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ALLIANCE IWTTEfr_
A speech delivered by G. W. Hall at
Farmers’ Academy, No. 716, Upson
county, Georgia, February 22, 1890,
in the
Southern Alliance Fabmeb:
Mr. President and brethren of the
Farmers’ Alliance and Laborer’s Union
of America: We have said by
this organization that we intendec o
better ouj condition both socially an
financially. Let me ask the, question,
have we done this? Wo have met h< re
and paid our dues both to the Alliance,
and also to the Exchange of Georgia, but
are we any better off, all things consid
ered. If you remember we resolved our
body into a committee to urge thebreth
ren to visit the Lodge. 1 fear, brethren,
we havn’t done our duty in this matter.
In the place of having larger assemblies,
our number continues to grow smaller.
We used to have visiting brethren from
different Lodges, now we have none.
What is the matter? I fear, brethren,
we have been too strenuous on some
points and have left the main one off,
and that one thing is brotherly love. In
other words we havn’t got that love foi
our brother we ought to have. Brethren
let us be united, divided we fall. I
us by all means avoid personalities. ;We
didn’t join this organization for meie
sociability. _We had something else in
view. Now let us work to that point in
our declaration of purposes. There is
one section where it says we will con
stantly "strive to secure harmony among
all mankind and brotherly love among
ourselves; and brethren to do this we
must educate ourselves. We must take
our Alliance paper so that we may keep
posted, and see what other Lodges are
doing, and above all let us consider well
a subject before we go into resolutions.
And when we do make resolutions let us
stand up to them. Love worketh ill to
no man, and when we strive to benefit all
mankind and love toward ourselves we
will be on the right track, and not be
fore. We aim to elevate man both so
cially and financially, and to do this we
must adhere strictly to honesty of pur
poße and the prompt payment of all our
obligations to our creditors. What is
the cause which gave rise to this great
movement? This question is as easily
answered as asked. Monopoly, this is
the answer in a nut shell. A monopoly
that wants to buy the earth, and with it
the souls and bodies of the people that
inhabit it. A spirit, instigated by Satan
.the head of the firm, and proprietor-in
chief of the whole concern, who has in
augurated the infamous system, sent
forth his agents instructed to use every
means possible to reduce the world to
hellish slavery. God hates monopoly,
and so do we and heartily endorse his
condemnation oi it. To all whose hands
and souls are stained with .this vile sin,
wibsay kick as y<ki may, • conduct
has given rise to this great organization,
and wherever it rolls.it will boa perpet
ual monument of your wickedness and a
witness against you.
The inquiry arises how did some of
the men with no capital to start with
amass a great fortune in twenty-five
years, while the farmers with capital
grew poorer every year? The answer is
monopoly and extortion! These in the
instances named were managed through
the anaconda mortgage, which they suc
ceeded in obtaining on crops and stock
and often on lands. Then began the
wholesale robbery by charging two or
three prices for goods furnished,thereby
reducing their victims to extreme pov
erty, yea to financial skeletons. The
poor victims, unable to comply with the
enormous demands were sold out at
shamefully low prices, the mortgagee
being the purchaser at two-thirds the
cash value placed.on the property, by ap
praisers chosen to put the lowest valua
tion that decency would permit. In the
name of reason and justice, why should
not the property bring its full value, or
no sale, or better that there be no mort
gage. Brethren, these things ought not
to be. We must unite together. We must
co-operate together. We must work to
gether. I think the Alliance and all
kindred prganizatians the greatest thing
on the top side of God’s green earth
outside of the church of Christ. The
church first always as it is our only hope
to get our wrongs righted. Well, then,
fit is such a great institution let us
work to force men in with us, not work
o force them out. I want to see our
ranks swell until the last man that is
eligible to join us, is in the ranks with
i. hi iv shoulder to shoulder
..id victory will surely crown us. Breth
ren, in conclusion, let me urge upon you
always have one thing in view. Let the
majority rule in all things essential for
the good of the order. In discussing the
question whether farming pays it is well
to remember that others besides farm
ers are interested. Farming feeds the
entire population, and it is profitable to
those who do not farm, but it rarely
profits the farmer. The farmer does the
work and the other fellows get the pay.
If the farmer got remunerative prices
for his products there would be none
very rich and none very poor. Thanking
you brethren for your kind attention,
and hoping that if I have said anything
lon’t fully agree with, that
vjKwill pardon me for it. It is not my
to off end any one. 1 will close,
' Yours truly,
G. W. Hall.
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”ron» Decatur County,
I Ou the cotton bagging question I beg
\ave to say that I am not pleased with
I L arrangements made by the cotton
SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FARMER, ATLANTA, GA., MARCH 11 1890.
DIRECT TRADE
IN FERTILIZERS.
a!—
No agents in your State. We are both farmers and Manufacturers of Fertilizers
and we want to do business with you directly through your
We make the celebrated SUSQUEHANNA AMMONIATED BONE PHOSPHATE.
Its reputation is fully established and we want to give the farmers the benefit of all
commissions. Therefore we come' directly to your State Exchange which is your
own business representative.
Send all your orders for this valuable fertilizer to
. J. O. WYNN,
Business Agent Georgia State Alliance Exchange.
We are glad to say that the SUSQUEHANNA FERTILIZER CO., of Baltimore, is
the first to come forward and make your Exchange their sole representative. We
are satisfied that their goods will be as represented, and they are justly entitled to
your patronage. J. O. WYNN.
-I- ALLIANCE PRICES, -j-
Big Bargains in Furniture.
I have on my floors over
$60,000 WORTH OF FURNITURE.
100 Chamber Suits, only • $20.00.
50 Oak Suits, only r::r ■■'■■■■ 28.00.
100 Walnut Suits, only 50.00.
30 Plush Parlor Suits, only :::: :::: :::: 35.00.
Folding Lounges, only 10.00.
Bedsteads, $2.50 to $20.00.
Bedsteads with glass, only :::: 6.00.
Hat-racks, Bookcases, Desks, Chairs, Wardrobes, Sofas,
Side-boards, Tables, Lounges, Spring Beds, Mattresses, and hun
dreds of useful household articles.
A special discount of ten per cent, to farmers when orders
come through Alliance chancels.
PEYTON H. SNOOK, ’
•a arietta Street, ATLANTA, GA-
bagging committee. This idea of leaving
us at the mercy of the factory mon who
may prove to be just what they proved
to he last year—mercenaries, for we cer
tainly paid four cents per yard more than
it was worth; and under the arrange
ment now existing for our present year’s
supply we may be forced to pay just as
much and get a very poor article at that,
What confidence, or even respect, do
they show to the farmers who stood by
them so nobly last year, with all odds
against them and in favor of the cotton
bagging manufacturer? Well, I can see
but one reason an* l that is that the poor
farmer is considered hardly capable of
attending to his own business, especially
if it goes beyond his little county town;
and when it does the safeguards of un
due advantage are thrown around him.
But what strikes me in this case is, here
are our brethren leading us into this
second trouble. What advantage there
could be to the Alliance at large for the
committee to have made a secret arrange
ment with the manufacturers remains for
me to see. It certainly leaves a gap
down. I mean that part of the arrange
ment which forces us to commit our
selves in our orders before we can know
what we are getting and what we are to
pay for it. If there is not an open and
clean breast made to us, so that we may
know what we are doing, let us make
our arrangements by County Alliances
or in the best way we can, with manufac
turers outside of the state. If there is
to be “dog” iu it let us have him as far
from us as possible. To walk around
one trust and walk into another is gain
ing but little ground.
.lust the idea of a wholesale merchant
sending off for a large cargo of goods
without knowing what he is going to get
or what he will have to pay for the
same! Well! The idea weuld be pre
posterous, and the only difference is that
we are poor farmers and he is sup
posed to b« capable of attending to his
business.
Now, it just seems to me that the Alli
ance should ask an explanation. Be it
understood that 1 am not in a censuring
mood, nor would I censure auy one un
duly. But above all things, brethren,
lot us be open in our dealings with one
another, so open that we can not be mis
understood. Now, brethren, it is just as
esiential for us to have a leader and to
follow him as it is to have an existence;
and verily wlthoutLhim will soon lose
our existence altogether, but while we
are following along let us apply ourselves
unto all the wisdom aud knowledge that
we can possibly obtain, and, the best
medium of obtainii g this knowledge is
in] readiug The Southern Alliance
Farmer and watching our leaders.
Brethren, you who do not take our
paper are only half members. Do take
the paper and initiate yourselves as full
members, useful to the order. We have
a long and heavy grade before us and do
let’s make a strong and steady pull and
we will get there certain.
C. L. Funderburk.
Frou |Macedonia Alliance, Colqult County.
At a meeting of Macedonia Farmers’
Alliance the following resolution was
adopted:
Resolved that this Alliance appoint a
committee of three to notify our official
organ, and through it every Alliance in
the state, of the actisn of the Albany
Fertilizer company towards this Alliance.
The truth of the case is just this: We
received prices of guano through the
State Exchange from the Albany Guano
company, and through the Exchange
ordered fifty tons. In about two weeks
after our order was sent off, we received
letter from said company:
Albany, Ga., Feb. 4,11890.
Mr. Sain Taylor,
Dear SirWe are in receipt of your contract
for guano through the State Exchange, and re
gret to inform you that it will be impossible for
us to fill it, as all our products have been sold
and we have not a ton left. AVe sold largely to
Mr. J. AV. Calhoun of Arlington and have sent
your contract to him, asking him to fill it if pos
sible. You had better see him. Had your order
been placed two weeks earlier we could have
filled it. Yours truly,
Albany Fertilizer Co.
On the same day said company wrote
to a merchant and guano. ; ageut in this
couutyjas follows:
Albany, Ga., Feb. 4, 1860.
Air ,
Dear Sir:—Your, favor received and we will
ship your car of guano tills week. AVe are over
whelmed with orders and running night and day
to till them. Yours etc.,
Albany Fertilizer Co.
Now, Mr. Editor, J. W. Calhoun is a
stockholder in the Albany Fertilizer Co.,
and a large guano dealer in Arlington,
Ga., aud had our guano been shipped it
would have been shipped ; to Arlington,
aud J. W. Calhoun 'could not bear the
thought that we could buy his owu guano
cheaper than he was selling it. Mr.
Calhoun wrote us that he would try and
aud till our order, but at a larger price
Ahan we had agreed to pay the Albany
Fertilizer) company, but we will not buy
from Mr. Calhoun, and we have resolved
to never use ,any of the Albany guano,
and we would like our brethren all over
the state to join us iu that resolution.
.8. C. Debaby, j
J. .8. Mason, I Committee.
8. T. Taylor. )
A young Greene county farmer gets
$1,200 per annum out of a dairy farm,
and only milks ten cows.
Piles, Fistula,
And all Rectal Diseases, treated by an
improved treatment and WITHOUT
PAIN. Cures are permanent. For par
ticulars call or write
Dr. R. G. JACKSON,
0 11 ly 42% Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
DIRECTOBY.
National fabmebs’ alliance and
INDUSTRIAL UNION.
President —Hon. L. L. Polk, Washing
ton, D. C.
Vice-President—Hon. Clover, of
Kansas.
Secretary—J. H. Turner, Washington,
D. C.
JUDICIAL COMMITTEE.
Isaac McCracken, of Arkansas; EVan
Jones, of Texas; R. C. Petty, of Missis
sippi.
EXECUTIVB BOABD.
C. w. Macune, A. Wardell, J. F. Till
man, Washington, D. C.
GEOBGIA STATE ALLIANCE.
L. F. Livingston, President, Cora.
R. W. Everett, Vice-President, Fish.
HNL. Burks, Secretary, Chipley.
W. A. Broughton, Treasurer, Madison.
Beck, Lecturer, Milner.
Bl Williams Ass’t Lecturer, Ellaville.
H. R. Davies, Chaplain.
J. R. David, Doorkeeper.
W. D. Rainey, Assistant Doorkeeper.
Wt 8. Copeland,Sergeant-at-Arms, Lodi
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Felix Corput, Chairman, Cave Springs;
I. J. Stephens, Franklin; A. F. Pope,
Crawford; A. M. Ivey, Thomasville; W.
J. Taylor, Lutherville.
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
M. V. Calvin, Chairman, Augusta;‘A.
Q. Moody, Boston; Geo. T. Murrell, Win
terville.
STATE EXCHANGE.
W L Peek, President, Conyers Georgia;
L. F. Livingston, Vice-President, Cora;
L. S. Ledbetter, Secretary, Cedartown;
W. A. Broughton, Treasurer, Madison.
WH CONSIDERING!
Db. J. S. PEMBERTON, of Atlanta, Ga.
Isl a celebrated dealer In Proprietary medicines
of his own manufacture. He said: “I had
a most severe attack of inflammatory rheuma
tism, which brought me down upon my bed
and entirely incapacitated me for business.
Tjhe disease appeared to have a lien on my
and aII * could do did not dislodge it.
Cure was rec«Wi-
ILelidSJ to me, and I took it. In a day after be
ginning its use I began to improve, and in five
or six days I was entirely free from pain and able
to resume my business. I told Mr. Hunnicutt
at that time, that his cure Is the best medicine
the world has ever offered for rheumatism.”
The Doctor refused $2500 to say as much for an
other remedy. This he said free and voluntary.
HUNNICUTT’S RHEUMATIC CURE
is a superb Female Tonic and blood purifier,
rendering the skin soft and beautiful, removing
blotches, pimples, etc., increasing the appetite
and invigorating the system. Send for book of
particulars, fhek. Address.
HUNNICUTT MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga.
Improved Train Service
From Columbus,
Via the Central Railroad of Georgia.
(90th Meridian Time.)
To Montgomery, Mobile and New Orleans, via
Union Springs.
Leave Columbus ;4 45am 315 pm
Arrive at Union Springs 945 am 5 25pm
Arrive at Montgomery 1135 am 715 pm
Arrive at Mobile 2 05 a m
Arrive at New Orleans 7 00 a m
Connecting at New Orleans with through trains
for Texas, Mexico and California.
To Birmingham, Taladega and Anniston, via
Childersburg.
Leave Columbus 745 am 440 pm
Arrive at OneUke 850 a m 845 p m
Arrive at Childersburg 12 50pm12 33am
Arrive at Birmingham 8 00pm 230 am
Arrive at Talladega 2 30pm 9 2oam
Arrive at Anniston 5 26pmll09am
To Macon, Augusta, Savannah and Charleston.
Leave Columbus 6 35am 735 pm
Arrive at Fort Valley 6 42 a m 10 25 p m
Arrive at Macon 10 43 a m 11 25 p tn
Arrive at Augusta 4 55pu 6 55am
Arrive at Savannah 640 p m 630 a m
Arrive at Charleston 1 21 a m 12 16 pm
To Atlanta, via Opelika.
Leave Columbus I 7 4 > a ml 7 40 pm
Arrive at Opelika I 8 50am 845 pm
Arrive at Atlanta I 6j>opro
To Atlanta, via Griffin.
Leave Columbus i 430 p m i 1 <HI p m
Arrive at Griffin 7 30 pm] 3 50pm
Arrive at Atlanta I 9 30 pm[ 5 45p m
To Troy, Eufaula, Albany. Thomasville, Bruns
wick and Jacksonville.
Leave Columbus 745 a m 3 i 5 p m
Arrive at Union Springs 9<5 a m 525 p m
Arrive at Troy 7 09 p hi
Arrive at Eufaula 11 25 pm 10 25 p tn
Arrive at Albany 240 p m 120 a m
Arrive at Thomasville 5 20 p in 12 25 a m
Arrive at Brunswick 12 50 p m
Arrive at Jacksonville _. 7 55 a m
To Greenville. | From Greenville. '
Lv’Coiiimbusr.Tw'p m |Lv Greenville. 700a in
Ar Greenville. 615 pm |Ar Columbus.. 1025 a m
Sleeping cars on night trains between Macon
and Savannah. Pullman Bullet Sleeping cars on
iiielit trains, Union Spring, to Jacksonville, Fla
For further information apply to
J. H. LEITNER. Ticket Agent.
J. C. HAILE, Agent, Columbus, Ga.
W. .1. HAYLOW. Sup’t C. * W. Div.
E. T. CHARLTON. G. P. A.. Savannah.
GKAPE VINES.
10,000 Scuppernong vines, S3O per 1,000; $1 per
100.
JAPAN PERSIMMONS,
Japan Plums, Apple. Peach and LeConte
Pear Trees For Sale by
Wm. K. NELSON, Augusta, Ga,
Mention this paper jan2ltomar 21
for •WIK ELOOB,
Teakness. Malarie, Itidfcestfon m>4
llllirmsnesr.take _ _
eiiCWX'K IRON BETTERS.
ft enres quickly. For sale by s’,l dealers to
medicine. Get the genuine.
The Griffin Clothing House.
ZFTISrZE -AJSTZD JSZEEDrCTJSZE OLOTZHZELxTG-
Hats, Shoes and Underwear for -Men and Boys.
LATEST STYLES—BOTTOM PRICES, AND ONE PRICE TO ALL. =0
Sept. 27-lyr GEOEGII. NILES.
George W. Scott Mf’g., Co.,
ATLANTA, GA,
MMtrFACTURES OF
GOSSYPIUM PHOSPHO,
Scot’s Animal Ammoniated Guano,
SZF’ZEZO,
ZF’lxOsioli.eite-
Our Fertilizers are Kept up to .the High Standard on which they have won then
great reputation, and are offered for the season of 1889 and 1890 at the lowest pos
sible prices for cash or on time for currency and cotton.
111 4m. SZEZSLD OIIROITT-nA.IR'S.
BASS BROTHERS.
No. 56 & 58 Hill St.
GRIFFIN, GA.
CROWDED HOUSES!
APPRECIATIVE CUSTOMERS!
TEN CLERKS KEPT BUSY!
Orders recived from all over middle Georgia, from various lodges. We are sell
ing MULES, MEAT, FLOUR, CORN, TOBACCO, SUGAR, COFFEE, OATS,
DRY GOODS, COLTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, as fast as we did Cotton Bag.
ging last fall. We are adding new customers to our list every day, and we hope to
merit a continuance of same by giving you exceedingly low prices and good goods.
Call and see us. oct 19 90
THEFARMERS’CO-OPERATIVEMTGCO.
-GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
W. E. H. SEARCY, President; J. H. WALTER, General Manager-
ALLIANCE STANDARD GUANO
Buy Your Own Goods—Known to be Good.
We manufacture ’Honest, ¥ ou ca n atand in tha.faciwy I
See them prepared by the best machinery ever introduced into the state.
We sell »n joint or single note; on time or for cath. Alliances at a distance can make
Joint Notes and discount them at their local banks, and buy for cash and save money.
BEWARE OF CHEAP GOODS WHICH CONTAIN KAINIT.
N. B Information as to Oil Mill asd Guano Machinery cheerfully given
by the President to those desiring to establish mills.
Address Farmers’ Co-operative Ms g. Co-
CAPITAL CITY BANK
OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
~ .. , W- A H ,emphill, President ?Geo M’Parrott, Vioe-ibesident; Jacob Haas. Cashier
Capital and surplus $460,000. Individual Liability same as National Banks. Transact a mineral
banking business Commercial paper dis ouud. Loans made upon approved .oltetera! and co?
®2“ on Y' n l‘‘” nts ,ntl,e U . n, J e<l ® tate8 ’ and throughout Europe, made .n the S’favorab e
terms. Ws draw our own bills of exchangeos Great Britain, Germany, Austria md
other European countries Invite the accounts of individuals banks, bankers firms 'and conwra
tions. Issue Demand certificates or book in savings department to draw interests of? 1 2
lnw“ve £Jn“‘ “ “ dajß " “ perccut per “ if left 6 months” 41“ p“r C X^annum
feu 44 ui
THE GEORGIA SEED CO., Macon, Ga
SUCCESSORS TO SOUTHERN SEED COMPANY.)
Whole and Retail Dealers in Farm and Garden Seeds,
We are strictly in the seed business and nothing else. We handle only the best
any quantity South Georgia, Bye, Bailey, Seed Wheat, Red Rust“prosf Seed Oats
Clover, New Crop Turnip Seed, Cabbage, Spinach, and all varieties “over Grasses’ B ,
not LYn “ iOn{tO freiKht ite 101 PdCe lißt ' Wead 1 v O e ¥^r^o O d" iO th^ t3 4e
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Fresh and Reliable, Wholesale and Retail at Reasonable prices. Georgia Rve
Bailey, Rust Proof Oats, May Wheat, Red Clover, Burr Clover, Lucerne Clove
Texas Blue Grass Roots, Bermuda Roots and Seed, Vetch, Teasiute Sne-pa
prices to Alliances. Write for prices and Catalogue ’ P
D - H - LOWE s™ co «
GEO- W. CASE. z B- WHEELZa
CASE & WHEELER,
-AJSTID G-LRaA-ZSTITIE WORKS
Monuments, Headstones, Tablets, Iron Fencing eJ-
Money ~
WHO S|
w a N 'ffIHHH j
Muchin
The successful farmer or business uiau is the one who keeps up with improvements. S2OO saw mil!
warranted to eut 2,000 feet board lumber in ten hours with fonr-horse-power engine, and S,O(H> with
fifteen-horse-power. All sizes, up to 100.000 feet per day. Send for circulars also of the celebrated
DeLoach Portable Corn Mill, Turbine Water Wheels, etc. SOO Corn Mill warranted to grind six
bushels per hour line table tnea', good as any water mill.
DELOACH MILL MF’G CO., Atlanta. Ga.
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