The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-08
AMONG THE
What our Organization is Doing
Throughout the Country.

What our Organization IS long
Throughout the Country.
Pennsylvania is awakening to the
situation. The Alliance is already 20,
600 strong.
During the month of July there were
organized in Ohio 10 SubAlllanceS,
with a membership of 10000.
The Citizens Alliance is spreading
everywhere. a strong one has just
been organized at Birmingham, Ala.
The Farmers AIience elevator at
BelOit. one of the most COmmOdlOuS on
the Central Branch Road, is open for
business.-Weehly Repu5ijc.
All reports to the contrary notwith-
standing. the Alliance in Kansas is
more compact, stronger, influential
and determined to fight it out to a
finish. than ever before. -AtchiSOH
CHUHp|o}.
A~ttherecent Alliance rally in Downs,
Osborne county, 10000 people were
present. The procession was two miles
long. The demonstration about para
Iyzed the old party managers in that
section. Congressman Davis grafton
dealt sledge-hammer blows against the
evils Of which the people are complain
ing.
The Pike County (Ala) Alliance
wants the State Alliance to put in mo-
ton some plan for a general reduction
all over the South of cotton acreage.
1t thinks that 5000, 900 bales Of cotton
for the South means empty corn
cribs, poor stock, half-paid preachers,
illiterate children and i'll, scOwling
wives God save us from such.
As the Felicinna, La, Sentinel sar-
c~astically cried out, "step up, gentle
men. before all the fat things are gone,
and if you don't see what you want,
Just ask for it at the Alliance CORPORA
tive political store" The New Orleans
PicUyuHe retOrted that lit is just pos
sible that the Alliance farmers may
reserve an office or two for themselves
in the next deal
An eloquent anti-Alliance stumper
was asked the other day how he pro
posed to increase the circulating
medium? He answered by the free
coinage of silver. He was told that it
was good as far a it went: but if the
silver output was all coined it would
not add twenty cents a head to the
volume of currency. But there is
doubt about having free silver coinage.
Carlisle. Mills, Cleveland and other
bosses are saying that the free silver
issue must be kept in the rear in the
next presidential canvass; but the
masses must have their say as we'll as
the bosses.
State Lecturer Clarence B. Collins,
of the Florida Alliance, is another of
those famous humorists who have
written some of the most tender and
fearful sketches in the English Ian
guage. Last week his Alliance depart
ment in the Florida Dispatch. Of
jacksonville. contained one Of his most
beautiful and touching articles entitled
''That Old Faded Letter From My
Dead Boy" 1t was written, In
Camp, near Chattanooga" and told of
the fearful battle of Chickamauga. \
few months later the seventeen-year-
old hero in the faded gray jacket was
dead. and his stricken parents waited
in vain for the letter that never came.
All of how many homes the same
might be recorded.
The Citr0grdph, Of Redlands, Cal,
states that William Penn Rogers, PreSi-
dent Of the San B~ernardine County
Farmers Alliance, sent letters to secre-
taries Of Farmers Alliances in all the
eastern f~ruit-growing States, and the
answers show that the seasons crop Of
peaches will be a light one, with few
exceptions. The report from Maryland
and Delaware estimates the yield at
81. 900. 900 baskets-not a heavy crop
and not more than enough to supply
the green fruit market. In Illinois the
crop is reported better than usual,
though it is never heavy there. The
reports from the differen States also
say that dried fruit of last season is
scarce and sells at high figures. These
facts indicate that there will be a good
demand for this years output of dried
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