The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21

officers and their criticisms upon Tie
measures of the order are desplcaole
methods for its overthrow. Treason
must be made odious, and traitors
made to wear the brand their infamy
merits.
Insubordination by reflections
through the press upon the acts u
doing of supsriors should be visited
with immediate expulsion, and the
brand of shame set upon the offender.
Tne Alliance should put no one IN
command who is not heart, sonl and
mind in accord with its aima--no one
in the remotest way in ami.atIon or
sympathy with the enemy--whlch is
the money power in this country; and
no one unwilling to lead where the
majority directs, and the rank and hle
must stand by their leaders, come
veal or come woe. What a travesty
upon the Alliance, that they should
Q outside of their order and select
for their champion national banker
or a railroad magnste By this act
it is surely executing its own dea5h
warrant--the next step is the funeral
dirge, for it is then dead, damned and
delivered.
The most serious danger yet lies IN
the insidious attack that the "gold
bugs" will make on it in various
ways. .... g
A favorite plan is by inducing the
Alliance to select leaders all over the
country who are feeble in brain and
weak in backbone, and can be con
trolIed, and be made to "bark with
the hounds while running with the
hare"
Beware of men possessede of any ex
uberance of conservatism, also half
fish and half flesh with broad
catholic views, that can ride two
horses at once running in opposite di
rections; that will undertake to serve
both God and Mammon. Fight shy
of these devoute sympathizers. The
Alliance needs supporters, bold, fear
less, Outspoken advocates-not sym
pathizers. 1t wants men not to feed
for it, but men who will act for it
men who know their rights, and
knowing, dare maintain them"
Another danger besetting the ALI
ance IS the "ditch of sectionalism.
The order is national and its move.
ments must be upon that line. If it
should become sectional, it is doomed
and becomes the mushroom of an
hour. y be natGonal' the prejudices
engendera byy~the late var and the
passions famed into a fame by I'm
scrupulous msrplots must all go down
in the vortex of oblivion and remain
buried forever. If not, fraternal feel
Ipg, brotherly love and Hpited action,
Is impossi ole and defeat and disaster
certain. 1t is charged that we of the
South cannot conquer u prejudices,
whilst We are being threatened by
negro domination.
AS a political factor, the Alliance
must exc t a controlling influence and
accomplish its purpose through the
two great political parties now divId
ing the country. 1t makes but little
difference which road is travelled SO
the same end is reached. If the domi
nant party of a particular State or
section has a majority of Alliance
men In its ranks, that party is safe for
Alliance reform, whether it be the
Republican or Democratic party, or
whether it be at the North or at the
South. We have but to look at the
political situation in Democratic
Georgia and Republican Kansas; in
each State the Alliance is on top, and
the membership of both States have
taken the same obligation, give the
same gllp, harken to the same signal,
are marching to the same music and
lighting for the same ~end--they are
Il and i~nseperable. In both States
they have captured the convention of
the old political parties; and the old
4" bosses and "ringsters, In despera-
ton, have bolted the regular conven.
tions and now running 49, independent
machine, which is their asst wall for
the sceptre that is dep ;, Ting, AMI their
1oOO SOAusSS1O LUZ GIF house Oh our
fathers.
Any political NV ment outside
and independent OF The two great
parties would be un wise, i'm polite
fraught with danger and could but
end in disaster. 1t W aid so inhsme
partisan passion and enSonder party
strife, as to confuse and uecloud the
sober judgment of the membership in
the performance of their obligation;
and it would so array both of the DO
litical parties against it as to drive
every man outside of the order and
many insl1e from its support. The
work Of the Alliance Is to embrace
within its membership the rank and
file OF the dominant parties, and thus
absorb and swallow up their organizl
ton, purge 1t of its iniquities ana en-
graft upon it the Alliance polity that