The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-23

have had enough of their groans and
grunts and sighs and evil forebodings.
A brighter day is beaming upon us,
and we may bask in its delightful
sunshine and catch the inspiration of
new hope and realize the grandeur
of our possibilities even now. Don't
whine and whimper any longer.
1--WE may plead for the right
Till our heads grow white,
But the stern demand
OF our good right hand
Are worth whole years OF prating."
There is no use in waiting for Con.
gress or the Legislature, or for any
man or set of men to solve the prob
lens of life for us. / know man
who devotes the most of his time in
worrying himself and his neighbors
nearly to death, trying to get Congress
to make money more plentiful, and
the poor fellow has not earned a
single dollar in twelve months, except
when his wife hires him to hush up.
1t is supreme folly to expect men
of other callings, with their costly
outfits, and contending as they do with
the sharpest kind of competition with
other men in their own line, to know
much about the needs of the farmer.
They are intensely concerned about
their own affairs, and in the great
majority of cases, here ends their
research and knowledge.
Ny brethren, the time has fully
come when you must see for yourself,
think for yourself, and be up and
doing for yourself. 1 know you have
been delegating to other men these
absolutely essential points in self-pre-
servation, and I will readily admit
that you would look upon it as real
hardship to be compelled to do five min
utes of intense, hard thinking, as to
methods, the hows and the reasons
why. You are so used to hiring Mr..
Somebodyelse to do all this drudgery
for you, that I fear there are some
among US yet who are still wavering
and undecided whether to contentedly
remain in the back-yards of creation
and continue to live. on garbage and
slops, or come out and declare their
manhood and strike for a glorious in
dependence.
Oh, my friends, why do we linger
around the rusty old pots of bondage
any longer7
The beautiful fields of promise are
waving us joyous welcome. Let us
60 over and possess the land, with all
of its fruits and flowers and milk and
honey. There are giants in the way,
it is true, and we shall have to con.
tend heroically for every inch of
ground and endure hardships; but
this self-sacrifcing devotion to duty
will be doubly recompensed by the
glories of triumphant victory. A
few of these obstacles in our way may
be briefly mentioned: Indifference,
ignorance, laziness, wastefulness and
slip-shod methods. These frightful
monsters have broken our ranks all
along the line, and bound, hand and
foot, thousands of our comrades and
borne them off, limp and helpless,
and buried them in the rubbish of
poverty and rags.
Let us, my Alliance brethren, arm
and equip an army, full and strong,
to march on these vile enemies of
mankind, recapture our lost comrades,
give the enemy battle, and in the
name of the Lord of Hosts, drive
him from our land.
Fall in fall in the call obey
Marching, marching along;
Let conscience have the right of way,
Marching, marching along
And when at last the battles won,
Marching, marching along;
The Lord himself shall say, S Well done
Marching, marching along
Then march on, steady on the left
March on, steady on the right,
The Lord of Hosts is by your side
To grid you with his might"
Every father and mother in the
land is a recruiting officer for this
grand army, and the farm homes, the
schools and Alliances are the training
barracks for the recruits that shall
continue to swell our ranks.
Come, my poor, desponding brother,
give US your hand, and let the inspir-
ing thrill of an invinclple courage
electrify your whole being by the
power of united force.
Although we are all familiar enough
with the oft-repeated saying-in union
there is strength-there is not one in
a thousand that comprehends the
lmmensity of its possibilities. Rail
road men see its power; trade unions
understand it; the commanding Gen
eral OF an army understands it and
throws his solid columns of soldiers
against the enemy and forces his way
through to victory. He comprehends
IN Its fulness the truthfulness of
united we stand, divided we fall
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