The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-03-31
PUSH THE ALLIANCE WORK.

Correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
AS it will soon be time for the April
meeting of the Alliance in the different
counties In the State, / write o urge
all lovers of liberty to begin to make
preparations or same, and let's show
Shylock how dead we are, and I espe-
eially ask ard urge every Sub Alliance
In the county to get right, if they are
not already right, and be sure to bave
. live representative at our next COun
ty meeting, which takes place with
AcresvilIe s .b-Alliance the second
Thursday in April, as I am going to
try to turn on some light that has been
doing us lots Of good here, and we are
not only willing, but anxious, to bene-
fit the brethren. I know how scarce
money is, and what an effort it will be,
brethren, for you to comply with this
request, but 1 know you are equal to
the emergency.
Now this is our cause, and if we fail
10 sustain it l feeIitke all is lost; in fact
we are going to sustain it-no such
word as fail. know the Alliance has
lost members from many causes, and
poverty is the greatest cause, the thing
which ought of necessity to bind US
closer together to cause us to apply the
remedy. I am happy to say we have
been gradually gaining in members in
cur Sub Alliance for some time and if
we could only have Bro. Hoover or
Bro. Cyrus Thompson to give us a talk
or two in this county, it would be al
most a revival to US, for it seems that
all who are eligible are almost per
auaded, only need a little encourages
ment from G distance. Almost all who
have been watching the Alliance and
saying it had gone into politics are be
ginning to realize that every citizen in
the United States is in politics the
day they become 81 years old. The ques-
ton for US to settle is who are we in
politics for our wives and child en- and
country, or a set of politician boomers
l was in company with an attorney
In this county in 1892, about the time
the Alliance took charge Of the Demo
cratic party in this county Gust before
they read US out3 and he said, Now,
Mr.. Lane. you Alliance folks don't
treat us right" / asked him to show
me just n instance in which we had
failed. well" he says, take this
county for instance; we will say by the
way Of an illustration there are 300
Democrats-Ot course there are more
shan that, but that will illustrate it
300 Of them belong to the Alliance and
100 OF us are not eligible to member
ship; you 200 Alliancemen get together
before the convention and pick over
your men, and when we go into con
vention you have it all your own way,
and we 100 have no say in it."
laughed right in his face and asked
him what form of government We lived
under. He said republican form l
asked him if that did not say the ma
iority must rule. He said yes. 1 said
you little minority have been ruling to
the ruin of this great big majority !;
now when we propose to take a hand
In it HI is to pay"
We'll" he said, 'all 1 have got to
say is whenever the tarn ers are pros
porous everybody else is prosperous,
and we won't talk politics any more"
Il is plain enough for any man to see
all they want is to control Us, not only
IN politics, but everything else, and
men who will not rise up and protect
themselves ought to be hewers of wood
and drawers of water.
r 81. LANE.