The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
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III NS OSS%Ay Va mdILIm
county, has noticed in The PRoGREss1vE
FARMER some talk from an cold
Fogy,"'.: and says he likes his style
splendidly and. wishes all Alliance men
were like him. He closes BY asking
this question: What should be done
with an Alliance when its members
are disclosing the secrets of the order
and the membership refuses to expel
them ?" The Co. Com. on the Good of
the Order should investigate it.
The Secretary of Brown Greek
Alliance, Union county, says his ALI.
ance, which has a membership of so
has paid $50 to the State Business
Agency Fund and suggests that if
every Alliance in the State will paw
zone dollar for each member, and one
dollar, for every ten male members out
of their treasury, the fund can be
raised, and urges the brethren every.
where to go to work and do it at once
in order that the Alliance cause may
go forward
Union Ridge Alliance, No. ITO,
of Alamance county, being thoroughly
convinced, says the Secretary, that their
way of farming will not do, as they
become poorer each year, unanimously
passed the following resolutions: Re-
SolUed, That we will use less CONNER,
cial fertilizer, and endeavor to pay
cash for allswe do use, and abandon
the mortgage system. 3D. That we
will not plant more than eight thou
sand hills of tobacco to the hand, and
thus cut down the production so that
we may receive living prices.
Tile Alliance in Iowa and Min
nesota are making preparations to
avoid being victimized by sthe, binder
Irvine trust, who have secured all the
stock of Irvine as well as the raw ma
terial for manufacture and propose to
extort a fabulous price from the con.
sumers. The farmers propose chang.
ing their elf-binders to headers and
self-rakes and not use the Irvine. 1t
seems that the manufacturers of har-
vesting machinery were not looking
out for the interests of their custom.
ers or they would have laid in a large
stock. Every farmer should try to
avoid paying the robber price by using
some other method if possible.
Secretary G.. II. Bains, of ALI.
ance No. 661, Nash county, says his
Alliance heartily concurs with the
brethren all over the State in all reso.
lutions in opposition to to trusts, com
blnes, etc., and is willing to suffer for
a while rather than submit to robbery.
He says: "Our Alliance wishes to
make a contribution for the relief of
Bro. VIM. Andrews, of Piney Grove
Alliance, who is said, it is left in a
very destitute condition. Please state
in your next paper to whom and where
to send contributions for him. THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER viii cheerfully.
receive and forward contributions to
Bro. Andrews.
Silver Spring and other Alliances
in the State are making subscriptions
to the Business Agency Fund from
their treasures. This is the proper
spirit, and while we fear that in SOM
instances brethren, who ought to make
Individual subscriptions, will seek to
avail themselves of this action as an
excuse for not doing SO, yet it is equally
true that hundreds of the poor breth.
ren who are unable TO make an indi-
vidual subscription viii feel that they
have been enabled to contribute their
mite in this way. We endorse and
commend any plan that may enlist the
interest and cooperation of all the
brotherhood, especially if it tends
more clearly define their IDENTITY with
the various undertakings of our order.
j. A. Kimball, of Rock Hill ALI
ance, Warren county, writing of mat
tiers concerning the agricultural class,
asserts that the Farmers Alliance was
organized for the express purpose OF
helping the pockets of the poor OPP
pressed farmers, and says if they ever
needed help they need it just now.
+" Though we be confronted by hard
times" says he, @yet If we will pull
together and make an united effort,
God, the giver of every good and per-
feet gift, will crown US with success.
Press on; be cautious but determined
in your plans. and purposes, and VIC
tory is ours. We are at the bottom
of the ladder now, so to speak, but let
us never stop until we have reached
the top. Then It will come to pass,
and not until thens that the sunlight
of triumph will make our he> os swell
with gladness."
Deputy Organizer, J. R. Evans,
tof Davidson county, reports the or
ganization Of the following Alliances:
Kid Alliance, with II members, R. P.
Helper, President, and ]. R. Beck,
Secretary; Liberty Alliance, with %