The western sentinel., 1888-12-13
THE FARMERS. ALLtANcE.
what's BeIng Done and said by its VI cm-
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/ The Thonasviile Lodge organized
last May with six members, and now
has en-: oiled over fifty
! The Mecklenburg county Alliance
will SOON build and operate a large
roller fl,urlng mill at Charlotte
Rosebud Alliance, NJ. 700, Wayne
county, organized May 10Th, with six
members; ROW hunters sixty four.
The Farmers Aliispce propose to
start a Plug fobaeee factory IN Dur
ham, also i smoking t,baceo factory.
Seere5ary Beattice, OF Beaver Dam
Alilancs. -Cleyeiand county, writes
that his L.dge, which was organized
IN tJune last now numbers seventy
male andsplne female members.
a Farner's Alliance store has been
built at s5iier city by several Of, the
sub-Alliances in that section, and will
be opened for business in few days.
Mr.. r. K. Siier will keep it as busl-
ness agent.
Messrs. jerome Dowd and E. fI
Hunter will begin the publication Of
an Alliance weekly in Charlotte, with
III one or Two weeks 1t is to be the
organ Of the Meckienbnrg county Al
lance and it hopes to extend TO tue
Alliances Of adjoining counties.
Gol. Wm. Allen, progressive
Northern man living in Iredell coun-
ty, writes the La,tdmark: After oh
serving It's progress attentiyely [ am
now CONVINCED that | was mistaken in
my earlier j dgment, aud | believe
the speed. est way for farmers to help
themselves and advance their material
welfare is through the Alliance. of
which am pleased to say [ have Just
become member.
The Fayetteville Observer learns
that the Alliance has taken steps in
regard to the planting of wheat, that
each member has been requested to
plant a certain acreage or number of
bushels. 1t Is rather late now to sow,
but perhaps In this latitude the frosts
may not be severe enough to iniure 1t,
but 1t would have been better to have
planted earlier, SO the roots could
have taken good hold.
The Farmers Alliances are send
ing funds to Major Graham, the State
business agent. He Las already re-
ceived a large sum- The Alliance
members claim that they are already
more independent than farmers VITO
are not in that order. They save
large sums by buying for cash or
through their agents, whereas Others
who deal with commission merchants
have to pay very onerous rate of in
/ terest. a4 s'2
/! Col, L L. Polk, editor of the Raj
eigh Pfogressipe Farate4, has gone to
/ attend the meeting of the National
Alliance at Meridian, Miss. He is
first vice president of the Alliance and
| chairman OF its executive committee.
Col. Polk will also attend the South
ern Immigration Convention, shortly
TO be held at Montgomery, A la, as a
delegate at large for the State of
North Carolina.
Ia Daplin county, writes Secretary
Il. ID. Pearsail, cur Alliance continues
to grow, and | do no hesitate to say
that ere another twelve months pass,
a majority of cur farmers will be en-
rolled as. members. There will be no
co operative store started; merchants
are already making bids for Alliance
trade. More small grain will be
| planted than for any year for the past
| fifteen, per force of short corn crop
and a growing disposition tofaise as
nearly all home supplies as possible.
Pine straw. ..bagging is taking the place
of jute.
President Alexander advises against
C; operative stores. He says: The
L armers' Alliance has no machinery
for creating new merchants, and /
would respectfully suggest t. all those
members who contemplate organizing
| CO operative stores 10 consider the
situation well. The only plan of CO
operative stores that has succeeded (of
| which | have any knowledge) is the
Rochdale plan Of Eogland Its only
suited to densely populated districts,
where operatives are paid in cash at
least once a month. A number of
them were started in this country some
years ago, but do not know of any
now. 1t may be easy ito start a store, :"
but, it may not be SO easy for the stock
holdersSl and particularly those who
indorse for it, to- retire from it IN as
good humor as when they organized
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We would call attention of our read
ers to the resolutions passed by the
| convention of the Farmers Alliance
| men held In Durham on the 9th and
published below: 49,
WHERE'S, There is a large quanti-
ty Of almost worthless tobacco in the
hands of Alliance men In our State,
therefore be it
Resotued, That we will endeavor, as
far as practicable, TO use our low
priced tobacco on our lands and urge
our brother Alliance men over the
State to do the same.
Resolued, That we recommend the
reduction Of acreage in tobacco by our
farmers, SO that they can make less to-
bacco and make it better.
We think the above resolutions are
.sensi bic, and at the SINE time it does
not Of necessity, imply that they must
make less poundss but makesthe tobac
co better and bestowsthe same amount
of labor on a sfaia Ter acreage, cultivate
it beslers and producel a better class OF
tobacco thatfwitia bring nlDre. money!
and keep ppsted as tu what kind of to-
bacco is best to cultivate. Divide
your crops. We want sweet filler
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