The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26
THAT ADORE SIS.
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LENOIR, \. G.
Mr.. EDITOR am a freeman and
glory in my heritage as an American
citizen. I believe in mans having
convictions. and his allowing them to
be suppressed by neither shame nor
fear. am an Ailianceman from cen
ter to circumference, and have never
played reticent in the Order, because L
feared to take bold stand either for
or against any measure that might
come up. The divine injunction is,
'cOme boldly" 1t has never been my
policy to rest my claim as an Alliance
man on the demands the Sub Treasury
feature excluded, that may court
favor Of politicians and other outsiders.
You know, Mr. Editor. there is quite a
number both in and outside of the
Order, who are welded to talk some
thing like this, ooh the Alliance is
all right, am for every one Of the de-
Treasury plank" No, sir, am for the
demands, one and all; and there in
tend to rest my case. "Sink or swim,
live or die, survive or perish" This
ought to be the attitude of all our
membership. "In union there is
strength" Our motto should be "Our
breasts are a thousand, our hearts
are one"
have no faith in the NoUemUirate
that fathered the address to the people.
The true blues up here are mad about
it. We looked for the combined wis
dom Of a Deeen1UiTdte; :; but when the
document came one of the names failed
to appear. All honor to Lecturer Bell!
He is a hero and patriot and has stood
alOOf from this huge conspiracy to sell
out the Alliance in North Carolina to
one Of the political parties. He has
proven himself orthy Of confidence.
Let all true Alliancemen cling to him
in his time of trial, so long as his course
is thus manly and honorable. But
when he fails to be true (Which we be-
lieve he will never do) and proves a
traitor as others have done, let us call
81 halt, ard teach him to know, that a
traitor is no less despised now, than
when Benedict Arnold betrayed his
country and his coUntrymen in the
days Of the revolution. Yes, Mr..
Editor, believe it will be best for some
! people to harmonic" " but let these
ours who did the bowling do the Thar
mOnizing" The Alliance did not call
q meeting Of the Democratic Executive
| Committee of the State. It sent no
| UClSStISS X.
| pointed none of the committee who
| issued the address. Therefore the AL
| lance in North Carolina is not bound
by it, and will not be. We have no
| fears We are asking no quarters. If
any body is scared let him seek refuge
in our ranks. We will engage not to
hurt him, and will assure him that his
humiliation in yielding to what we
| think right is no more than ours would
be should we yield to him. And above
all, we promise not to fool him any
worse than we have been fooled. What
is all this fuss about? Here, Mr.
| Editor, is the conclusion of the whole
| matter: The Democratic party in
| North Carolina without the Alliance is
| like a starved peacock with its tail
pulled out. 1t has lost its balance of
| power. Some of it's leaders are out of
a job, and others are expecting to be.
! On with the fight.
| Hear what one who has been q Demo
crat from the day he was allowed to
cast his first suffrage, has to say: The
records declare to me that there are
| 100. 900 AIliancemen in North Carolina.
Now if that class of men get control of
the State, I shall say amen, for am
forced to believe that those who de-
Tended it with their blood and their
lives at stake in time Of war, will pre-
serve it in time of peace.
Mr. Editor, the Order is in fine trim
in "Old Caldwell" The enemy have
raised a flag of truce, and even ask
Alliancemen if they don't believe that
we all ought to harmonic"
If you deem this worthy of your
columns, l shall be glad TO see it in
print, and would ask the Hickory
Aercury to copy, if not do with it as
you like.
Fraternally yours,
E. T. WAKEFIELD.