The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-02
ALLIANCE GROWING IN THE
NORTHWEST.

ScSEGS W 10 TON4NADS duO ONoAS
thing points TO a rapid advance along
the original lines.
The following extract from the an
nual address of President L O. Long
will be read with interest by Alliance
msn and should give them renewed
zeal for the work:
The time has arrived when the pro
ducers Of wealth should band them
selves together In a great national fra
ternal society, that will bring the till
ers Of the soil and the toilers Of the city
into great brotherhood, to ward eff
the encroachments upon their liberties,
to prevent the absorption of their sub
stance by greedy and ~rapacious trusts,
and com Dimes, to inaugurate reforms,
and place laws upon the statute books
that will be for the interest Of the
masses rather than the classes.
What more ennobling sentiment can
be preached than the succor of IL dis
tressed brother; to visit the sick, to
bury the dead, to care for the widow
and orphan, to raise up and encourage
a fallen brother; to pledge moral and
temporal support co each other; TO
offer q safe substantial and cheap man
ner of life insurance to our members,
by which the father will have the
happy consciousness that his loved ones
will be provided against any possibility
of want or disaster by having 81, 900,
50, 600 or So. 900 left to the sorrowing
family when the Great Ruler calls him
to his last account.
The f~raternal plan upon which the
E. A. & I. . is built, appeals at once
to lofty sentiments of mind and soul in
this age of Christian civilization; it's
harmonious and elastic adaptation to
all conditions, permits its members
who may vary with each other in the
most irreconcilable manner on religious,
political and social views, to blend into
one harmonious frRternal family whose
motto is lone for all; all for each"
Our society is non sectarian and non-
political. 1t bars no color, race Or
creed. It is as extensive as the limits
of our country, being in nearly every
State in the Union. 1t is an old organ
ization and in successful operation
wherever it is located. It is an old
organization with a membership equal
to nearly all the other fraternal socie.
ties combined 1t offers at once great
inducements to farmers On account of
the insurance feature which enables
them to Din a society that was espe-
cially organized to include them in it's
membership. The farmer has not the
facilities of selecting the insurance 30.
cieties which his city brother has;
therefore in these distressed times it
would be almost a crime to let this OPP
portunity pass of joining that which
will surely prevent want and disaster
to the tillers of the soil.
There are so many other ways by
which this great organic Ation can be
made a source of profit and saving to
it's members, by cooperation and kin
dred enterprises along these lines, that
we can safely say that the membership
will save % to so per cent. on the goods
they buy through the organization,
and save some Of the profits on the
products Of the farm which are now
absorbed by middlemen, by selling
direct to the consumer through a sys-
tenn of exchange depots where the
products of the farm and the manu-
featured products of the city can be
kept on hand, and exchanged for the
goods of each other without the aid of
the middlemen.
In the interest Of God, religion, coun-
try, humanity, your families, and
your citizenship, you are called upon
set aside one day in this month, the
day made sacred to Americans by the
achievements of that great man sent
by Providence to guide the destinies of
this struggling nation in the dark days
of it's early history.
George Washington drove from our
country a foreign foe, who was seeking
to enslave and impoverish this people.
We are to day enslaved and shackled
to the same hereditary foe which our
fathers of revolutionary days fought
against in the battles of Lexington,
Bunker Hill, and suffered in Valley
Forge the biting blast OF cold and hun
ger which many a poor creature is suf-
fering to-day IN this land OF promise
and plenty. We witness to-day the
sorrowful sight of our citizens gradual.
ing into distinct ~classes,>the few very
rich, the many very poor.
We therefore ask every citizen to OBJ.