The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-23
ALLIANCE SUBMISSION.
Must the Backbone of the Alliance be
Weakened Those who are not
for Us, are Against Us.

for Us, are Against Us.
Will the Alliance aver be united
upon the question as to what cOnsti-
tuUes the true bulwark of its conference
and integrity as a body, ami learn the
lesson that a house divided against it
self cannot stand ? Have we nos,
from the most convincing experience,
been taught that it is useless to ex-
pect our rights to be regarded by
politicians of either of the existing
parties who have given every evidence
of their adherence to party supremacy
in preference to the public welfare 2
Will we never be convinced that we
are the victims of tn vilest and most
soulless corruption and selishness
that has ever been devised or perpe
trated, unblushtngly, through these
very factions whom we help to bolster
by a laudatory endorsement of poll
tjcians who have discountenanced,
without a semblance of advis ng a
wiser or a better method, the chief
scleme upon which we base our ma
terial salvation ? We have invested
falible man, aye, apostles against the
vital principles of our Order, with a
popish i~n'aliibility because, forsooth,
we are 50 tender hearted and consid-
crate that we allow man worship to
step in to shield the defects and back
slidings of antagon:stic political gods.
And We now propose to continue the
process
This introduction is suggested by
resolutions that have been passed by
some Sub AlliaDc s recommending
Senator Vance's return to the Senate
in the face of his opposition to the
Sub Treasury plan formulated by the
St. Louis National Convention last
December. Will the poor, honest,
gullible farmers never learn how to
take care of themselves and cease be,
ing made tools of by politicians and
parties ? Judging from the way we
submit to the rejection of our estab
lished principles by so called states
men, we seem to look upon them as
so immaculate that to gainsay their
opposition to US would be a sacrilege.
Such pliability on our part may be
likened to a supposed case of all the
sheep in the country that have been
represented by wolves whose raven
Gus p~ropensities have been such that
the sheep have met in convention and
resolved to strengthen their folds as a
means Of greater safety in the future,
but, upon the remonstrance of some
old willy office holding wolf, who has
fattened upon Them and still wants to
stay fat upon their mutton, they pass
various resolutions endorsing, in the
highest terms, the fidelity of the old
wolf, and thus per nit him to whet his
appetite with the prospect of more
mutton. In like manner do we seem
determined to allow all of our mutton
to be gobbled up by cormorants in
the shape of rapacious parties and
politicians until neither hide nor wool
is left of us.
Do those brethren who pass these
commendatory resolutions comprehend
that, by uchlavish endorsement, they
are injuring the action of the St. Louis
Counsel that adopted the Sub Treas
ury plan as the most feasible one to
tide over the difficulties which beset
us, and that, by so doing, they not
only violated their obligations, out
stultify themselves :? Is the cause of
such a himsy nature that we must
craw6sh out of it, cease to defend and
uphold it, because politicians have d2-
clared against a measure which we
consider of so much moment to us
that it has been ratified by every State,
County and Sub Alliance in the coun
try, with but few refractory excep
lions 1t principles are thus in
c~ontlnently suborned with such lax
Impunlty to suit the antagonism OF
personally popular politicians we had