THE PROGEESSIYE
FAMER
THE 1YCTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
RALEIGH, N. C, OCTOBER 6, 1891.
Vol. 6.
No.
33
THE NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLI
ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.
President L. L. Polk, North Caro
lina. Address, 3U D. St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Vice President B. H. Clover, Cain
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.
Isaac McCracken, Ozone, Ark.
A. E. Cole, Fowlerville, Mich.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The Presidents of all the State organ
izations with L. L. Polk Ex-ojicio
Chairman.
NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS
STATE ALU-
ANCE.
President Marion Butler, Clinton,
N C
1 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. Tomhnson,
Fayetteville. N. C.
Assistant Door-Keeper EI. E. King,
Peanut. N. C.
Sergeant-at-Arms-J. S. Holt, Chalk
Ijevel, N. C.
State Businevss Agent W. II. Worth,
Raleigh, N. C.
Trustee Business Agency Fund .
A. Graham, Machpelah, 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.
Ellas Carr, A. Leazer, N. M. Cul
breth, M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. Connell.
3TATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
R. 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.
Bar, us, Secretary,
PAPERS.
Progressive Fiirmtr, State Oran, Raleigh, N. C
Caucasian, Clinton, X. C.
Rural Home, N jlson, N . L .
Watchman, Salisbury, N. C.
Farmers' Advocate, larboro, .t.
Mountain Home Journal, Asheville, X. 0
Alliance Sentinel, Goldsboro, X. ('.
Country LitV, Trinity College, X. (
Mercury, Hickory, X. C.
Rattler, V hitakers, X. C.
Each of the above named papers are
requested to keep the list standing on
the first page and add others, provided
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 xchat papers are
published in their interest.
MEAN.
TFrom Thk Progressive Farmer, June
ltl.J
Some few of our exchanges seem de
termined to ruin Col. Polk, if such a
thing shall be found in their power.
To accomplish this end methods have
been pursued that Cataline would have
scorned to use, that Casar Borgia
never fell low enough in all his career
of shame to employ. The garbage
heaps of festering tilth have been raked
over for foul epithets to be hurled at
his devoted head. Not a public act of
his life, not an opinion upon public
questions which he has uttered, not an
aspiration for his country's good, which
he has breathed, that has not been
misrepresented and twisted and dis
torted by the most shameless lying
that was ever done in print.
A few months ago it was said that
Col Polk wanted to defeat Senator
Vance in order to get his place in the
United States Senate. The contempti
ble little fellows who made this charge
probably reasoned in this way :
44 If we had Col. Polk's influence and
chances, we would use them to defeat
Vance, and get his place. Therefore
Col. Polk means to defeat him and
get himself elected to his place. We
would do such a thing, if ice could.
Therefore Polk will do such a thing.''
That sort of creatures always meas
ure men by their own littleness and
meanness ; and they can never under
stand anything that is higher than
they. How could they do otherwise?
How can pettiness andcontemptibility
be expected to look above itself? "Who
can bring a clean thing out of an un
clean? Not one!''
But. after a while, the time for
Vance's re-election came round, and
then it was seen that Col. Polk took no
steps to get the Senator's place, and
for a time the curs who had been run
ning and barking and snapping and
snarling at his heels, were still, for the
want of some new lie, with enough of
spaciousness about it to enable it to be
used to deceive the ignorant, and to
inflame the passions of the vulgar
horde, who get their living by bawling
and bellowing for the political bosses
of both parties whose business it is to
deceive and mislead the people. Very
soon these little fellows began to howl
that Col. Polk was fighting to form a
third party, in order that he might be
come a candidate for the Vice-Presidency.
Some have gone so far as to
suggest that Col. Polk has his eye upon
the Presidency itself.
While all this has been going on, to
the disgust of all fair minded and de
cent men, Col. Polk has been going
right ahead, like the patriotic and un
selfish citizen that he is, exposing the
enormous wickedness of our financial
svstem, and of our protective legisla
tion, without stopping in his blessed
work, for. so much as one moment, to
scold and scare the howlers away. And
as he goes on with his work, he gets
nearer and nearer to the Vice Presi
dency, nearer and nearer to the Presi
dency, nearer and nearer to any posi
tion that he himself may want, or that
his friends may want for him.
Let us grant for the moment that
Col Polk wants to go to the Senate
that he wants to be Vice President
that he wants to be President. Are
not these generous and noble ambi
tions? Is it a crime to aspire to the
honors of one's country ? Is it wrong
to covet positions of trust and useful
ness in the administration of public
alfairs? If these things, these ambi
tions, are sinful, then some of the
popular idols in North Carolina have
committed sin enough to sink Sodom.
For some of them got into public office
before the oil with which they smoothed
their hair to make their last school
boy's speech was dry; and in public
office they have stayed until this very
day. But we utter no word in criticism
of these public servants. They had,
and they have now, large and gener
ous ambitions, and they have rendered
their country and their State and their
generations services of incalculable
value ; and we join with their country
men in honoring them. All we claim
is, that if it should be found that Col.
Polk has all the ambitions that have
been attributed to him and more be
sides, nothing blameworthy would at
tach to him on that account. He has
held public place, and he has won
many distinctions, in spite of the hate
of his detractors. But he has never
misused a public; trust, and he has
never yet stooped to conquer.
If the campaign of vituperation is to
continue, let in continue. But we give
the small fellows who poke out their
sensual lips at him, and all the world
besides, to understand that we intend
to stand by him in this conflict until
his success shall drive all these garbage
venders into their filthy dens, even as
the daylight drive the vermin covered
bats into their holes. L. L. Polk is
equal in ability, in integrity, in the
strength of his moral manhood, in his
devotion to the people to any place he
may aspire to ; and wo mean to see to
it that his influence is not destroyed
by those who hate and hound him. If
any man that has ever been born is
entitled to the love of the gret masses
of the people, on account of the ene
mies he has made, that man is L. L.
Polk.
It is due to Col. Polk to say that he
knows no more about the writing of
this article no more about our inten
tion or purpose to write it than the
infant that i unborn knows. And he
never made a complaint, or a sugges
tion that induced us to write it. The
editor of this paper wrote it, without
suggestion or consultation with any
man, or woman orchi'd, or thing alive
or dead : and he alone is responsible
for it. Rev. B. Cade, ex-Editor.
MAPLE VI LLE SOLID.
Mapleville, N. C, Sep. 21, '01.
Mr. Editor: According to promise
I will send you that report of our Alli
ance (Ferrell's Bridge, No. 1,1G1.) We
have a very small membership, bat
what we have are Alliancemen, tried
and true. We are a unit on the Ocala
demands and will vote the People's
party ticket in '92 if the two old par
ties refuse to grant the said demands.
All of our male members but six take
The Progressive Farmer and all take
the National Economist. We have
abiding faith in President Polk and
Dr. C. W. Macune, and all the lying of
plutocracy and their agents (the par
tisan press) cannot shake our confi
dence in their fidelity to our noble
Order. Long may they live to bear
the banner of equal justice to all men
to victory. And as they lead the bat
tle for freedom of the producers of
this nation from the monopolistic
greed of the money sharks, they have
only to cast an eye around to find that
Ferrell's Bridge Alliance is with them.
Fraternally,
G. L, Aycock, Sec'y.
BRO. GREEN IN MONTGOMERY.
Carthage, N. C,
Mr. Editor: Will you allow me to
say to your readers that the Lecturer
of Wake County Alliance, Bro. A. C.
Green, was in Montgomery county last
week on business, and on Saturday,
the Sth, gave a public lecture on the
principles of the Alliance. Bro. Green
showed very clearly that the Alliance
was improving the country morally,
socially and financially. He is not a
Third party man, but advises all Alli
ancemen to keep in the middle of the
road. He answered very satisfactorily
the objection to the Sub-Treaeury plan.
Bro. Green spoke one hour and had a
very good crowd of people to listen to
him, and made the most practical,
common-sense speech the writer ever
heard on the subject. Everybody
seemed to be well pleased. Alliance
and anti-Alliancemen were all agreed
that his was the best speech ever made
in that section for the Alliance.
Yours truly,
W. H. H. Lawton.
The men who shine are the men who
have had the hardest rubs.
THE GREAT (?)
Anti-Sub-Treasury Meeting The Secre
tary of the National Reform Press
Association Attended Six States
Represented by 72 Dele
gates Extracts from
the Proceedings.
The great Hall -McAllister Anti-Sub-Treasury
Bobtail Alliance Convention
of real(?) farmers met in St. Louis,
and the delegates have gone home.
For weeks the partisan press had been
carrying, in flaming headlines, the an
nouncement of this non partisan con
vention this convention of real farm
ers. It was called an Anti Sub-Treasury
Convention, but the call issued an
nounced its purpose as opposed to the
"Sub Treasury and land loan schemes
and the Third party." Inasmuch as it
was and is claimed that the conven
tion was to be entirely non-partisan,
the writer of this is yet at a loss to
know by what coincidence it happened
that all the delegates attending were
members of the same party, and why
they should oppose a third any more
than a first o! second party.
The whole thing seemed to be in ac
cord with the programme arranged
by the political trimmers of the Demo
cratic party a year ago that the de
mand0 of the Alliance should be so
trimmed that the whole organization
could bo prostituted to the use of the
Democratic party. Not a single dele
gate there that would not tell you that
relief could be had through either one
of the old parties, and we venture the
assertion that there were not three
delegates in the convention that would
not tell you the Democratic party was
the one.
Mr. Hall and his followers claim to
be the Alliance, and that this meeting
was for the purpose of promoting har
mony in the Order. Yet it was de
clared from the beginning that no op
portunity would be given for the rep
resentation of the Sub-Treasury people.
It was all a narrow, one sided affair.
In every meeting of the Alliance these
men had been granted every opportun
ity to present their side of the ques
tion, but in this convention they would
not return the courtesy. When they
met on the morning of the 15th, the
vast hall was crowded (in one corner)
with about 70 delegates representing
six States. Not one of these delegates
had credentials from the State organi
zation, as is usual in national meet
ings. But they met and were called to
order by U. S. Hall, who stated the
object of the meeting as above, and
that the first thing in order was the
selection of a temporary chairman.
At this point Mr. Wade (real farmer
from Tennessee, but whose time has
been so taken up in serving his country
in the legislature for eight or ten years,
according to the Democratic creed,
that he is a little behind in his farm
ing) moved that Mr, U. S. Hall be
elected temporary chairman. He made
a neat, brief little speech (such as a
real(?) farmer usually makes on such
occasions) and that settled it. Two or
three delegates "seconded" the mo
tion, and Mr. Wade put the question.
Mr. Hall was elected unanimously.
With a bland smile, but with a sort of
" keep off the grass " look in his eye,
Mr. Hall stepped forward and very
graciously thanked the convention for
what he no doubt knew they would do.
The whole machinery was in excel
lent order and started off without fric
tion or jar. Just across the aisle from
Farmer (?) Wade, who nominated Hall,
was Farmer (?) McAllister, who now
arose and placed in nomination
Farmer (?) Murray, of Texas, for tem
porary secretarv. Farmer Murray
was elected. Then Farmer Wade
moved that those who were not in
sympathy with the movement be re
quested to retire from the hall. Some
other good farmer in favor of harmony
seconded this motion, and ye scribe be
gan to thmk he would have to ' ' gat "
himself out of the place; here some
thing got the matter with the machin
ery and created considerable confusion,
and we did not hear the result of the
motion, so we stayed.
Farmer Murray took the platform
under his feet and began his speech by
paying a very high and complimentary
tribute to "that great and distin
guished statesman Roger Q. Mills."
He stated there was no politics in the
first Alliance and that this convention
would "knock the cup of poison from
the lips of the farmer."
Mr. Murray is a young man and
dealt in "glittering generalities." He
said he was "as good an Allianceman
as there was under the sun ;" that Dr.
Macune and Sledge and their like
' ' ought to put their heads to soak in
salt water as they were entirely too
fresh for the people. V The Sub-Treasury
was contrary to the Constitution
and the ptarty, continued the speaker.
"It is Dr. Macune's lightning-bug
scheme, and we'll enow it under so
deep that hell cannot melt it in forty
generations. Yes, we'll bury them and
deliver the keys to the Saducees who
do not believe in resurrection. We'll
meet them from California to Kalama
zoo and from hell to breakfast." Here
the speaker's feelings overcome him
and the committee on credentials be
ing ready to report, he was relieved.
The convention could not have gone
down on the street and secured a boot
black that could have used stronger
and more profane language.
Farmer Wade moved the adoption of
the report of the committee on creden
tials. Farmer McAllister moved the
appointment of a committee on resolu
tions. Farmer Wade moved that the
temporary organization be made per
manent. Carried.
At this point Mr. Hall left the chair
and took the floor in favor of perma
nent organization. He said eight out
of ten Sub-Alliances were opposed to a
third party, and the land loan and Sub
Treasury measures; he did not want
this convention to do only what the
farmers had been doing for -100 years
resolute and adjourn. He wanted to
form an organization to fight the Sub
Treasury and Third party falacies. He
favored " sending out lecturers to re
fute the heresies of the men who now
had possession of the Order. He de
nounced the present leaders in the Alli
ance as " office seeking demagogues
devoid of principle and seeking only to
serve their own selfish purposes."
Hall and McAllister made very
earnest, not to say bitter, speeches
against Dr. Macune. Secretary Mur
ray, of Texas, also made a' speech full
of denunciation and libelous accusa
tions. He denounced Macune as work
ing in the interest of the Republican
party. That he wanted to start a third
party in the South and divide the Dem
ocratic party with a view to defeating
it. It seemed for a while that the
speaker forgot that he was addressing
what is claimed to bean Alliance meet
ing. In the midst of the confusion
some one suggested that the fight be
transferred from C. W. Macune to the
editor of the National Economist and
Chairman of the Executive Board. But
this proposition did not meet with much
favor and the fight went on.
It seemed that nothing but Macune's
scalp could satisfy the unquenchable
wrath of the schemers and the motion
to strike out Macune's name was lost
by a qote of 20 to 42. This vote (68)
was the strength of the convention the
first day as it was taken upon an excit
ing question and at a time when the
delegates were all present. The pre
vious question was now moved on the
adoption of the report of the commit
tee, and amidst great confusion a mo
tion to adjourn till next day prevailed
with the previous question pending.
On the morning of the second day
the convention opened with the acces
sion of rcc delegates to its members.
The city press published to the world
that over 100 arrived the second day,
but only three (two from Texas and
one from Tennessee) materialized. Mr.
Dnvidson occupied the chair, stating
that Farmer Hall was sick. Inasmuch
as it had been given out by him that
"this would be the largest representa
f lou of real farmers ever assembled in
this countjy ; and that twenty States
would be represented," it is a wonder
that the whole convention was not sick.
Farmer Wade was also absent. He
was compelled to return to his farm,
the Tennessee legislature. But Farmer
McAllister was there. So was "Hon
est" Dick Dalton, Nicolls and others.
A test vote on the first day displayed
a strength of G8 delegates. On the sec
ond day a test vote showed 72 dele
gates present. Of these ten were from
Texas, three from Tennessee, two from
Mississippi, one from Iowa, one from
Illinois and the balance from Missouri.
At no time were there 200 people in
the hall, and not a single delegate was
authorized by his State Alliance. In
other words the convention was a flat
failure and the participants the worst
set of misguided men we ever saw.
Just as the convention was adjourn
ing a delegate called attention to the
fact that they were about to leave
without making any provisions for
paying the expenses of the meeting,
such as hall rent, badges, decorations,
etc. This expense could not have been
less than $50. Mr. Gates, tbe Sergeant
at-Arms, announced that he was
authorized by Mr. Hall to say that the
entire expenses were paid and no dele
gate would be at any expense on that
account. A delegate asked Mr. Gates
where this money came from. ' ' That's
none of your business," promptly re
plied Mr. Gates. Now we repeat the
question of the delegate: "WHERE
DID THIS MONEY COME FROM?"
We go further: "Who is to furnish
the money to send anti Sub Treasury
lecturers in the field to presecute an
"educational campaign" against these
demands of the Alliance?" Who is it,
gentlemen, that furnishes these funds?
Ah, we do not expert a more courteous
answer than the one given the dele
gate. "It's none of your business."
But it is the business of those who are
following men who seem to have no
trouble in securing funds to prosecute
work that can only result in disruption
of the Alliance. In conclusion we can
only add, brethren, look well to where
you are going, who you are following
and who " pays the freight."
W. S. Morgan,
Sec'y N. R. P. A.
A MINISTER ENDORSES THE PRO
GRESSIVE FARMER ON
KISSING.
Burlington, N. C.
Mr. Editor: I want to thank you
for your editorial, in issue of the 15th
inst., on preachers kissing the girls. I
am a Methodist preacher myself, and
I am ashamed that any preacher has
no better sense. That is one of the
things that, if it has to be done at all,
ought to be done in private. When I
gave my heart to God that is one of
the pleasures I gave up. I don't be
lieve that any man can do that with
out exposing himself to great tempta
tion. At least this is my opinion and
I am not alone in it. Better Not.
OUR PROGRESS.
Weekly Record of Manufacturing and
Other Enterprises Started Rip Van
Winkle no Longer in the Old
North State.
Manufacturers' Record.
Blue WTing W. Raker & Co., will
develop iron mines.
Statesville II. Clark & Sons will
erect a tobacco factory.
Mt. Olive Lolar & Mitchell have, it
is reported, erected a saw mill.
Maiden Martin Carpenter and ot hers
are reported as erecting a factory.
Waynesville A 810,000 wood-working
factory is reported as to be estab
lished. Salisbury Mr. Schultz, of Augusta,
Ga., will establish beer bottling works
in Salisbury.
New Berne J. M. W7hite will, it is
reported, erect the barrel and box fac
tory lately mentioned.
Waynesville J. E. Atkins has, it is
stated, erected a grist mill and cotton
gin near Waynesville.
Shelby The city has granted a fran
chise to erect gas works to the Carolina
Heat & Light Co., of Danville, Va.
Leaksville The Guerrant Cable To
bacco Stemmer Co. has been intro
ducing the Guerrant tobacco stemmer.
Roxboro A. S. De Vlarming, of
Durham, will, it is stated, lease and
operate a tobacco factory in Roxboro.
Siak-sville O. L. Williams, of Farm
ington, lately mentioned, will proba
bly erect a tobacco factory in States
ville. Beaufort II. R. Hunt, of New Lon
don, Conn. ; T. L. Swinton and others
will erect an oyster factory, as reported
in our last issue.
Elkin The Elk in Manufacturing Co.
will, as stated last week, put in addi
tional machinery to increase capacity
of its cotton mill.
Greenville A tobacco manufactur
ing company, of Wilson, is correspond
ing relative to the erection of a tobacco
prizery at Greenville.
New Berne The city will contract
for the construction of waterworks
probably within 30 days. For particu
lars address the mayor.
Mocksville Rice Bros., of Woodleaf,
will erect a planing mill at Mocksville,
as recently reported ; later on they ex
pect to put in door and sash machinery.
Statesville -E J. cSc A. G. Stafford,
reported last week, state that they
have purchased the factory formerly
used by Irwin & Paston, and will start
their tobacco factory in same.
Millwood The Monarch Gold Min
ing Co. , previously reported as organ
ized at Knoxville, Tenn., is developing
a gold mine in Rutherford county, near
Millwood ; stamp mill has been erected.
Raleigh The Briggs Building Manu
facturing Co. has been incorporated
with Anderson Betts as President, and
J. D. Briggs, Secretary, to manufacture
sash, doors, blinds, etc. The capital
stock is $12,000.
Fayetteville The stock company,
previously mentioned as having been
organized by John Underwood and
others to erect a steam laundry, Tias
been incorporated as the Fayetteville
Steam Laundry Co.
Charlotte S. Wittkowsky has lately
submitted to the Chamber of Com
merce a proposition to build a bridge
across the Catawba river at two or
more points, connecting Mecklenburg
county with York, Lincoln and Gaston
counties.
ANOTHER PLAN FOR RELIEF.
Mr. Editor: The time for the
gathering of the cotton crop is at hand,
and the prices are so small that the
faces of the farmers have a sad, dis
turbed look. When one meets another
the first question, after the usual
friendly salutation is, how are your
crops, and the common reply is, very
good, but the starvation prices of cot
ton makes me sad, and if the good
merchant that advanced to me can't
carry me over, I shall have to let him
take my home, and the reply is, I am
in your condition, and life is but little
pleasure to me. I sometimes wish I
had never been born. I have worked
so hard this year and so hopefully, for
my crops responded so cheerfully for
every stroke of labor that I gave it,
and is there no remedy for us? and the
reply is, none, unless the National
Government, through the earnest
solicitation of the Alliance, will come
to our rescue. The reply is, that will
not be done, for the majority of our
representatives are directly opposed to
our remedial plans. But, Mr. Editor,
I, for one, believe the needful remedy
can be gotten at our next National
General Assembly within thirty days
after its convention. The Alliance is a
national organization and therefore has
its adherents in every State in this
grand Union, and suppose President
Polk was to call a national convention
of the Alliance and that convention
was to select twenty of its members
from each State, send them to Wash
ington City and there let them organ
ize themselves into a congress or con
vention, as one may please to term it,
elect a president, select their commit
tees, formulate their plans, draft their
resolutions, get themselves in working
condition, and then say, North what is
needful ibr your reform ; it is thus, let
the answer be, you can have it. The
West the same, the East the same,
and when it comes to our southland
just afford us the opportunity of hold
ing our cotton for two crops this crop
and one more. Draw such a bill as the
different sections require, take it in a
body to the President of the Senate
and demand a vote upon it by that
body. They are our servants and will
likely obey, and then take it to the
House of Representatives and demand
the same ; say to them wo want it as
an experiment and if it does not answer
our requirements we will come in two
or four years and ask a repeal. Ex
treme or severe cases needs strong
remedies, and if it can't be accom
plished without it, demand the passage
of a stay law for two years with the
proviso that the interest of the individ
ual indebtedness shall be paid. The
creditor might say, "why that would
ruin me." I think not. Let his debtor
deposit his cotton with him as his col
lateral security and the security could
be extended from one to another in
such a manner that the wheels of busi
ness would not be clogged in the least ;
and if the government would inflate
the currency to a liberal and legitimate
limit, the wheels of prosperity would
begin to roll and before the expiration
of the first twelve months cotton would
command satisfactory prices and
other products the same, and we would
then have a prosperous and happy na
tion. WTe all know that the price of
cotton is not regulated by supply and
demand, for there is one billion five
hundred and twenty-five million of
people in this world, and only four bil
lions of pounds of cotton made per
year, which is not quite 2 pounds per
capita, saying nothing of what is
manufactured into rope, canvas, cot
ton bagging and many other modes of
manufacture. So you see, Mr. Editor,
that it cannot be supply and demand.
Farmer.
SPEAKING IN LINCOLN COUNTY.
Mr. Editor: East Lincoln county
had arranged for an Alliance mass
meeting on Sept. 19th. Several speak
ers had been invited to make speeches.
A general invitation had been given
for everybody to come and bring their
baskets. The morning was brigiit and
beautiful. A large crowd had gathered
around old Fairfield waiting for the
speaking to commence at 10 o'clock.
It was soon learned that one of the
speakers was too unwell to be out and
some others had to be elsewhere. Only
a few moments had elapsed, however,
when the presence of Maj W. A. Gra
ham, Representative J. vV. A. Paine
and County Lecturer LeRoy Long,
drove away the hovering cloud and
caused every heart to rebound. At
10 :o0 the crowd had assembled in the
church and was brought to order by
vocal music, after which prayer was
offered by Rev. P. D. Moore. J. F.
Davis then announced that J. W. A.
Paine would address the audience.
Mr. Paine came forward in his mild
and deliberate way and spoke about
one hour on the subject of the Alliance
and the great importance of members
attending their meetings and the great
benefits the ladies are and can be to
the Order. The County Lecturer,
LeRoy Long, was announced as the
next speaker. He responded in just
such a speech as only self-made young
men can make. If we be allowed to
judge, Mr. Long is undoubtedly the
right man in the right place. At the
close of his speech, J. F. Davis, jan
nounced that one hour would be given
for dinner. This, as usual on such oc
casions, was one of the leading fea
tures of the day. A large table was
spread and filled with delicious things.
After the sharp appetite of every one
had been gratified there was then
twelve basketfuls taken up. The
crowd reassembled at 1 :30 p. m. Maj.
W. A. Graham being billed for the
next speech, took the stand and held
his audience spellbound for one hour.
He confined himself to the Alliance de
mands. He dwelt at length on the
Sub-Treasury plan, making it so plain
that it seems to us that every one pres
sent must now fully understand what
it is to be. After singing the long
meter doxology, the crowd was dis
missed with benediction by Rev. P. D.
Moore.
The several Alliances present then
held a joint session. Nine applica
tions was received for membership.
After the transaction of other impor
tant business the meeting was closed
by the chairman J. W. A. Paine.
Everybody went away feeling that a
grand victory had been achieved.
Much success to you, your paper,
Uncle Bilkins, Aunt Betsy aad the
Farmers1 Alliance.
Fraternallj
S. C. Little.
ANOTHER ALLIANCE
HEARD FROM.
BAND
Neatman, Stokes Co., N. C.
Mr. Editor: I see in The Progres
sive Farmer that ''there is only one
Alliance Band in the State." I wish
to inform your readers that there is
one other, the Haw Pond Farmers' Al
liance Cornet Band, of Neatman, N. C.
We have not been organized quite one
year yet, but we make very good
music, considering the fact that we are
farmers and farm laborers. We are
all true Alliancemen, eleven in number,
and we stand square on the Ocala plat
form, and are are solid for Polk and
Clover and The Progressive Farmer.
We made music at our last county
meeting and expect do so at the next
meeting.
Arrangements have been made by
which a good lecturer will lecture at
each Sub -Alliance in Stokes county
sometime this fall, and our band will
accompany him and make music.
Fraternally,
G. A. Carroll, Captain.
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