The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-10
SHOE FACTORY.

our last letter, send money by Eek
press" whereas we wrote send by
''check, express money order, or post
Office money order, the last payable on
Raleigh" Any currency sent to US in
bills or coin, is additional expense to
the Agency, as we have to convert it
into money orders TO send it to our
bank in Raleigh. Instead Of sending
currency by Express. Just obtain from
Express Agent an ErpreS8 Money Or
der. 1t is lst as cheap and more con
venient for the Agency to handle. In
stead OF sending by registered letter,
obtain a Posto6ice Money Order, pGy-
G6Le on Raleigh. Money orders are
| much safer than registered letters. It
will very often happen that you can
| obtain a check from some neighboring
business man, without cost to any one,
The election is over and at this writ
ing we do not know whether the coIn-
/ try is to have sound gold or free silver.
| We DO know that the deluge Of liquor
is to continue. But whether gold, Or
! silver, the excitement will soon abato
/ and we can settle down to business and
| give more time to the consideration Of
| Alliance matters. The shoe factory
must run, or the Alliance must &c.
knowledge to the world that we are in
/ capable, that We are destitute Of judg
ment end business sagacity such as
| h.-.,Ao~Szo oo- Tho ID 0norofn man
uiacturing enterprises, that We are a
brotherhood OF weaklings, that CO Op
GRAFTON is a farce. Is the Alliance
ready to make such acknowledgements
l dare say NOT. And yet every day the
factory stands idle makes it hard to
disprove. It is not sufficient to say
that what is everybody's business is
noboby's business and therefore for
that reason the factory is idle. The
Truth is that the State Alliance in ses
sion Assembled at Hillsboro in August
last, after adding too new members to
the Executive Committee, passed a
Bro. M. L. Wood, of BERTHE, instruct,
ing the Committee to negotiate a loan
on the shoe factory for the purpose Of
putting it to work. At a meeting of
committee held Immediately after ed
i0urnment of State Alliance the two
new members were placed, as a sub
committee, in full charge of the man
ufacturing. As has been said before,
in lees than forty eight hours after this,
the factory was shut down; the trans
portation Of employees, some OF whom
had Just arrived, was paid back to
their Northern homes, and the shoe
factory died. That is the way 1t reads
in print and the way it will read on
the hearts of the brethren, if they do
not use heroic measures.
To keep the subject alive, and inter
est aroused, as we'll as with the hope
of being able to operate the enterprises,
the n dollar plan was proposed. The
plan being endorsed, with the excep
ton of one, by all who have spoken, in
Guiding also the members of the Exec
utive Committee, has done much, and
yet it is beginning to be apparent that,
of itself, it will be insufficient. Many
brethren have done nobly, both on this
plan and the permanent stock plan,
but thousands have not responded to
either. We have to report from all
sources, as will be seen from ackDowl
edgements below only 1913 50. The
new committee has said that when
s. 600 are raised by the One-Dollar
Plan, o. any other, then they would
put in 81 500 Agency funds to supple.
ment amount so raised and would start
the factory. II that is the ultimatum
of the committee, then "neroic meas
urers' are a necessity.
There are only two alternatives:
The first is to raise the three thou
san dollars by some plan and advise
them of your action. The second is
for a mejority of the Sub Alliances in
the State to give explicit instructions
to some one who is capable and willing
at least capable Of making an honest
effort-to operate the factory. This
, latter plan is entirely feasible and is a.
same time sufficient. In former years
when the State Alliance wanted tt
make laws between sessions, the drafts
were submitted to the Sub Alliances
for ratification. So, now, any instruc
ton coming from Sub-Alliances is au
thority. We have plenty of funds il
the hands Of our Trustee with which
] to oDarata tha factory and tannerv too