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2 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. - -■ - • - ■ - 4 ”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 10 SEEDS!SEEDSTSEEDSI 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. ebl«ly