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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
Vol. 6.
RALEld-H, N". O., JANUARY 5, 1892.
No. 45
, THE NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLI
ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL,
UNION.
president L. L. Polk, North Caro
iina. Address, Atlantic Building, F
St N. W., Washington, D. C.
Vice President H. L. Loucks, Huron,
South Dakota.
Secretary-Treasurer J. H. Turner"
iJJoreia- Addressr239 North Capitol
gV N. W., Washington, D. C.
TiOCturer J. H. Willetts, Kansas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
j. V. Macune, Washington, D. C.
Alonzo Wardall, Huron, South Da-
sjaF. TillmaiL, Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
A. A. Cole, Michigan,
B. W. Beck,. Alabama.
M. D. Davie, Kentucky.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
L. L- Polk;v Chairman.
0. W. Macune, Washington, D. C.
Mann Page, Brandon, Va.
L. P. Featherstone, Forest City, Ar
kansas. W. F. Gwinn, White, , Tennessee.
ORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLI
ANCE. President Marion Butler, Clinton,
N. C. t t
Vice-President T. B. Long, Ashe
Mo, N. C.
Secretary-Treasurer W. S. Barnes,
Kaleigh, N. C.
Lecturer J. S. Bell, Brasstown, N.C.
Steward C. C. Wright, Glass, N. C.
Chaplain Rev. E, Pope, Chalk
Ijevel, N. C.
Door-Keeper W. H. Tomlinson,
ayetteville, N. C. a
Assistant Door-Keeper H. L. King,
Peanut, N. C.
3ergeant-at-Arms-J. 3. Holt, Clialk
i,evel, N. C. 1 r
State Business Agent W. H. Worth,
tialeigh, N. C. ttt
Trustee Business Agency Fund- -W.
a. Graham, Machpelah, N. C.
CXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE TORTII
CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE.
' S. B. Alexander. Charlotte, N. C,
Jhairman; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston,
C. ; J- -S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C.
-TATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Elias Carr, A. Leazer, N. M. Cul
treth, M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. Connell.
TATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. ; N. C.
English, Trinity College: J. J. Young,
Polenta; H. A. Forney, Newton, N. C.
Mortti Carolina Reform Press Association.
OjficersJ. L. Ramsry, President;
Marion Butler , Vice-President ; W. S.
Barnes, Secretary,
PAPERS.
.'rogresfiive Farmer, State Organ, Raleigh, N. C.
Caucasian, Wli1 v W
RaralHome, mwS'
Farmers' Advocate, Tarboro,
Mountain Home Journal, AsheviUe, N . C.
Alliance Sentinel, ,?0?8,V2' n
Oountry Life, Trinity ( llege, N. C.
yrrnrv Hickory, . U.
BitSer Whitakers, N. C.
Agricultural Bee, . Goldsboro, N. C.
Columbus Weekly .evvs, hiteville, C.
Each of the above-named papers are
requested to keep the list standing on
1 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 wliat papers are
published in their interest.
A PLAN OF CO-OPERATION.
Mr. Editor: In presenting this plan
of co-operation I do so with the wish
that othera may improve upon it, or
that it may suggest something which
has not been presented here by me, my
only motive being to benefit the people.
If each reader will carefully read this
article he will find that even the craven
subterfuge of 4 class legislation" can
not be applied to it, as it is as much to
the interest of the mechanic to em
brace it as for the farmer to do so.
By this plan every monopoly can be
broken down, the political parties
routed, a better system of production
and distribution adopted, and idleness
banished. ' . Al
I aim to present no Utopian theory,
nor to change anything. I have noth
ing to do with social problems, imprac
ticable theories, or impossibilities, but
to simply point out how easily, and
how effectively the Alliance can solve
its own problem without asking the
aid of Congress, or by seeking sym
pathy from any source. The power
and the right is in its possession, and it
requires only the lighting of a match to
cause the light to blaze up and dispel
darkness
Brethren the age of co operation is
here. Let us discuss it. You can help
yourselves, and you can do it long be
fore you can secure aid from legisla
tion. TILE ROCHDALE SYSTEM.
The Rochdale system is what is
known as distributive cooperation,
and is the sy.-jtem practiced in England.
To briefly explain it, I will state that
it has hundreds of retail stores, all
organized delegates meeting annually.
They buy by the ship load and the train
of cars load, doing all their wholesale
business. They have nearly half a
million of members, and their business
amounts to millions of dollars. The
plan is simple. (Capital is almost
ignored in the profits. Each member
hold3 only one share, on which he re
ceives an annual interest. This interest
i oil v.o iTifAl receives. It is the
"fcii- feuctv -
wages of capital, and it is the discharge
of all obligations to capital. The profits
are divided among those who buy, the
person buymg tne largest umuuuu ut
goods receiving the largest proportion
f profits. Non members receive twe
tbirdsof the profits on their purchases,
which is a wise provision, as the larger
me number of purchasers the smaller
the proportionate expense to each, for
as each assists in giving a profit, so
each shares the expense. This is the
whole system in a nutshell. It is not
industrial cooperation, however. In
America the most successful Rochdale
store is at Hammonton, New Jersey,
known as the "Fruit Growers Union,"
composed mostly of fruit growers. This
Union not only buys all the goods for
its members, gives them a profit, but
makes contracts for shipments of fruits
to tho large cities, has its own tracks
and sidings, secures advantages in
transportation, protects against unre
liable merchants, and saves the shipper
from loss of crates, etc., all of which
not only costs tho tn embers nothing,
but gives each a share of the profits
every year, and the annual business
transacted is enormous.
CO-OPERATION Ilf HOMES.
These association are known as build
ing and loan associations To explain
it we will draw an illustration. Sup
pose 200 men band together, each pay
mg $5 per month, or ?1,000 per month
for all. At each meeting this $1,000 is
loaned to the one bidding the highest
premium, the buyer giving a mortgage
as security. After he receives the
money he pays $5 per month for the
principal, $5 for the interest, and also
pays the premium, which may be $2
per month, or $12 total. This he pays
every month; until the value of the
shares reach $1,000, which is usually
about ten years. Of course, the interest
he pays goes into the treasury, and
assists him as well as others, as he may
pay only $1,200 for the use of the
$1,000 for ten years, or really only 2
per cent, interest. This plan of co
operation varies iu its details in many
places. It will be noticed that if 200
men draw each $1,000, a business of
$200,000 will be transacted in ten years,
yet at no time will the treasurer have
but a fraction over $1,000 in his posses
sion at any one month, as it i3 always
being sold to the members, hence, if he
should abscond, each member will lose
but $5. This demonstrates the safety
of co-operation.
PROFITS TO CAPITAL.
If I borrow $10,000 from a bank and
pay (5 per cent, interest, and engage in
business, making a large profit, does
the bank ask me for any of the profits.
No; it considers itself amply remuner
ated when it receive the interest.
When I pay the bank $600 I have dis
charged my duty to it, for the interest
is the waes due to capital, and if I
make $10,000 with the money of the
bank, in addition to the sum borrowed.
1 can return the bank its $10,000, pay
the int rest due, and keep the other
$10,000. This shows that labor, not
capital, should have the profit, as
capital is paid when it receives its
interest, which proof I have just de
monstrated, for any man can borrow
money, make all the profit he is capable
of. pay interest, and keep all the profit
himself.
PROFITS TO LABOR.
Now apply the same principle to
labor. If 1 borrow $10,000 and emnlov
men to work for me, each at a salary
of $600 per year, how many men does
my capital or $10,00(J represent &ome
would say, ' Why, your $10,000 capi
tal represents more than 16 men, at
$G00 each per year." Not so; my
$10,000 capital will represent only one
man. If a man earns $600 a year he
represents $10,000 capital to his family,
as his wages (interest) represents the
interest (wages) of $10,000 at C per cent,
per annum, for I pay him $600 per year,
just as much as 1 pay $500 to the bank
per year. If I have risks of loss so
does he. He may die, be injured, and
his family lose its income as well as I
would should I lose my capital. Now.
who is entitled to the profits? As I
may have worked, in handling the biibi
ness, I am as much entitled to a salary
for my ivork as is the laborer, though
nothing more than is just, but, as to
the money, it e iras nothing of itself.
It is not even mine, but borrowed, and
hired at a certain price, just the same
as the laborer is hired; hence, if by
extraordinary exertion on my 'part,
twaiatorl hv bibor. I secure a verv large
sum, I am not entitled, in justice, to
more than a fair snare oi mat pront.
I know that ray position may be some
vpA to von who have been
brought up from the cradle to submit
to anything, even violations or. morai
law, by using the word "business,"
but I ask you to weigh the subject
fairly and let justice decide if I am not
right on the position I hold in regard
to the true relations of capital and
labor. Bear in mind there is a wide
difference between "capitalist and
Inhnrpsr " and "caDital and labor."
Capitalist and laborer can never be one
and united, but capital and labor can
he nnitftfl. thouerhonlv when the laborer
has the capital in his own pocket. As
long as one man controls tne capital,
and another the labor, their interests
are not mutual, for each will be striving
to secure the best bargain possible,
despite all theories and attempts to
prove that they are one ana mseparaDie.
LABOR IS CAPITAL.
If 100 men unite, and each can save
$600 per year, it equals tne sum ot
ro nno nr the interest of a million
dollars. In co-operation this labor is
a mighty factor, uapicai oniy sets mis
labor m mouon. j-auor is mw pru
a unino- rurcmt It crives the additional
value to the raw material, changing
unsaleable substances into valuable
articles. It is the true weaitn oi au
d it nrfifttes mital. for caDi-
tal is only the accumulated results of
labor.
I Industrial co-operation is that system
ui co-operation oy wnien men of in
dustry unite to produce articles by
their labor. In nearly all cases failures
have resulted. Why is this the case?
Simply because if one man cannoteom
pete with capital by his labor neither
can one branch of industry compete.
t i t t
ueuuusu uapiun wui crasn xne lite out
of any class of tradesmen that attpmnts
to stand alone and aloof from the other
trades. To succeed, the tradesmen
must have the "backing." To succeed
in co operative industry the market
must be ready, and each customer
must be interested with the workers.
There must be an interest in tho affair
yes, a selfish interest and we must
spell "business" with a capital B. No
sentimentality, sympathy, or friend
ship is here annealed to. Nothiner but
pure selfishness a selfishness that com
Eeis every mm to love his neighbor as
imself because it pays to do so.
AN ILLUSTRATION.
As I stated in the above paragraph.
no class of mechanics can succeed with
out the 4 -backing," if I may use the
expression. Suppose 500 shoemakers
should combine to make shoes, and
co-operate for business. The capitalists
would combine against them. The 500
shoemakers could not wait to build up
a trade. They would starve before
they found their customers, and even
Alliance farmers would not pay them
$2 for a pair of shces if the capitalists
could sell the same make of shoes for
$1 50. Self interest always rules, all
sentiment to the contrary. But sup
pose instead of 500 shoemakers, the
500 men were composed of shoemakers,
hatters, tinners, tailors, printers,
plumbers, cabinet-makers, etc., all
working- in one building, and selling
their articles in a store connected
therewith, the one class would support
the other. There need be but a propor
tion of shoemakers, (say ten), and the
ten shoemakers would have 490 custo
mers to begin with, and they would I
also be purchasers, hence the hatters j
and others, would also have 490 custo
mers. In other words, they will only
have to sell over and above that which
they consume themselves.
A co-operative store would not only
sell the articles made, but could supply
groceries, and everything else, thus
giving a profit both in selling and in
buying.
CAPITAL REQUIRED.
As mentioned before, it is well
known that thousands of people pay $5
per month in building associations, for
ten years, only to own a home, and
they are not free from wages slavery
(a slavery just as oppressive as chattel
slavery). Now, if 500 men will con
tribute $5 per month for only two
years, they wrill have a cash capital of
$60,000 to begin with, or they may
be&in when only a portion of the capi
tal has been paid. I give the above
by way of illustration. Of course the
capital required is a matter demand
ing consideration according to circum
stances. MANAGEMENT.
The management should be in the
hands of a board of directors. Each
stockholder should have only one share
of stock, but it is not out of place to
allow those desiring to assist, to hold
twenty shares, with the proviso that
all extra shares may be purchased at
any time, beginning with the, highest
number held by any one, until reduced
to one share. Above all, never vote on
stock. Each stockholder should have
one yote.
Interest at the rate of six per cent,
per annum should be paid on all capi
tal owned by the stockholders.
Ail who work should receive wages,
just tho same as if working for any
employer. Those not employed will of
course receive the interest on their in
vestment. All who b ly goods from
the store will receive their share of the
profits of the store on their purchases,
as under the Rochdale system.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
If, after all expenses have been paid,
which includes interest, wages, salaries,
etc., and a profit is made, it is paid out
by declaring a dividend on tvages not
on stock. If one man has worked two
daj-s and another only one day, the
man performing twice as much work
receives twice as much dividend, be
cause he has really produced more.
This rewards industry and checks idle
ness ; hence the industrious man need
give himstlf no concern because some
other man is lazy, as he will receive
all that he earns.
WHOLESALE OPERATIONS.
If retail, or local co operative associa
tions are formed in the different towns
or communities they can combine to
gether to sell and purchase by whole
sale. In fact, the system can extend
over a whole State, or several States,
and no capital on earth could then face
it, or stand in its path. Not only would
there be a combination of capital and
labor (the capital owned by the laborer)
but the customers would be at each
door, interested customers, bound by
self-interest and 4?elf preservation. I
supposed 500 men, each contributing
$120 capital in two years, or $60,000.
Now let 20 associations, of like num
ber, combine, and the united capital is
$1,200,000. Put those men at work,
and at $600 a year wages for each, the
capital invested in the shape of labor,
annually, will be $6,000,000. Let every
county m North Carolina have but one
association only, and the capital will
be enormous. This, too, for only a be
ginning. A HUGE BUSINESS ON SMALL CAPITAL.
Bear in mind that the amount of
capital invested does not indicate the
amount of business done. Goods may
be bought and sold every week, or
every day, and the capital will be
coming and going, 4 4 turned over daily, "
and a large business done with a small
sum. A grocer with only $1,000 capi
tal may do a business of $5,000. in o
year, because he buys more goods" as
fast as he sells those in sto ;k . It is the
labor, the produce, that makes the r?al
mass of wealth.
HOW IS THE FARMER BENEFITTED.
The farmer finds a market for his
produce, buys his supplies at less cost
(receiving a share of the profits of the
store), finds factories making all kinds
of goods at his door, and finds also
that there i3 much that a farmer can
secure. There i3 nothing to prevent
the making of cheese, butter, packing
pork, grinding wheat, baling hay, and
his produce may be shipped for him to
the market by" the association, even
cotton and tobbacco being managed to
his interest, as he can be just as in
terested in co-operation as the mechan
ics. His boys will learn trades, and
many avenues will be opened to women.
THE SAFETY OF CO OPERATION.
No funds will be held in the hands
of any one to a great extent. Material
will be constantly coming in and goods
going out. Any excess of capital can
e held by each member subject to
assessment when required. The mem
bers are the treasurers, for outside of
the purchase of material the bulk goes
into their pockets as wages. No bud-"
ness should be conducted, however,
without business safeguards.
FORCING MEN TO JOIN.
Ah, under -the Rochdale system, the
nonmembejT receives a share of the
profits, so should it be in industrial
cooperation. If a man is unable to
take a share of stock he can be allowed
to buy at the store, or may be given
work if necessary, for epry member
gained is additional strength, and as
the non member will justly be entitled
to his share (usually two thirds that of
full members) he will soon be able to
become a member, and at no cost to
him except to bestow his patronage.
Truly this is demonstrating that a man
can love his neighbor as himself, and
the more he loves him the more will
he, himself be the gainer by so doing,
while a new field will be opened to the
widow and the orphans.
CONTROLLING THM MARKETS.
By wholesale co-operative the owners
of the cotton, tobacco, corn, and other
staple crops, can control its sale. They
can crush every attempt of the grain
gamblers to affect prices, and precipi
tate " Black Fridays" upon them at
pleasure. Gould, Sage, Vanderbilt,
and Rockefeller, combined, could not
compete with the united capital arid
labo ipspecially when labor is also the
principal customer of itself, aiid posses
sing greater purchasing power, and
with more demands and pleasures to
gratify.
MONEY IS CREATED.
A co operative association may use
its own. money, printed for itself, just
as railroads use tickets. This money
can be receivable at its stores, and will
be accepted by the workers as wages.
It will possess all the power of money
because the wealth of the association is
behind it, and because it is redeemable
at the store. Thus co-operation will
solve a financial problem, by giving the
association the use of its own money
(may be due bills on the store) while
its real capital will be used for outside
business.
GOVERNMENT AFFECTED.
Self-interest will compel the members
to vote for their business interests. No
coaxing or urging will be necessary to
taach them how to vote, nor will political
mountebanks have any field in which
to work. In fact, co operation is edu
cational. for it will compel each and all
to guard his own interests, thus afford
ing mutual protection. It willlestroy
race prejudice, lessen the hours of
labor, increase the weajth of each indi
viduil instead of enriching a few, solve
the financial problem, increase the sales
of articles produced, facilitate ship
ments, and even contrortransporta
tion, as well as legislation. !
NOTHING NOVEL IN IT.
I have presented nothing but what
is soen every day only I have gotten
rid of the "boss" the employer. I
have only imagined a number of men,
of different trades, putting their little
sums together, working in ' a shop,
keeping a store, all buying from the
store, and each selling his goods in the
store. They simply work for them
selves instead of for an employer.
Only this and nothing more. No com
munism, no severance of family rela
tions, no feasting at a common tablev
no ' ' higher life " theories, but a simple
business system,' based cn selfishness,
by which one man is willing to help
others because he himself is helped.
No one is wronged, for all can join.
Brothers, please catch "an idea"
from this. Gkxi bless the man who will
improve upon my suggestions.
P. H. Jacobs.
Hammonton, N. C.
AN APPEAL.
Lowell, N. C.
Mr. Editor : Our Alliance, No. 1431,
of Gaston county, N. C, earnestly pe
tition every Sub-Alliance in our State
to contribute some small amount to
our worthy brother, H. R. Elmore,
who had tne misfortune to lose his
barn by fire, with all his provender, on
the night of November 12, 1891. His
loss is estimated at four hundred dol
lars. Any assistance to him will be
duly appreciated by him and his neigh
bors. Send to L. H. Stowe, Lowell,
Gaston county, N. C.
J. N. Hanna,
L. H. Stowe,
H. S. Adams, .
Committee.
THAT ADDRESS.
The Intent of it and the Result Non
partisan to go Into Democratic,
but no Other Party.
Mr. Editor: I see in flaming head
lines in the Wilmington Star what
that paper is pleased to call a joint ad
dress of Democrats and Alliancemen.
That paper quotes the action of the
State Alliance Lecturer last week in
declaring that Alliancemen are not par
tisan, that it must steer clear of parties,
even if old parties or new parties adopt
the Alliance platform in toto. In other
words it must pteer clear of the Repub
lican or People's party, but it is not
non partisan to issue a joint address
and affiliate with the Democratic party.
If there is any other object in thus
address than to tie up the Alliance
sentiment of North Carolina so it can't
assert itself in 1892, the writer of
this article, a life long Democrat, can't
see it. If that address is to be regarded
as an Alliance and Democratic address
jointly, then the Alliance should have
named its five members of that com
mittee and not Mr. Ed. Chambers
Smith or anybody else. Who delegated
any such authority to any body of
Alliancemen to do such work as that?
If the Star and other partisan papers
puts the right construction on the
words of Alexander, Carr and others
of that committee, the writer of this
communication a county lecturer, as
before said a life long Democrat, a
Confederate soldier who took part in
the first and last fight of the war, an
Allianceman who thought we were
organized to promote principles and
measures and not parties and never
feels badly over it. He feels that pure,
non-portisan Allianceism has received
a dangerous stab at the hands of its
members. He feels after having ridden
hundreds and hundreds of miles with
his own conveyance and by rail and
never having received a dollar for it,
if the rejoicings of the Star and other
papers that have fought us at every
step we have taken is right, then his
work and his effort is all in vain. We
do not object to the Allianceism that
crops out in that paper, but we object
to "partyizing" this movement which
inevitably leads to sectionalizing it. If
Alexander, Carr and others have a
right to do this sort of work with a set of
Democratic politicians then Ben Clover
and Jerry Simpson have a right to do
the same work- with a set of Kansas
Republicans, and when that is done,
the Topeka Capital, the Wilmington
Star and News and Observer will be
happy, for they wrill have accomplished
exactly wnat tney nave oeen wording
for i. e., to party ize and sectionalize
this movement, and the old saying will
come in. "If so soon it is to be done
for, the wonder is what it was begun
for." But to be sure these brethren
cannot have intended it in the light it
appeared, in the light the partisan press
regard it. If so, Allianceism in North
Carolina will condemn it; if so, my
own Sub-Alliance, every one of wThom
always voted the Democratic ticket, is
ready to condemn it overwhelmingly.
The address states or implies that the
Democratic party must be kept in tact
in order to defeat a future force bill.
If the party had been the only thing in
the way that iniquitous measure would
be a law of the land to day. The Re
publicans had the President, had the
Senate and had the House. Senator
Gorman gets the credit of doing more
to defeat it than any other man. He
said the independent Alliance senti
ment of the country defeated it. A
resolution from Democratic and Re
publican Alliancemen went up from
Ocala in opposition to it, and Plumb,
Teller and other Republican Senators
in defference to tho feelings of a Re
publican Alliance constituency voted
with the Democrats and defeated it,
and when you drive these Republican
Alliancemen back into partison Repub
licanism as this address is calculated
to do, then Republican and Democratic
money power - win resume us unim
peded onward march.
Fraternally,
J. M. Cutchins,
Lecturer Edgecombe County
Winfall Sub-Alliance, No. 1.108,
Winfall, N. C.
Mr. Editor: Fridav. the 11th ult..
was a field day for the Perquimans
County Alliance. Men who were pres
ent to near the speeches of Hon. J. S.
Rell. of Clav cbuntv. State Lecturer.
J. T. Brinson, Esq,, of Pamlico, district
Lecturer, and b, utno vvnson, or tai
eigh, and they were well repaid for
thpir trouble, for a eouDle of more in
teresting speeches have not been heard
here in a long time. The speaking was
at Hertford, l snouid nave saia.
Mr. Brinon snoke in the forenoon.
delivering a very good speech, which
was carefully iistenea to. non. 10m.
Skinner said it was the best he had
hoard aloner that line. In the person
of Bro. Brinson the First district has a
lecturer in the field who we are sure
will save entire satisfaction.
About 1 o'clock Mr. Bell arrived and
addressed the audience. As he arose
he looked tired and wearv. and no one
exnected much of a speech. But as he
faced the crowd calm, poised, una
bashed, it was apparent that he was
master of the situation. The audience
was electrified. He poured fourth elo
quence, wit and pathos. A young
man about 30, large dull blue eyes, but
as he warmed up they grew with the
brightness of imagination and with a
native eloquence born of the eternal
hills from which he hails. He seems
to have caught an inspiration from the
everlasting peaks. Oh ! it was interest
ing pure Alliance doctrine flashing
over the audience like meteoric showers.
Long may Bell and Brinson live, shed-
ding the light of their countenances all
over this State, promulgating truth
and knowledge, kindling the fires of
enthusiasm in the sacred thresholds of
a thousand and otie homes, disseminat
ing the principles of the National
Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union
from Manteo to Murphy. 0 Bell and
Brinson one from th rlmid rorTWT
peaks of Clay, the other from the
golden shores of Pamlico.
mt. uson spoke in the secret meet
ing, explaining: the workings of the
busint se department. My fellow coun-
trvmen. Ipt lis rnntimiA in Kon t in mlnA
the motto, 44 United we stand: divided
we ian. .F raternal lv.
A. W. Jordan.
RESOLUTIONS.
At a regular meeting of Woodard's
Alliance, No. 1174, held December 5th
the following preamble and resolutions
were unanimously adopted :
whereas, Different partisan papers
of the country have attempted to mis
represent and slander the name of
President L. L. Polk and other national
leaders, and as we are led to believe
that it is intended to break down our
Order and an insult to every member
of the National Farmer 's Alliance and '
Industrial Union of America.
Resolved, That we cordemn in the
strongest language the course as un
patriotic and dishonorable and intt nded
to defeat the honest purpose of our
Order.
2. That we believe President Polk
and co-laborers to be patriotic gentle
men, and the superiors of any who have
indulged in any such abuse.
3. That we heartily renew our allegi
ance to our demands as set forth in the
Ccala platform and heartily endorse
the action of the State Alliance in re
gard to said demands; we also endorse
the action of the National Convention
in re electing L. L. Polk to the highest
officer in our Order.
4. That a copy of these resolutions be t
sent to The Progressive Farmer for
publication.
J. J. CUTLER,
W. H. Brady,
C. C. N. Cutler,
Committee.
BE TRUE TO THE CAUSE.
Bro. Alliancemen : 44 Sleep on your
arms tonight." 4 4 Put none but true .
men on guard." Our enemk s have de
termined to destroy the reform move-.t
ment at all hazzards. No stone is to
be left unturned. The spy is within'
our ranks. We are to be destroyed by
dissensions ceverly 'engineered. Vic
ious and brutal attacks are being made
all along the line upon all our faithful
and trustworthy leaders. Accursed
villains are perjuring their very souls
by swearing to hellish lies to break
down the character of men true to the
reform cause. The same being heralded
from the Atlantic to the Pacific by the
associated partisan press, and taken
up by old moss back partisans haying
their names enrolled as Alliance men,
but are such just about as much as
Judas was a Christian, or Benedict
Arnold a patriot ; a fair specimert may
be found right here in Forsytb county.
Bogus dispatches, damna&Ie lies, in
cendiary speeches, insinuations, inu
endoes, and everything low and vile is
taken up by them and for all it is
worth.
Brethren, eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty." Whenever any
member shows a disposition to provoke .
dissensions to discourage attendance,
or oppose tho fundamental principles
of our Order, fire him out at once.
Retain no man whom you know to be
a dirty trickster for the old party ma
chine. Let it be understood that
treachery will be dealt with an iron
hand.
Pay no attention to the lies and
rumors of old party papers. Believe
nothing aginst any leader on such
author fly. Beware "of all old hacks,
who are trying to keep their order
in line for the old parties.
For God and humanitv 's sake, don't
let the lickspittle of Wall street and
the money power play a b!uff game on
us again. E. A. Coward, Sec'y.
ALLIANCE PIC-NIC IN CLEVE
LAND. Beams Mills, N. C.
Mr. Editor: An Alliance Union,
composed of three Sub-Alliances, viz :
Pleasant Grove, Rock Cut and Roe3
Grove, met with tho Pleasant Grove
Alliance, Cleveland county, on the
15th inst. ilajor W. A. Graham wa
present, by invitation, and delivered a
grand and highly interesting speech,
brimful of good things from beginning
to end. 2:
Dinner was then announced. The
table was one hundred and forty feet
long, and was loaded from end to end
with good things to eat. Elder. T.
Dixon asked a blessing; then all did
eat and were filled. The number was
estimated at from four to five hundred
men, women and children and there
was enough left to have fed them all
again.
In the afternooa Dr. L. N, Durham
held the audidence spellbound for
about one hour. Tnen Elder T. Dixon
made some good remarks. The best
of order prevailed throughout the day
not a single drunken man was to be
seen. So much for prohibition in old
Cleveland, mainly brought about bv
the Farmers' Alliance.' We think all
returned to their homes much benefited
by hearing the gocd speeches of the
day. . ,'
We clcse by saymg Eucces to The
Progressive Farmer.
R. W. Gardner.
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