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

The Alliance Exchange, Henrietta,
Texas, is giving satisfaction.
The Farmers Alliance will build u largo
Touring mill ut Graham, Texas.
The Alliance store of Glascock county,
Ga, is doing flourishing business.
West Virginia, Maryland, Pcnnsylva-
MIA, Michigan and New Mexico are tho
latest Alliance States
The Alliance is educating the masses,
which makes the politicians tremble with
Hon. Il. II. Jackson, the first prcsI-
dent of the Georgia State Alliance, will
represent Heard county in the next House
of Representatives.
The Alliances in Brown county arc
bulking their cotton at Brownwood, and
when they can't get satisfactory bids,
ship it to Galveston, says the Southo'H
Mercury.
The Alliance cotton yard at Austin,
under the management of S. G. Qearn-
berg, is kept busy, and is the means of
bringing much cotton to the city.-SOuth.
ern 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 tho
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-Creek Alliance, in Forsyth
county, Ga, deserves special praise foT
the aid they extended to n worthy old
lady and her two daughters who wero
about to be cvictcd. The Alliance pro-
cured for them more comfortable house
and gave them provisions.
The Farmers Alliance Of Kansas, which
now numbers over 145, 600 members, havo
organized II mercantile department, and
propose to handle their own grain and
live stock. They have appointed agents
who will handle their shipments in tho
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.-Tcras Labor
Union.
The State Farmers Alliance, of Flori-
da, in annual session ut Monticello, has
adopted the following resolution Res0tDe,i,
That this order is not welded nor allied
to any political party, and has no room
on its platform for partisan politics or
partisan politicians. Florida's representa-
hiyGGs thiyGGs IN the National Legislature were
ing the national banking sysr6nI 'urlrf'htl,--
stituting for it issues of legal tender treas
ury notes Also to support the sub-trcas-
ury bill or something better.
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Among the excellent things said ut the
farmers convention, ut I.aGrnngc, Ca,
we tiud the following i'm nm address dcliv
cred by Mr. A. NJ. Walker:
My wore! for it, the most urgent need
of the agricultural classes of the South is
for each and every farmer to establish his
do. First, by living within his means.
Secondly, by diversity ing his crops and
raising everything on the farm rs far as
| hc can, that is necessary for home con
1 sumption, and make the farm sclfsus-
tanning by making one acre produce III
mnch or more than he now gets from five
acres, thereby reducing expenses and in
crcasing profits. Thirdly, by raising
stock of all kinds. Goats, sheep, hogs,
mules, horses and cattle. place these
L LII lllc OIucI III tiiCiI soiioiNSt
1t to the iar,ncr. -,I@ia CAM -sla by .util-
tcnantcd out &c ar az lqplpa7f llqplpa7 @ that are s 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 whc" thcy neither need
nor desire aid from the federal govern
n
other produce until prices suited them.
desire to impress the great Importance
of improving our live stock. II does not
cost any more to raise bloodcd horse, or
cow that will yield from two to five
pounds of butter, and six to ten gallons
of milk per day, than it docs to raise y
common scrub. regard the cow as tho
best paying investment in the country
especially SO, with 50 many advantages in
her favor.