day could not have been
better if made to order. The crowd in
attendance was estimated at from three
to five thousand, and the dinner was
sumptuous and profuse and equal in
quantity to the demands of the oc
casion. The Alliance Band, of Chowan
county, elegantly attired in bright uni
forms, furnished good music. Hons.
Harry Skinner, of Pitt, the silver
tongued orator of the State. Marion
Butler, of Sampson, and W. A. B.
Branch, of Beaufort, were the orators
of the day, and dispensed wholesome
Alliance doctrine. Col. Skinner's
speech was a masterly production, and
he held the vast assembly spellbound
tor two hours anl a halt. Although
professionally- ineligible to member ,
ship, the gallant Colonel is in full
sympathy with the noble principles of
the order. His argument as to the con
stitutionality and practicability of the
Sub-Treasury scheme was absolutely
irresistible and unanswerable. By all
means let his clarion and eloquent
voice be heard from Maine to Cali
fornia in behalf of this great measure,
and its ultimate triumph is assured.
The Alliance is to be congratulated
upon his able championship of their
cause. Each of the distinguished
speakers was gracefully introduced by
Judge W. T. Cross, one of Gates' most
talented sons, in eloquent and appro
priate remarks. The Alliance is on a
boom in this county and there are very
few weak knees in our ranks.
C. J. Woodson.
FROM LONE STAR ALLIANCE.
Reiihobotii, N. C.
Mr. Editor: Lone Star Alliance,
No. 000, has been in successful opera
tion about four years ; we number 00
or 100, and are still increasing. Lone
Star waves the Alliance banner in this
county and are in for the war, let the
fight, last as long as it may-.
We had a grand rally and pic nic
on August 13th. Our orators were all
residents of this county", and for once
you may" say that a prophet has honor
in his own country". Dr. H. W. Lewis,
our County Lecturer, did honor to
himself, honor to the Alliance and
honor to the county. Ail felt them
selves highly favored in having an opportunity-
of hearing him. He is a
thorough Allianceman, posted in every
detail, and promises to be of great
benefit to the Order in this county.
After a bountiful dinner, the Rev.
Wm. Grant, the Moses of the Grange
in this county", and I might say in the
whole eastern section of North Caro
lina, by" invitation came forward and
said we did not give him a fair show
ing, catching him up so suddenly ; but
he supposed we thought he was like
cold souse always ready- and before
he took his seat we found that we were
not amiss in our surmises. Dr. Lewis
referred to the ladies of Xew York
wearing pants, and Mr. Grant, touch
ing on that part of the Doctor's speech,
said he did not have on his Sunday
pants ; had left them at home and he
hoped that none of the ladies would
get them; if they did he would give
them a tussel before they- should keep
them; said the ladies might wear pants
if they wished to, but he intended to
wear thern too. The Alliance was a
son of the Grange and it was natural
for the son to be more active than his
daddy, therefore the Alliance should
more vigorously- push the work the
Grange had started. He was a Granger
from the crown of his head to the soles
of his feet, and he was with the Alli
ance in everything
Messrs. B. S. Gray, G P. Burgwyn
and Frank Harris made short speeches,
and to the point.
After partaking of ice cream, lemon
ade, fruit, etc., the crowd went to their
respective homes w-ell pleased.
R. S. Barham, Cor. Sec'y.