The progressive farmer., 1899-10-31


60 batter your con1iC'on,. To do this
you must be puuclual 10 your attend
ance. Anything that ia worth doing
at all Is worth doing we'll
The Alliance will be what you make
it. If you wish to be grand success,
you have it within your po~er TO make
it sueh. The National AID State Ali
ances will be powerless u less the Sub
Alliances keep alive co their work. If
they are TO be effective, the 5uOs. must
be prosperous.
You must educate yourselves along
this line, become united, co operative
and active. Show to outsiders that
you are interested in your work. and
that you mean to succeet Yes, the
/ farmers and IaboEers ought to succeed.
The producers deserve as good living
and as fairly remuner I've wages for
their services as any class of people on
earth.
h who tolls hIough C lid and heat,
It ,rm and sunshine 60 make the neces
.ities Of life upon whico mankind has
- subsist, deserves as go ID a living as
.nybody.
We. as farming class are making
40 money. 1t ia not Oerau4e we do not
,,rk The Amer N farmers and
,O0rers are an indus ri us set of peO
,re. They are the reAI wealth. pro
,lears. out not the vein acrumula-
Glrs
Our lands yield Ooun fully when
veil cultivated; they re.D1nd readily
en- touch of indu ry and yet we
neither grow ri n 81" independent
How many milluonaIr dtd you ever
hear Of Who accumulated their wealth
Oy farming7 sno yet men are accumu
latIng their millions az a raOId rate
He who feeds the ~Orin n4s tO labor
sne hardest and 1--we the poorest Doe
la5 seem right or jI-'9 Snall we
ii R8ys be ''hewers or .voOd ana draw
re ot waler4"
5noulo we not have an quaI chance,
and as good living As sus 0Cner class
4 Ue0ple7 Justice answer yes.
With all the cotton tOp4"co, corn,
. oaanuts and the like ~ prnduce. W.
are still in he back ground. Wny ls
ChIs9 IL iG not because the cDsG Of pre-
ductiou, and the cost uf lIVIrg is equa
I'd or greater than the amount received
for our farm producEs3
We do not live exJr w. ganrly, either
We are forced TO pr-ctIca The strictest
economy and let our children grow up
II ignorance in order TO make buckle
and tongue meet IT ls time that our
eyes were opened and that We were as
serting our rights. When we shall
have become thoroughly aroused tC
our true condition and just deserts,
and learn to have more L f1ence and
irat8rnal feeling for eacn other, anO
'orm ourselves into one solid phalanx
N opposition TO the shy locks and com
OInRtions which are crushing US be
meath their iron heels, al learn to
regulate the la of supply aod demand,
then we may expect TO have some
recognition and be numbered among
the prosperous peoples OF the earth.
The AlIiance has had pretty hard
time to overcome the opposition that
has been brought to bear against it
Nevertheless it has been the means of
accomplishing much good in various
ways, not only to those who have en-
listed under It's banner, but to the
farmers outside.
We have not forgotten the fight it !
made on that great octopus, the Jute |
Bagging Trust, few years ago, anG |
how we'll it succeeded in driving it into |
favorable to the whole farm
ing community.
We are very mu3 3h Indebted to the
Farmer Alliance for the great reduc-
tion in the prices of fertilizers, besides
many other articles which are COM
monty used by us, especially by those
Alliancenen who trade through the
State Business Agency.
Our State and free schools have been
very much benefited indirectly, il not
directly, by the Alliance. It was ir-
in having a Law passed
creating a railroad commission which
has raised the t1xes paid by all the
companies in the State more
than six fold.
1t took organic ation to effect these
measures. II a fe p farmers,
comparatively speaking, can eccom-
plish 30 much by Organization and Co
operation, what might they not effect
if the whole brotherhood of farmers,
who compose about 4s-1OO nf tha nnnn