The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-18

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ora1 Assembly. it will be remembered, far from
voting $4,000 from the general funds, refused
even to allow the Board of Agriculture to borrow
on the credit on the State for this work. Going
further. it demanded that the Board should COM
plete the unfinished non-agricultural buildings
and pay a large part of the College maintenance,
before spending any part of this special farmers
tax for a special farmers building. 1t is class
legislation of the most vicious form to use money
collected exclusively from farmers for mechanical
and textile education, and the following resolu-
ton introduced by a man of the same political
faith as the last legislature was heartily APP
proved by the delegates of all parties:
"Resolved 1. That the Alliance feels that it
should condemn the action of the Legislature of
1903 in refusing to make an appropriation and
in refusing the credit of the State in procuring a
loan. for the erection of an agricultural building
at the Agricultural and Mechanical College at
Raleigh.
90. That we further condemn the action of that
Legislature in requiring the Board of Agriculture
to appropriate $4,000 to complete the unfinished
buildings now in course of erection at said col
lege before they we're permitted to take money
from their funds Ca tax on farmers only to build
said agricultural building.
""3. That we ask the next Legislature to right
this wrong and injustice wrought upon the farm
ers of the State in the above particulars by APP
propriating from the general funds of the State
a sum sufficient to erect said building"
The only way to keep a sub Alliance alive is to
make its monthly meetings so helpful and inter
esting that the members cannot afford to remain
away. To do this it is necessary to interest the
women and young people, and to provide we'll
arranged programs. The following resolution de-
serves the attention of all members of the Order
"Whereas, to insure continued interest in sub
Alliances, it is necessary to stress the social and
educational features of the Order; therefore be it
"Resolved, That we earnestly recommend that
our Alliances make more earnest efforts to in
crease their membership among our women and
young people, and to improve the social features
of the monthly meetings.
90. That a committee, consisting of DR.. @. W.
Burkett, Dr.. F. L. Stevens, 7. B. Parker, and
Clarence H. Poe, be appointed to suggest topics
for sub Alliance meetings, and to suggest ways
of maintaining interest and enthusiasm"
Il
Wednesday we "kept open house." and invited
everybody to listen with us to the excellent ad
dresses prepared for that occasion. The hall was
filled to overlooking with farmer folk from
Orange and adjoining counties, and the ~practica.
and instructive addresses must have been an in.
s~piration to all.
DR.. Charles w. Burkett, the popular professor
of agriculture at the A. & M. College, was the
first speaker, and his address was a striking plee
for agricultural education CD through agricuI
tural teaching in the country schools, % through
the educational influence of the sub Alliance.
and CD through the A. & M. College. DIR. Bur
kett, by the way, was the delegate from Walk
County Alliance, and is going to prove a capablt
worker in Alliance ranks. He was an enthusias
tic Granger while in the North, and there Is n,