The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-19

to arouse the people on education
than has ever been spent on any line
IN the past, and many prominent edu-
Gators are working tremendously with
HIN to accomplish n great. end,
namely: that more of the young peo-
pie may have higher education and
all the children have an opportunity
to read and write. We feel that the
Alliance will aid and support every
reasonable effort that may be made to
advance education.
In like manne the Alliance has n
couraged other essentials to progress
leading to better citizenship, and no
organization has accomplished so
much in developing that independence
of thought and action so necessary in
a free government.
As an organization we are not as
historical at the mention of trusts as
we once we're, yet they are more num-
erous and have grown greater in evil
doings. We recognize the fact that
there are organizations, corporations
and trusts that stife competition, in
jure u people and interfere with the
development of individual enterprises.
Knowing that these forces are at work
in our land, the farmers should con-
meet themselves with the Alliance and
stand ready for protection and not
grope single handed in the dark, COM
pletely at the mercy of combined cap
ital.
While we have experienced oppres-
sion we have hardly dreamed of the
organized oppression that ere long
will be brought to bear upon the agri-
cultural classes as well as upon all
others who are not connected with the
schemers.
Tilling the soil was the first divine
Office given to man. The farmers of
necessity feed and clothe all civilized
mankind, for which they receive but
little profit, no luxuries and no SYM
pathy; the schemers are cheating
them out of their just proportions of
the fruits of their toll and they are
to-day hewers of wood and drawers of
water for those who by greed and op-
preston get power and influence by
reason of their wealth and occasional
I1-,o- Tf A. fo--,o-, 1900 ~rs-,
they would organize and demand their
share of the profits on every staple
product grown for the use of man
kind.
recommend that you give the sub
ject of organizing and re]organizing
sub-AIliances your best thought and
attention. If the plan now being oper-
ated has proved to be the best you can
devise it should be executed more eff
fectually. Our State Lecturer should
receive such compensation as will en-
able him to give more time and atten-
ton to the duties of his office.
Our Business Agency, under the eff
cient management of Brother Parker,
is the strong arm of the Alliance. The
Agency should be remembered when
ever we have to purchase anything
that is needful upon the farm or in
the home. If satisfactory arrange
ments can be made to locate it at Ra-
leigh, the Business Agency, which has
proved so valuable to our Order could
in my opinion exert a greater in
fuence and accomplish far better re-
suits financially.
The Progressive Farmer is a valua-
bic agricultural paper and possibly the
best all-round family paper in the
South. The price, $1.OO per year, can
not be considered compared to it's
value in every family. I recommend
| that we use our influence to get it in
every home in our respective commun-
tiles.
We trust that all that attend this
meeting will have a pleasant time,
and from it may go out an Alliance
revival which will put the farmers of
every county in the State in close
| touch one with another, for their mu-
tual benefit and protection.