The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22

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DEAR BRETHREN :-Don'tneg your
Alliance meetings. Remember that
the strength and usefulness of your
county, State and national meetings is
dependent on the promptness of the
Sub-Alliances. Spring and summer
have come and you may proftably
spend part of the season in picnics.
Have speakers and let them tell the
people where they are at" Too true
they already know, but good speakers
will inform them of the source of their
financial troubles
1T is only the SIRENS song that tells
us that we live under the best govern
ment the sun ever shone upon. The
wolf is standing at every laboring
mans door read! to gobble up all his
profit and oftentimes part of his capital.
No good government will allow such a
condition of an otherwise prosperous
country. Look to the doings of your
Congress and see if it and your Presi-
dent, who has recently vetoed that lit
tie mite of seigniorage bill, are doing
their duty. Are they helping you or
the WOLFF You need not of necessity
go into partisan politics to ascertain
this information and discuss what
would be the proper remedy it would
be far better perhaps to do this without
even the semblance .of strife. Those
who cannot ought to talk only in their
party meetings where they can have
full privilege. You should not be pre-
cluded, however, from inquiring into
the woes which not only have saddened
our once smiling Iand but are now de-
vastating it and every day bringing
the laboring many into the mighty
grasp of the nonlaboring few. This
ought not so to be, and the Farmers
Alliance will not put stumbling
block" in your way, but gives you full
authority to send for persons and pa
pers" and ferret out the causes of the
financial troubles, even if it places any
and all political parties into everlast-
ing infamy. You would not give into
slavery a single one of your girls to be
a handmade, or a single one of your
| boys to be "brick maker" to plutoc-
racy. You would not give one of these
in exchange for the height and depth
and breath of all Wall street. If we
would not give a single one of these,
how can we afford, through careless
ness and ignorance or otherwise, to ex-
change a whole country of womanhood
and manhood to the mighty for price
less than "a mess of pottage?" Shall
virtue be sold to vice for bread7 Shall
manhood humble itself in this once free
country of Washington and Jefferson
for privileged God forbid; and if the
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union
is true to itself and country, this may
never be.
A brother not long ago in writing to
me exclaimed: "Watchman, what Of
the nights" The politician would have
answered: ''All is well, plow on" I
say to you, plow on as you never
plowed before. The oppressor is bid
ding you plow on. PIow for the king,
plutocracy. Plow for all the idlers in
the land and then, and then plow for
yourself and family but all is not well.
After you have plowed to the harvest,
the despoiler takes the profits and the
family, after having worked all the
year, wonders why this is SO.
You have petitioned your Congress,
you have demanded of your Congress,
and never did throne spurn with
greater contempt than has your Con
gress your petitions and demands. 1t
has even gone so far as to bar the doors
of the capital, mass the soldiery and
hurl the police against few hundred
peaceable personal petitions of labor,
while plutocracy is admitted on all
occasions and in any manner and It's
voice obeyed.
All is not we'll, but ploW On; end
while you are plowing on, organize on
and dhelp one another in your Organiza
tion; help a brother to pay his dues
who is unable to pay; help to get back
those we have lost; help to reorganize
the dormant Alliances; help the State
Business Agency with your patronage;
help The PROGRESSIVE FARMER and
our other papers; help build yourselves
up mentally, morally and financially" "
and help to drive the money changers
from your temple by displacing repre-
sentatives who will not hear your voice
and electing those who will. Then you
may plow on and all will be well.