The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-10-24
FARMERS ALLIANCE MATTERS.

The next county meeting ofStokes
county Alliance will DE held at Mt
Olive the first Friday in January.
Hon. Thos. D. Johnston, ex-Dem
ocratic Congressman from the Ashe
vile district, is making Alliance
speeches in the mountain counties.
An Edgecombe county farmer
shipped over a thousand barrels of
Irish potatoes from fifteen acres.
Land in Salisbury has been offered
the Mill Bridge Alliance if they will
move their fair to that place next
year.
The thirty bales of Alliance cot
ton, from Johnston county, was sold
at the Fair at auction for 10 1-16.
The jute bagging trust is throt-
| tied at last. A Cabarrus man came
| to town Wednesday with his bale of
| cotton wrapped in a bed quilt.-Con-
cord Times.
Thos. B. Long, State Lecturer OF
the Farmers Alliance, r. B. Hunter,
Assistant Lecturer, and Gen. R. B.
Vance, District Lecturer, are making
Alliance speeches in the western part
of the State.
"A farmer from Person county was
in the city this morning, and was
asked by lawyer how his cotton
crop was. He said, stMy cotton has
Joined the Alliance against the jutt
trust, and refuses to open till car
get cotton bagging to wrap it in. y
Raleigh Call.
We do not belong to the Farmers
Alliance, but we are in sympathy will
that organization, and feel sorry tt
learn that the farmers are not taking
the interest in it that was expected
when the Alliance was first organized
in this place.-Mt. Airy News.
The Toiler, the official organ @
Farmers Wheel and Alliance of Ten
nessee, says editorially: "The TOile
dominates L. L. Polk, of North Care
lima, for President of the Farmers
and Laborers' Union of America
Who can find a better man? TIL
National meeting is Dec, 5, 1889, a
St. Louis" The Alabama AIfanG
Advocate seconds the motion an
says: ''No better man for the pos
, | ton can be found"
The Farmers Alliance now pro
poses to give the cotton buying worl
a tussle. 1t will take action whic
will force it's "cOtton covered wit
COTTON" to be accepted by all tt
. world This means a contest wit
Liverpool, on the basis of a 16poun
tare allowance for cotton covere
bales. The Alliance people say the
might just as we'll begin the fight no
and make it square issue. 1t wi
be noted that the Alliance general
: carries it's point. 1t certainly viii
ped the bagging trust.-Raleigh co
Durham Globe.
r The Farmers Alliance has OF
e great thing to do-to stick. If the
}, will only unite firmly and pull t
!. gether right along they will east
win and control the cotton marke
! The danger that threatens is with
q now. The Alliance has declared fl
:, cotton bagging. This cuts off {
= dickering, all hesitancy, all bargain
- ing with the jute men. Thepine fib
: is not to be tabboed 1t is eXcelle
. for bagging and is supplied at sat
factory figures by Southern ME
S But the Jute men are the men tn
le the Alliance has to antagonize.
d the foreign markets discrimina
IS against the farmers, then they mu
lie combine and quit those hostile mar
is cts. Let them withhold their cott'
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= preached to call the Legislature I
10 gether to adopt measures of relief
nf the farmers can hold their cotton
20 six months. Starve the markets
e they are hostile. The farmers C;
~ control if they so will If they grt
weak and divide then they will
whipped. That is the way it looks
IS apaper always friendly to the farme
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