The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-06
AMONG THE ALLIANCES

4LOldIld.
As President Pierce, of the Oregon
State Alliance writes, there is a genuine
revival movement on foot throughout
that State.
The Executive Committee of the Vir-
ginia State Alliance met in Richmond
ON the goth ult., for the transaction Of
important business,
State Lecturer Long, of the Mime
sofa State Alliance, is now speaking
throughout the State and will put new
life into the organization.
The Alliance in Jefferson county,
Arkansas, is to be thoroughly over
hauled and started on the beaten path
that leads to justice again.
Arrangements have been perfected
and a thorough canvass will be made
in EdgefeId county, S. c., and the Ali
ance will be fully aroused.
South Dakota State Alliance vii be
held at Madison June goth to 28th.
Prominent speakers will be present
and a big meeting is expected.
The Minnesota State Alliance has
proposed to the State to take the total
output of twine made at the peniten
tiary this year at s cents a pound.
An Alliance picnic in Tulare county,
California, was attended by /, 800 PEG
pie one day last week. They believe
in doing things in a business way out
there.
More than 100 new Alliances have
been o. gained in Pennsylvania since
last October. The Order is growing in
nearly all the Eastern and extreme
Western States.
Col. H. G. Demming writes the Penn.
SylUdnjU Farmer that the Alliance has
never been so prosperous in Dauphin
county as it is at this time. Pennsyl
vania is in the reform ranks to stay.
4 number Of Alliance papers are
published in California and the mem
bers there T making a special effort
to extend their patronage. Let the
people in every State follow their ex-
ample.
There will be a grand Alliance picnic
at Concord Camp ground, Caroline
county, Maryland, On the 4th Of July.
The Peninsula Farmer invites all to
attend. President Ely and N. A.
Dunning will make speeches.
The Luray, Va, Union, says Mill
Greek Alliance, near that place, was
reorganized recently and Congressman
Harris, of Kansas, made one Of the
most eloquent speeches the editor Of
the Union has heard in long time.
A sub committee of the executive
committee of the National Alliance
met at Harrisburg, Pa, on the goth
inst. They decided to hold the national
encampment at Mt. Gretna if satisfac-
tory arrangements can be made. If
not, it will be somewhere near Wash
ingtOn or Baltimore, and will be held
about the middle Of August.
Hon. L. Leonard, member Of the
Executive Committee Of the National
Alliance, in speaking of the work in
his State, says, ''discontent Is ripe
everywhere, and the spirit Of indie
pendeIca and reform grows apaCe.
The people are reading and thinking,
the most effective work to be done is
to educate through reform literature.
South Carolina is not only holding
her own, but steadily advancing In the
good work by the Farmers Alliance.
The quarterly meetings last month
were well attended and marked by
growing enthusiasm. This was specially
observable il Chester, Lancaster and
Darlington counties. The Order is
blessed with men like Cunningham,
Love, Mcdaniel, Duncan, Elder and
McKeown.
One Of our Alliance exchanges says:
The Alliance is a'great educational
organization, and its members have
learned more practical economic prin-
ciples in a few years than they could
have learned in a lifetime in other edu-
c~ational Institutions" We endorse
that fully, and without naming any
paper, wish to ask why the editor of
that paper devotes such small amount
of labor and space to forwarding and
building up the organization? A great
many papers can put this shoe on if
they wish to.
The Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union seems to be making a steady
growth. It is just as well that the
enthusiasm that characterized the