The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10
Lincoln county, N, Q.
SOME REASONS FOR ORGANIzA-
TON.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Daring these years of political strife
the tillers of the soil have become
poorer and poorer and have been forced
to practice painful economy. We
should now realize that cur oTganiza
ton, the Alliance, should be a part of
our business, for without concerted sc
ton on our part our goodly heritage
will pass into the hands of corporations
and strangers and we will soon be
''hewers of wood and drawers Of
water" Though our crops may be
abundant, it is n thing to raise a
crop and reap the benefits thereof and
quite another to raise it and have it
6iched from US through a vicious and
wrong system. We should show to
the country ar the world that we
mean to be respected.
Toe farmers are not the only class
that has been feeced by trusts. The
great middle class are being forced to
take positions as agents of trusts ami
honest competition, by the individual
or firm, is fast becoming a thing of the
past. Competition has the effect to pro
duce individual qualities of intelligence,
activity, integrity end industry to q
degree that could be developed in no
other way. Hence il b@C3me8 the duty
of business men generally to encourage
the farmer in his efforts TO organize,
and thereby make il possible Tor the
individual or firm to do business on a
small scale. In the abse1 ce Of compe
tition the rewards Of industry are 90,
tanned by the practice OF dishonesty
rapacity and vice without the penalty
that should be Inflicted upon those
qualities. There is more urgent need
of the Alliance to day than ever before;
those w5o have dropped out of the o.
der's ranks are not doing a brothers
part il the duties of the hour. They
must be brought into the fold again.
Let each active meilber see to il Ghat
these return 80 better their own coodi
ton as yell as that Of their brother.
The w0eK OF education is o1iy bagun.
Go operation in buying and selling ig il
it's infancy. Country lives have still
to De cheered and 0righ! )ned, and b ".
ing put our hands to the plow, shall we
now look backs A ieaven has been
worked into the body polite which wi.
continue to work until the whole lumO
is leavened. Toe Law Of progress is
''ebb and hJw" on advances and then a
set bRcS. We cannot think that tue
brave men who were o0ce enlisted in
the cause for their mutual banPfii. are
going to give up in hopeless despair be.
cause they canuot agree p2lt5ic lily.
We think we hear the echo of a thou
sand times no" We do not charge or
think that one political party has weak
ened the Alliance more than another.
but the partisan blood in each has had
it's effect.
Self. preservation now demands that
We ell come together egain aud become
all the better friends on account of our
late differences. You belonging to one
party snd / to another is no reason
Why we should not both save mCnsv
by buying together; why we should
not work together to bring about
better state, mentally, morally, socially
and financially" Business shonId
know no politics and the business fea
ture Of the Alliance should be a bond of
union superior TO all political consid
erations. We beg you, fellow farmer.
to lose no time in re organizing YOUR
Sub Alliance, jim the band who have !
stood through good and evil report. and
may it never be recorded in history
that the farmers and Iab0rers ara too !
foolish to work together for their good. |
W. B. FLEMING.
Warren 90 N. @.