THE PROGRESSIVE FAR-MEE : MARCH 29, 1892.
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ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS RE-
WARD FOR AN AflawcK.
The Republican Financial Policy and
Democratic Tariff Policy Death to
Our Farmers Climb on Top,
but Dont Kick Others
Down.
rw VnrrnR- The rrice of our wheat,
cotton and all the surplus cereals of
the farmers are fixed in Liverpool,
England, and not in the United States.
England's great wealth has been ac
cumulated by buying the raw materials,
of other countries cheap, manufactur
ing them and re selling to these coun
tries at three hundred to one thousand
per cent. Her policy has been to buy
the fox skin for a penny and sell the
tail back for a shilling.
New England pursued the same
policy lo a umiveu exieuu vm
ance of the United States, and grew
rich. England has accumulated great
wealth. In this way all nations have
paid tribute to her. She has manufac
tured and sold more than she expended
in buying, and the gold of the world
flowed into her lap. She has become
the money loaner of the world. Nearly
every nation pays tribute to her. She
holds the evidences of indebtedness
-that commands the gold of the world.
Interest in gold is pouring into her lap
and the civilized nations are bidding
'for it. The United States contributes
one hundred and thirty five millions in
interest on what she owes British sub
jects in gold, food or raw material.
Nearly every nation of the earth
contributes to her wealth in the same
ratio. So situated she commands the
finance of the world. She has the evi
dences that commands the gold of the
world. All nations are tied to the
monetary system that compells them
to have gold must bid for her gold.
The nations that will give the most of
their produce fret it. She is in a position
of a bear, and can fix prices on all she
needs for her consumption. She can
fix prices on all the exports of tl e civil
ized world.
Every nation must compete for Eng
lish gold. The cotton planters of the
South Krllinc their ;ott.nn. miHr, oom-
p'ete with the paupered labor of India
ana Egy pt, where labor can be had for
10 to 12 cents per day. Our wheat
raisers must compete with India and
Russia, where labor can be had in the
j e m i-- or- i I
-irjLt3J6 ueiu lor & to jo cents peruay.
In the last twenty five years nearly all
the debts, public and private, have
been made payable in gold, and the
debts of the world have have been
nearly doubled. This has doubled the
demand for gold and increased its pur
chasing power one hundred per cent.
While the demand for English gold has
been doubled the supply has decreased.
The billions of evidence of debts held
by British subjects has doubled in value
in twenty-five years. It takes twice
the amount of cotton and wheat to pay
the interest on the debt it did in 1865.
England, holding the evidences of in
debtedness of other nations command
ing the gold of the world, she compells
every nation to pay her price in raw
material or food for her gold. So
situated, she can fix a price on all our
exports. The farmers are in debt and
unable to hold until Egypt and India
has disposed of their surplus cotton
and England has consumed it, so they
mu3t sell at the pric 3 fixed by England.
If they .could hold until English fac
tories had consumed the surplus co .ton
of India and Egypt, they could com
mand their price. The farmers are in
debted and unable to hold, uo England
can fix a price on the farmers' corn,
cotton, wheat, which is taken to pay
interest on our debts. The American
farmer must compete with the ignorant
labor of India, Egypt and Russia, who
neither read or write, neither have
they any taste for the arts and refiae
ments of civilized nations, and who
live worse than the slaves did in ante
bellum times. Under this state of
affairs, is it any wonder the prices of
all the farmers' products are on the de
cline? No civilized nation can advance
in refinemei t and compete with coolv
labor that can live on three cents per
-aay.
The money devil of England says
wneat is worm one aouar per bushel at
Liverpool, and this fixes the price of
wheat all over the world. The money
devil says cotton i3 tvorth eight cents
per pound at Liverpool, and this fixes
the price all over the civilized world.
If the shipping facilities are the same
in the United States, Egypt and India,
the price in each will be the same.
Der,r labor must compete with cheap
labor. . The highly civilized must com
pete with the barb irian. The civilized
whose wants are great, must compete
with the ignorant and undeveloped
whose wants are small. Our cotton
planters must sell their cotton to Eng
land for the same price received by
the ignorant and filthy Egyptian,
mere can be no improvement in our
condition, financially, as long a our
people must submit to this competition
As long as present conditions exist we
will go from bad to worse. The evi
dences of debts held by English syndi
cates are accumulative and increasing
at an accelerated ratio. As they in
crease our ability to meet them are de
creasing at the same ratio. The farm
ers have arrive doat the stage where
they cannot raise crops only at a loss.
This means bankruptcy. We must
overthrow this condition or sell cheaper
all around. This means a reduction in
tne price of labor, manufactured
.articles; and this means we must pay
more of the products of our labor for
English gold and to pay interest on our
debts. This is what English canitai ita
are working for. It is the financial
. policy of England to tie every nation
' to the tail of her kite. She does not
want any nauon to get out of debt to
her. Out of debt means independence
of her financial policy.
We must cut loose from existing con
ditions or we must make up our minds
not to be any better off than those we
compete with. Wo cannot lift them
up to our level, but cheap competition
will force us down to theirs. Establish
your sub-treasuries and the money devil
will laugh them to derision. The money
devil tells vou to-day that your sub
'treasuries w ill be of no benefit to you.
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They know whit they are talking
about. Under existing conditions tney
would be useless. Suppose you have
established your sub treasuries Every
nation you compete with in cotton or
wheat is tied to the money devil of
England. The money devil says wheat
is worth one dollar at Liverpool, and
this fixes the price in Russia and India,
and they must sell at this price, minus
the freights to European markets.
Suppose the farmer take his wheat
and deposits it in the Sub-Treasury
warehouse. Liverpool prices fixes the
price of wheat in Northern Dakota at
40 cents per bushel. The farmer would
receive 80 per cent, of this, or 32 cents.
He could receive the 40 cents, or full
price from the speculator. What bene
fit would your sub treasuries be? The
farmer would still be at the mercy of
the money devil. If the farmer says
my wheat is worth $l. 50 per bushel at
New York or Charleston, S. C, the
money devil says wheat is worth 75
cents per bushel. If tin farmer asks
any more than the price fixed at Liver
pool, India and Russia will export
wheat to the United States at a slight
advance over the price fixed at Liver
pool. Liverpool says cotton is worth 8 cents
per pound, and that fixes prices all over
the civilized worth. The cotton raiser
deposits his cotton at the sub treasuries.
He must take 80 per cent, or 7 cents
per pound or 5.6 cents. He can sell to
the speculators at 7 cents per pound
What benefit is your sub treasuries?
No one would have any use for them.
That whica is true of cotton and wheat
is true of all the surplus cereals we
would export. You farmers have
nothing to say as to the price of wheat,
cotton, com, pork or beef raised by
you. The prices are fixed at Liverpool,
and you must sell at thesse prices minus
the freights to Europe.
You are slaves without a master
to take care of cu. We have
subbstituted responsible negro slavery
for white and black irresponsible
slavery. The white slave holder had
an interest in his slave. The money
devil has no interest in his only as to
what he can get out of you. The farmer
says whit will you give? and when he
buys he says what will you take?
It takes nine men to make one tailor.
The tailor can fix a prie on his work.
How many farmers will it take to make
one man when they cannot fix a price
on anything they have to sell? You
are in the majority, yet you are as
powerless to assert your rights as a
new born babe. In size and strength
of limbs you are giants, but ycu have
been lt d by the money devil through
parties as eay as a child leads a lamb.
You are slaves to the money devil and
tied hand and foot.
You are fiat of your backs, financially,
and the foot of the money devil is on
you. You are the sport irid play-thing
of the gamblers and speculators." Your
fruit of toil is tossed up and down on
the market, and you stand by and look
on helplessly. "Strong and powerful
as you are, the money devil handles
you as easy as a cat handles a mouse.
You have great strength, but vou don't
put you lei tne emissaries or ine money
evil do your thinking. You pride
yourselves on your freedom, but you
mve been servile slaves to parties.
-he farmers have not shed their
swindling bands, let alone taken off
theb short dresses. Gould says he can
hiro.ne half of the farmers to shoot
downythe other half. What are you
going )o do about it? Will you declare
your political independence ? Will you
take tht advice of the modern Demo
cratic paHy, vice pull others down to
your lev, instead of lifting yourself
up. You re down. Pull the manu
facturers toy our level. This is the ob
ject of the misnamed Democratic
party.
You must cc-npete with the paupered
labor of Egypt and India. Compel the
manufacturers , do the same. Com
pell the manufac.urers to compete with
foreign manufacturers that employ
cheap cooly labor, and they will soon
be to your level. Foreign manufac
turers can borrow money at one half
its cost to United States manufac :urers.
This U the policy of Democracy. They
tell you to buy where you sell. To send
your money (gold) out of the counti y
and bring about a contraction of the
volume of money. You sell on a cheap
market and buy on a dear market. As
you compete with nauoered labor of
other countries, compelf the manufac
turers to do the same.
Put down prices. Sa-ieeze more of
the necessaries of life into the European
money devil's dollars. Fix it so the
money devil of England can command
more of the products of the labor of
the farm and factory. Ninety percent,
of your market is at home.
Compell the class who can fix a price
on their means to come down to your
condition. Compell them to sell cheaper
and they will have less money to buy
of vou nnd this will comnell vou to
sell cheap and squeeze more of your
products into the Europeanmoney, be
sides fixed incomes, and he will wax
fat and smile complacently. iou pro
tected the manufacturers of bleak and
sterile New England, and she grew
rich. To day she has hundreds of mil
lions of dollars to loan to you at twice
as much as you can mace on or it
Did vou ever stop to tninK tnat tne
policy that makes one class rich will
make another class rich? Will you
adopt the financial policy of the Repub
lican party of competing direct wiin
India, Egypt, Russia, for English gold.
Will spend as we did to resume in 1897
tnree billions and tour nunarea mu-
hons to get the paltry sum of one hun
dred millions to go through the farce
of gold resumption. Will you adopt
the policy of competing direct with
the cheap labor of Europe by lowering
the tariff and flood the country with
cheap gold goods as in 1837-47-57, buy
ing more than we sold, turning the
balance of trade against us and. pre
cipitating a panic and bringing ruin on
the country, than competing with
cheap labor to get it back. Will you
choose the manly, sensible course and
protect yourselves?
Nearly every class has protection but
the farmers. If it i3 good to protect
other classes it will prove equally effi
cacious to protect the farmers. Won't
i
it be better to place yourselves on the
same plain of the manufacturers than
to pull them down to yours? If it is
beneficial to the manufacturers to pro
tect them from cooly labor, won't it be
equally beneficial to you to protect your
class from the same labor ? The manu
f acturers have their heads above water
and can fix a price upon their wares,
though the money devil has squeezed
two dollars of their wares into one in a
quarter of a century. Don't you think
it would be better to speedily place
yourself where you can fix a price
on your produce? There is but one
way out of the hole when the money
devil has you. You must protect your
selves from the cheap and undeveloped
labor of other countries. Our civiliza
tion is higher, our wants greater and
we must receive better prices to sup
ply our wants. The civilization of the
United States calls for $1.50 per bushel
for wheat to enable the farmer to sap
ply his wants. The civilizations of the
planters demands 14 cents per pound
for his cot:on to supply his wants. To
get these prices, we must levy a pro
hibitive tariff of 70 cents per bushel on
wheat and six cents per pound on cot
ton. Everything the farmer produces
there must be levied a protective tariff
that will protect them from compe
tition with cheap labor. We must re
serve to the farmers the exclusive con
trol of the United States market in such
things as they produce in sufficient
quantity to do us. Nearly all your
cereals are on the third list. Pork,
beef, mutten, hides an i wool all receive
this protection. The farmer is robbed
in every way, for the want of protec
tion. Establish your sub-treasuries
and fix a living price at which you can
soli at. Let every class do the same.
It is impossible for you to fix a living
price on the products of your labor
without a prohibitive tariff on your
produce. Nine tenths of your market
is at home Protect your home mar
ket as you have protected the manu
facturers. Insist on your rights. Any
class that cannot fix a living price on
the products of their labor, are slaves.
If the manufacturers could not fix a
price on their means, they would be
where y ou are. You have built up the
manufacture interest, now build up
your own. The protective policy that
built up '.he manufacturers will build
up your interest. The money devil of
Europe will oppose this. The Demo
cratic party will oppose this. The Re
publican party will oppose your finan
cial policy. Each party re presents the
money devil of Europe
Cease this war on manufacturers and
go and do likewise. Place yourselves
where you can say your corn and wheat,
cotton, pork and beef is worth so and so,
and get it. A prohibitive tariff on
farmers' products and the Sub-Treas
ury, with the industrial financial sys
tern, will do it. Think, be manly, be
sens-ible, have business sense, climb on
top, but don't kick anyone down.
Listen to the Republican financial
policy and perish. Listen to the Demo
cratic tariff policy and perish.
England wants your food cheap, and
competition for English gold gives it to
'..Uiier?iMcifirj;7ri;'.--
Europe cheap food. Wft protective
tariff and the Sub-Treasury, you can
hold and compel England to pay you
your price when she has exhausted the
surplus of other countries. You might
as well make up your minds to cut
loose from the gold basis of Europe.
The holders of the debts of this coun
try in England can produce a panic
and put a premium on gold at any
time. They can choose their own time
to do it. What is to hinder them from
converting one hundred millions of
their bonds held against this country
into greenbacks and demand every
dollar in gold held for redemption?
The clause inserted into all debts mak
ing them payable in gold, was to enable
the creditor class of Europe to get a
corner on gold and put a premium on
it. This they will do when an effort is
made to issue $50 per capita of full
legal tender U. S.
Convert gold into bricks and use
them to pay our debts and balance of
trade. Free this country from the
money devil at Europe. Give us 150
ger capita of full legal tender United
tates notes, and the wheel of industry
will hum and panics and financial de
pression will be unknown. Cut loose
from all parties. Study principles.
Get the truth and cast your ballot for
it every time. The party leaders of
each party care nothing for your in
terest. All they want is offices that
are becoming more valuable They
have doubled the pay of President and
all Congressmen, and by legislation
they have increased the value of their
salaries four hundred per cent. A
Congressman's salary will buy four
times as much of the products of your
labor as it would in 1865. All salaries
have been doubled in value. Will you
longer submit to thi3 imposition? All
holding office want to retain them, and
there are ten outside in the two old
political parties who want office and
nope for it. These throw up their hats
fend shout for their parties for office.
They can be found in the Alliance and
would lead you into either of the two
corrupt office making machines for
office.
You never will get at the truth and
nothing but the truth until you cut
loose from all parties. A partisan is a
prejudiced man. When the prejudice
is strong, the judgment is weak. There
is no hopes for reform as long as you
aro partisans. A partisan will sur
render his principles every time for his
party.
Democratic Alliancemen must make
up their minds that some principles
they once cherished must De surren
dered. This is equally true of the Re
publicans. Prayerfully seek the truth
and you will find it. You will not find
it in either of the two old parties. From
the" establishment of a government,
British gold has controlled all parties
that have gone into power. The Whig
party advocated the money devil's
financial svstem. and the Democratic
nartv advocated the English ta:
nolicv. Each one of these policies
beneficial to England, and destructi
to the interest of the industrial class
the United states. iiRamie to
miad of the idea that the Whig
Democratic parties were pure parties
before the war. Each were influenced
and controlled by the policy of Eng
land. Then, as now, she held the
balance of power and dictated the
policy of both parties. The Alliance
must destroy this policy root and
branch in the United States. You
must have the industrial financial sysr
tern and the sub treasuries, and you
must levy a prohibitive tariff on every
thing you raise in sufficient quantity
to do you. You must protect your
home market while nations are con
suming their surplus; then you cm
compell tiiem to pay a living price for
your produce.
Reader, the writer was forced to
these conclusions after an impartial
and candid investigation, though edu
cated a free trader.
Free yourselves from party bias and
investigate a-? I have done, and you
will arrive at the same conclusion.
James Murdoch.
ORANGE ALL RIGHT.
Chapkl Hill, N. C.
Mr. Editor: When I read so many
good resolutions and reports in your
valuable paper, from the different
county meetings, it makes me want to
sav a word for old Orange. You may
put her down in your book for a chance
in the struggle of life and liberty against
money and monopoly. I wish to say
right hero that Orange Church Alli
ance is moving along all right and en
dorses the Ocala platform throughout.
J. M. Durham, Sec'y.
RESOLUTIONS.
Woodland Alliance, No. 520,
Wayne County, N. C.
Whereas, Under the present system
of government the public are deprived
of the privilege of enjoying the fruits
of their labor ; and whereas, we believe
the partisan press of the country to be
bribed against the interests of the peo
ple, public opinions silenced, business
prostrated, our homes covered with
mortgages, land and money rapidly
concentrating into the hands of the
few. Therefore be it
Resolved, by Woodland Alliance in
meeting assembled this, the 4th day of
March, 18S2, that we pledge ourselves
to support and defend the platform of
demands adopted by the great labor
conference at St. Louis, Feb 22, 1892.
2 That we will not vote for any man
or men who will not pledge themselves
to stand unflinchingly by the demands
of said conference.
R A. Parker, for Committee.
FROM FORSYTH.
Resolved, By Cedar Grove Alliance,
No. 685, Forsyth county, that we
heartily appreciate and endorse the
Hon. Tno-?. Watson, of Georgia, for the
stand he has taken in behalf of the op
pressed of the nation.
2. That we send greetings and our
heartfelt congratulations to the breth
ren of our grand old sister State for
sending such a representative to our
Whereas, Many partisan papers
have circulated through their columns
lies and vile, slanderous reports con
cerning the characters of our leaders,
especially our worthy President, L. L.
Polk, therefore be it
Resolved, That we denounce such as
being dishonorable in the extreme and
intended only to damage our noble
Order and defeat its noble purpose.
2. That we do emphatically proclaim
our allegiance to the Ocala-lndianapo-lis
demands and our President and
leaders so loDg as they stand thereon,
but so soon as they step off of this
platform we bid them good-bye. There
is no ten men or hundred men that can
side track us into either one of the old
parties.
3. That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to The Progressive Farmer
and Workingmari's Helper for publica
tion, C. A. Phillips, Pre't.
HOW TO BUILD THE COUNTRY.
Mr. Editor: Please publish aline
or tvvoforme. I was forcibly impressed
with the idea that it is far more im
portant at present to construct a pyra
mid of ways to build the country. We
want a pyramid of ways, clearly de
fined (as the fertile pen of the Alliance
no doubt can do) and rigidly adhered
to, until the happy homes and smiling
faces of our farmers bespeak the dawn
of a new era in the agricultural history
of the States. It is a well known fact
that the present condition of the farm
ers is a deplorable one, and it is also a
fact, that the white people are a thrifty
and progressive people, and for them
to go backward instead of forward in
agriculture, when they are surrounded
by so many natural advantages of
climate, soil, water, etc., as they are in
the States, shows me that there is some
thing radically wrong, for which the
farmer individually is not responsible.
The farmer cries hard times and no
money, and the capitalists say they are
lazy, extravagant and do not properly
apply themselves, but it is well known
that the farmers of to day are as intel
ligent, economical and industrious,
with far greater advantages in me
chanical appliances than the farmers
of other days, when peace and content
ment fertilized the farm, and the sur
plus money of the States was in the
pookets of the farmers. The farmer
complains and the professional poli
tician says he wastes his time in med
dling with politics. I am glad to be
lieve that this waste is going to continue
until the farmer gets a correct diagnosis
of his financial disease and commis
sions the Democratic party to admin
ister the necessary physic by way of
healthy and effective legislation. Tne
present condition of the country is not
only of great moment to the agricul
turist, but of serious import to the
social and political world, for the farm
ers and laborers make the chief bulk of
population, and if relief cannot be ob
tained through channels of legislation
an open resort to arms must be the in
evitable result, for the same blood
which surged through the veins of the
-tvuiu oaxou at runnvmece. i to Anrr
h-aping to the heart in
pulsations of
equally grand and noble manhood.
The best of citizenship is the product
of thrifty and prosperous farm homes;
the worst of citizenship is the product
of the non-free holding and restive
masses of the cities elements well pre
pared to disrupt governments so liberal
as aurs, hence the necessity of placing
agriculture on that plain of thrift and
prosperity that will induce young men
to build themselves interesting homes
in farm communities, and thus become
citizens upon whom the government
can lean in the hour of peril.
C. G. Waters, Sec'y-
WHY THEY OPPOSE.
What will the partisan press do now?
Last week they said the St. Louis plat
form was all right, except the "back
salary grab." Now that is out of the
way; will they stick to their first text?
No, they always preach from it They
will now attack the "ownership of
railroads." etc. Take that out and
they will object to some other clause,
and so on until all is gone. Why? Be
cause the Democratic party did not set
them forth. When will they learn
that all the people are not fools?
Hickory Mercury.
AN APPEAL.
Mr. Editor: WTe, the undersigned,
having been appointed a committee by
Eureka Alliance, No. 1,430 to investi
gate the recent losses of Bro. J. R.
Smith, find that he had lost his house,
furniture, clothes, and fifty dollars in
money by fire, to the amount of one
hundred and fif sy dollars, leaving our
worthy brother in a destitute . condi
tion. Now, therefore, we do most
earnestly call upon all Alliancemen to
come to the said brothers relief, so
that he may regain his losses. Our
little Lodge has donated fifty cents for
each male member on roll, to our
brother, and would be very thankful
to all Subordinate Alliances, to re
ceive twenty-five cents from each
Lodge to help our brother out of dis
tress. Yours fraternally,
Kilby Tolson. Sec'y-
Forward all donations to Secretary
of Eureka Alliance, No. 1,410, by
registered letter, Bogue. N. C.
Respectfully,
HlLLIARD GLANCY,
Samuel R. Weeks,
Elijah Prlngle,
Committee.
LETTER FROM DAVIDSON.
Mr. Editor: As I hardly ever see
anything from old Davidson county
and especially from Mof itt's Grove Al
liance, and the Lecturer $ays he would
like to see something in .The Progres
sive Farmer from Moffilt's Grove, I
concluded that I would tvrite and let
the brethren of other Alliances know
that we are not dead but tire getting
better; we have better attendance at
our meetings than heretofore. The
regular meeting is secorl Saturday in
each month, and at tie last regular
meeting there was a resolution pre
Lcsjittttrttbe regmhg-sfois fpllcnra:..
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Resolved, That we, ihe members of
Mofntt's Grove Alliance, No. 1,554,
heartily endorse the action of the St.
Louis Conference which was held on
the 22d, 23d and 24th of February,
1892, which was unanimously' carried
and all seem to be in very good earnest.
Moffitt's Grove has some twenty sub
scribers to Tim Progressive Farmer,
the noble oran of the State which
should be read by every member of
the Alliance. I will not ask for much
space thi3 time but kindly ask for this
to be published, and if it is accepted I
will write again.
Geo. Crouch, Sec'y.
RESOLUTIONS.
Washington County Alliance Solid for
Reform.
We, the committee appointed at the
regular meeting of Washington County
Alliance, this 14th day of January,
1892, for the purpose of setting forth
our position as Alliancemen,
Resolve, To stand by our Alliance
demands as promulgated at Ocala,
Fla., from Alpha to Omega, and our
National President, Hon. L. L. Polk,
so long as he stands firm as he now
stands on the Ocala platform, which
we think will be as long as there is any
hope, from his past re3ord. We most
heartily endorse that record and con
demn the action of the partisan press
in their slanderous attacks on him both
officially and in his private life, and we
take it as an insult to every Alliance
man, for it is impossible to attack the
head of a great order without its being
felt by every true member of that
order.
2. We will support no man for office
who opposes our demands, or is in any
way antagonistic to our Order.
3. We believe the free and unlimi ed
coinage of silver and land loan scheme
would help to bring easier and better
times to the farmers and laborers;
therefore we ask our Representatives
in Congress to do their utmost to get
those bills through both the Senate and
Lower House of Congress.
4. We are heartily in accord with
the move for low tariff, but do not
think that alone will give the relief
needed by the farmers and laborers.
5. We are in favor of abolishing
national banks, and establishing in
their stead State banks!
6. We are in favor of instructing our
delegates to national and other con
ventions to cast their votes for men in
favor of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and reduction of the tariff.
We recommend that the President and
U. S. Senators be elected by the popu
lar vote of the people.
7. We ask our Representatives in
both Senate and House of Congress to
do their best to have the U. S. bond
holder taxed on his bonds as other
property.
8. That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to our State Organ, The Pro
gressive Farmer, for publication.
Levi J. Fag an,
J. T. Hassell,
A. C. Wentry,
Committee.
now "TvaXTC &Mn unt, . S
uis,--! r nvw A. H A
, V JAMS El
rri Sfheldhv
of MarchM)92, the following
tions were J&ianimously adopted
Resolved, That we stand boldlv fiTo
firmly upon the demands of the (W
platform, and that we will move unS?
ly and hopefully to the rescue of
country from the hands of the spoiU
and that we may restore the govern
ment to the people for whose sole 3i
it was instituted and to whom it riu
fully belongs. 12;tlt-
2. That we heartily endorse th
measure pursued and bill endorsed in
Congress by out representative" Hon
A. H. A. Williams, calling for the frit
coinage of silver and free exports and
imports of certain articles of aricul
ture. to
3. That we are entirely in favor of
the Sub Treasury plan and will not
give aid to any party who is arrayed
against these our inherent rights.
4. That we will be more zealously en
gaged in the- future for the Alliance
and the cause we have espoused than
in the past, and that we never will fold
our hands in peace until we see our
cause sustained and the people rescued
from the combined ringed forces of our
adversaries are suppressed and we
at liberty.
5. That we are not arrayed against
the interest of any party or profession
whatever, but we are united for the in
forest of the laboring class of people
throughout the land.
6. That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to TnE Progressive Farmep
T ,r P. C. Layne, Prea't. "
J. M. Axsom, Sec'y.
A MIGHTY STIR.
Apex, N. C
Mr. Editor: There is a mighty stir
among the people. Political bosse?
(used to be) would like very much to
know a thing or two and are guessing
like all the world. "How about the
People's party ?,J "How does Col Polk
stand?" "What did the Alliancemen
go to Washington for?" etc., etc. One
day I read that the Alliance is dj'in
dead. The next day I see urgent ad
vice to heed the demands of the people.
There are tariff men and silver men,
Hill men and Cleveland men, and m
many antics to each. The Democratic
House at Washington does not knf
what, tr cn Thpv aro rfnino'iuvi V
for fear of getting tied un: vet doTii'
nothing is, perhaps the f ital thing f o
them. Well, the revolution is on td,
stay. Alliancemen are not dead nor,
asleep they are quietly doing some'
the be3t thinking of their lives. Num- .
ber 23 is a unit on the demands, and a
host not now in standing are in full
sympathy. Right principles and prac
tical measures mark the people's platA
form. In this matter we know no ms4f
no party, but with unflinchingDaiW
ism we stand for justice, th MghcsA
and best interests of all hoy ssfc mn S
and laudable pursuits.
BRO. MEWBORNE IN WILSON
COUNTY.
Taylor, N. C.
Mr. Editor: According to appoint
ment, Bro. J. M, Mew borne, Lecturer
for 2d district, and our County Lec
turer. Rev. J. T. B. Hoover, met at
Buckhorn on the 15th of March and
spoke reform doctrine to a good crowd
Bro. Mewborne spoke before dinner,
and I don't think I have ever heard a
more impressive speech one that con
vinced the hearers so thoroughly.
Everybody was highly pleaded with
him and all hands want to hear him
again. If all the lecturers are doing
as solid work as J. M. Mewborne, no
good citizen majf be uneasy, for the re-
orms as demanded by the Alliance
will surely be sui
of speaking: is an
jcessful. His maimer
tractive and impress
. I hone he may con
all who hear hii
tinue this good
nd needful work.
After dinner
ro. Hoover told uso!
his trip to StA
Louis, what a gracd
meetine: it was
and how enthusiast
he found everybody for reform. Bro. f
Hoover is a fluent speaker and speakr
with telling effec t. I
This is the op 3ning or beginning ( .
the grand work that is to be done dur I
ing th:s year. Tjhe people in this eec
tion are highly pleased with the worij
dono at St. Loui. They will ratify tt
platform and stahid by it with all tht
is needed to makfe -it a success. This.;
in answer toj f your question, -i'
the way to enforce the Alliana
demands. Stand as one man fo:
these reforms. As the reforms ar:,
expressed in the St. Louis platforff
the best and surest way to succeed t
to ratify this platform and then as
all true citizens to support it. . Tbi
reformation cannot be checked, it wil
come, so there is no use halting, and
straddling about it. We all know tbi;
reform is best for us all, and for ou:
country. It is the only thing t"
save tne people from ruin
country from destruction.
who loves his home and,
stand by this refor.
are going to vote terf
fall. They are not
they will be found
Yours, . (
, . I
-r)
STANLY CREEKf
Resolved, By Star
No 433, that we en!
of the St. Louis Qj
particular, and we
use every means in 1
it out.
2. That we ask
Farmer and Gasto
lish the same. i v
E. D. 51
A. W. Hoffman-
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- Tie Proirnl
April 1st lo Iffl
Celts. Make im
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