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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
Vol. 7.
RALEIGH, 1ST. O., APRIL 5, 1892.
No. 8
THE NATIONAL FARMERS ALLI-
ANCE AND INUU3 1 kia.
UNION.
Preiident-L. L. Polk, North Caro
Address, Atlantic Building, F
kt N. W., Washington, V. .
VicePreident-H. L. Loucks, Huron,
South Dakota. n,w
Secretary-Treasurer-r. H. Turner
Address, 239 North Capitol
At N W Washington, D. O.
iLecturer J. H. Wuletts, Kansas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
0 W. Macune. Washington, D. C.
AJouzo Wardall, Huron, South Da-
X"jaF. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
. i.. Cole, Michigan,
R. W. Beck, Alabama.
M. D. Davie, Kentucky.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
L L Polk, fhairman.
O' W. Macune, Washington, D. C.
Mann Page, Brandon Va.
L. P. Featherstone, Forest City, Ar-
fcansas.
W. F. Gwinn, W hite, Tennessee.
OBTH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLI
ANCE. President Marion Butler, Clinton,
N Vice-President T. B. Long, Ashe-
.-ille, N. C.
Secretary-Treasurer W. S. Barnes,
laleigh, N. C.
Lecturer J. S. Bell, Brasstown, N.C.
Steward C. C. Wright Glass, N. C.
Chaplain Rev. K Pope, Chalk
i.evel, N. C.
Door-Keeper W. H. Tomlinson,
H'ayetteville, N. C.
Assistant Door-Keeper H. E. King,
.'eanut, N. C.
Sergeant-at-Arms-J. S. Holt, Chalk
;fvel, N. C. .
State Business Agent W. H. Worth,
laleigh, N. C. TT
Trastee Business Agency Fund .
v Graham, Machpelah, N. C.
CXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE.
3 B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C,
Juairman; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston,
N C. ; J. S. Johnst6n, Ruflin, N. C.
TATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Elias Carr, A. Leazer, N. M. Cul
oreth, M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. Connell.
TATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. ; N. C.
English, Trinity College: JJ. Young,
Polenta; H. A. Forney, Newton, N. C.
Morth Carolina Reform Press Association.
Officers J. L. Ramsey, President;
Marion Butler, Vice-President ; W. S.
Qarne. Secretary. ,
PAPERS.
.roeressive Farmer, State Organ, Raleigh, N. C.
Parian, , , T?llnto1 n
The Workingman's Helper, Pinnacle, JN, C.
Watchman, S1"' v n
Farmers' Advocate. Tarbpro, S. C.
ilountain Home Journal. AsheTille, JN. C.
AUiance Sentinel, Goldsboro, J. . C.
Country Life, Trinity College, IN. C.
fprrnrv Hickory, Is. C.
Rattler Whitakers, N. C.
Agricultural Bee, Gold sboro, N. C.
Columbus Weekly News, W hiteville, N. C.
Each of the above named papers are
requested to keep the list standing on
the first page and add others, provided
they are duly elected. Any paper fail
in ; 'o advocate the Ocala platform trill
be' - oped from the list promptly. Our
pecj.. can now see what papers are
published in their irderest.
Reproduced by request.l
PRESIDENT POLK AT ST. LOUIS.
Plutocracy Arraigned Facts And Figures
Showing Where The Money Is
' (Stenographic report of President Pok's speech,
in respons-e to the address of welcome by Mr.
C. P. Waldbridge, President St. Louis City
Council.)
Ma. President :-Qathered here as
the representatives of the millions of
wealth nrodnoersof this jrreat country.
it ti3 gatifying to receive your kndly
and cordial word3 of welcome, and on
behalf of this great Conference, I beg
to assure you of our warm apprecia
tion of your proffered kindness and
hospitality and of your brave words of
good cheer and encouragement.
With your sixty one square miles of
municipal jurisdiction, your two hun
dred and fifteen miles of street rail way,
you two hundred and fifty million of
taxable property, your annual output
of three hundred millions of dollars of
manufactured products, your hundreds
of trains daily, which pour into your
gates, two hundred and fifty millions
people annually, and located here on
the bank of the "American Nile,"
what shall be the measure of your
future possibilities and greatness.
Within the radios of your influence
and legitimate trade, is embraced the
richest agricultural region on the face
a he earth rvnnKIa nf . crust airline
.j hundred :mllion of people,vand
Jere shall be .-eared in immortal
todeur the mafaificent seat of future
ical and ihdistrial empire of this
int, j
f-.share wil you, sir, the just
,and the 'clering hope which is
red by youfauspiciaus surround
f anJ assure fou that we feel quite
vme withinour hospitable gates.
Hhe Statei all sections, and all
t indusJies of the country are
Voseit. Tne men are here
lorld;the men are here
Forld; the men are herq
I world. They are here
( the factory, the work
iTdepartments of indus
ihis broad land. It is
X whose blended blows
0 to swell the chorus
Uppy song of industrial
V are we here? We are
her-. voice the solemn protest of a
natter s wealth producers against ine
qualities and unjust conditions which
seriously threaten to paralyze and de
stroy the industrial energies of the
country.
Owning less than 22 per cent, of the
wealth 01 the country and paying over
80 per cent, of its taxs, the outraged
and struggling victims of iniquitous
and wicked class legislation, we are
here to redress these grievances and to
right these great wrongs.
In the Board of Exchange of New
York, money is quoted to day at from
1 to 4 per cent. In Liverpool it is
quoted at from H to 2 per cent. In
Houston Texas, Vicksburg Miss , and
Shreveport, La., it is quoted to-day at
12 per cent In Selma, Ala., Macon,
Ga, Raleigh, N. C, Columbia, S. C,
and Pine Bluff, Ark., it is quoted to
day from 10 to 12 per cent, if a bro
ker on Wall street can borrow money
at 2 to 4 per cent, interest on wheai ,
corn and cotton as collateral, why can
not the farmers of Michigan Kansas
and Georgia do the same? One year
ago to day, middling cotton sold in
New Orleans for nine cents per pound,
or $45 per bale. To-day it is quoted at
6 and 9 16 centa per pound, or 132 20
per bale a decline of over 28 per cent,
to the farmer. Has there been a cor
responding decline in the price of the
articles manufactured from this cotton?
Have the cotton factories of New Eng
land shared this great loss? Have the
staple manufactured goods which the
farmers are obliged to have, declined
in a corresponding ratio. From a list
of staple manufactured goods from the
leading mills of New England, I find
that the decline in these goods has
been only about 2 per cent. Has the
difference of this decline gone into the
pockets of the manufacturers or did
they pay it to the employees? If it be
overproduction that drives the farmer
to accept a price for his cotton abso
lutely below the coat of the product,
why should it hot affect the output and
price of manufactured goods.
Permit me to quote further from onr
official census returns which presents
a very significant phase of the situa
tion. During the past ten years, from
1SS0 to 1890, the single State of New
York, with a population of 5,082,871,
gained in actual wealth $6,000,000 more
than fifteen of the great producing
States of this country, to-wh: Nebras
ka, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Florida, with a population of 19,996,827,
and with a territory equal to sixteen
States the size of New York. The small
non producing State of Massachusetts,
with 1,783,085 people gained in actual
wealth about $10,000,000, more than
the mr.e great producing States of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Geor
gia, North Carolina, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa and Nebraska, whose population
was 13,409,167, and with an area as
large as fifty-eight States of the size of
Massachusetts, New England, New
York and Philadelphia hold to day
180,000 shares of the banking capital of
the country, while only 44.000 shares
are held by all the remaining States of
the Union. Must argument be added
to these startling facts to convince us
of our duty? To me they proclaim in
thunder tones that the time has arrived
for the great West, the great South and
the great Northwest to link their hands
and hearts together and march to the
ballot box and take possession of the
government, restore it to the principles
of our father, and run it in the inter
est of the people.
Two years ago we presented these
fa$ts to the American Congress. They
were supported by. the petitions of a
half million freemen. One year ago
they were presented, and what wa3 the
answer to these appeals? "Go home,
work harder, live closer and keep out
of politics and all will be well." Over
a month ago, we again knocked at the
door of the present Congress, and what
has been its answer? A good friend, in
the magnanimity of his heart and it
may be for the purpose of perpetrat
ing a joke on that august body, offered
a resolution last week, generously ex
tending to the distressed farmers
throughout this broad land expressions
of "sincere sympathy." Sirs, we are
not applying to Congress or elsewhere
for sympathy or charity, but in the
dignity and power of American man
hood, we are demanding justice, and
under the favor of God, we intend to
have it. We want relief from these
unjust oppressions, and as I havo said
from New York to California, in my
speeches, we intend to have it if we
have to wipe the two old parties from
the face ot the earth. Again, sir, as
suring you on behalf of the great work
ing classes here assembled, of their
earnest appreciation, of their cordial
and hospitable welcome of your pro
gressive city, so kindly and eloquently
tendered through you, I doubt not
that each and all of us will take with
us to our homes the warm and pleas
ant rememberances of our visit to the
great and enterprising city of St. Louis.
PLATFORM ENDORSED.
Oxford, N. C.
At a regular meeting of Oak Grove
Sub Alliance, No. 833, Granville
county, N. C, the body endorsed the
St. Louis platform without a dissent
ing voice. We are for reform, regard
less of parties or party name.
Respectfully,
J. N. Faucett, Sec'y.
The Progressive Farmer
from now until Nov. 15th
for 50 cents. Make up your Clubs.
A SPECIAL TAX ASKED FOR.
A resolution passed by the County
Alliance Convention, assembled at
Youngsville, Franklin county, N. C. :
Resolved, That this convention take
immediate action for the relief of our
brethren in Hayesville township,
Franklin county, N. C, who are now
suffering from a hail storm destroying
all of their cotton and tobacco crops to
the amount of $4,000. And we desire
that the State President or convention
levy a special tax on every lodge in
the State of one dollar to be sent to M.
S. Davis our County President, for
distribution, through a committee a"
pointed by him, according to the dis
tress in the locality.
Respectfully submitted,
G. W. Newell, Pres't pro tern.
W. J. Hayes, Sec'y.
Jackson, N-C.
FLINT HILL HEARD FROM.
Vance County, N C.
Mr. Editor: Flint Hill Alliance,
No. 1,915, is yet alive and wide awake
to all the demands of our Order. At a
regular meeting of Flint Hill Alliance,
No. 1,915, March 12th, after reading
and discussing the conference meeting
held at St.' Louis, Mo , February 22d,
24th, 1892, the following resolutions
were adopted and ordered published:
Resolved, That we have lull confi
dence in our leaders in the great re
form movement.
2. That we, the members of Flint
Hill Alliance, do most heartily endorse
ever action of the St. Louis Confer
ence. Brethren of our Order, let us
stand as firm as the rock of Gibraltar
by our demands and our leaders so long
as they prove themselves worthy as
leaders, let them be from Nor "h, South,
East and West. Let us be as Ruth was
by Naomi for whiiher thou goest I
will go, and where thou lodgest I will
lodge; thy people shall be my people
and thy God my God.
J. A. T Shotwell, Sec'y.
PARKVILLE SUB-ALLIANCE.
Mr. Editor: I have not seen any
thing "from Parkville Sub Alliance, No.
1,100, and being requested to write a
few lines, I ask a little space in your
columns to let you know we are still
alive and up to the times for the Peo
ple's party, believing it to be the bestv
thing jor the people tJ have a party
for the people and by the people. We
have some good member-? and some
careless ones; believe they are all for
the People's party. I am a reader of
your paper and tnink it the best paper
published. Brethren, let us stick to
gether in the great work of reform.
what l.done, and then you cannot say
you did something I did not like. . Re
member that delaj-s are dangerous.
Brother, take your State organ and see
what is going on through the Order.
I will now close by saying success to
The Progressive Farmer. May it
long live to educate the brethren.
Yours fraternally,
James A. White, Sec'y.
LETTER FROM BEAUFORT
COUNTY.
Mr. Editor: The St. Louis meeting
has come and gone and I think every
lover of liberty has just cause to
feel proud of the result of the meet
ing. I know the partisan press will
hail with joy the action of Col. Living
ston and Moses, of Georgia, and we
need expect to see hardly anything else
for sometime to come, though I think
the people, i. e. hayseeders, calamity
howlers, etc, have just cause to rejoice
and be merry. I for one feel like throw
ing up my old hat and shouting till I
am almost hoarse to think of such a
tlorious meeting as that, with so many
elegates, and only two who could not
swallow the platform when we look
back at the ancient history and see
that Christ, out of his chosen twelve,
had a Judas and a Peter, what might
we expect out of such a multitude? I
feel more encouraged than I ever did
in my life.
Verily Wall street has its tools in
every neighborhood; the lying and
chicanery that is being practiced in
this glorious land of ours is enough to
make any decent man sick to behold.
Now they are circulating it from center
to circumference that the People's
party platform wants to tax the people
to pay the pensioners the difference
between the depreciated money they
were paid in and gold, when they know
they are lying, wilfully lying; that
there is no such plank in the platform,
though any person who " only takes a
partisan paper knows no better.
According to announcement in The
Progressive Farmer and National
Economist, we expect to hold a ratifica
tion meeting in Aurora the last Friday
in March, though I don't hardly know
what we are goin to do for some one
to talk to us, as almost all the talkers
(those educated to talk) are on the
other side, but I'll tell you we are a
very determined set, and if we can't
wear kid gloves and beaver, hats and
use flowery, oratorical language, we
have about found out that it is the clap
trap of such that is causing so much
desolation among us ; and knowing full
well that clap trap has fastened these
grievous burdens upon us, and if we
wait for them to take them off that in
stead they are continuing to pile on all
the time. We can seethe unrest among
politicians. Although it is no trouble
to see the announcement of the death
of the Alliance, I have never yet seen
any account of its burial, and if the
signs of the times mean anything, I
think when they attempt to bury it
they will find the liveliest corpse they
ever undertook to handle. I had an
interview with an attorney sometime
ago and he says "look here, you Alli
ancemen don't treat us right. " I asked
him to please explain. "Well, he says,
take this county for instance ; for illus
tration, w.e'll say there are three hun
dred Alliance Democrats and one hun
dred who are not eligible to member
ship in the Alliance ; you three hundred
go into a caucus and leave us one hun
dred out and pick out our candidates,
and when you go into a convention,
you nominate your men and we have
no showing." I asked him if we did
not live under a Republican form of
government. Of course he could only
say "yes." I asked him if that did
not say a majority should rule? You
know he was bound to answer "yes."
"Well," I said, "your little minority
has been ruling to the detriment of thn
big majority, and soon as they propose
to have something to do with the affairs
of the government, the devil is to pay
at once."
"Well," he says, "all I have got; to
say is, whenever the farmers are pros
perous everything else is prosperous,
and we won't talk politics any more."
For fear of trespassing on your
valuable space, I will stop with much
success to your valuable paoer, the
Farmers' Alliance and kindred organ
izations. Ever yours,
Calamity Howler.
AN APPEAL.
Gum Neck Alliance, No 1824.
To the Brethren of North Carolina:
Our worthy brother, J. B Liverman,
met with a severe loss on the 12th of
his month by lossing his dwelling
house by fire. Bro. Liverman is one
of the charter members of Gum Neck
Alliance, and has been secretary of our
Alliance for the last two years. Bro.
L. has a large family of little children,
and he is not able to build ' another
house without help.
Now we ask the different Sub-Alliances
in the State to donate a small
amount to help our poor brother.to re
build his house. He also lost a good
deal of other property by the fire, as
his cook house was burned.
All those that will help our brother
can remit to Bro. Allen Cahoon, Presi
dent of Gum Neck Alliance. Address
to Gum Neck Postoffice, Tyrrell
county, N. C.
C. E. Tatum,
J. L. Cooper,
Z F. Owens,
Committee.
RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. Editor: Holland's Alliance,
No. 16(54, Wake county, in full' meet
ig, the following preamble and reso
lutions were introduced by our worthy
Lecturer, J. J. Penny, and unani
mously adopted :
In view of the great trials, hard
ships and difficulties confronting our
worthy leader, L. L. Polk, our Na
tional President, together with the
storms of invective, malicious misrep
resentation and vile denunciation
heaped upon him and his co workers
by the enemies of reform, amid which
him and his trusted advisers have
s ood calm and serene unscathed, un
ruffled and unmoved the admiration
of all beholders; therefore
Resolved, that v'e bid them God
speed, and while we unanimously
thank them for their noble work, we
again reiterate our firm and un
steering purpose to stand by them
with both feet upon the St. Lous plat
form until the last vestige of feudal
ism shall be driven back to monarchial
E'.irope, whence it came.
2 That we will stand by them until
the freedom purchased by our sires
shall again purch upon our banners,
and the American citizen shall again
be free to sit down under his own vine
and figtree, and enjoy the results of
his own labor.
3. That these resolutions be sent to
The Progressive Farmer with request
to publish, and the National Econo
mist be requested to copy.
Respectfully and fraternally,
Geo. L Penny, Sec'y.
RESOLUTIONS OF UNION COUNTY
ALLIANCE.
Whereas, We, the Union County,
N. C, Farmers' Alliance, do believe
that the enactment of our national de
mands into law would be an adequate
and true remedy for the present alarm
ing tendencies and depressed condition
of agricultural pursuits; and whereas,
our efficient Representative Hon.- S.
B. Alexander, has introduced laudable
measures in Congress for the benefit of
agriculture ; therefore be it
Resolved, That we do recognize and
heartily endorse the course of our Rep
resentative and ask other Congressmen
to co operate with him in his efforts to
secure such legislation as will be for
the betterment of the producers of
wealth.
2. That as long as he adheres t o our
demands and uses his influence to have
the same enated into law, we offer
him hearty and undivided support.
3. That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to The Progressive Farmer for
publication.
A. W. McManus,
A. C. Davis,
S. A. Williams,
Committee.
The Progressive Farmer
from now until Nov. 15th
for 50 cents.
Makeup your Clubs.
BANKER AND FARMER.
The Farmer Has Been Going to the Alli
ance School and Knows that
National Banks are a
Legal Wrong.
National Banker (to farmer) Look
here, John, what do you mean by this
free coinage of silver? Don't you know
that it would be to your disadvantage?
Don't you know that it will make a
cheap money and the man that is owing
you can pay you with it?
Farmer Well, yes, but this cheap
money will pay his debt, won't it?
Banker Why, yes, certainly.
Farmer Then it will pay my debt
to you, won't it?
Banker Yes, of course.
Farmer If it is cheaper, I can get
more dollars for a load of wheat,
can't I?
Banker Yes, of course, but you
Farmer Well, if this is so, I can get
more money for the same amount of
labor, and thus be able to pay more of
my debts with the same amount of
labor. Isn't that so?
Banker Yes; but don't you see that
it is going to make our bonds payable
in silver or gold, instead of gold alone,
and this will depreciate the value of
the bonds, and thus work a great in
jury to us capitalists? In fact it would
be robbery !
Farmer Did not these bonds used to
be payable in silver and gold?
Banker Y-y e-s ; they they did be
fore silver was demonetized.
Farmer After silver was demon
etized they increased in value, didn't
they?
Banker Yes, they were then payable
in gold.
Farmer How much did it increase
them? -
Banker O, perhaps 25 per cent, and
now don't you see how wrong it would
be to steal our values away from the
bonds by this tomfoolery about silver?
Farmer What was the reason for
the demonetizing of silver?
Banker Well, you see we bankers,
that is capi or, oh, the speculators,
wanted that is we or, rather they
understood well er the fact of the
business is I really never knew what it
was done for.
Farmer Well,., when it was done it
made dear money, didn't it?
Banker Yes,-er that is, yes, I pre
sume it did.
Farmer Well,- if it made dear
money, didn't it depreciate the value
of my wheat and corn, and thi depre
ciate my labor?
Banker Y y-yes, b b but don't you
see you could b-b buy . more with the
dollar?
Farmer Yes, old hoss, but here's
whar' I've get ye. Hain't I got ter git
up a hear earlier in the morning, and
plow and hoe, and drag and sow,' and
dig and scrape a darned sight harder
and longer to get that a'r dollar than I
do for the cheap one? And when I get
my old dew-claws on to it, b'gosh, I
find it won't pay only about half as
many debts as the cheap one. You see
we hayseeds have tumbled onto your
little scheme. We have found some
mighty funny things in this 'ere same
silver question. We notice one thing :
You old big, fat, well dressed fellows
can't give us any reason why silver was
demonetized. We kinder hitch onter
another snap : That when silver was
demonetized it increased the value of
your bonds about $300,000,000. While
it increased the value of all the nation
al securities in proportion, it decreased
my ability to pay my debts just one
half, and, of course, as I pay my debts
by my labor on my farm and value my
farm by what it brings me, it decreased
in value in proportion. Mr. Banker,
your scheme of demonetization stole
$1,500 out of the value of my $5,000
farm. You don't cai e who was robbed
on our side of the fence, did you? And
you and your kind have been lying to
and deceiving us critters and keeping
us blinded to cur own interests for fif
teen years. But you can't do it any
longer. Good day, sir. The Leader,
Belmontt N. F.
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ROWAN COUNTY HEARD FROM.
Propst Alliance, Rowan Co.
Whereas, We, the officers and
members of Propst Alliance, No. 1,588,
in session this the 24th day of March,
1892, do
Resolve, That we go on record as en
dorsing our noble leaders, L. L. Polk,
C. W. Macune, Ben Terrell, 'Jerry
Simpson, Marion Butler, and all other
of our patriotic sons enlisted in the
cause of truth, right and justice, and
tender them our respects for their un
compromising fight in behalf of the
sons of toil.
2. That we unanimously endorse the
Ocala platform and especially the Sub
Treasury plank, also the proceedings
of the late St. Louis Conference, the
platform of which is justly styled "The
Second Declaration of American Inde
pendence," and that we urge upon our
brethren everywhere to wake up and
be doing before we are crushed entirely
under the iron heel of ODDression.and we
have the courage (and we hope all our
brethren have) to tell our enemies to
their teeth that when they attack our
leaders they attack us and what we
believe to be the best interests of the
great majority of the people of this
great country,
3. That we will press these demands
upon the public servants of tnis entire
nation untu we gee enure reuei. uuui
the oppressive burdens heaped upon us
by the party bosses and politicians.
4. That we will not support any can
didate of. any political party unless he
endorses and then stands squarely
upon the Ocala platform.
5. That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to tho Watchman and The Pro
gressive Farmer for publication to
show our brethren everywhere how
firm we stand, and that we hope every
Alliance in the Union will pass some
thing similar, to let the party bosses
and politicians know that the people's
eyes are being opened and that this
rule is fast coming to an end.
Frederick A. Setzer,
Alfred W. Kluttz,
Luther J. Ketchie,
Committee.
THE PUBLIC VOICE.
How may the Alliance and the
friends of reform best secure the recog
nition and enforcement of our prin
ciplesf ,
(A given space in this column will be
devoted weekly to answers to the above
question, from the friends of reform.
In order that the largest number may
nave a nearmg, we must ask tnat you
do not write more than twenty lines,
Sign your name tou jour answer. Nor
let us have your sincere andoaest
views.)
practice what you preach.
Semora, N. C.
Simply this, by faithfully practicing
what you preach. J. P. Rainey.
VOTE FOR THE EEST PARTY.
a My answer is, -vote for the party and
the men that endorses the demands of
the labor organizations. Pledges are
no good. Vote for men who are with
us. This is the oph ion of one who has
always voted the Democratic ticket,
but will hereafter vote for his home
and country. J. A. Loy.
VOTE WITH THE PEOPLE'S PARTY.
Michael, Davidson Co., N. C.
To get the needed relief we must vote
with the People's party. We have
tried the Republicanyparty 25 years. It
has done nothing buV legislate so as to
bind us with the fetters of theTtsenopo-
Iies, trusts, etc.
Modern democracy is but little bet
ter. The Democratic party has not
had much chance, it is true, but they
were in power a little while and made
but few changes. So I say we must
vote with a new party.
Geo. E. Hunt.
HOW TO SECURE THEM
In reply to your question, how to
get needed reform, 1 would say my
opinion is for the People's party not to
follow partisan newspapers and par-;
tisan leaders who think moro of party;
than they do of the interests of the
people ; also not attend their primaries,
and conventions but attend our own
primaries and ' conventions, and vch3n
the time comes to vote, vote solidly for
reform and never depend on either of
the old parties for reform, for they
have deceived us long enough. We
had as well depend on one as the other
they mean the same.
J. W. Beavers.
BLOT OUT THE OLD PARTIES.
Hillsboro, Orange Co., N. C. :
In reply to your question, "how
shall we best secure the enforcement
of our principles?" I would say that the
Alliance has done more to educate the
people in the science of economical gov
ernment than any one thing since the
war. The people have learned that it
is a condition that confronts us. The
remedy lies in a change of this condi
tion, remove the cause, blot cut the
two old parties, seek reform where it
can be found not" in Wall street nor
through the channels of a cold-blooded
money power. The Alliance is tho
only organization that has adopted our
principles. Stand by it and we havo
some hope; desert it and we will be tho
tool of plutocracy in tl e future as we
have been in the past. It seems to me
that twenty-five years' trial is enough
for any remedy to make a change. The
G. O. P.'s have changed it but lo! it is
for the worse. I
Yours fraternally,
J. H. Roberts.
how to do it. ;
Whiteville, Columbus Co., N. C. i
How can the wealth-producers, the
toiling masses, best obtain the essential
legislative relief, equal rights to all and
special privileges to none, the greatest
good to the greatest number? we en
dorse the answer, of the brethren from
that booming county of Brunswick and
send the voice of Colurnbu3. ' Ignore
the party whip of the old politicans
with the eame old tune of just now
wait until an off year. Attend every
lodge meeting and all the primaries,
after re iding the reform papers, and
in a loud voice keep up the cry, money,
land and transportation. All aspirants
having moral honesty equal to their
own -convictions before asking office
should not feel ashamed but with pen
and ink define his position entirely for
or against our demands, for he who is
not with us is against us. In the open
field meet them boldly ,on a fair and
noble issue, and you will still be tabooed
as anti-federalist or leopies panyy
born of necessity, for the welfare of
some States, and no detriment to our.
Remembering that it is the man with
patched pants and hungry children,
the sun man on credit for his future
crop so important that must have re
lief, inspire him with courage in the
nominee racket, and let him feel your
warm elbow touch at the ballot-box
J. F. Hareell. ;
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from now until Nov. 15tfc
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