The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-22
strong drink, but with admiration for

l.. Polk, the beloved President or the
National Alliance, was the first to
speak, and you may rest assured that
his speech was simply magnificent.
and every true Allianceman present
(and their names were leg1On) Will
stand by Col. Polk now and forever as
long as he carries their standard like
he has been doing. The Colonel called
on every one present who were IN
favor of the Sub-Treasury to rise, and
the vast audience rose in a body, not
a single dissenter, as your correspond
ent could see, and he was on the rO5-
trum behind the speaker, and had plain
view of the whole room. The Alliance
has many true friends IN Reidsville
who are not eligible to membership in
the Order, but will stand by it through
thick and thin when they understand
its true object.
The next speaker introduced was
the Hon. Jerry Simpson, of Kansas.
Bro. Jerry started off by saying in a
rather pitiful tone that they accused
him of wearing shoes without socks.
| think if some of our good old sisters
had heard the brother they would
have wanted to knit him u pair. How
ever. he went on to say that he had not
but had got into his shoes, also. He
then read some slanderOus extracts
from a Charlotte paper q forget the
name) stating that he, Bro Simpson,
was advocating social equality between
tie white and negro races. He said in
substance that it was a malicious mis-
representation; that he said nothing of
the kind, but simply said if the negroes
would behave themselves, be sober
and work and accumulate property in
an honest way, that they would be
respected by the whites. That, no one
will deny unless it is some miniOn of
Wall street who wants to keep up the
race war for the benefit of his bosses.
He furthermore said in substance that
the AnglO-SaXOn race always was, and
always will be, mentally, morally and
socially superior to the race. 1t was
so decreed of God, and no earthly
power can make it otherwise. He
furthermore said that he was a Federal
soldier and fought on the Union side,
but now the boys in blue wanted to
shake hands with the boys in gray.
and unite in one common brotherhood
to resist the OppreSSOr and to restore to
the labOring classes equal rights with
the balance of mankind. Here some
one said amen. followed by loud ap-
plause. Bro. Simpson had no mercy
on the little whipporwill Wall street
editors. | don't know whether any of
those gents were present or not, but if
[ had been one of them, | would have
crawIed into my hole (as the saying Isl
and pulled the hole in after me If |
could not have pulled in the hole, |
would have scratched in a right smart
of the dirt | had been throwing at the
Alliance.
When it was announced that Senator
PETER. the honorable Jerry Simpson,
and Mrs L were coming to the
South to speak in behalf of the peoples
movement, a certain little tries to- be-
Wall street journal said that the South
wanted no more missionaries from
Kansas; that John Brown was a mis-
siOnary from Kansas. Now there is no
more reason to believe that Senator
PETER, the honorable Jerry Simpson
and Mrs. l. are any more related to
John Brown, than there is to believe
that the above mentioned editors are
related to Benedict Arnold or Judas
IscariOt. The honorable Jerry has.
been here, and if the other two come,
we bid them welcome in behalf of
The same journal also said shat the
Virginia Alliance wanted to retire
Senator Daniels; that the South Caro-
lima Alliance had retired Senator
Hampton, and the North Carolina ALI
ance tried to retire Senator Vance, but
the Senator was too much for them.
The journal referred to is not of this
State, but we would like for it and
everybody else to remember that Sena-
tor Vance promised the Alliance legis-
lature to "buck" to the Sub Treasury
bill, and was elected with that under
standing, and it would be we'll for
Mr. Vance to find time to consider
that bill and let it's COnstitutiOnality
alone, the people will attend to that
part: He must find as much time to
consider the Sub-Treasury bill as he
did to parade across the continent to
bury dead Congressman and help to
sQuander a hundred thousand dollars
of the peoples money (the money he
vas sent to protect and defend) to bury
q dead Congressman, while the bulk
of the people would be glad if all the
old Wall street crowd were dead, and
as Bro WillettS says, buried far down
ward so they could scratch on to where
they belonged. If Senator Vance don't
want to hear the cry all along the line
from every County Alliance in the
State, resign, resign" he had better
buck" to the Sub-Treasury like a
clever fellow or give us something
better.
Please tell Col. Polk, Bro Willetts
and Bro, Simpson to come again, Rock
mgham County Alliance will meet
them with open arms. Let us know
next time a month beforehand and we
will try to give them a grand recep-
ton. You may say to the brethren all
over the State to march along in one
solid phalanX; that Rockingham
County Alliance is neither dead, deaf
or dumb but has awakened from her
fatal slumber and will meet them thara