The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-16
DR.. sPE|GHT IS
PRESIDENT AGAIN
Makes Wise Address at
Meeting of State ALI
dnCe
IN AGRICUL 7URAL SCHOOL
The Alliance Wishes an Agricultural
~ hood Established by h state on
the Alliance Property at Hillsboro-
An Organ for the Farmers Alliance

the Alliance at HlllSDOrO@
An Organ for the Farmers Alliance
Hillsboro, Aug. 10.-The State
Farmers Alliance convened in its
24th annual session here today. Twen-
ty counties, represented by rs dele
gates. A committee was appointed to
establish and publish an organ for
the State Alliance. Also a commit
tee was appointed to confer with
proper State authorities concerning
the establishment of an agricultural
school on the Alliance property at
this place. Memorial services were
held as to Captain w. b. Fleming, a
very prominent emb of long
standing who died some two or
three months ago.
The following officers were elected
for one year:
President-Dr. r. II. Speight, of
EdgeCOrnbe county.
Nice-rresidcnt-J. IL. Williamson,
of Columbus county.
Secretary and Treasurer and State
Business Agent-George T.. Parrot,
Of Lenoir county.
Lecturer-ii. NJ. Gates, of Alamance
county.
steward-J. c. Bain, Of Cumber-
land county
Charlain-Rev. c. c. Williams, OF
Franklin county.
Door keeper-George 7. Lane, Of
Guilford county.
Sergeant-at-Arms-H. H. Thomp-
son, Of Orange Ounty
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W.
A. Graham, of Lincoln county.
Executive Committee. w. Den
mark. of Wake county and II. E.
Thompson, of Wilson county.
The Presidents address.
The address by President, DR.. X. II.
Spei2ht, was as follows:
President Spcight's Address.
Brethren of the North Carolina
Farmers Alliance:
In these times OF immense
lations of private fortunes and com
binations of capital and corporate
greed, it becomes more imperative
than ever that unity OF action should,
on the part of the laboring classes,
especially the cultiVators Of aSricHl-
tural products, who constitute three
fOurthS of the population of our State
and a very large per cent of the popu-
1atiOns of other States, be entered into
and faithfully maintained.
Just twenty-four ga years ago the
North Carolina Farmers Alliance was
organized; its membership limited to
farmers, farm labOrerS, country mer-
chants, physicians and ministers o.
the gospel. With the aVowed pur-
pose of educating its members and the
agricultural classes generally in the
science of economical government in
a nOn-partlSan spirit; to develop a
better state mentally, morally, social
~ and financially, TO strive to secure
entire harmony and good will among
all men and brotherly love among
ourselves. To what extent we have
succeeded only an accurate and Just
icrory op ri1ol nv nr1
writer. ~conversant with it's working
from the beginning, can show.
| am one of It's members who be-
lieVes, While acknowledging that
grave and serious mistakes have been
made in some things, that it has ac-
complished great good, not only for
its Individually and collect
lively, but for the State at large, and
that it still lives and VIII continue to
live, working for the betterment Of
the agricultural classes and incident
ally for all others.
1t hehOoves us hat we should
strive with our utmost power, lest We,
like the animals Of the field, borne
prone TO the earth and obedient to
the appetites, should pass away wi,n-
out accomplishing the for
which We organized and are labOrlng
for, and unsung.
| do not think it necessary that
should attempt in this short ak to
teach YOU how to make your farms
more productive. The Agricultural
colleges, Farmers Institutes Test
Farms, and Agricultural Press, all
partially the outcome of your sug-
eestlons, demands and support, are
very effectively accomplishing this. T
viii, however, ugges that when YOU
nave made your land productive anG
are making $500 a yea. more ner
crop, that you learn also to retain the
Siea'er improvement Of your farms