The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-08-08

Nd''' but we have Il clubbing
e@i, n'''nent by which we cal
. s,, ,a 81, paper to all subseri
! oii CAUCASIAN at 81
bers OF IHt3E' These who Ar.
cents per year. u rAuc,s,.x car
not taking The I. 1t,r IN. a.,
get both pape:s tzm
year only for S2.hO. a,
The Alliance and its LegitirE
A member Of the
writing to the Scotland
Democrat, puts forward en-
very wholesome ideas. Wey s''
nearly all his article |,
It IL an axiom, al old al a., ~
culture itself, that all prosperi9rss
must come from the soil. II TIL :
cultivation OF the soil shoult !
cease for one year there wOulJ,
result a general famine'and starr
walton among the people.
Whatever then increases the pro
ductions Of the soil ard improves
agriculture benefits the farmer
and adds to the general good
and augments the wealth of the
State. Combination has become
the great idea Of this age among
all classes interests whether the
end in view is good or evil. At
last the farmers are more than
ever waking up to this great
means of advancing agriculture
and of self protection and Of
social improvement. Hence the
organization, in the past, OF
Farmers Clubs, of Agricultural
societies, of GraDgers, OF Farm
ers Institutes, and more recently
of the Farmers Alliance. They
are all based upon the grand
idea Of modern progress that in
union there is strength, ad-
vancement, knowledge. imprOv-
elnent, social benefit, and
elevation of society. These
voluntary associations of the
farmers are educators and
beacon lights in any community
whenever properly managed
and not allowed to be perverted
from their Legitimate aims and
designing men do not get hold OF
them and use them for unworthy
purposes and self-aggrandise-
ment. The farmers of North
Carolina, more generally honest
and unsuspecting than any other
class of people, were never so
much aroused and SO we'll organ
lied as they now are by means
of the Farmers Alliance.
! OF the $4,000 members III
this State, nearly all are farmers
and farm labore:s. There ane
nbc ut eighteen hundred sub-al-
liances scattered all over the
State. Never were the farm ers
30 united and so potent for good
as now. But the potency of the
alliance for good renders it also
potent for evil, if it fails tC
adhere strictly to its princi plies
and high purposes of advan
cling agriculture and or protec'
ton to far ming interests. The
; Farmers Alliance is in its in
fancy i'll our State.
! Discuss questions of politica
economy, brethren, stand NJ
for the rights of farmers, appea
= to our State Legislature aud tC
Congress to legislate for tn,
farmers and strive with you
might and main to adopt tn
best farming methods, and L
improve the general condition
OF impoverished and down
trOdden farmers. DO you
utmost in this needed ant
noble line of defence and pro
lection, and improvement. Blu
for the sake Of the farmers them
selves and OF our useful AM
and growing organization, keel
: designing men out of it, an,
give politicians and Office seek
l ers everywhere to understand
t that the Farmers Alliance shall
| not be used for their advanc
, ement. or for the selfish nom
, nation and purpose of'any can
didate or partisan Office seeke;
The stronger the organization
the more danger of designing
and ambitious men getting int
our ranks and seeking to u.s.
the institution for unrighteou
k objects and selfish ends, No,
in the calm of politics i'll on
!, State, is the time to entrenc'
IS ourselves in safety and thus t
:, avoid the boys and shoals, an
:. quicksands that may engulpI
us unless we are made of tn
prope: metal, and heed tn
!; signal danger.
'e The fact that lawyers an
!. merchants are not admitte
into our order is no ground fo
prejudice against them. The
b are necessary factors in con
d munity, and largely con
pose our best citizenship, an
r are indispensable 10 society
The lime has come in the histt
ry of infant alliance orga,
lie ization, in this State, for mem
bers Of the order to cease the
j, opposition to lawyers and me,
j. chants iii beStowing patronag