The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23
ADDRESS OF WELCOME TO THE
HEREFORD co. ALLIANCE,
BY S., r. BROWN.


FRIENDs:-It gives me much pleasure
to extend to you the cordial greeting
Of Menola Alliance, and to open to you
as long as you see fit to remain with
us, not only the hospitality of our
homes, as guests and friends, but to
assure you of a genuine heart welcome
as co-workers with us in encouraging
the toiling masses against all monopo-
lies which tend to enslave a free peo-
pie and subvert and finally overthrow
the great principles purchased by the
fathers of American liberty"
AS I look over this body of represen-
tative men and women, from all over
the county; and remember the cause
for which we have assembled-the
cause which is to stem the tide of in
creasing wrong; the cause which binds
us together with the sympathies that
make all men, of all kindreds, free and
equal in the sight of one common
Father. Fully believing, as do, that
we have the guidance of Him of whom
we have asked strength and direction
m our work, I trust that we have
awakened to know that they who
would be free themselves must strike
the blow" That we fully realize the
Importance of doing to-day's duties and
fighting to-day's battles, leaving future
results to Him who never errs. And
as the wind sweeps over the golden
grain, which is awaiting the harvest,
and moves its countless stalks in unison,
so may we stand ready to move in
unison with everything which tends to
uplift the laboring masses.
We recognize in you, our County
President, a leader whose love is around
every Alliance home in the county
We commend you for your discretion
and steadfast faith and for your un-
failing efforts to inspire us with more
zeal and to encourage us to do more
efficient work than we have hitherto
done. We believe that with your
guidance we can steer our bark safely
across the rocky shoals and finally
enter the harbor, bringing with us a
goodly number of stalwart laborers, of
whom old HertfOrt may be Justly proud.
We gladly welcome you as our leader
this year in our County Alliance work.
To you, our District Lecturer, we ex-
tend hearty welcome. We deem it
an especial favor to have you with US
at this time, and although you have
often met with us in the capacity of
County Lecturer, we feel highly hon
Ored by having one of our Hertford
County Alliance brothers fill the hon
Orable position of District Lecturer.
May you be favored in performing the
arduOus task before you, and may you
return with the assurance of having
strengthened the cause so dear to our
hearts. I believe that l do nothing
more than utter the sentiment of Hert-
ford County Alliance when say, may
Heavens richest blessings attend you.
To the Delegates of this Alliance we
also extend welcome and recognize
in you cO-laborers in a work which has
for it's aim the utter determination of
all combines, rings, trusts and monopo-
lies, none of which, we are proud to
say, exists in or around Menola,) while
we further aim to bring the home into
the highest state of perfection To
build up every good work, to educate
not only our little ones, but to educate
all for pure, peaceful lives, free from
financial embarrassments, strong to
do and to dare and to make the best of
our God-given talents.
Words would fail me to express to
you, my Alliance sisters, my apprecia-
tion of woman's opportunity of being
co-workers with the brethren in the
movement which is stirring this great
nation. Oh. what womanly women
we ought to be, for we find, on every
hand, new fields of usefulness opening
up before us. Our brothers have found
none more sympathetic than we, who
were made helpmeets for man, to aid
them in their work for God and
humanity. They are giving us grand
opportunities to show them, as Frances
E. Willard says that, " "Drudgery,
fashion and gossip are no longer the
bounds ofwoman's sphere. Sherealizes
that she is neither a worm to crawl at
mans feet nor butterfly to soar above
his head, but a companion, a helpmeet
to constantly watch at his side"
presume none of our brethren ap
preciate this more than our honored
County President, who, I learn, has
recently taken to himself one of Unions