Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-11-02

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and live up to it's principles in a
spirit of fraternity and brotherly
love.
Let it be understood that the
farmer is in business" just as the
merchant, the banker, the manufac-
turer, or any other business" man
and is entitled to the same consider
alton in the legal and economical
regulations of the country. But the
farmer, while an important class, is
not the only useful class of our citi-
zenship. Every legitimate business
benefits the whole population We
therefore should labor in our sphere,
not as enemies but as allies of other
useful professions, and do nothing
with the sole desire to iniure others.
There was q time when the farm
ers were the happy, contented class
OF our country and yeomanry of
prosperous home owners, no matter
how humble the home, is the bull
wark of country. Our farmers are
not in prosperous condition to-day.
There are those who either deny this
OF attribute it to laziness of the
farmers, but in the next breath con-
tradict themselves by attributing it
to over production.
The Alliance would afford oppor-
tunity for study of the causes of
this condition, and for exchange of
views as to the best methods of
producing crops, raising and fatten-
ing animals, preparation of fertil-
izers, improving lands and highways,
marketing crops, and many details
IN farm work, etc, and the best
ideas could be put into practical use.
1t could arrange programmes for
farmers Institutes to be held in the
peighborhood. Among other things
it might also arrange for system of
storage, warehouses, etc, or some
means by which the crops would not
be thrown on the market in a lump,
but the sales be regulated, so as to
place the different non perishable
crops, especially cotton, on the
market Systematically throughout
the year. And last, but by no means
least, and which we have not hitherto
appreciated and developed as we
should have done, is the social fea-
ture of the Order. We are more or
less isolated, and need these gather
ings for the best development of our
young people into noble and useful
women and men, as well as for the
benefit of the older people.
We meet few persons who were
ever members of the Order who do
not say that they are ''as good Al
relate some grievance which is fre-
quently imaginary or the result of
their own conduct, and which could
be easily remedied by their own ac-
ton.
The Alliance elevated the farmers
as no institution ever has done. It
taught them to think, and by it they
learned more of matters in which
they interested themselves than they
had learned in all the years before.
That there were some cranks and
men hasty to act was to be expected
The interests of Caesar may in some
instances have overshadowed those
of Rome, yet the aim of the Alliance
was the good of the whole, not of the
few.
The necessity for organization and
the ad dvantages of co. operation have
only Increased with each succeeding
year since we first joined hands in
1888 Every other class, realizing
that III union there is strength, is
united. In this age of organization
we, too, must organize.
We therefore cordially invite all
eligible persons to unite with us in
the endeavor to rebuild the Alliance,
with the great objects set forth in
our Declaration of Purposes-to
develop a better state mentally,
socially and financially; to
educate ourselves upon all matters
our welfare; to maintain
law and order; to suppress personal,
local and national prejudices; and
promote in every possible way the
best and highest interests of our
people and country.
VIM. A. GRAHAM,
T. B. PARKER,
V. N. SEAwELL,
J. S. MITCHELL,
W. B. FLEMING,
FRANK e, EMERY,
Committee.