The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
NATIONAL LECTURER sOSSA-
MAN WRITES.

We dislike to be raising cane with
Alliance brethren every time the moon
changes, but it appears that some
body has TO pitch fork them now and
then, or they will go on with their
sins of omission till they will be past
redemption and will allow themselves
to be sWiped financially and religiously
off terra frmG as a duck would swipe
a blind junebug, and as u hide Is
tough we will take the chances. At
u last State meeting at Hills boro,
there were about 100 dyed in the wool
yerdWide, AIliRncemen present-we
had as harmonious a meeting as has
ever been held in the State. All hands
were put on committees some on INT
committee, some On another, and some
on something else, and a committee OF
the whole when at the table. They
all did their work we'll and promptly
at the table and elsewhere. When 1t
come to making speeches, there were
many fast furious and pointed. The
closing hours were spent in discussing
ways and means to build up the Order
all over the State. They all, with o
voice, like unto a swarm Of humble
bees in a clover field, said: THE
order must be built up to greater mum
bers before the next annual meeting"
The feeling among the brethren as we
saw it was that before another meet
ing the Order must be made to bloom
like dog fennell in q poor mans barn
yard. They were unanimous for ex
panson and imitation so far as mem
bership was concerned. The state Was
to be cut up into lecture districts
from Cherokee to Currituck. The
land was to be made smoky with Ali
ance gas.
Six months have gone since all the
above declarations we're made and has
there been added & the Alliance roll
enc name7 If there has, the fellow
just stumbled in and put 1t there him
self. He was not Induced TO do go by
Alliance speeches, as they have not
been made-whet has become of breth
rem ". H. Davis, Of WIlliams0oro,
and W. s. Mercer, of Moyock9 Did
they not promise to go out into the
highways and swamps and do m.s3ion-
airy work2 What has become Of the
good.looking heavy weight Secretary
Treasurer7 Did not he say something
about a district and county lecture
SYSTEMS Now, brethren, are we all
going to stand round with our fingers
in our mouths till every pocket book
belonging TO the tiIIers Of the soil, the
men who create the wealth, of the
nation, the men on whom all others are
depending, is in the last stages Of con
traction2 1t looks that way. Will
we never learn that in union there Is
strength Viii we never learn that
by united action alone "a we do any
thing for the relief of the massesi
Generals Wheeler, Capron, Roosevelt
and Shafter would have cut a figure at
San Juan hill on the 18th Of July last
If they alone had made the charge on
Tolar's army They would not have
BACKED the board; but with a brave
army OF Is. coo men they stormed the
rampsrts and forced the surrender Of
the Spanish army Of more than double
their numbers. The farmers have the
numbers to make one of the most
powerful armies the world eve saw,
and all that is wanted is TO get them
mustered In, drilled, and show how
important it is that they should stand
together as one man. II we are to
judge from the Alliance letters that
we read in our Alliance organ, we
would be led TO believe there are not q
hale dCz n county Alliances in the
State. The brethren don'6 do 90 much
g eve to write a letter to let US know
they are living. Do you think the
bankers, mill men, lawyers, doctors,
whiskey men, tobacco trusts and all
such have allowed their organ z alton
so lag on ocGOunE Of their members geg
ting cold? No, sir; the hold their reg
ular meetings and are ready and in
shape to demand legislation whene yer
they want.
The Whiskey Dealers Association
Of Mecklenb1rg County have some of
the members of the Legislature from
this county scared within an inch Of
their lives about pledges they are said
TO have made during the campaign to
whiskey dealers In order to secure
their votes.
We see that our good brother DR..
Beawell Is IN the field and he will do
his duty, aud vii not stop short of his