The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-15
A GALA DAY IN FENDER.
SEPTEMBER 25, '89.

Mr.. EDIToR:-This has been a proud
day for the Alliance of Fender. The
lowering storms of the month fed at
it's approach and in the blue and
bending heavens the sun shone with
burning splendor upon the autumnal
landscape, upon ripping stream and
rushing river, upon fowery field and
quiet woodland, upon the brave sons
and beautiful daughters of this and
adjoining counties, who met at Viii
lards, the home of refinement and
boundless hospitality, to plant anew
upon the outer walls of Gibraltar the
defiant banners of our great and in
vincible order.
While the golden air quivered with
the soft and waving strains of music,
the procession formed-a procession
of farmers, their wives and daughters,
men, the peers in intellect to the king
Hest of the land; women as pure and
beautiful as the worshipped queens of
any social realm, bound by a common
interest in a cause dear as personal
freedom and lovely as the liberties of
our common land. .
Arrived at the speakers stand, our
genial friend DR.. Powers introduced
in a peculiarly fit and elegant manner
that able and eloquent gentleman,
DR.. S. S. Satchwell. His speech sat-
isfed ever that expectant audience,
conversant as they were with his
high and deserved reputation for
mastery ability. He depicted the
deplorable condition of farmers with
out regard to section OF production; a
failure of seasons and resultant short
crops brought no better prices; that
among the millionaires there was not
a single farmer; proved that the rem
edy was in their hands and it's appli-
cation through the Alliance. The
eloquent speaker paid a glowing
tribute to Southern women and urged
young men with all his powers to stay
in and stand by North Carolina. He
complained most justly of the treat
ment which farmers received at the
hands of their public servants. He
spoke of the recent appointments upon
State boards by the Governor in
which the farming community had no
representative. It required, Mr..
Editor, no prophetic inspiration to
point to the fulfllment of our purpose
that the day shall come when these
abuses will end, for above that ap-
plauding audience foated a banner of
cotton bagging, fit emblem of that
mighty power which has humbled the
most imperious trust of modern time
and which will yet bury in ignoble
obscurity every man that sights or
defes its power.
He was followed by B. F. Grady,
Esq, of Duplin, who showed the
enormous sums of money locked up
by tariff and internal revenue taxa
ton, who pleaded for better methods
and revealed throughout his chaste
address the most earnest sympathy
with every effort to elevate our noble
pursuit.
When these had concluded, the
crowd loudly called for Hon. G. W.
McClammy, our Congressional cincin-
natus, who responded as he only can
who, for twenty years and more has
gloriously battled for the peoples
rights.
The feast of reason ended the flow
of soul began, as the vast throng
under the leadership of Carroll and
Powers and other courtly spirits at
tackled the groaning table and routed
that hobgoblin of profound states.
manship, which asserts that overpro-
duction is the sole grievance from
which we suffer. Great ships sink
ing upon a smooth and shining sea
Millions of widows, hungry and naked
amid granaries bursting with golden
grain. Verify, we are seeking the
course for ourselves, as trusts and
combines and their aiders and abettors
wherever found. shall yet learn to