South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-07-05
Organize Alliances.

The following letter from Col. G. L. Bar,
bee, on the organization of Farmers AlH-
ancee, is taken from the Petersburg (ya.)
Messenger
1T is strangely paradoxical that while lhe
| trite old saying, lin union there Is strength
il universally admitted to be true throu OH
| out the world, ard without debate; aud
viii Let 1t is also Bible truth that tho great
Redeemer Of the world prayed for the living
! and undying perpetuity Of this union "a
mopg pen more than eighteen hundred
years ago. as indicated in John II, verses
20 and 2lJ when He prayed that they all be
| one. as He and His Father are one;' and
which prayer He uttered (as a warning to us)
in the midst Of strifes and enmities. Jealous.
les, wraths. factions divisions and heresies,
still men are 10 be found whose actions
would lead 10 the belief that they look upon
this eternal axiom not only as problematical
in truth but as the vain, senseless aud un
| meaning utterances of foolish meu
Hence, Mr., Editor, during my varied ser.
| vice as the chCGen head of our Alliance in
| Virginia. il has been my good pleasure. al.
though sometimes greatly at the sacri ice
OF personal comforts and pecuniary interests i,
to visit almost every portion of the State.
) chiefly for the purpose Of trying to impress
upon The minds of my hearers that In order
to make our organization . complete and
triumphant success, union and co operation
| together-close, compact and perpetual un.
| ion-was indispensable. Although there
are some who, as minated above, still
stout it out against U.S. and, infdel-likeJ care
for mono OF these things, am glad TO cay
and TO know that the masses are with is,
| and that pious and earnest benison5 OF mil.
| lions OF men and women abide with us all
over our land. In this grand and noble en-.
terpfise we are the people, and we are learn
ing every day that we have TO fight out the
| great battle that ia befo re us upon the line
| of indi ccOIn hla tpi0D and
! fall by the wavside and be buried at Apo
mattox. have been trying TO preach this
/ doctrine all over the State, and am preach.
ing IL still, feeling at the close Of every effort
/ like adding 10 il the words of the novelist,
! TO be continued in our next issue Go on,
beloved co'laborers, and continue TO preach
! it--preach IL by the light of the sun by day,
and by the light Of the moon by night.
Million Of earthly fields have been won by
it, and millions lost for the went OF It.
I without II there is no such thing az Far
mers Alliance in this world, and never will
bel Hear me, them oh readers Of the Mss
\ LESGER' when tell you as one standing, rs
! II were, near the shadows Of the little
noEnds that hide away tie dust Of his bu-
/ ried dead that there is safety from bondage
and slavery, from poverty and rags, no.
| where else save in the hands OF merciful
| God and Ia union and cooperation togeth-
erl
| Now, before ! close this Communication,
bave word to say In reference 20 deputy
| organizers holding Credentials signed by the
writer and o ur most excellent and hard,
working Secretary, Brother j. j. Silvey.
In my recent journeyings through the State
| lpurposely made IL my business 10 hunt
| them mp wherever aud wbsneyer 1t was
practicable TO DO 90. Well, II was my good
| fortune to find goodly nt}mber OF them.
In most instances found myself grasping
L I'D hor and hnr
long held fast 70 the pillow handle, the AK
the maui aud the gtubbing- hoe. On foot
| wading through mud and mire, faciog the
| piercing wind and the burning sGnshins,
some Of them we're trudging on 10 meet their
/ appointments, not knowing what would be-
fall them there. Successes and failures, JOYS
and sorrows. bright hopes aud 'disappoint-
Inenisi al were before them. But they were
| pressing onward, and like model pictures OF
a noble heroism, battling In nObls cause;
| they we're hghting for liberty, Cor justice and
! for right, 90 Luther and Calvin and Wesley
were once found engaged in the grand
work Of uncovering and exposing the Wics-
edneEs OF Rome. ] am no brazen euiogist,
and have no uncOmely and laudatOfy pre-
sensations TO make concerning these men,
but II any seli.sacrifcing, toiling mortals
are worthy Of tbeir hire IL is The brave
Spartan band Of Deputy o Organizers.
10 personal appearance some may appear
uniuVibDg. Dear reader, think moi OF that,
bu Il think Of the causo. 10 lie presence, the
Organizer Is nothing, and your writer IL
nothing and lees than uothiDg, and tho
least Of oil toe saints. Il is the cause you
must look 70, and not TO men II is the
cause that must live and move on long after
we shall have crumbled into dust. Look
after the csusei q T. BARsE1
PlrKa ~ Kiso We live 70 paper houses, !
wear paper clothing and cit on paper cush- I
ions in paper cars, rolling on paper wheels I
We DO paTer business over a psper cOun.
ter, buying paper goods, paying With paper \
moroy or charging them 20 ia paper books, I
and deal in paper stocks on paper margins f.
We row races ia paper boats for paper pri.
res. We 90 to paper theatres, where paper
actors play 70 paper audiences.
AS the ago develops the coming man will .
be more deeply snmeshed Ia tho pSper net.
He will awake In the morning and creep
from under his paper clothing on biz % per
bed. and pot on his paper dressingsgown
and paper slippers. he will walk over pa
per carpets down paper stairs and, seating
himself In paper chair, read the paper news
10 the morning paper. paper bell will
call bim TO bis breakfast, cooked in a paper
oven. served on paper dishes, laid on pa.
per cloth on a paper table. BE will wipe
bis lips with q paper napkin, and having
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