The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18
GOOD ADVIC E.
BLACK SWAMP ALLIANCE, No. IL,
Robeson Co., N. c..

ROO6SOQ TO-, IN. ",
Mr.. EDIToR:-We believe there has
been nothing in your excellent paper
from this Alliance, so we ask little
space to let the world know that
number eleven is not dead nor sleep
ing, but wide awake and quietly NOV
ing on in a business like manner. It
has 40 male members and nearly if
not quite as many lady members.
With a few exceptions every good
man in the community belongs to it..
All are sober and moral. It's officers
are men of acknowledged worth !;
earnestly enthusiastic for the success
of the order, men who, by diligence,
perseverance and economy, are steadi-
ly clim Oing to the top of the ladder.
Adhering strictly to Alliance princi-
pies, they wisely guide and direct its
members. This Alliance has paid
to the business agency fund nearly one
hundred dollars. 1t has also had sew
eral orders filed by our State Business
Agent, Mr.. Worth, and others will be
made at our next meeting. Every
Allianceman who can should patronize
Mr.. Worth, that is the way to be ben
Gifted financially by the Alliance. It
is doing good now, but the future
holds far more if we, as members,
only do our duty.
Three years ago when Mr.. M. 7.
Sealy, who had left this, his native
country, several years previous to seek
his fortune in the Lone Star State,
came back as Alliance organizing
officer there arose many to predict a
short life and early death of the noble
order, but that all false prophets did
not live in ancient days, nor in the far
off Orient, is fact which Alliance
history can demonstrate. May the
time soon come when no son of our
Southern soil will utter words to dis.
courage his fellow man from aiding in
the noble cause for which the Alliance
is struggling, for such are blots upon
fair creation.
On the 18th inst. Capt. Darden
gave us a lecture, eloquent, timely
and to the point There is much to
encourage the Spartan-spirited band
of brothers who are so molly striving
to break the fetters of oppression
which has bound them abject slaves
of toll and hardship to enrich the
speculator. Many of us never knew
the per cent. the farmers are forced
to pay for the necessaries of life
until Mr.. Worth published his prices.
Let every Sub. Alliance purchase only
from him. This is the way to estab-
lish our order, "until we stand"
Guided as we are by the best brains
in the Union, backed by the noblest
principles that ever actuated a people,
urged by a necessity which, if un.
needed, will doom our children to
lives of servitude, equaled only by
that of the Irish pessantry. Our
order must not, will not die. The
farmers are awaking to the injustice
with which they are treated. Your
valuable paper is doing much to in
form and arouse them, and the we'll
posted speakers, from this and other
States, are bringing them to full
realization of their wrongs, showing
them the way from the dark veil of
debt and poverty, to the plane of in
dependence, where, as freemen, they
may dwell, every man under his own
"vine and fig tree, " never fearing the
merciless liens and mortgages which
sweep the barns of the last grain of
corn and empties the home Of all it's
comforts, carrying away the bed on
which the tired limbs of the careworn
father reposed, leaving him the cold
floor resting place, the roof for a
covering. Even the rocker in which
the weary mother hushed with soft
lullaby the helpless babe, and around
which fond memories cluster goes,
under the sherif's hammer.
But there is better day for the
farmers if they will only persevere in
the way now open to them. Stick to
the Alliance with all the heart, soul
and cash; stand firmly by it's princi-
pies, be true, full of faith in the order
Attend every meeting and endeavor
to make every succeeding one more
interesting than the last. There is
much to be done. Let every man put
his shoulder to the wheel and press
foaward with determination to do
his whole duty, and the sunlight of
prosperity will beam upon US, and
where debt and want now oppress in
and plenty will reign.
MRS. II. B. A,
Corresponding Secretary.