The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-10-25
81 cRkEN wITHDRAWs.
The pOOr,keeper Of Cumberland County
Alliance Shows that Col Green
was the Most Partisan.

waS the MOST EaIG4SA
BUcKHoRN. N. @.
IN En1ToR-Col. Wharton J. Green
written the following letter giving
his reasons for withdrawing from 'ne
Alliance !.aa N. c., Oct. 10, '92.
Mr. Vim, r King, President OF GdT
a,er,s Greek Alliance, C~mOeTt0"@
DTap STR.-I here With tender you
NV RESIGNATION or rather I6nuTam
fr3no the Farmers Alliance OF NorGn
Carolina, and respectfully request Inae
r. NAV be SO entered on the Q u
Tour lodge. Unless mistaken gHoH
Viii show "good standing" ana al
dras maid to date. If perchance, nov
ever there are any arrears PIoa5o
state amount. and it VIII be prohpUly
= AZ every one should have a reason
for the determining motives OF ms
course in important affairs or Ire, L
nropose to give you, as the presl1lng
officer of the lodge which L entered ana
with which have since been loenClneo,
those which prompted fellowship ana
those which impel the step now taken.
Indispensable prerequisite to the first
was the assurance, oral and otherwise,
That the right of opinion IN matters or
religi IN and politics would not be In
fringed or in any wise abridged. That
7 have to the extent OF limited ABILITY
oerejstentlv combatted it's tendency to
disregard such sacred pledge, you and
all others cognizant are bount to ad-
NIT.
claim. I saw in the organization the
possibilities of much good to the agrl-
cultural class, especially as a social and
educational factor.
stAs a secret political agency In the
hands of such as would most naturally
use it. it required no seer to foretell
that its chance for good was gone and
its W for evil begun. Unless my
foreboding is at fault, that point has
been reached and passed.
doctors of the soil as was first In
tended, have given way to political
Ouacks with a string of rostrums too
ridiculous TO be even dubbed fanatical.
Like their brother charlatans In the
field of pharmacy, their purpose Is too
obvious t o require serious charge; to
cozen dupes, and thereby put money
In their pouch and themselves On a
higher plane. Indispensable thereto,
is abject submission to their every be-
hest and requirement.
$50 far from taking other medicine,
you must not even look at or listen to
other doctors The assumption is i'm
pudenee doubly distilled and boiled
down. Submission to such %autocraTic
mandate is slavish beyond the rule and
custom of manumitted slaves Of some
five and twenty years ago. Even their
leaders with ~proverbial carpet bag
In hand, did not dare tax their obedi
ence to that extent. They permitted
their followers to go to the Hastings,
but held them in leash with with forty
acres and a mule. My teaching and
reading had made me believe thatland
owners and soil tiuers were patriots
md freedom f0EeB a06ve ar Sinners.
and so I was proud to be of them.
"Recent observation has convinced
me of the fallacy of precipitate belief
Woe is me- that / should ever have
been ~undeceived. Even these under
the manipulation and false teaching of
cunning. selfish knaves and designing
~scoundrels, a it seems, be converted
into submissive tools of tyranny, self
denying free agents, and soliciting
allies of enfranchised slaves. am I'M
willing to be mistaken, wen by the
possibility of implication, for such a
thing as this, and hence the cause OF
action.
Before bidding you a kindly adieu,
/ venture to close with a parting ap.
peal to my late Alliance brothers In be
half of manly self respect and constr
tutional liberty, nothing craving, moth
ing asking in the line of personal pro
motion. l impl0re you as a brother
appealing to brothers, to pause AND
consider before throwing away beyond
reclaim the most priceless heritage
vouchsafed to men, and to but few a
that.
"Do not surrender under pique O
impulse the glorious liberty that yol
enjoy, and which has required a.
ocean of blood, a mountain of treasur
and near a thousand years to win. D
not give up a. a childish bauble you
birthright, your franchises, your man
hood, and thus undermine beyont
possibility of prop or hope of rebuilt
your free born inheritance as protectet
by fundamental character.
Freedom is hard to win, easy to lose
but once lost impossible of recall, unIes
all history is fiction Brothers, let nc
gold or silver or glittering clap trap a
mouthed by mercenary Ranters, weig
against such thing az this, I am"
Yours truly,
WHARTON j. GREEN.
It is evident that Col. Green ha
worked harder to get the Alliance i
Cumberland county into partisan pol
tics than all the rest combined. Fl
used the Alliance for all that was i
his power to secure the nomination
Clinton two years ago for Congress
Col. Green never attended a Count
Alliance meeting only when he had a
axe to grind, and generally for his ow
benefit. He says now, or insinuatei
that his political opinion has been Eli
fringed" upon.
Col. Green tries to damage the All