The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-18
MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COM.
MITTEE.
Shoe Factory Will Soon be Coing--Good
Advice to the Brethren.

$1,000 -SA4 Y .
Committee met in session the past week
and a plan was devised by which we
hope the shoe factory will be put in
operation at an early day. The plan
will be given you later.
1t is to be regretted that some of the
resolutions passed by County Alliances
President John Graham to call
q special meeting Of the State Alliance
on or about May 3rd, never reached
him, and conse quently, the State ALI
anCe was not called in special session.
Bro. Graham received only nine OF
tn. s. resolutions, this flee only eight,
but unoficially I have learned there
were more than enough counties who
passed such resolutions to have made
it possible for Bro. Graham to have
called the special meeting. 1t is now
too late to remedy this and 1 hope that
the plan put on foot by your committee
may relieve the necessity for q special
meeting. Those Sub and County ALI
ances who passed resolutions for the
Executive Committee to use the Bust
ness Agency fund for starting the shoe
factory, should remember that the
State Alliance in August last passed
resolutions and locked up the funds so
the Executive Committee could not use
them for any purpose and can never be
used unless the State Alliance sees fG
to unlock the doore"
Some of the Subs ar, responding very
literally to the plan suggested by me
in The PROGRESSIVE FARMER in April
for raising funds provided the shoe
factory should be started by Sept. 18th,
1897" Blank notes will be sent to all
SUBS SO that individuals a make
notes if preferred, and that we may
know how much can be secured in that
way.
We cannot afford to relax our ener-
gies in Alliance work especially in get
ing your factories at work. Some rail
road corporations are our sworn enc
mics and will leave no stone unturned
to bring destruction upon US. One of
their first acts in the drama is to get
possef sion Of our property here. Men,
who have been high officials in our
Order are playing at this game for all
it's worth. Brethren, eternal vigilance
is the price Of liberty" Let US get our
forces together and remain closer united
than we ever have been and resolve to
throw off the coils of the anaconda that
may, if we are not very careful, watch
full and united, bring destruction upon
Us when we least expect it.
l wish to state to Hartford County
Alliance that constitutions and pro
ceedings were mailed from this office
to every State off cial, every delegate
and to each Sub and County Alliance
Secretary two copies in November last.
1t is possible some n may have been
left out, but we have never yet failed
to send a second lot when we are salts
fed that none had been received. None
Of Us claim to be infallible.
Brethren, your State Officials were
placed in %Cfi2e.. by the action Of the
State Alliance, and it is the duty Of
that body to get clear of any officer
who does not do his duty. II you have
charges against any of them, it ia your
duty to make them direct, and forward
to your Judiciary Committee and not
to the public. Several times in the
past eighteen months insinuations and
indirect charges have been made
against some Of your State officers by
Alliances and individuals and published
in your Organ, THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER. This is wrong it is unbrother
II it is unchaTitable to those members
who have been placedin these positions,
and the worst of it, these charges have
never been corrected publicly, and by
them you are yet causing distrust OF
your officers and bringing confusion
upon your organization. This is one of
the causes why your factory is standing
idle to-day, and your members leaving
your ranks. Make your charges inside
of your Order and turn those officers
out who are not doing their duty. Stop
your insinuations and inuendos in the
public prints. You cannot build up
the Order in that way, but you do much
towards bringing it to destruction. It
is your duty to the Alliance TO refuse
any officer your votes who, you fad,
has failed to do his duty but you
should not on fimsy charges, made
without foundation, rush to the public
prints with resolutions, which only
serve to make feasts for your enemies
and bring damage toyour organization.
As l have stated in a former letter,