The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26

exempt all personal property not sub
iect to execution-and that the rate
of interest be fixed at six per cent.
regular and eight per cent. special,
with a penalty of forfeiture of both
interest and principal,
The resignation of President Jack
SOL, of the Georgia Alliance, is much
talked about. 1t is rumored that there
were matters back of the surface and
that there were deeper reasons for his
resignation than his opposition to the
exchange. Vice President Livingston
has succeeded him, and will hold until
August. when the Alliance meets.
Among the names suggested for per-
manent president are, W. j. Northen,
L. F. Livingston, Felix Corrupt and
R. w. Everett of Polk. The indi-
cations are that there will be a sharp
fight, but the friends of the Alliance
saw that there will be no serious
division, and that the Alliance men
will march together for victory.
Hon. Felix Corrupt reports nineteen
counties paid their assessments for the
Georgia Exchange, 100000. Some
counties that subscribed $1,000 have
not yet sent in. MI. Corrupt hopes to
get $50, 900 within the next sixty
days. He will then advertise for bids
from various Georgia cities for the
location, and hopes to get $50, 900
from this source. He says eve have
$4,000 Alliance men. If we get the
trade of only half of these, it will
make whatever city we locate in the
central trading point in Georgia. I
am as certain that the Farmers Ex-
change can be made a financial sue
cess, besides benefting the farmers,
as | am that any business On earth can
be run successfully. AS long as I am
at the head of the committee it shall
be run accurately and without loss"
The Hancock County Alliance hits
the nail on the head. All Alliance
resolutions are good, but how will
they be enforced 3? Hancock county
passes this resolutions: Resolved, That
every member Of the Hancock County
Alliance be requested to raise abund.
ant provisions and food crops during
the present year. That any member
failing to make proper effort to com
ply with this, be requested to make
satisfactory explanation for such fail
ure. Third. Any member who re-
fuses to comply with the above reso-
luton be expelled from the Alliance.
Fourth. That we will use avery effort
to make all manures on our farms,
and avoid the purchase of guano as
much as possible" These resolutions
mean business. This is cooperation
that c~o-operates, and we would like to
see every Alliance in Georgia pass the
same resolution.-Southern Farm.
Max DeVereaux in the Southern
Mercury argues against the combina-
ton of the Alliance with the National
Wheel. He says: The Alliance has
done her work we'll and has her or
ganization as near perfection as Cir
cumstances will allow, and | am afraid
that if all these changes are to be
made, confusion will arise and the
progress of the order will be lmpeded
to some extent. / realize more and
more every day that a great mistake
was made in agreeing to a change Of
name. | do not believe Texas will
give up the word "Alliance." 1t
means too much, and has become a
part and parcel of the language Of
the brotherhood. The Alliance being
the stronger organization by odds
should have retained her name, and
who will not agree that alliance" is
stronger than "union."
Again | want to ask, that since the
name has been changed and three or
ders are to be merged into one, why
should the charter of the National
Alliance be the one chosen to have
changed p? Why could not President
Jones have been empowered to have
the charter of the Agricultural Wheel
or the other order changed 2 Have
they no charters? If not, let ours
stand as it is. My thick head thinks
that that which is needed is an en-
tirely new charter for a new organiza-
ton. We Alliance people do not
want u charter tempered with.
Here is what the Minnesota farm
ers claim they have accomplished by
their Alliance for practical legislation:
During the nearly five years active
existence of the Farmers Alliance in
the State, much has been done to re-
lieve the people of the unjust bur-
dens which have been put upon them
by unrighteous combinations of CAPT.
tai. The Minneapolis Miller's Asso-
citation, which then held despotic sway
over the wheat markets, has become
a thing of the past. Railroad rates
have been greatly reduced; discrimi-
nations nrohihitnd. q hoard Of Po;1