The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-11-14
NUMBER 46.
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What the Organization is Doing
Throughout the Country.
a Warehouse on Every Farm Advo-
Gated By A Prominent Georgian
at the La Grange Con-
vention.

The Alliance Exchange, Henrietta,
Texas, is giving satisfaction.
The Farmers Alliance will build large
Touring mill at Graham, Texas.
| The Alliance store of Gascock county.
da., Is doing flourishing business.
West Virginia, Maryland Pcnnsylva-
MIA, Michigan and New Mexico are the
latest Alliance States.
The Alliance is educating the masses.
which makes the politicians trcmble with
Hon. X. IT. Jackson, the first prcs,-
dent of the Georgia State Alliance, will
represent Heard county in the next House
OF Representatives.
The Alliances in Brown county are
bulking their cotton at Brownwood, and
when they can't get satisfactory bids,
ship it to Galveston, says the Southern
Mercury.
The Alliance cotton yard at Austin.
under the management of S. G. Gearn-
berg, is kept busy, and is the means of
bringing much cotton to the city.-.So,,th-
erm Mercury.
Houston county, GA Alliance is op-
posed to Specializing in farm product
futures" and will appeal to the General
| Assembly to legislatc on the evil, and al
so repeal the crop lien law
improvements have been made in the
Griffin, Ga, Alliance warehouse lately,
and everybody about the establishment is
happy. The Office has been enlarged and
also the samprc room, which facilitates
the handling OF cotton very materially.
The Haw-Creck Alliance, in FORSYTH
county, Ga, deserves special praise foT
the aid they extended to worthy old
lady and her two daughters who were
! about to be cvictcd The Alliance pro-
| cured for them a more comfortable house
and gave them provisions.
| The Farmers Alliance of Kansas, which
now numbers over 145, 900 members, have
organized mercantile department., and
propose to handle their own grain and
| I'VE stock. They have appointed agents
who will handle their shipments in the
markets of Kansas City, Chicago and ST.
Louis, by which transaction the farmer
| will save the commission which he usu-
ally pays the middle man-TGrus Labor
Union.
The State Farmers Alliance, of Flori-
ola, in annual session at Monticello, has
adopted the following resolution ResoL1eR,
to any political party and has no room
on its platform for partisan politics or
partisan politicians. Florida's representa-
! HhiSYtGSs, hiSYtSs in the National Legislature were
ing the national banking sysrdm iurfrf- Mob
stituting for it issues of legal tender treas
ury notes. Also to support the subtrcas-
ury bill or something better.
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Among the excellent things said at the
! farmers convention, ut LaGrangc, Ga,
we fiud the following in an address dcliv-
cred by Mr.. A. Nj. Walker:
| My word for il. the most urgent need
of the agricultural classes of the South Ia
for each and every ?ar:hcr to establish his
own warehouse. This he can and must
do. First, by living within his means
| Secondly, by diversity Smg his crops and
raising everything ON the farm rs far rs
he can, that is necessary for home con
I sumption, and make The farm sclf-sus-
| tanning by making one acre produce ;s
mnch or more than he now gets from five
acres, thereby reducing expenses and in
creasing profits. Thirdly, by raising
stock of all kinds. Goats, sheep, hogs,
mules, horses and cattle. place these
| in the order of their value, as ] consider
! 1T to the fnrmor. 'Ehis Wa do by util-
tcnanted out at al" al a|HHPAff |HHPAff hlt Az m... now
pcnSc, to say nothing Of the depreciation
of these tcnantcd lands from washing
and want of proper management IF this
policy were adopted and pursued our
people would soon reach that degree OF
independence where they neither need
nor desire aid flOm the federal govern
mcnt, but could hold their cotton and
other produce until prices suited them.
l desire to impress the great Importance
of improving our live stock. II does not
cost any more to raise n bIoodcd horse, or
n COW that will yield from two to five
pounds of butter, and six to ten gallons
of milk per day, Than il does to raise d
common scrub. regard the cow as tho
best paying investment in the country :;
especially So with So many advantages in
| hpr favor