The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04
A SPLENDID
State Alliance President and Mem
bers of the Executive Committee
Publish an Address That
Should be Read in Every
Sub-A1liance,

FuDl4S Gil &9OAASSS
Should be Read in Every
SURVEILLANCE.
To the Membership Of the SUB Advances
of North Carolina
BRETHREN:-We have all recently
| passed through a heated political cam
paign. We are all committed to the
same principles, the same demands for
reform. the same end but we have, as
was our right and duty, individually
selected the methods that seemed to us
| best to secure the results desired by all
! Alliancemen. The following Of our IN
! diyidual judgments in the exercise OF
| this right has resulted in us acting
with different political parties. The
same has occurred to a greater or less
| extent in every political campaign
since the Alliance was organized. Bu5
this variance Of judgment as to meth
DDS should not shake III devotion to
| the principles Of the organization or
cause any personal estrangement be-
tween us as brethren. Before your
meeting ~adjourns let every brother
read, or have read, in open meeting by
the Secretary the obligations we have
| all taken. Let the Secretary here read
the obligation Again let us remem
Der that there are other great and I'M
portant results and benefits (other
than those through legislation which
individually we cannot secure for our
| selves, but which can come only through
| CO operation and united effort. Let US
read again the declaration of principles
and purposes of our noble order. CLet
the Secretary here read from the Con-
stitution.) For these grand purposes
we are now practically a unit both as
to method and results.
Now, therefore, inasmuch as the
meetings of the Sub Lodges and the
work of the organization proper has to
some extent been neglected and possibly
lost sight of during the political cam.
paign, let US all unite efforts to in
crease the membership of each lodge
and make the meetings more enter
tanning and profitable than ever.
The situation, u OWL condition and
necessities and the dangers ahead of us
force III to do this. We cannot do less.
How blind we would be to u own self
Interests and how criminal ID those de-
pending upon our labor and efforts for
support to allow this organization to
suffer or by inaction weaken its power
for good simply because our judgments
did not all agree on political method.
Can we expect weak human flesh to be
perfect? Brethren, wemust have charity
when we disagree, the beam may be in
our own eye. Before this meeting ad-
journs let each brother stop and think
who the persons are who would be de-
lighted TO hear Of your division; who
the persons are who have feared you
since you organized and who the per
sons r. who have been diligently try
Ing to create a breach in our ranks,
who have been tanning the little flame
of feeling or widen the least breach
that may have occurred amongst US.
Then stop and think whose interests
are nearer together, those of you pres
ent in this meeting and your neighbors
who should be here, or those farmers
who are planning for the destruction
of the organization and are now gloat-
ing over your little differences. These
hostile influences may succeed in max
ing small breaches in our ranks, and
to some extent weakening the organi-
cation, but they cannot break it down.
The principles on which it is founded
are too broad and patriotic and the
dangers facing us are too grave and
threatening. Never in the history
Of the organjzati has it been more
important to keep it's lines unbroken
and present a solid front than
now. The strength Of the whole organ
ization depends on the number of Sub
Lodges and the strength of each one,
Your State officers with united effort
will do all in their power to increase the
number of Lodges by extending the
organization to sections of the State
that have not yet been thoroughly
worked, and now it devoIves upon YOU
to strengthen your Sub Lodge. How
will you do it? Lei us urge upon YOU
to shake hands over past differences
before this meeting adjourns and to
put on foot some plan to add new
members and to bring back such as
have neglected to attend. Let each
one promise the other to see that the
next meeting is more largely attended