The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-18
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/ question in which are involved all the
essential factors affecting human pro
gress or decay, comes in this President
ial year as the ridge pole of all politi
cal controversy. But a little while
ago two great parties denied our con
ten0ion and spurned ur urgent appeal
for monetary reform. T Oday only
one great party, which counts for the
most part of the unearned wealth and
luxurious idleness of the nation Ignores
our teaching and labors appeal, while
three great parties are striving to Co
gent and vital demand, and wherever
the Alliance has had it's way most
largely, there the financial question Is
most difficult to evade. There the
masses in all political parties are most
likely to be intelligenUly abreast of the
Wises5 and most humane econt mic
thought. May we not contend, there
fore, that the Alliance is not oily a
useful, but an indispensable organ'zA-
Cion as well2 If It's membership re
mains small after shock of two IN
friendly campaigns and a period of
pernlclous tinannlal stringency, still
the Order lives, and there Is every
reason why it should grow. Our mis-
sIon Is perpetual. The1e are other
great questions upon which the people
need t. be educated, and others to
arise IN the process Of time.
No Populist should neglect the Al
lance because the Peoples party
espoused the cause He should rather
for tina reason remain steadfast to the
Alliance and see to it that his new
party prove not faithless as the old.
The element that cannot thWaIJ a good
tach itself TO 1t / n apparent friendll
ness to accomplish by this means what
it could not openly. IG was such an
evil genius that would have rendered
the Alliance useless Dy steering it clear
OF political study and practice.
IL was such an evil genius that
stranded he old Democrats ship upon
the shores of Shermanism. Is it lot
possible for the Peoples party to sui
Ter sometime a similar faGe2
The thousands Of Alliancemen who,
attilllating with the Democratic party,
left the Alliance because it went into
politics four years ago, a have no
excuse for remaining out Of 1t now.
Inc Democratic party in control of
every department of the government,
Counting securely upon their uUques
UlOnlng allegiance to party, gave them
nothing Of their principles, after all It's
success. It's history the past four years
shows how untrue a political party I'M
fettered by independent pubic senti
ment may prove, aud how cruelty con-
CemptuOus of blind allegiance. We
want TO see these men return to the or
der and help rs to rebuild 1t to it's for
mer magnitude. We need them and
| we feel that they need as. TGey left
Us because we wenC into politics In
1892, ana IN 1896 their National Pat
form has put them into the same poll
Tics That we went into. Why should
they not find us very genial compan
IONS. and 80 to every eligible man
IN North Carolina, whether Populisc,
D-m0crat or Republican, who believes
in the wisdom and necessity Of the non
partisan political education Of the voters
that her Elm lies the safety of our common
country. Iextend a cordial invitation
to connect himself with US. An intel
llgent and patriotic citizenship is the
only hope of the Republic, and that
which We think we learn in a campaign
when holly contending for the mastery
Of a faction is not 80 likely to be the
saving truth as that which we calmly
discover when in quest of truth for
its WI sake. For the citizen there is
no education so valuable as that which
Is political and for our agricultural
population there has been no other
such educator as the Alliance.
And to those who follow useful oc-
cupa5ions that render them Ineligible
to membership in the Alliance let us
appeal for kindly recognition and @
friendly hand. Whatever their calling
the Alliance is not an enemy to them.
IT We seek primarily the prosperity of
our own calling, we seek as a necessary
sequence the prosperity of every ether
industry. For only upon a pros
percus agricultural people can you
predicate the prosperity of the
merchant, the manufacturer, or
any Gloss of helDfnl labor This