The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-05-28
hOOSiER ALLIANCE MEN.

HOOSlEH AIlIANCe WEN.
Gratifying Report Of the Immsnss
strength OF the Alliance In Indiana.
The Farmers Alliance is assuming
formidable proportions in Indiana. A
large meeting was held at Indianapolis
recently, representing 1875 lodges and
over 5000 members. A State organizs-
ton was effected, but much of the pro-
ceedings were kept secret and reporters
excluded. The first business was the
making OF reports Of the strength OF the
order in the State. The first sub-Alli'
ances were organized in Martin County
about year ago The reports show that
Martin County now has 3S Alliances and
1900 members The order has con-
tract store at Loogootee, which does
thriving business. Every piece OF
goods for sale Is marked in plain
figures, both cost and selling
prices The merchant contracts to
sell his goods for an average OF
about 10 per cent. above their cost to
him. The delegates who gave the Mar
tin County report said the Alliance met
with much opposition from business and
professional men at first, but that now
its favor is courted by them all
Announcement was made that the
various organizations OF farmers in the
country, the Changers excepted, will be
consolidated with the Alliance next fall.
Some of these are the Farmers Mutual
Benefit Association, the Agricultural
Wheel, the Patrons OF Industry, the
Western Alliance and the Farmers and
Laborers' Union. When united the
consolidation will have a strength ap-
preaching 100, 900 members in Indiana.
w. w. Wilson and Benz. Terrell, Of
manent organization of the combination.
From conversations with Terrell the
scope of the Alliance is indicated. Il
will not attack other interests, but sim
ply care for those of the farmer Ter
rell says: at is political. That is one
of its chief purposes. We propose to
study politics, but not to be partisans.
We will not attack parties, but will
raise our members above party.
Blind partisanship has done more
than any other thing to injure the
farmers interests We will try and
avoid prejudice. l have seen the time
when 1 would have voted my party
ticket no matter what the standing,
moral or mental, of the candidates; now
Ipropose to vote for Katie and the baby.
II the parties, which have protested to
be our friends for twenty years, expect
to retain our support hereafter they
must begin to show themselves our
friends in truth. Whenever you want
any thing from the Legislature, demand
it. When your wishes are made known,
stand as a unit, and you will get what
you want. There must be no division
of opinion. The will of the majority
must become the will of every member.
With division, your strength will van
ish. You may not always agree with
the majority, but you must act with it
if you would succeed. If you can not
do this you had better get out of the
order. The Alliance all over the Union,
calls for the same reforms. 1t wants
more money, better legal regulation of
railroads. better laws restricting the
ownership of land, and laws to prevent
foreign syndicates from accommodating
vast bodies of American property. st.
Louis Republic.
Must Work Together or Hang Separately.
No man ever made truer statement
than Henry Talcott did last week in the
Ohio Farmer, when he said that the
farmers Of this country must work to-
gether or hang separately"
They have been hanging separately
altogether too long. They have hung
separately until nearly every other
chap has got the start of them. They
have hung separately while other
classes have been getting together and
pushing their interests to the front.
The farmer has just as important in
terests to consider as any one. More
than this, the interests of all depart
ments of agriculture are SO nearly alike
that what will benefit one will
benefit all For this reason there
should be such unity of pur-
pose among farmers as would enable
them to bring about any worthy de-
sire without difficulty. Without doubt
there are many changes needed in the
| affairs Of this country. Some of them
are Of great interest to the farmer. All
farmers know this, and they do not hesi-
tate to say so.
Why, then, should they not pull to-
gether to bring about the ends desired?
With the numbers which they possess,
If selfishness and prejudice were cast
aside, and all would work with COM
mon purpose, the talk Of getting things
Alright would be an easy one. But SO
long as every farmer is for himself alone
and takes no active part in the MANAGE
ment Of affairs, these things will con-
tinue and most likely grow worse. The
only way in which the evils which sur
round us can be corrected is action on
our part When we work together the
world will move before us, but so long
as we hang separately no. one will take
special pains to get out Of our way
Pennsylvania Farmer.
Commendable Resolutions.
To the series OF resolutions passed by
some Of our Alliances there is found ap-
pended: "And we will support no one