The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-16

! l7E LIZ OWN ~ LEX AIN FALSE
CHARGES.
/ IL tie NemJers NJ the Sui 1uiauce
/ Of North Car0iina,
/ BRETHREN:-We have all recent,
passed through heated campaign
/, We are all committed to the sam,
principles, the same demands fol
reform, the same end; but we have
as was our right and duty, indlyidu-
ally selected the methods that seemed
to us best 70 secure the results desired
| by all Alliancemen. The following
Of our individual judgment in the
exercise Of this right has resulted in
us acting with different political par.
ties. he same has occurred to :
greater or less extent in every politi.
cal campaign since the Alliance wa,
organized. But this variance OF
| judgment as to methods should not
/ shake our devotion to the principle.
OF the organization or cause an,
personal estrangcmcnt between us as
brethren. Before your meeting adj
Journs let every brother read, or have
read, IN open meeting by the Secre-
tary the obligations We have all taken
Let the Secretary here read the OBJ
legation. Again let us remember
| that there are other great and i'm
portant results and benefits (other
than those through legislation) which
individually we cannot secure for
ourselves, but which can come only
through cooperation and united eff
fort. Let us read again the decIara
ton of principles and purposes of
our noble order. Let the Secretary
here read from the Constitution.
For these grand purposes we are now
practically II unit both az 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 po-
IltlcaI campaign, let us all unite our
efforts to increase the membership of
each lodge and make the meetings
more entertaining and profitable than
ever.
The situation, our own condition
and necessities and the dangers ahead
| of us force us to do this. We can
not do less. How blind we would be
to our own self interests and how
criminal to these depending upon
our labor and efforts for support to
allow this organization to suffer or
by our action weaken its power for
good simply because our judgments
do not all agree on political methods.
Can we expect weak human flesh to
be perfect? Brethren, we must have
charity when we disagree, the beam
may be in our own eye. Before this
meeting adjurns let each brother
stop and think who the persons are
who would be delighted to hear of
your division; who the persons are
who have feared you since you or
gained ana who the persons are
who have been diligently trying to
create 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 interest
are nearer together, those of you
present in this meeting and your
neighbors who should be here, or
those persons who are planning for
the destruction of the organization
and are now gloating over your little
differences. These hostile influences
may succeed in making small breech-
es IN our ranks, and to some extent
weakening the organization, but they
cannot break it down. The princi-
Piles on which it is founded are too
broad and patriotic and the dangers
facing lis are too grave and threaten
ing. Never in the history
of the organization has it
been more important to keep its lines
unbrOken ana present a solid front
than now. The strength of the
whole organization 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 num-
Der of the Order by extending the or
ganization to sections of the State
that have not yet been thoroughly
worked, and now it devolves upon
you to strengthen your Sub-Lodge.
How will you do it? Let us urge
upon you to shake hands over past
differences before this meeting adj
journs and to put ON foot some plan
to add new members and to bring
back such as have neglected to at
tend. Let each one promise the other
to see that the next meeting is more
largely attended than this one. We
further suggest that you appoint
two committees, one to see those who
are behind with their dues or have
not attended of late, and the other
to see such persons, who have never
joined, as are eligible and desirable
for membership. And let your next
meeting be a full and enthusiastic
one to hear the reports of these COM
mittees. We would suggest that
you instruct your Sub-Business
Agent (if he has not been doing so)
to correspond at once with Bro.
Worth, (S.-B. A. and see what be
can do for You IN the way of buying
for you, or selling for you what YOU
may have to sell that he can handle.
In regard to the Business Agency
Fund, it remains in tact, and has not
been perverted as has been charged
by the enemies of the order; not even
has the State Business Agent been