The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-29
OAK DALE ALLIANCE, NO. ss2.
SMITHFlELD, n. G..

Jew words in your valuable paper to
let the people know that we are yet
alive, though they ave hear any
thing from US. l suppose the reason
is we are at our homes at work and
do not take time to write.
l think that every farmer who can
read at all should read The PRoGREs
slvE FARMER. Nearly all of Oak
Dale's members are readers of that
paper and are much delighted when
they read the ne VS. from other Sub.
Alliances and find that they are at
work, doing their trading through
the Exchange, and staying at their
homes.
Farmers, don't forget to educate
your children for the future govern
ment of our country, great as it has
been called, depends upon your little
boys who are now playing around
your yard instead of being in the
school room. Farme S, change this
rule and have your boys in the school
room when they r not on the farm.
Never let them be idle or think they
have nothing to do, if you want to
make men and good men of them.
Mothers, educate your daughters. If
you are not educated enough to teach
them yourselves, send them off some
where to school. If you will educate
your daughters they will have an ad-
vantage that you did not, and when
they get NAL led they will be able to
educate their own children and when
their children hears them always
speaking correctly they will learn to
speak the same way. Farmers, if you
have no public school in your district
this summer, get up a subscription
school there and hire a teacher who at
tended your last County Institute,
and don't wait for some n to come
to you and tall you that you ought to
have a school in your neighborhood,
and that your children ought to be in
school. Are you going to wait for
somebody to come and tell you your
hogs need feeding? No, l will tend
to my hogs myself, but if my children
need any attention someone else vi
have to seek after them. | say seek
for a good teacher for your children
and give him those shillings you
saved from the bar room and you will
find that is economy, and when you
find that seventeen eighteen of all the
white children in North Carolina, be-
tween the ages of 6 and FL years, go
to public school, if they go anywhere,
and the consequences are that six
eighteenths 60 no where, you will find
the people of North Carolina are de-
pending too much upon the public
schools, and then do not make their
children attend them. Brethreu, l
say we should have more schools and
better schools.
l will now tell you something of
what the mem ers of Oak Dale Ali
ance are doing. They are learning
to use economy; they learn 1t is better
to stay away from town, keep their
hoes and plows moving, and do their
trading through the Exchange. They
are buying their -four, soda, coffee,
starch, etc, through the Exchange
and saving money.
On Saturday, June 18th, the day
for our regular meeting and election
of officers, at 9 o'clock a. m. the
farmers, with their pleasant wives and
daughters, assembled together at the
lodge with baskets filed, and after
the business transactions were over,
the tables were set and were sumptu-
ously filed with luxuriant and volup,
tuous delights which were greatly en-
joyed by the many attendants of that
day. In the afternoon, after the ban
qpet was over, the crowd was eminent.
ly amused and entertained by the
superb speeches of several of our
brethren.
Brethren, don't fail to attend your
county meeting on Friday, July 4th.
1t will be an important day to you all
and to the Alliance cause, if you will
all attend and do your duty. Re-
member it is election day for your
county officers. Have you selected
the men whom you think will serve
you best and do most good to the
Alliance cause? If not, select them
and have their names ready for nomi
nation. Have you decided to put
your county trade agent to work by
establishing an Alliance store in your
county? If not, think of it and go
to your county meeting and do all in
your power to get it up. 1 hope to
see every member in old Johnston,
who can come, attend our next county
meeting and do all they can to estab-
lish an Alliance store. l think if all
will work and work right for it we
can get it. That is what we need and
what we must have to do us good.
All l have to say is, " If you want an
Alliance store you can get it."
Yours fraternaIly,
R. L. HAMILTON.