The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-05

v3ur Alliance, your p~ostofice and your
c punty, plainly. when you write to the
President, Secretary, Trustee, Business
Agent or Chairman of Executive Com
mittee of the State Alliance.
BRO. A. Mercer, of Agrippa, N.
c., has our thanks for a CLUB of nine
subscribers.
Bro. J. M. Edgerton, of Wayne
county, has our thanks for a club Of
Is subscribers.
BRO. M. T. Mitchell, of billiard
Alliance, Stokes county, writes that
they now have nearly 60 members
and are getting aroused.
Bro. L. r. Mason, President of
Middle Ground Alliance, No. 2,lO6,
New Hanover county, has u thanks
for a club of IA subscribers.
Bro. W. Y. Slade, of Hartford
county, has our thanks for a club Of
20 subscribers. He says the Alliance
is in good trim in that county
Bro. A. D. Shuford, o: Catawba
county, has our thanks for a club of
five subscribers. He writes that they
are solid for the Alliance demands,
both State and National.
BRO. J. G. Freeman, of BERTHE
county, writes that leach number Of
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER is better
than the preceding one" Bro. Free
mar sends IA subscribers.
Bro. T. Y. Allen, of Skipwith,
Va, writes that they met a few days
ago at Chase City with the object of
esta blishing an Alliance warehouse
for the sale of leaf tobacco.
Bro. G. G. Wright, Secretary of
Wilkes County Alliance, writes that
Bro. I. B. Long, State Lecturer, has
been in that county some time and
has been S FIRING up the brethren. He
is to be back in the county and will
speak at several places. Bro. Wright
says Col. Long is doing a noble work
there.
Bro. Jones Pasour, of, D sllas, N.
c., writes that he thinks that notes
and mortgages should be taxed, out
that the man giving the notes or
mortgages should be released from
taxation to the amount of his indebt-
edness, as at present it is a double tax
direct upon the one who gives the
notes, &c.
BRO. William Bennett writes
from Pilot Mountain to say that there
is a mighty rattling of dry bones in
the great political camps of N. c."
They say the Alliance is going into
politics. We thought they wanted us
in politics" So they do, Bro. Bennett,
but they want to do the driving and
pop the whip.
Bro. S. T. Gofor5b, Secretary of
Eupeptic Springs Alliance, No. 1866,
lredell county, has our thanks for a
club of fifteen subscribers. He writes
that his Alliance is on a boom. They
now have 40 members. twenty-five
of them read The Progressive
FARMER, and say it is the best paper
in the State and worth its weight in
gold.
Bro. R. F. White, of Alexander
county, writes that it was a mistake
about Alexander County Alliance de
handing that notes and mortgages be
exempt from taxation. They did de-
mand that mortgaged property be
exempt from taxation to the amount
of the Indebtedness, but that was in
favor of the giver of the mortgage and
not to the advantage of the mortgage
holder as some understand.
Bro. R. H. Lane, of Aurora, N.
O., writes that they had a grand picnic
at Edwards Mill on the 4th of july.
The crowd was large and the meeting
harmonious. He says the farmers in
his section have been reading The
Pro 9REssIvE FARMER and are educated
up to our necessities; that the mem.
bers who read THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and Economist are rarely ever
absent from the Alliance meetings.
Sister Mamie Allen, Secretary of
Charity Alliance, No. 44O, Lenoir
county, writes that the following reso-
lutIons were passed at a recent meet
ing: "That we demand of our Dem
ocratic candidates for Congress to
pledge themselves to do all in their
power to abolish the National Bank
ing System; that they do all in their
power to prohibit the dealing in
futures; that we require our State leg.
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