The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-21

A 6A0 GOu6EO1 Gn0mE Can we
not, so far as labor is concerned. for
ever settle the tariff question by estab-
fishing factories for manufacturing our
own products7 Who can put ships on
every sea stronger, greater or swifter
thar labor itselfl Can Wall street or
even the government itself9 WHY
should either when neither could exist
for a moment but for the wealth which
labor produces9
Let us not only ATTACK the forts on
the Rhyme" but march directly into
the enemy's country and fight him on
his W ground and with his own
ways. The check system is one of the
ways of the enemy let us adopt it and
march on to victory.
/ call your attention to the system
known as the Labor Exchange" and
ask you to appoint a wise committee
to make inquiry into this system and
report at this meeting.
Our Business Agency is the right
arm of the Alliance. 1t must be pat
ronized by the membership not only
by buying, but in selling their products
through it. In order to do this the
Agency must be made convenient,
brought as it were to their doors, and
constantly inviting their trade. While
/ do not suggest Alliance stores, I do
insist that deposits, as many at least as
ten or fifteen, be established through
out the State on some plan so that
this trading a be conveniently had
through the Business Agency at head
quarters. Let us do something for the
upbuilding of Order. Let us do
something to directly benefit our op-
pressed people, even if we have to
commence at the very beginning to
establish a better convenience for our
brethren to trade. Can we not put into
better activity the thirty thousand dol
lars now lying almost dormant in the
hands Of our worthy Trustee7
Dear brethren, think on these things,
think and act at this meeting.
The high and righteous esteem in
which VI courts have been held from
the very earliest days of our govern
ment has always appeased any dread
of any ultimate disaster to the liber
ties of the people. Whatever laws
may have been enacted, whether con
stitutional or otherwise, their conf
dence and implicit trust in the unfair.
nished and unsullied character of the
judiciary gave them that peace which
ought to dwell in the minds of all free
and untrammelled people. But l fear
it is not so now. Recent decisions in
our State and Nation have proven the
fact that partiz1nship in the courts is
a baneful fault. and that monopoly
swsys a mighty scepter owe the minds
of many of the courts of the land. The
manifestation Of this is causing alarm
In the past the Alliance has paid no
attention to the courts but all to legis
lation. In the future we ought to in
sist that the judiciary be placed above
party politics, and that none but
righteous and G~od-fearing men shall
be exalted to that noble eminence.
WHEREAS, The subject of free and
liberal education alike for males and
females is a matter of paramount i'm
portance to the material and institu-
tional life of the State, and n that
especially claims the immediate atten-
ton of the industrial classes; therefore
the Farmers Alliance of North Caro-
lima, in session assembled,
ResOlUc let, That we favor and recon-
mend an increase of our present public
school tax of at least Is per centum.
2. That we favor and recommend
that ample appropriations and pro
visions be made by the State for train
ing and higher education of females. "
The above preamble and resolutions
were the outcome of the noble spirit of
the State Farmers Alliance at Ashe-
Vile and the splendid Industrial School
for Girls located in thus city is the result
of a grand political action four years
ago.
For a hundred years there has been
a State high school for boys. 1t was
the mission of the Alliance to establish
this one for the girls.
AlIiancemen have not the financial
ability to enter their daughters in pro-
portion to other classes, but they point
with pride to their glorious institution
and if the ''shroud and pail" shall ever
come to their order this and other
noble legislation shall be a monument
sacred to it's blessed memory. But,
my brethren, there is yet a grander
work to be done. Your common school
system needs perfecting. More of your
money ought to go direct to the chill
dren's education and less to some holt
day officers and teachers. Look you
to ' u common schools; they are the
ones tn make YOUR State a great State.