The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-14
FATE OF Fl sUB-TREAsURY BILL IN THE
LAST CONGRESS.

Treasury bill, might like to know some
thing of its fate in the last Congress.
Nobody has ever ventured to oppose
its principles, and the last Congress
was evidently afraid to allow them a
fair discussion in either House. The
bill was introduced in the Senate by
Mr., Vance, of North Carolina, and in
the House by Mr.. Picker, of South
Dakota. In the Senate, the bill was
referred to the Committee on Agricul-
ture. It was permitted to lay there in
a camatose state until December 9th,
when it was reported to the Senate,
and was at nee referred to the Com
mittee on Finance. There it was
pigeon-hOled, and died the death of all
pigeon-holed measures with the ad-
journment of Congress. In the House
the bill was referred to the Committee
on Ways Means, and was never after
wards, heard from. How will it be in
the next Congress?
PROGRESS OF ALLIANCE WORK. H
KEYSTONE STATE.
The Pennsylvania State Alliance was
organized April 18th, 1890. There are
now over two hundred sub-Alliances
with more than ten thousand members,
and our friends + organizing at the
rate of one Alliance aday, Sundays
included. Secretary Demming says:
1--WE have been battled, ~badgered,
kicked and cuffed, not only by u
natural enemies, but by those who
should have been our friends" But
Notwithstanding the bitter fight, the
Alliance is gaining ground and win
ming friends.
WHAT WISCONSIN IS DOING
Wisconsin, the State in which Sena-
tor Villas says there is no Alliance, had
only seventy eight sub-organizations
last June. There are now two hundred
and thirty-six Alliances organized.
Applications for charters are received
by the Secretary every day, and there
will be over three hundred Organiza-
tions before the end of next month.
WEST VIRGINIA IS WIDE AWAKE.
West Virginia was organized seven
moths ago. There T now four hun
dred and thirty-three organizations
reported, and the work is more vigorous
and active than ever before. In nearly
every county there are commissioned
organizers at work. The interest is
wide spread and eager, and the people
are leaguing themselves together for
the common good.
KENTUCKY'S SPLENDID MARCH.
Secretary Davis of the Kentucky
State Alliance sent out charters for
sixty new sub-Alliances during the
month Of March. E~ighty-six Of the
one hundred and nineteen counties in
the States are organized. There is a
total of {, 400 sub unions in the State
with a membership Of more than one
hundred thousand farmers; and the
work now being done is simply grand.
NORTH DAKOTA.
North Dakota has not been idle, if
she has been quiet. During the past
winter the Alliance has doubled it's
number of sub-organizations, and
largely increased it's membership and
friends there say they will continue
the work with renewed vigor and
energy during the spring and summer
NEW ENGLAND FALLING INTO LINE.
The New England States have been
showing a lively interest in the ALI
ance for some time past. There have
been hundreds of applications for ALI
ance Literature, and particularly for
the Sub-Treasury plan argument. In
New Hampshire the interest has cUl-
minated in the organization of the
"Granite State Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union at Troy, and a dis
%pensatiOn was sent there last week.
They are now calling for organizers,
and think the time is ripe for good
work in that section"
o H WORK IS DONE IN NEW YORK.
In some sections, particularly nNew
York, the partisan press has succeeded
in keeping up astrong prejudice against
the Alliance. A national organizer
who is at work there gives the Bureau
an incident in his work. He says: I
sent word to an exclusively farming
district that I would speak for them
on a certain date. Arriving there I
found a few people. They were not
familiar with the Alliance and were
afraid of it. l presented economic
questions for an hour or more. My
listeners were struck with wonder.
They seemed to have no idea of the
cause of their financial depression, and
of the depreciation of their farms in
value of more than one hundred per
cent. in the past ten years Five
days later [ got a telegram asking me
to come and make one more speech. I
did so. The whole country was out
and amOre enthusiastic eeting never
saw, even in Kansas. At the close of
the speech I organized an Alliance,
and parties from other sections were
anxious to organize also"
THE TWO NEW STATES COMING IN THIS
MONTH.