The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1889-03-14
ESSAY
Read before Bogue CuIley Alliance ~
Elisha I. Boucher

Read before B0gue Culley Aiiiahcc ~
Elisha I Boucher.
The following was read at the Ali
ance meeting on March 2nd and is.
published by order Of said organiza-
ton:
Subject: Can we afford to sacri-
fee one day in each month to attend
our SURVEILLANCE"
Sacrifice means for Ms 10 give up or
lay down any work we are doing
and attend our Alliance. That is our
duty and if we don't attend we don't
do our duty. If we expect to make a
success i'm our Alliance each one of us
must do our duty. Wemust sacrifice
one day in each month and come to
every meeting. We must work to
that point through the week, SO that
when the hour rolls round we may
come TO our Alliance. We must sacri-
flee ourselves for the Alliance, if we
are to gain anything from this organ
ization There are men is this ALI
ance who, if they have any work to do
when the time for our meeting
comes, will stay at home. They care
more for the little work than they do
for this great organization, which is
doing more good for the laboring
class of people Of this country than 10
times the work they could do in the
time they spend in meeting here.
Some will saw, "Oh, there viii be
plenty there to-day without me and |
will stay at home and do little work
I've got to do. | don't do much good
there no how: in fact, none" If you
think that you are badly fooled. If
YOU do nothing else but come, probably
YOU viii learn something. Your APP
pearance viii encourage those who are
present. 1t win show them that YOU
feel an interest in the laboring class
of people of your country but if you
fail to come we know that you will
not do any good If you fail to sacri-
flee yourself, how can YOU blame
others for not coming? What is one
day in each month? We will never
miss the time and we will certainly be
benefited by il. II we will come 10
this Alliance when the regular meet
ing day comes round just think a
moment and YOU viii see that all Of us
have work to do and we must not stay
away from this Alliance on that ac-
count. All Of us have to work and If
we don't sacrifice ourselves to spend
Just one day in each month, we are
deceiving our members, we are put
ting our time where it ought not to be.
We are failing TO come up to our duty.
We are going back on our promises.
II any Of us are sick we are eXcus-
able but five are well, We are not.
1t is just as much important for us to
attend our Alliance as il is forus to go
to the fields and work We must
sacrifice if we are to accomplish the
work we want to do. II we don't
sacrifice ourselves and come to the
Alliance we become worthless. We
are a benefit 70 n0oue belonging to this
Alliance. We show no interest in our
Alliance at ALL We are like the
bIighted figtree. We produce moth
ing. We become worthless as a dead
limb ON a live tree. We must all
come to the Alliance. We must make
it look bright in place Of gloomy We
must ivcn it up instead Of deadeuing
it, 1--we don't sacrifice ourselves to
attend what do we join forY Why
do We spend our money TO come INTO
the Alliance if we don't expect to at
teud regularly We do not join the
Alliance to make things lie. We join
il to attend it. to support it, to help
one another. We join it to save so
much labor for nothing. We join it
to bring down good. We join the
Alliance to keep the middle man from
getting our profits. We must attend
regularly to keep up with the times.
We must keep the merchants from
cheating us out of onr money. We
join the Alliance TO break down the
big trusts that are trying to break the