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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
RALEIGH, N. G, NOVEMBER 17, 1891.
Vol. 6.
No. 3Q
'HE NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLI
ANCE AND INDUS i kiau
UNION.
Preside! itr-L. L. Polk North Caro
ima. Address. 341 D. bt., IS. v .,
Washington, ! O.
Vie president B. H. Clover, Cam
bridge, Kaunas.
retarv-Treasurer J. II. lurner,
.Kon'ui. Address. 239 North Capitol
-;t N W.. Washington, D. C.
Lecturer J. II. Willetts, Kansas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
i W. Maeune, Washington, D. C.
Alonzo Wardall, Huron, South Da
kota, ' ,
J. F . Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
H. C. Demming, Chairman.
Isaac MeUracken, Ozone, Ark.
A. E. Cole. Fowlerville, Mich.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The Presidents of all the State organ
izations with L. L. Polk Ex-officio
"haii-man.
soKTH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLI
ANCE. President Marion Butler, Clinton,
N C
Vice-President T. B. Long, Ashe
vdUe, N. C. , ,
Secretary -Treasurer W . b. Barnes,
Italeigh, -L C
Lecturer J. S. Bell, Brasstown, N.C.
Steward C. C. Wright, Glass, N. C.
Chaplain Rev. E. Pope, Chalk
Level, N. C. , ,.
Door-Kee per W. II. lomlmson,
"'ayettevilic, N. C.
Assistant Door-Keeper H. E. King,
Peanut, N. C.
Sorgeant-at-Arms J . S. Holt, Clialk
i,evel, N. C.
State Business Agent YY . II. orth,
Kaleigh, N. C,
Trustee Business Agency I und Y .
a. Graham, Machpelah, N. C.
(EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS1 STATE ALLIANCE.
S. B. Alexander, Charlotte. N. C,
-airman : J. M. Mewborne, Kinston,
C. : J. S. Johnston, Kutnn, in. .
TATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Elias Chit, . Leazer, N. M. Cul
breth, M. G. Gregory, Win. C. Connell.
STATE A LLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. ; N. C.
English. Trinitv College: J. J. Young,
Polenta ; II. A. Forney, Newton, N. C.
North Carolina Reform Press Association.
Officers J. L. Ramsey, President;
Marion Bntlev. Vice President ; U S.
Barnes, Secretary,
PAPERS.
Procvessive Farmer,
tate Organ, Hakigh. N. C.
( 'lii.ton, N. '.
Wilson, N. C.
Salisbury, N. C.
Tarboro. X. ' '.
Caucasian,
Rural Home,
Watchman,
Farmers' Advocate,
Mo-ju a i u II m ne .! oumal.
Alliance Sentinel,
Country Lite,
Mercury,
Rattier.
Afrri ultural TVe,
Columbu Weekly News,
Taylors ville Index,
A.-heville, N. C
(Joldboro, N". '.
Trinity College X. '.
Hickory, X. C.
Whitakers, X. C.
t ;ldabro, X. C.
Whiteville, X. '.
Tayloravilli , X. C.
Each of the above-named papers are
requested to keep the list standing on
the first paye and add others, provided
they are dttiy elected. Any paper fail
ing to advocate, the Oca? a platform will
be dropped from thelist promptly . Our
people can note see what papers are
publish d in their interest.
PRESIDENT POLK.
A California Welcome.
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct 22, '01.
The recent visit of Col. L L. Polk,
National President o the- Farmers'
Alliance and Industrial Union, has
aroused the greatest enthusiasm in
California. Immense crowds have
hung with rapt attention upon his
eloquent utter mces. He has done a
splendid work for the Alliance and has
put it in a position to win a magnificent
victory, lie has made thousands o
warm personal friends on this coast
who will watch his future career with
the deepest interest. Perhaps the most
notable tiling that he has done here is
to have captured the hearts of the
Union soldiers by his brave words in
favor of fraternity and unity. On
Monday evening, the 19th inst., over
thre i hundred Union veterans of the
war paid him the compliment of call
ing up-. 'ii him in a body at the Vodeon
hotel aceomp mied by all of the mem
bers of the State Alliance. Lead by a
fife and drum and carrying the
United States Hag they marched into
the corridor of the hotel and drew up
in military order. They were accom
panied by a delegation of ex-Coufeder-ate
soldiers who marched elbow to
elbow with the boys in blue. Many of
the old soldier -j were accompanied by
their wives. The long corridors,
crowded with ladies and gentlemen,
the martial music, the high military
bearing of the grizzled veterans and
the glare of electric lights made a
memorable scene. It was the first
mteting of the kind ever held in the
Un'ted States and California is proud
of being able to do a little honor to a
gillant son of the old North State.
At the to t of the stair case stood
President Polk. Upon either side of
him rested the stars and stripes.
Gen. II. II. Boyce greeted President
Polk, and in a brief speech, on behalf
of the veterans, welcomed him to the
city. Col. r. S Birbee, a member of
the Stonewall brigade, next made a
few appropriate remarks, after which
President Polk was introduced. After
thanking the audience for their kind
ness, he spoke substantially as fol
lows :
I am proud that I am with you to
night. I st;md here and look into the
faces of men whom perhaps I have seen
before. It may be that in the days
agone you and I looked each other in
the face over gleaming gun barrels
through the red blaze of war. We at
tended as unwilling guests at the feast
where the war gods held their high
carnival or oioou ana ot ueaui.
We had fought you like men, as you
will attest, and I am here to say to you
to-night on behalf of the great mass of
the Southern- people, not our politi
cians, 1 have naught to sajr for them,
but on behalf of the brave men who
met you, I am here to say to you to
night, that when they surrendered,
they surrendered like men.
God Almighty decreed on the 9th day
of April, 1805, that henceforth we
should be brethren and that this be
one country with one Hag. Eivil and
designing men canio between us, and
yotl anel I have been taught to look at
each othej; through distorted mediums
held up hyXhesa men. If there be a
Union solder here to-night who cannot
clasp my- hand ; if there be a Union
soldier here to night who is not big
enough and brave enough to take the
prostrate '.'Johnny'' by the hand when
he has . cried enough, help him up,
brush the dirt from his coat and say to
him: "Johnny. I am proud ot you, my
boy ; I am proud of you as an Ameri
can brother, but you are in the wrong
cause; but I want to shake hands with
you now, my brother, and I want to
say to you that henceforth we are go
ing to stand together in this country."
If there be a man in this audience who
had the honor of wearing the uniform
of his country who cannot do Unit for
us, I beg you, in the name of the com
ing generations, in the name of your
boy and my boy, thank iod whose
young eyes first greeted the light of
heaven unobscured by the smoke of
batt le, your daughter and nvy daughter,
whose ears first caught the h il lowed
sounds of peace unmiugled with hoarse
thundering of hostile cannon, I beg
you, for their sake, that we shall not
entail upon them a legacy of hate. One
of the results of that war was the abo
lition of slavery, chattel slavery. There
is not a genuine brave old Confederate
in this audience to-night who will not
join mo in saying that we thank God
for it.
There is no a brave man who worn
the blue nor a brave man who wore the
gray in the struggle, that does not say
in his manly heart to night, let the bis
ternes.-i, let the prejudice-, let the ani
mosities that were born of the exis
tence of slavery, in God's name, and in
the name of the country, perish with it
and forever. I stand here .and claim
tonight that I represent tiie only organi
zation of men in this country that has
come forward since the war with the
avowed purpose of accomplishing the
grand and Gd like work of restoring
unity and fraternity between the sec
tions. It is not the men who fought or who
stood j n the bloody angles m the field
of battle who have kept up this un
natural estrangement between the sec
tions. Ordinarily it is the man, North
and South, who never smelled gun
powder. Ordinarily it is the man who
never heard the whistle of a minie ball.
Ordinarily it is the man who wa invis
ible in war and became gloriously in
vincible in peace. They are tie men
who loaded up their long mouths in
1SG5 and have been firing at each other
at the safe distance of from 2,000 to
5.000 miles ever since. I note among
you the badge which is the badge of
honor every when?, the passport to re
spect all over the civilized land. I re
fer to that Grand Army button. If
you won that button and deserve to
wear it, if you took that flag in one
hand and your life in the other, and
offered that life a- a sacrifice in the de
fense of the flag, I am not afraid of
you. I am afraid of your loud-mouthed
politician. One of the results of that
war. as I have said, was the abolition
of chattel slavery. I have a message
for you boys in blue from the boys in
gray. They faced you through four
long years of terrible war to detend
that institution. One of the results of
that war wasthe sweeping of it away.
They, charged me to say to you, and I
trust I may do so with propriety, that
they are ready, willing and anxious to
clasp your hands in fraternal brother
hood, and to beg your eo operation to
join the forces of the heroic blue and
the heroic gray in another grander and
mightier struggle, not for the freedom
of the colored man of the South, bus in
the struggle for the upraising of honest
labor from a- slavery more degra ling
than the negro ever knew. We believe
that you will do it, and in this struggle
for. God and for humanity, with Him
as your guide, with you as our allies,
and with the approving smiles simply
of the noble women of this blessed
and, we will do it.
My brethren, I have been betrayed
into'making a speech which I did not
intend. But there is one thing else
which I wish to say to you, and I would
be false to myself false to my section
and to the cause I represent to-night,
and absolutely false to those ladies
w ho honor us with their presence if I
did not say something in regard to
them.
The ladies in all good works are ever
present. Proud as you may be of your
soldier record, and as you should be,
yet if you were to ask me to point you
to a model of moral heroism, I would
ih t go to the immortal lists of the names
of the followers of Grant or Lee; I
would not point you to the waving
plumes in the front of victorious battle,
bat I would point you to that lonely
country lume, over which in anguish,
in health, in sickness presided that
queenly spirit of her whose moments
of anguish through four long years
were more trying to her than was the
ordeal of battle to ou. I would sum
mon all the living heroes; I would sum
mon the spirits of the immortal dead,
and I would align them in her front
and ask them to aid me in saluting her
as queen of the heroes of the world.
Brethren, Grant and Lee, McPherson
and Johnston, Sherman, Custer and
Stuart have crossed over the river,
with the thousands of their devoted
followers, and you and I will soon fol
io w. Brethren of the blue,
permit me again to say to you with a
heart overdo whig with gratitude to you
and thanks to God, that I have been
permitted to enjoy what has rarely
fallen to the lot of any man. I believe
I may truthfully say that this is the
first meeting of this kind that has oc
curred in this broad country. I shrill
take your silent but your eloquent and
manly appeal to the brave men of the
South, and there is no message that
could oe de livered, even with the tongue
of angels, that would be so acceptable.
Thank God that at last a rift appears
in the cloud, and through it beams the
bright promise of a hopeful future, and
in this great struggle of ours, if we can
enlist the sympathies of those men who
wore the blue and those who wore gray,
and shall secure their hearty and patri
otic co-operation we know that a glori
ous triumph of a glorious victory
awaits us.
I thank you with all my heart, my
dear brethren who wore the blue, for
thank God I can call you brethren now.
I thank you, and I will never forget so
long as memory shall perform its func
tions, never forget this kindly greeting
of yours, and if perchance you should
visit any of the Southern States, I
guarantee to you, without reserve, that
you will find the door, the hand, the
arm and the hearts of the remaining
boys in gray open wide to receive you
and yours."
On Tuesday morning, Col. Polk was
received by the State Farmers' Alhauce
and he made a most impressive address.
Tuesday evening, over five thousand
people assembled at Hazard's pavilion,
to attend the reception tendered to
President Polk and the State Alliance.
Addresses of welcome were delivered
by representatives of the County P;irm
ers' Alliance, the Knights of Labor, the
Citizens' Alliance, and the fede-nted
trades, to which President Po!k re
sponded m most fitting terms. He was
cheered to the echo at the close of
almost every sentence
Wednesday, he addressed a joint
convention of the Slate Farmo s' Alli
ance and the State Citizens' Alliance1,
and carried the enthusiasm to a white
heat.
But the great meeting was on Wed
nesday evening, the 21t, at Hazard's
pavilion, where over seven thousand
people assembled to hear Col. Peilk en
the " Demands of the Order." He held
the vast crowd two mortal hours,
almost breathless, except when they
were cheering some of his sledge ham
mer sentences. If Col. L L Polk is a
fair specimen of Nort h Carolina timber,
we would like to have the whole State
move out to California. His speech
was a powerful presentation of the
claims of the Farmers" Alliance, and
made thousands of friends for the
cause. It is safe to say that as a spe i
men of impassioned oratory, it has
never been surpassed on this coast.
He discussed the basic principles
upon which our government is founded
the reciprocal ties between it and
the citizens. Showed how its functions
and prerogatives and benefits had been
diverted from their original design,
and how, as a consequence, the indus
tries of the country had been oppressed.
That the most important functions of
the government, affecting the indus
tries of the people and their political
rights, had been usurpeel by monopo
politio power, and trai sformed into
curses, instead of blessings- to the peo
ple. He charged that the great, over
whelming and paramount issue before
the American people is financial re
form ami traced the iniquitous con
spiracy from its beginning, through
which Congress and the money power
had fastened a huge robber system
upon the country. The national bank
ing system, he characterized as legal
ized robbery and declared that the
agitatiem which had given life to the
reform movement would never cease
until this great national iniepiity has
been removed, lie gave figures atid
facts to substantiate his declarations,
and showed that inevitable national
ruin would result from the present sys
tem. He read and discussed each and
all of the Ocala demands and through
out the whole speech he held that vast
crowel with perfect ease Hunelrrds
of ladies present seemed intensely in
terested throughout, and from begin
ning to end the frequent and prolonged
applause told that his sentiments were
in thorough accord with those of his
hearers. He closed with an eloquent
and touching appeal for unity and fra
ternity, and was greeted by the v.ast
crowd rising to its feet and giving him
three rousing cheers.
Col. Polk bears with him on his
homeward journey the thanks and
blessings e)f the California Alliance for
his sple did work for the good cause.
On Thursday, the 22d. the People's
Party of the State of California was
organized with over 1.000 delegates in
atteneiance from the Kansas ami Citi
zens' Alliance, and all of the industrial
orders ef the State. It was harmonious,
enthusiastic and happy in its delibera
tions. Col. Polk took; no part in the
P- ople's Party Convention except as
an interested spectator.
Take it all in all, California is in
splendid condition for the coming fight
and she Avill give a good account of
herself in the future. H. H. B.
OUR PROGRESS.
Weekly , Record of Manufacturing and
Other Enterprises Started Rip Van
"Winkle no Longer in the Old
North State.
Manufacturers Record.1
Tarboro The Pioneer Warehouse
Co. is erecting a tobacco prizery.
Burdett Crowell & Co. are reported
as erecting a sassafras-oil distillery near
Burdett.
Kinston The Kinston Lumber Co.
is re building its dry kiln anel planing
mill reported last week as burned.
Greensboro C. T. Holt and B. S
Robertson contemplate, it is stated, the
erection of a cotton mill at Haw river.
Greenville A paint factory is re
ported as being erected. The Green
ville Land Improvement Co can give
information.
Mountain Island The Mountain
Island Manufacturing Co. has put in
its cotton mill, new carding machinery
and 500 twister spindles.
Rowan A. P. Lighthill and W. F.
Aldridgehave. it is reported, purchased
The Southern Bell Gold Mine in South
Rowan, and will develop same.
Tarboro Williamson & Meheagan
w ill erect a tobacco prizery, as stateel
in our last issue; it is now building,
and will be three stories high, 40x90
feet.
Durham The box faetewy reporteel
last week will be operated as the Dur
ham Paper-box Factory, with J. C
Rogers, maker. Machinery has been
purchased.
Germanton Winston anel other
parties have, it is stated, organizeel a
stock company for the purpose of de
veloping a marble quarry on the prop
erty of W. E Willis, near Germanton.
Greensboro H. L. Grant states that
he is not prepared to say whether he
will re build his cotton gin, grist mill
and brick works, reporte I in this issue
as burned, in Greensboro or at some
other point.
Greensboro The organization of a
stock company for the purpose of estab
lishing a plug tobaeco factory on the
co-operative plnn is talked of. The
Secretary Chamber of Commerce can
give information.
Carthage The rumor as to the erec
tion of cotton mill mentioned last week
is true. It will be a 2,000 spindle mill
and be erected early next year by com
pany already organizeel. For particu
lars, address L. Grimm.
Dobson Joseph Bradfield proposes
to organize the Surry Land & Power
Co for the purpose' ef developing the
water-powers em Fisher's river and
Coeley's creek and the lands between
these bodies of water in Surry county.
THE QUESTION AT ISSUE.
Warsaw, N. C.
Mr. Editor: The questions before
us to day are of very grave importance.
They are questions that we cannot dis
regard, but should be weighed by us
in the most accurate balances of reason
and sounel judgment. The Alliance,
from the little spark that was kind let!
it Parker i ounty, Texas, more than a
dozen years ago, has grown into im
mense proportions. The (little) mustard
seed that was planted in the Lone Star
State, has sent its roots downward and
spread its branches outward till it has
grown into a national tree, under
which the toiling masses of this repub
lic are rushing for shelter from the
malignant storni of monopoly. The
grand basal principles upon which the
Alliance was founded and sent out to
the people of this nation, are right.
The managers and leaders have made
very few mistakes so far. They nave
educated the members of this grand
body in the economic and important
governmental questions of the times,
and have to a great extent allayed sec
tional hatred, engendereel by the war,
and kept up by little partisans. They
have, in a great measure, united the
peeple, of common interest, for a
change in the financial system of this
government The people are aroused
to their interest through this great
organization. The non-partisan spirit
in which the Alliance has acted has
been the most potent lever in the re
sults attained. The brotherly love
among themselves anel their charity
totvard all mankind, have drawn all
gooc nien toward it, either in sympathy
or admiration. Thousands, disgusted
with the unholy war between political
leaders of both the Democratic and
the Republican parties, have united
themselves with theAlliince, believing
it the only means of furnishing the
politics of the country and bringing
about a better state of things, than
now exist.
Should the Alliance continue its non
partisan tactics, and with vigor push
to the front its reform demands, there
is no power under the sun that can
stop its universal march, or can hinder
it from obtaining the government re
form it seeks. The great upheaval of
the laboring classes is due to education.
They have, heretofore labored on
blindly, hoping that every year times
would be better, and their onerous
burdens would be lightened. They
have been loyal to party and partisan
leaders. They have heard from the
partisan press, and the enthusiastic
politician, that glory and prosperity
lie in the path of th Democratic! or
Republican party. They tell you to
stand by your colors and put in your
votes to the party that gives you a Mc
Kinley tariff bill, which puts money
into the great manufacturers' pockets,
the favored few, and draws it from the
toiling masses, by indirect taxes on the
necessaries of life. They tell you to
vote for the party that creates 'many
needed offices tuid raises the salaries of
many more, and that spends a billion
dollars in one Congress.
Never ! No, nev er, give up the party
that favors national banks, owned by
a few millionaires, who control the
currency at will and from ocean to
ocean, and from lakes to gulf. We see
the despoilers of honest fortunes, the
country teeming with tramps and beg
gery and want possessing millions.
Stand by the grand old party that
demonetizes silver and paid into the
hands of Wall street and others 30 cts.
on a dollar, and together with the
Funding Act of 18GG have enabled those
money kings to add to their wealth
over $5,000,000,000 out of the hard
earned money of the toiling millions.
They tell you to vote on for the party
that has such expert financiers to
manage the monetary system of this
Republic, who, in twenty-seven years,
have paid nearly twice the amount of
the war debt in principal, intere st and
premiums, and to day it will take more
to pay this war debt, in products,
(and certainly we can pay it in nothing
else) than it would at the close of the
war.
My brethren, the epiestion is, will it
eloit? Shall we, like " elumb driven
cattle " go to the polls and vote our
selves destruction, by following these
old corrupt partisan leaders? Shall we
tighten the cords and lock the chains
that are already around our stiffened
limbs? Shall we allow those self-constituted
leaders of the old parties to
put hooks in our noses and lead us
where they please? Or shall we arise
in the strength of our manhood and
American citizenship and throw oil
the shackles that bind U3 to corrupt
partisan leaders, and come back to
principle and to pure Jefferson ian
Dt-mocraey? Shall we look to God,
the pole star of our hope, the univer
sal deliverer of those who put then'
trust in him?
Let's stand above partisan strife, as
brothers battling for the right. Let's
enlist under that banner that h.;s
' Truth" for its motto and the ' Ocala
Demands ' for its watch word, it.
Louis, Ocala! We are all together
here. No more national bar ks to feud
tape worms, anel starve the people.
Money direct to the eople at 2 per
cent, to stop speculation and enhance
the price of farm products. Sub -Treasury
plan, to meet the demands for
money when our products are for sale
and to enable elebt-ridelen farmers to
holel their produce for better prices;
that the circulating medium be in
creased to $50 per capita; that the
U, 000, 000 of m jit gaged farms may be
savtd to their rightful owners; a law
to effectually prevent dealing or gamb
ling in futures of all agricultural and
mechanical productions. This is to
stop taxation without representation,
which is effectually done by trusts and
combines, and to give every article for
sale a legitimate chance in the markets
of the world. The free and unlimited
coinage of silver to raise silver as a
circulating medium to its proper place
and give it the value our patriotic
forefathers designee! it to have. To
prohibit the alien ownership of land,
lest our cemntry be owned by the lords
of England and we become the tenants
and slaves to their will. Believing in
equal rights to all and special privileges
to none, we demand that our National
legislature be so framed in the future
as not to build up one industry at the
expense of another, and that a removal
of the present heavy tariff tax from
the necessaries of life that the poor of
the land must have. A just, equitable
system of graduated tax on incomes ;
that every person and corporation bear
their just share of the expenses of this
government; that all State and Na
tional revenues be limited to the neces
sary expenses of the government, eco
nomically administered Remembt r
the 51st Congress. We demand the
most rigid and just governmental con
trol and supervision of the means of
public communication and transporta
tion. To stop unjust freights anel to
see that these important corporations
do not transcend the bounds of their
chartered privileges. To amend the
Constitution so as to elect U. S. Sena
tors by a direct vote of the people.
That those elected to fill such high
positions may be more directly respon
sible to the people, whom they serve,
and give less opportunity for rich men
to buy seats in the Senate of this great
nation.
Let ii3 stand squarely upon these
demands, and if we are true to our
homes, our loved ones, to our Alliance
and to our God, we shall see these de
mands upon the statute books of this
once glorious, but now declining Re
public. Fraternally,
S. J. Veacii.
FROM PENDER COUNTY.
Mr. Editor: At a meeting of Pender
County Alliance, held on the 9th inst.,
the following resolutions were adopted :
Whereas, We, the Farmers' Alii
ance of Pender county, in regular ses
sion assembled, view with profound
regret the attitude of the partisan
press of the State of North Carolina to
wards the officers and leaders of our
Order ;
Resolved, That we condemn such
chargers and misrepresentations against
them as unjust, unfair and without
cause, aiming only to cripple the prin
ciples and influence of our order.
2. That we re endorse the fundamen
tal principles of our Order as promul
gated by the Ocala Convention
3. That a copy of this be sent to The
Progressive Farmer for publication.
T. J. Armstrong, Pres't.
J. N. Henry, Sec'y.
ZEKE'S BROTHER JOSH WRITES
TO HIM ABOUT CER
TAIN MATTERS.
Lickskillett, N. C.
Dear Rruther Zeeke: I have btn:
wanting to rite to yer fur a long time
but I cudent borrow enny paper util
this mornin. I am gitting terribly
mixt up and disturbed about : 'Jn:;gV'
viz. namely, The democratick ptvrty..
the Alliance and the Peoples party. " T
was a powerful Adian -e man when I
first jined, and when t! em demands
were red ter our Sub Alliance I thought
tha was the very things ter be did fer
our relief and I Voted fur them with a
vim with the understandin that the
democratick party was right in fur
enny thing that would help the farmer
But sinse I have found out the good
ole Democratic party opposes them de
mands I must oppose them two. You
see our sun John Henry is a courtm.
Annie Mai iar, who is a town gal arid
the dauter of a big merchant and was
gittin along migty well until Annie
Mariar saw Zeek Bilkin'spicter in Tniv .
Progressive Farmer with that ole
rake on his shoulder. The last time be
went to see her she axeel him if he was
enny akin to Zeedce Bilkins, anel John
Henry wouldnt tell a lie you know raid '
had ter tell her that he thought he was
a distant relative of some of his folks.
and when he cum home he just rared
an pitched an covorted terribly, and
sed he was gwine to pull out live zhe
Alliance at next meetin.
The other elay I went to town an
went into Annie Mariar's daeldy's store:
an he cum from behind the counter
tor where I was an' just foamed at the
mouth abusin Polk, an Macune, an
the Alliance demands, an the new
party. He said the demand g were--foolishness
an the Alliance was follow
ing a set of mean, low down broken
down politiceaners, and he said tvo
could never do anything only brake
down the democratic part3T an let th
niggers get the State an ruin it He
said all the rich folks in town werer
mightily opposen to this movement it
cause it would flood the country with .
money an put interest down to 2 cents,
I remembered that John Henry hui
saved 75 dollars to go to housekeeping:. -with
and as he was not ready to keep
house he lent it ter an Alliance brother
at 8 cents an1 I tolel him I was opposed
to that myself" an I was a democrat :m
J iii Henry an me we re goin to cum
out ove the Alliance at the very next
meetin. Then he quit foaming at the
mouth and sank el a few. an presently
he took me into the molasses room mid
said, now Josh Bilkins I always thought
you were a very clever fellow (an thai
tickled me mighty nigh to death.':
Now if you will do as I tell you, you
shant loose nothing by it. Nov,- wl ei
I thot of that wiunin smile of his'n
John Henrys prospect with Annie
Mariar I just promised right away,
and Ave talkeel a long time together
until I felt nearly as rich an smart asr
he was. After awhile he said "Jc.hT.
I want you and John Henry to stay in
the Alliance and work against these
demands anel help abuse Polk and
McCune and the new party, and
claim all the time that you area simon
pure Allianceman." Well says 1, I
can abue MaCune for I dont know
nothin about him, but I know Col
Polk to be a christian gentlem n. "G -well
I dont either so far as that is con
cerned said he only he is the strongest
boss in that subtreasury scheme and if
we can cripple the lead horse the wagon
wont go, and you know the object in
view is so worthy it sanctifies any kind
of means to accomplish the object in-,
view, and now the first thing for you .
to elo is to write to your bro. Zeek and
get him to quit asking so many foolish
questions for you know a fool can ak
some questions which a smart man car ,
hardly answer."
Now my dear bro if you will turn
against Polk and the Alliance it rvxaj .
be very possible that my Jedm Henry;
can marry Annie Mariar and be nebv
and raise the whole Bilkins family inte
the society of the ri h, and you know
that would be worth more to us than
23 subtreasuries. For the want of.
space I will soon close for this time,
and write again soon for I must con
vince you an Betsy of the error of your
ways. John Henry says tell uncle Zeek to
leave that rake at home and put on
your Sunday close next time you e;um
to Raleigh to have yer picture taken.
As j our picture did not state what
your poet office is, I will send this tc -The
Progressive Farmer that it rnj-'
publish it for your benefit.
Your own brother
. Josh Bilking. .
RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. Editor: Whereas, our enemies
have sought riot only by argument frot
hy malicious and cowardly misrepre
sentation to dissolve our grand and.
noble Order; and whereas, our Asso
ciate Edi-or, J. L. Ramsey, of The Pro
gressive Farmer, has repeatedly and;
in every instance repudiated and
proven them as such malicious- ancD
cowardly misrepresentation therefore
be it
Resolved, By Liberty Alliance, No.
922, that we hereby endorse and com
mend every word and sentiment ex
pressed by our said editor as the truo.?
and manly course of an honest andi
loyal leader of so just a cause, and that,
a copy of these resolutions be sent Thf. :
Progressive Farmer for publie-atkmj .
there showing our implicit ecmi'dence--in
such course.
D. M. Holladv,
W. L. Kinktt,
W. B. Kinett,
Committer.--.