Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-07
THE ALLIANCE.
what the Papere Say OF tho Progress OF the
Movement

Milford, Ellis county, has an alliance.
Mil Creek alliance has sixty-two mem
bers.
The Farmers alliance Of Ellis county
has 1900 members.
The Farmers alliance nj Mansfield will
establish II cotton-y0rd and grain-housc
/ 10 Tie near future.
Bethel alliance in Ellis county met the
| 18th and initiated fifteen members. IL
now numbers over 100.
I Friendship alliance No. bgs has pre-.
terrod charges against Albert Dobbns for
/ clipping, leaving just debts unpaid.
/ There ere said TO be about 500 alliance
members IN Kaufman county, and the
| membership IT, rapidly on the increase.
The Farmers alliance Of Faunin county
have selected the site for $50, 600 MILL
within the corporate limits of Bonham
/ The farmers alliance seems to bc 10
ing on quietly. The quiet may be indi
cat.yo of something, because it IL said
THAT deep watcr runs still Waco Ex-
amiuer.
/ j W. King, writing from Grand Saline,
Van Iandt county, says: eve organized
/ a Farmers alliance here recently. |
think every farmer in the state ought to
help In this work"
The Farmers alliances and the Knights
OF Labor lodges continue 10 Increase IN
members and influence They will bc felt
in Texas politics nest year. Mark the
pred'ction.- Paris News.
The Farmers alliance win do good
work Tor themselves and the county If
they succeed In the establishment OF
houring-mlls aud cotton wards upon the
cooperative Plan Greenyillc lIerold.
Tho iarmrrs' alliance men mean bust.
ness. Those opposed to them may laugh
ut them, may rldiculo their plans as being
unicaslble, may taunt them by throwing |
up to thcm the old story that "iGrmers |
won't stick" Some OF them maybe will |
not stick; some may get wcok-kneed and |
thicker" aud drop out Of the ranks, but /
there win be left the good and true to .
contend for their rights and make the
world acknowledge them.
The Farmers alliance Of Bosque county
are boycOtting the firm OF Kcllum &
Rotan, wholesale grocers ut Waco.
Their fca4on for il is that this firm re-
fused TO seil them supplies. and that the
objection urged by kellum & Rotan TO
making the sale TO them, was TINT the
alliance are not dealers and that they
would be no more entitled to make pur-
choses than any other private individual,
whilst Kellnm s. Rotan sell only to deal.
ers. We think the alliance il wrong, for
the firm have repeatedly refused for years
to sell at retail Bolton Reporter.
The Farmers alliance Mt their meeting
last Saturday discussed the question as
to whether or not they should have more
than one store of the same line OF mer- h
chandise in the same town at which TO do
their trading. Some members have failed i
to find what they want at the alliance
stores, and others have TO wait several
hours before they are accommodated
when business IS crowded; and, besides,
u Is thought hy many that little comps
lition might have salulary cffcct my
now The meeting adjourned withouc
feaching any conclusion WdXahachIe {
Tile Farmers alliance is in earnest {
lhout building The fine min OF which i'd
las been talking, and for which purpose /
/ has been working. The object In put I
ing up null is not the breaking down 1
lf the Interest OF any one else, but the
)ulldlns up OF the country and the IN
crest of the whole people. There Is q
iNH'| Va ''DH' uud buttc VIII nc Du~l-
lesS FOR several good mills. Wheat [
irowlog and the manufacture OF
Tour viii be one of the
great interests OF this country, and while
here are but few men who could, OF 4
heir own means, start into operation
such millsaS the country demands. vet, )
~ number combining their means, ms
me members OF the alliance propose to 4
10, one or more llrst-class mills can be =
)uut N Fannin county and this may lead I
o the establishment of other manufacture /
ne interests The time win come when \
'ahnin county will need aud can have 4
'otton factories and woolen-mills. r
vhen the products Of the !
arm can be manufactured here at home, =
md the building of flour mills is but the | i
lrst step that leads to other and greater !
hings. But all these things cannot be /
accomplished In day; 1t takes toll and /,
,atlence and time to accomplish any !
hlng that Is worth doing. Disappoint- :
ncnts often come, and too many get o
ilsheartencd because they cannot accom-
Dish In day that which il will
equlfe continued perseverance, for Y
whole year TO do; but to those who are
althiui, and persevere unto the end in :
very good cause which they undertake. },
sure and just reward viii be given y
lhen, we say, success TO the alliance and )
o every organization or individual enter n
rise IN every undertaking in which thew 4,
ngage that Is calculated to build up the h
ountry promote the happiness, prosper n
W ana Improvement Of the people, men
any, morally, socially, physically and ne
Bonham News.