The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-08
LETTER PROM THE WEST.
Richard Razor Hears Bros. Thompson
and Hoover Speak.

little space. We are having Jul part
of the national prosperity up here, for
which we are thankful. OF course we
are human beings and have u faults
and may growl sometimes, but when
we have a fair chance in the race for
the mush that is being poured out by
the powers that be we never Tall to ap
~preciate it. We have a fine county
here and the half has not been told OF
its greatness. We have some papers
published in this county but they are
in the towns and have but little to say
about the greatness of the country that
| feeds them. Well, it is true they had
| something to say about the country PEG
pie last fall; they heaped q great deal
4of abuse on them because Chey refused
to obey the commands of some would
be bosses. AS to our esources we
have furnished some missionaries for
the heather in Japan and Mexico,
both male and female, all from the
country and not one of them from
town. We have put about ten or
twelve preachers in the field In the
past six years from this county, none
of whom came from town but all were
h~ayseeders. We send, I suppose, as
many good hands to the chain gang
and to the penitentiary as any county
in the State, but the town claims the
banner, on that score. We furnished
as many election thieves at the last
election as any county, and the town
can't say they beat us on that. We
will tell you in advance that we will
not use as many of them in the next
election as we did in the last. We still
have them on hand but they will take
back seats in 1894 We furnish col
leges with professors of political econ,
omy, but, thank the Lord, what we
have sent out were not from the
country.
This will give youa an outline of what
we have dore, and your readers can
judge the future by the past. This
county declared once that bullet headed
heelers will not rule the toilers Of this
country any longer.
I will say the Order known a the
Farmers Alliance exists here and that
it is in better shape to day than it has
been in twelve months, Some mem
bers dropped out because they said the
Alliance has left the Democratic party
and gone into the politics,
W. Id ~0oI Io1o~o%S0n Of +ho
county meeting. We elected a good
set of officers for the ensuing year and
they start out encouraged as the Subs
are increasing in members each meet
ing. Old members are coming back
and new ones are coming in. Every
time the boss papers kick the Alliance
The stronger it gets. We intend to
have Alliance picnics in this county
throughout the summer and we want
to hear of every county in the State do
ing the same.
Capt. S. B Alexander and Mr.. Sam.
Archer, editor of the Revolution, both
made capital speeches at county
meeting. Capt. Alexander urged the
Alliancemen to stick together and in
sisted on tho who had dropped out
to return, as it was the only salvation
for the farmers. We suppose the
streaked tailed 2x4 bosses would have
objected to him using such language if
they could have had their way, but he
used it all the same. Last Saturday,
the 18th, we had the pleasure Of hav-
ing Bro. J. Z. B. Hoover as our guest.
He addressed a respectable crowd of
farmers and Alliancemen of the upper
end of the county. We will say that
he is the right man in the right place.
His address was we'll received and
made some converts here as was
proven at our Alliance meeting on the
23d. Bro. Hoover is an allround high
toned gentleman and we only wish the
woods was full of such men, The only
thing he said or did to stagger our faith
was at the dinner table. A part of the
menu was cabbage and that caused
him to speak of his cabbages and how
fine they were. Well, we knew he was
an Eastern man. We have travelled
some in his part Of the State and the
cabbage we saw down there, or rather
their substitute, grows so tall they can
look over a seven plank board fence
and has a head like a big sunfower
and a stalk like a hoehandle. When
they are being cooked you could smell
them a block away and the smell was
like a hot box on a mortgaged railroad.
This put us to thinking, but he ex-
planned he had made a mistake in the
name of his cabbage. You can spell
it and not use a b at all.