The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-11-24
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER: NOVEMBER "a, 1891.

| cOmprehended and to be utilized so as
to best conserve the highest intere SITS
of the public good, must be carefully
investigated in all their varied aspects
and bearings. This Investigation should
be made i'll the light of truth and rea-
son and in the spirit of an honest and
patriotic purpose to reach correct and
Just conclusions. Never before have
the great masses of the people SO a i
nestly and ~anXiOusly sought infOrma-
| ton and enlightenment. Never before
has the public mind been so impressed
with an undefinable yet painful appre-
henslOn, that great and impending
national evils threaten the peace Of
the country and the safety OF u
institutions. Do we believe that the
principles we espOuse are right? Do
we believe that they are grounded in
equity and Justice and truth? Do we
believe that they would secure 1.-The
greatest good to the greatest number?>
Then it is our imperative duty to I'M
press them, by every legitimate means
at our command, on the public mind.
What more potent or effective agency,
for the accomplishment of this great
and important work, than the general
| dissemination of literature among the
people IN advocacy and propagation OF
these principles? Who could measure
the effect, if throughout this country
and able Alliance paper could be found
in every Alliance home? Who could
estimate the power of q weekly visit of
your national organ to half a million
American homes? It's influence would
be irresistible and invincible, | would
specially and urgently commend to
your earnest and favorable cOnSidera-
ton the splendid and valuable service
of Our reform press, and recommend
that you appoint a special committee
to confer with representatives OF the
Reform Press Association present, as
to the best methods for increasing the
efficiency and for charging the useful
ness of this most valuable, influential,
and most important Of all the depart
ments of the Alliance work.
| also respectfully recommend that
said committee be empowered and IN
structed to digest, mature, and return
to your body a plan for securing a
fund, to be placed in charge of a a
agement constituted by your body, at
your national headquarters, to be ap-
prOpriated and applied to the dissent
nation of approved Alliance literature,
under such restrictions and regulations
as your body may impose. The aims,
purposes, and principles of our Order
must be more widely and faithfully
presented before the public. The edu-
cation of the masses to a true cOmpre-
henSiOn of the evils which confront
us as a people, and as to proper cor
receive principles which must be ap
piled as a remedy, is the sublime
mission and exalted duty Of our or
ganization.
LECTURERS.
The most powerful auxiliary force
with which to supplement- the service
of our reform literature in educating
the people, will be found i'll a properly
regulated lecture system. 1t Is graft
flying to report that great and mvalu-
able service has been rendered to our
cause through this agency in all the
{ States where it has been operated. So
great and so general has been the de
mand for speakers for the past SIX
months that it is no eXaggeratiOn to
say that a corps of fifty lecturers would
have been constantly employed to have
met the applications made to my office
alone. This great and important de
mand should and must be. supplied as
nearly as practicable. To that end |
respectfully recommend that a special
committee be appointed to investigate
the system adopted by Our Order in
the various States and report to this
body the most practical, uniform sys-
tenn for securing to the whole Order
the largest and most efficient lecture
service. In view of the tremendous
forces which will be employed against
us, and the combined efforts of the
two parties to demoralize and divide
us as an Order, we should fortify and
strengthen our defences at every point.
Yea, mOre-wes should be prepared to
advance and wage aggressive and sue
cessful warfare in support of u prin-
ciples, and l can not too earnestly
commend to your body the great
Importance of providing, as far as
may be in your power, for an able,
efficient and thorough educational
campaign through chosen and author
lied lecturers.
OUR FINANCES.
beg to call the special attention of
your body to that part of the report of
your National Secretary Treasurer, re-
lating to u per capita dues, and to
urgently recommend the appointment
of a committee to consider the matters
therein set fort and to report to your
body such action, as in its judgment
may secure prompt ana falthful com
pliance with the law.
OUR DUTY POLITICALLY.
While the great objects and pur
poses of our organization are neces-
sariIy political in their character, in
the broader and higher sense of that
term, and while it seeks to inculcate
those principles which are essential to
a proper balance and symmetrical
Growth in orr national nrOoroSs and
very nature of it's organism, become
partisan or subservient to partisan
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