The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-26

eliminated from the platform. the
partisan press would attack something
else III the PLATFORM" There are 700
Sub-Alliances IN Louisiana with over
10000 members.
EVERY ALLIANCE \ READ y NOTE
THIS.
The Garden City Alliance of Cali
~fOrnia, speaks to the Brotherhood as
follows:
And comes the time when
leaders of political parties and editors
Of party papers, realizing our strength
and fearing the power of the Alliance
owe the people, are becoming per
picked as their plans for the future
feeding out of the public crib and are
ready to do o say anything to prevent
a further diminutiOn in their ranks.
Their e~mmisaries are sent to interview
our leaders and to betray the unwary,
end, not satisfied with this, they would
have their agents seek admission into
our most secret chambers that they
might learn of our purposes and be
prepared to thwart our plans. The
time has come when they who are not
for us are against us. If any one has
entered our order who IS not in accord
with us it is time he had turned back.
These persons can soon be located as
we find them ready to retard or defeat
all progressive measures, especially
if such would seem to destroy the old
party work. Those members whose
hearts are not with us, it is time they
turn back"
GRAND MARCH IN CALIFORNIA.
On May Sd, 1890, one year ago, the
first County Alliance was organized in
the great State of California. On May
Sd, 1891, State Organizer Barbee an
nounced that every county in the State
would send delegates to the State meet
ing in next October, and that there
would be so, 600 members enrolled I'M
der the Alliance banner. This will be
an encouraging mOrsel for those who
are trying to create the impression
that the Alliance is "dying out"
SOME ROWLING AND MAILING.
The solitude of the partisan press for
the Alliance under some circumstances
is touching and pathetic. Here is n
instance: President Polk recently
issued an official manifesto setting
forth that obligation of Alliancemen
was such as should prevent one mem
Der from attacking another while both
were members of the Alliance, and as
long as a man remained in the Alliance
he had no right to attack Alliance prin-
cipleS; and that when a nan felt that
he was cOnscientiously bound to attack
members or principles of the Alliance,
he should come out of the order and
make his attack from the outside. All
this was but a simple official statement
Of the conditions under which any one
is received into the order, and which
conditions are accepted on coming in.
All Alliance papers 7 printing the
manifesto and are commencing it, but
those papers that are fighting the Ali
ance-oh! what a bowling and wailing
they are sending up. They Screech
and foam at the mouth. They call the
National President a "Czar" and ''au-
tocrat; ;" and they are desperately seek
ing by such attacks to arouse and en-
courage prejudice among the members
of the Alliance.
Now, what have these papers got to
do with the Alliance? They are fight
ing it in every way as bitterly as they
know how to fight; and now they jump
in and try to take a hand in the official
business of our order which they fear
and hate, and of which they are not
members and which they would, above
all things, love to see wrecked and orr
to pieces by internal wrangling and
discussions.
Gentlemen of the partisan press, the
Alliancemen are not fools. They know
what you would like to do. They know
that some of you that profess friend
ship for the Alliance take keen pleas
ure in reproducing any canard or re
port which may appearin print against
the Alliance, and they all know just
where you stand and what you are try
ing to accomplish. Isn't it time to stop
making yourselves so utterly redicu-
lOus? H. w. AVER,
Mgr Reform Press Bureau
Washington, May 16, 1891.