The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-05-08
AN APPEAL.
Union Co., n. c., May 2, g

Union Co., N. c., May 2, 'ss.
Col. l.. L.. PoLK.-Dear Sir and
Brother:-A word to those who are
standing aloof: Brother farmers, the
Alliance is working like a charm, and
you need not doubt its Immortality,
for those great and good men who
created this noble system are not only
able to preserve but augment it and
we ask you to come in and join in
with us heart and hand. Do not stand
signing, wishing and waiting, but
come in and 60 to work with an
energy and perseverance that will set
every obstacle in the way of your sue
cess flying like leaves before a whirl
wind.
You may have ambition enough to
wish yourself on the topmost round Of
the ladder Of success, but if you have
not the requisite energy to commence
and enterprise enough to push ahead,
you will always remain at the bottom,
or at least on the lower rounds.
There is nothing more distasteful
than to see men of apparently good
abilities waiting for some one else to
do the work. Come in; be your own
helper. The spirit of the times de-
mands that those who rise in life must
not shrink back if they do, others
more enterprising will rush forward
to reap the profits it promised, and
you will be left behind.
Now, a word to the brethren of the
Alliance: Brethren, we are confronted
with two ends-success or failure.
To win the former, it requires no end
of labor and perseverance. We must
remember. that those who start for
glory must initiate the mettled hounds
of action, and must pursue the game
not only where there is a path, but
where there is none. We must learn
to leap and to creap; to conquer the
earth like Caesar; to fall down and kiss
it like Brutus; to throw their sword,
like Bennus, into the trembling scale;
or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels
from the doubtful hand of victory
while she is hesitating where to be-
stow them.
He that would win success in life
must make perseverance his bosom
friend. Let us be like Caesar; when
he stumbled on shore, he stumbled for
ward.
"Life is too Short" says a shrewd
thinker, for us to waste one moment
in deploring u lot. We must go
after success, since it will not come to
us, and we have no time to spare" If
you wish to succeed, you must be
alive, be patient and work hard.
There never was a time in the worlds
history when high success in any pro-
fession or calling demanded harder or
more earnest labor than now. 1t is
impossible to succeed in a hurry.
What matter if a round does break,
or a foot slip, such must be. Some
persons sheer at these efforts that we
are making, as little things, trifes un-
worthy of their notice. Let them
remember that human life is made up
Of trifes, as the pence make the pound,
the minutes the hours, and the little
drops fill the mighty ocean; so it re-
mains, then, for you to do the best
you can under all circumstances, re-
Wondering the ace. is not always to
the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
nor wealth to the man Of understand
ing. Labor may. be a burden and a
chastisement, but it is also an honor
and a glory; without it nothing can be
accomplished. All that, to man, is
great and precious, is acquired only
through labor; without it, civilization
would relapse into barbarism. 1t
whitens the sea with sails and stretches
bands of iron across the continent. 1t
is labor that drives the pillow, s~catters
the seed and causes the fields to wave
in golden harvest for the good of man.
So, in this day so many things are
clamoring for attention. The first
law of success to our organization
may be said to be concentration. We
must learn to bend our energies to n
point, and to go directly to that point,
looking neither to the right or the
left. The man who would get along
must single out his speciality and into
that must pour the whole stream OF