The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
PRESIDENT
Bro. Wilder's Opinion of Some So-Called
Alliancemen.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
I want to write you a few words, and
if they should be 50 fortunate as to find
their way to the press, all right, and if
not they will be SURE to ind their way
to the waste basket.
Now, Mr.. President, I have been
reading a good deal recently about the
President of the State Alliance, as to
what he said at Cary some time ago.
There has been a good deal said about
him that is not true, I suppose, but
that does not hurt him at all. II he
had been as ignorant q man as myself,
nobody would have taken any notice
of what he said. But inasmuch as he
is the President of the North Carolina
Farmers State Alliance, and it is rea-
souable to be supposed that he is hav-
ing and will have a vast amount of in
fuence wherever he goes, for he is an
intelligent, thoroughgoing. warm
hearted Allianceman, and also a very
fine orator, it may be expected that he
will meet with a good deal of opposi
ton on his way. It he does not he may
take it for granted that he is not &C.
complishing any good, and that he had
just as we'll go back home and go to
making cotton or something else. Ev-
cry intelligent person knows that when
anything gets on foot that is likely to
benefit the common working class of
people that there is always some one
standing watching for a chance to de-
feat it. The case of our shoe factory is
proof enough that there are some PEG
pie IN the world that don't intend that
a poor man shall have anything but
just a little something to eat and
enough clothes to keep from freezing,
There ara some people of gu h a dispo-
sition that they will deprive themselves
of many comforts Of life just to keep
their neighbor from being benefited.
AS we have been defeated at Cary in
our shoe factory, l think u Execu
tive Committee had better b3 very
careful how they talk about buying
another site for a factory, II it i3 t.
be sold at auction they will be sure not
to get it. Ny advice is, buy q place az
soon as you can, as cheap as you can,
and with as li5tle taIkjlg as you can,
and as c~onvenienC as yea can possibly
get it.
I want to say a f3w words about our
good Alliancemen who profess to be rs
good AlLiancemen IS anybody, yet they
never go to their Alliance meetings
Now, I ear tell you soma Of what ]
think Of that. II a man Of this kind
tells me he is in sympathy with the
Alliance, and that he endorses every
thing the Alliance does and that he be
lieves it is a good thing, and yet never
attends his lodge meetings, I begin to
doubt his doctrine. I begin to believe
that he does not practice what he
breaches. If q man does not think
enough of his organization, let it be
what it may, Alliance, church, Odd
Fellows, Or anything else, to go to the
meetings ono in a while, you " take
it for granted that his organization is
not doing him any good and You may
be sure that he is injuring the organi-
cation. And you had better watch
that man at the ballot box or he will
vote against himself, and you and all
true reformers. He is not practicing
what he breaches. He is an Alliance
man when with Alliancemen, and a
church mem Der when with a church
member, but 1 am bound to say that 1
believe he is not what he should be.
I have given you enough of my non
sense, so l will stop for this time.
Wishing speedy success to the shoe
factory, and a very long life to THE
FARMER, I remain, an
and a true reformer,
ID. T. WILDER.