The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-08-27

9ur- Chief, Col. L. L. Polk, has gone te
Montgomery Our Fighting Editor
is not We'll, and" Old Fogy'
is in the Editors Easy

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We are proud that our chief Is
away. First, we r all having a
nicnic. and secondly, as the preachers
saw, we are proud that the repre-
sentative men of other States, know
inc the Colonel's ability and devotion
at the front in every fight where tne
farmer and his cause need talent and
answering fealty.
The Jute Trust Co. is working tor
all Il is worth. It is a life or death
struggle with them, and for US, as
well. -
If they succeed in inducing the
cotton planter to use trust bagglng,
her we cannot hope ever to get a
manufacturer to make bagging for US.
They would say: We tried you
farmers once, and after doing all we
agreed to do, you went over to your
old enemy and left us fighting for
you, sirgly and alone. !,
If we succeed, spectators will feel
that we have not lost u fealty to
principle, and that we are still as
brave and as uncompromising as were
u forefathers when they threw to the
world the Mecklenburg Declaration
of Principles, az
XIdo not doubt but that representa-
tive Alliance men could get jute ibag-
cling for the asking, and even now in
the Gulf States they are trying to
trade jute trust baggiRg at 6 cts. per
yard for cotton seed at 20 cts. per
pound.
The brotherhood in the Gulf States
were equal to the occasion and hence
the greater necessity for the jute
combine to fight for their existence in
the Atlantic States.
I would therefore suggest that we
follow at once in the footsteps of our
Texas brothers, and like them, issue a
call for County and Sub-Alliances to
meet at once, and resolve that any
member of the Farmers Alliance that
buys for self or others, jute trust bag
ging, be expelled from the order.
Resolved, That we will not deal
with any mercant o ~patronize any
cotton gin that buys, sells OF uses jute
trust bagging.
1t is necessary for us to pass, and
live up to them after their passage,
resolutions similar to the Texas reso.
lutions.
We must break the jute trust.
We must use cotton for covering
bales, we must have a difference of
eight pounds in our favor, if cotton is
sold net or gross, and to secure the
advantage named, we must act as a
unit.
To do this, every brother in the
order should stand shoulder to shout
der. If there is one, that for selfish
reasons will not act with us, let it be
understood that he will be expelled.
NoaU IS the time to weed the crop.
If any merchant wishes to buy and
sell jute as a covering for cotton, we
cannot prevent his doing 70. But
whenever a merchant or ginner buys
for self or others any of the jute trust
company's goods, he knows, as well
as we do, that he is doing what he
a to hold up the hands of a COM
pany that sought to rob us of So, OOO,-
600 on last years crop, this years
crop, and all future crops, and to trade
with a merchant or a ginner after he
has done all he could to aid this COM
bine, would be in principle like aiding
the robber who stole your neighbours
savings.
Let every member of our order
consider that he is now a committee
of one on the good of the order"
and see that prompt action is taken,
see the weak and hating brother and
let it not be said that Carolinians
faltered in the fight.
OLD FoGY.