The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17
BRO. MASSEY IN ROCKINGHAM.
Many Good ResuIts---AlIiance on a Boom
in That County.

For sometime the Farmers AlIlAuCo
has apparently been, to some exIenC'
On the decline in Rockingham county,
and at the last county meeting IL was
decided to place a lecturer in the held
for some days, and after some CORE
spondence. the writer obtained b SER
vices of that eloquent eXpounder ana
able defender of the Alliance cause, the
Rsv. P. 81. Massey, and now the hon
ored Chaplain of the North Carolina
Farmers State Alliance.
Bro. Massey met with LaWsonville
| Alliance on Thursday, November 14Gh,
and he there met an audience Of zeal.
GUS workers in the Alliance cause, and
after listening to an able address, they
brought forth their well filled baskets,
prepared and spread by the good ladies
of that section, and all partook to their
satisfaction, and enough of the frag
ments were taken up to have fed as
many more.
On Friday, the 18Th, the writer met
Bro. Massey at Lewis Church. Those
brethren did not claim to have apicnic,
but after listening to an address which
strengthened the faith of those who
heard it, the good ladies, and some of
the brethren present, unloaded their
well, filled baskets and all who remained
fully satisfied the inner man and the
half had not yet been eaten.
On Saturday, the 18th, the people of
the surrounding country gathered to
gether at the Iron Works Mills; they
came on carts, buggies, wagons and
foot back" to hear Bro. Massey again.
They had heard him before and we're
prepared for the feast Of ~eloquence to
which ttey listened for an hour and a
half or more. 1t seemed that most
every vehicle had come laden with the
good things prepared by the goodladies
for this special occasion, and if any
went away with his appetite not salts
fed, it was his own fault, for it ap
peared az was remarked by q Northern
hunter, that an over production Of
good victuals was abroad in the land.
Bro. Massey consented to preach for
the people at Cross Keys School House
on Sunday evening and at Midway
Church at night, and his reputation as
a preacher of the Gospel does not fall
behind his reputation as an Alliance
lecturer.
On Monday morning, November 18 b,
Bro. Massey and myself started on a
tour for the week. We met with and
re- organized Rock Hill Alliance with
Is as true Alliancemen and women as
will be found in the State.
On Monday night he addressed the
people at Bason's, Tuesday at Bald Hill,
and then went across the river Dan.
Wednesday we met with and re-or-
ganized Deep Springs Alliance at night
we mat the people of the Grassy
Springs section, and they, too, came
back to the fold.
Thursday we re-crossed the river
Dan and re organized old Shady Grove
Alliance. At night we met old Town
Creek Alliance, and after having list
/ ened to Bro. Massey's eloquence they,
too, or II of their number, returned to
the fold.
On Friday morning we started for
Union Church, away down in the north
! eastern corner of the county, but ow-
ing to some mistake in the appoint
ment, found but very few present, con
sequently did not speak, but at night
we met the appointment at Happy
, Hope School House and re organized
Happy Hope Alliance.
On Saturday we met the people of
the Mt. Carmel section, and Bro. Mas
sey's able address strengthened the
cause in that section.
Thursday ended Bro. Massey's work
in u county, a work which accomp-
lished the organization of six Sub
Alliances composed of as good Alliance
material as u county Chords, a work
which has strengthened the faith of
Cnose already in our cause and will be of
l1sGlng benefit to the Farmers Alliance
q OF Rockingham county.
+ ~ "Oulo De an injustice to Bro. Mas
he sey Tor the writer to undertake ~ g.
t. d synopsis OF his speech, for no 80 ~
Stranger to Alliance people. bis a.
p, 4uence nae already been heard NOT OF
On the plains of eastern and mid5Is
carolina, but upon the hilltops AND
of the western part of ON
a oLate. He proclaimed the same doc
OF ICnne mat has ever taught the funda
ag mneennCal principles upon which or ORGAN
ar %atttOn was based-"Equal and exact
- IusG.ce TO all men with special priv
Long live the Farmers Alliance TIN