The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-29
TIE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, JANUARY 20, 1889.

-Davie County Alliance, in session
a 9Th inst, endorsed unanimously the
demands Of the State Alliance upon the
Legislature, in regard to giving away con-
Wet labor, public officials accepting free
passes over railroads, &c.
AT a meeting of Buffaloe Ford ALI
ance, Randolph county, on the 10th inst,
after endorsing the demands of the State
Alliance, a resolution was adopted asking
the Legislature to so amend the school
law as to require the teaching of the ele-
mentary principles Of the science of agri-
culture in our common schools.
Morgan Hill Alliance, of Buneombe
county, at it's last regular meeting, by
resolution, instructed their members of
the Legislature to use their influence to
procure the construction of a line of rail-
road from Asheville to Cranberry also, to
their best endeavors to have the pub
:Sic highways worked by taxation.
At the last meeting of Chalk Level
Alliance, of Durham county, a resolution
was adopted protesting against the repeal
of the Mecklenburg road law, as asked for
by the Durham County Alliance. Such
repeal would be highly detrimental to the
interests of Durham township, and, to a
considerable extent, to other townships.
At a regular meeting of Moore Hill
Alliance, Moore county, January 10th
inst, the demands. of the State Alliance
were unanimously endorsed. A resolu-
ton was also adopted asking the Legis-
lature to enact such a law as will compel
railroads running through Moore county
to pay full value for all damage done to
live stock.
The Jones County Alliance, consider
ing the homestead law the parent of the
present burdensome mortgage system,
and that it has a tendency to drive CAPT
tai and manufacturing enterprises from
the State, resolved to ask its repeal at the
hands of the present Legislature, and re-
quests the cooperation of all Alliances in
the State.
State Line Alliance, Richmond county,
by resolution passed a few days ago,
enters its earnest protest against the Gus
tom of the Legislature Of paying per diem
and mileage to defeated contestants for
present body, in the name of the over
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a law to prevent it in the future.
Dry Creek Alliance, of Chatham
county, memoralizes the General Assem-
bly, Of North Carolina to amend the pres
ent school law so that each county shall
appropriate not less than one dollar per
scholar, and that the money be paid direct
from the Sheriff to the school committee
of each district, the committee to give a
sufficient bond for the security of said
money.
-Stanly county Alliance, at a meeting
held on the 4th instant, petitions the pres
ent General Assembly to enact some law
for the better protection of farmers from
loss in weighing bale cotton. They pro-
test against long-beam scales and ask that
only platform scales be used in weighing
cotton. They ask that all public ginners
be made sworn weighers, required to
mark and brand the dry weight on every
bale ginned, and that the same shall be
sold by said weight.
-Rockfsh Alliance, of Duplin county,
at a recent meeting, protested against the
coax1ng of able-bodied laborers of this
State to other States to work, leaving
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the old and infrm to be taken care of,
and requested the Legislature to enact a
law to remedy the evil; they further ask
that persons convicted of crime who are
unable to pay costs and fine be required
to work out the same on the roads, in
stead of being confined in Jail at the ex-
pense of the taxpayers; further ask, that
~able-bodied insolvent taxpayers be re-
CURED to work out the amount of their
taxes on the public roads.
AT a meeting of Brassfelds Alliance,
Granville county a series of resolutions
were adopted declaring it to be their pur-
pose to purchase no fertilizer from n
individual or company who refuse to sell
their goods through Alliance Agents; that
they will not buy from any fertilizer COM
oany that is or has been in any manner
connected with a trust, which has for
is object the advancing of the price of
yuano; that they will hereafter bestow
heir patronage upon honest North Caro-
ina companies, and other Southern manu-
.'acturers, so long as they steer clear of
trusts, and deal fairly with Alliance
and endorse the bold and patri-
'tic stand taken by Gov. Scales in regard
a railroad commission, &C., in his recent