The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-25
A TIMELY SUGGESTION.
TAYLOR, N. c., June IA, '89.

TAYLOR, N. c., June IA, '89.
Mn. EDIToR,-I would be glad to
know that every farmer in the Union
would read The PRoGREssIvE FARMER
and Economist this year. We are
coming now to where we must act
and take a bold stand. We cannot
wait for all farmers to become edu-
Gated to their duty by the present
means.
What do you think of a plan like
this: Appoint the Very best man from
each organized States Alliances,
Wheels and Unions rs q committee;
their salaries to be paid by the union
of the several orders, say $4,000 each
and travelling expenses. The work
of this committee shall be something
like this: They shall find out all the
workings of railroads, capital and
combines, trusts and monopoiles-
their secret workings, the laws that
sustain them; also the workings OF
taxation, tariffs, &c, the laws pertain
ing thereto, &c. These gentlemen to
have called monthly meetings, or at
least every two months, for consutta-
ton and comparing of notes, and at
each of these meetings they shall rem
der a written statement to the execu-
tive committee of each State; also
such drafts or forms of laws as will
be needed to destroy the workings OF
the above named combines, trusts,
&c. Now, each State Executive Com
mittee, having the suggestions from
this Special National Executive Com
uaitee, will consider them and amend
and remodel as they think best, and
then they are given to each State
Secretary, who sends them out to the
several Sub-Alliances, Wheels and
Unions. In these meetings, these
glaring frauds, as discovered by our
regular authorized committee, r dis
cussed and the needed laws also dis
-cussed, side by side. This plan, it
strikes me, will be bringing facts be.
fore the whole order at once, and
every Alliance man, Wheeler and
-Unioner will see the necessity of
voting right at the next election.
They will have the proper informa-
ton before them. They will have
discussed the leading facts and ques-
tions of the political campaign and
will know how to vote better than the
lying politician can tell them, and they
will not be led astray either. AS 1t
is, there are thousands who do not
read the above able papers, and will
not be prepared to stand against the
tricksters.
In these Sub-Alliances is the place
to educate the people and all plans
and lines of work must come from
headquarters or we will not be a unit,
as the different Alliances will not
know what others are doing. We
must have true and tried Alliance
men in Congress at once. Wherever
there is to be a Congressman elected,
there the work should be done at once;
and where the election does not come
off for four or six years, we should
vote on such laws as we demand in
our Sub-Alliances, and demand our
representatives to pass them or resign.
In a meeting in Louisiana, reported
in the Economist, Mr.. T. J. Guice,
State Lecturer, aptly said to his large
house, "Send more farmers, more me
chanics, more artisans to legislative
halls and a marked change will occur.
The remedy is unity, the ballot-box
and a determination to fight centrali-
cation, class legislation and monopo-
lies"
What we want is for the masses to
see and realize their condition and the
means or plan suggested by which to
relieve themselves. This must be
done by systematic work, and no Ali.
ance man should be allowed to go
wrong or lead outsiders astray, be-
cause he was not taught.
1 do hope this work of educating
will be focused and begun at once.
Your friend and brother,
1t N n---