The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-22
AMONG THE ALLIANCES
What the Organization is Doing
Throughout the Country.

What the Organization is Doing
T~hrOughoHt the Country.
The Farmers Alliance will save the
Western people.-ITanadod AdOert5ser.
Merchants in Central Kansas kick
against the cooperative stores Of the
Farmers Alliance.
G.. B. Gate has been appointed trade
agent for the Farmers Alliance of
Bradley county, Tennessee.
Wheelers are not talking very Loud;
but like Paddy's owl, they are doing
a "divil of q lot of thinking.-Ad-
Vocats.
From all the adjoining counties we
are receiving reports OF the Alliance,
it's growth and influence Country
Homes.
S. P. Lackey and w. E. Walton
are laying off the grounds for an
Alliance fair in Burke county this
fall.
Farmers can attend the primaries,
smash the rings, and nominate and
elect good men regardless Of party
Advocate.
Springdale Alliance, which was re.
Gently organized in Haywood with
only a few members now has thirty.
-Cowntry Homes.
Denton Alliance, No. 1924, David,
son county, is going to erect a build
ing for the purpose of keeping supplies
for the members of the order.
1t is reported that a welI,known
banker has said that ait would be an
advantage to the country if a few of
the Alliance leaders were hung"
Several members of Paint Gap Al
lance we're in to see us recently, who
tell us that they have a banner organ
ization in Country Homes.
The Alliance people of Lenoir
township are going to leave the court
house as a place of meeting and will
hereafter meet in Lenoir High School
building.-Topic.
The Farmers Alliance is gaining a
strong footing in the Indian Territory.
About one hundred organizations are
already in operation and new ones
being formed all the time.
The Farmers Alliance wave that
has swept over the South and West
with such gratifying results is now
doing good work in the Northwest.
Some % States have been organized
in this country.
At the quarterly meeting of the
Farmers Alliance at Asheboro on the
5th inst. permanent arrangements
were made for the purchase of the
Trogdon Hotel property, on which
will be erected an Alliance depot.
We now have thirty-fve Alliances
in Buncombe and we have been
solicited to organize three more in the
southeastern and the southwestern
parts of the county. The membership
IS about 2,3OO.-C Country Homes.
The Alliance denounces our late
Doodle legislature. The conduct of
that legislature Is In part responsible
for the existence of the Alliance. 1t
will see that the State is not similarly
~disgraced again.-Emporja Repu6li.
can.
If the Alliance plug and smoking
tobacco factories continue to succeed
as they are doing now in Oxford and
other places, they will surely not want
to see their brethren crippling their
plug enterprises by selling raw leaf
to consumers. These must now howl
with the wolves.-Southern Tobacco
mast.
The Farmers Alliance is just what
we want in Colorado. The meeting
here yesterday vas important. Push
on the organization throughout the
State. 1t is the only club to bring
subservient politicians to their knees.
If the farmers do not work for them
selves the politicians will 0 work
for them.-ZT5nidad Advertiser, April
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