Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-24
NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.

And good will to men.
Mrs. Florence Olmstead.
NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.
What can farmers and laborers accom-
plish by being united 364 days in the
year and disunited one day, and that the
day of election? Please answer to your
self and to your own satifaction.
Independent Peoples and Union La
Dor tickets in hundreds of counties, give
the F. & L. U. an opportunity to remain
united on their principles on election
day as we'll as the other S64 days in the
year.
A large and enthusiastic convention
of the new Independent party of Liv-
ingstOn County, Mo-, was held in Chilli
cothe recently and tip-top ticket
nominated The ticket is headed by ].
v. Blaney for the Legislature.
The Fort Scott Industrial Union pro-
poses to devote one column each week
to the publication of the lies and insults
to farmers of the partisan press So
says the Weekly Union of Butler, Mo.
If the Industrial Union gives even .
fair sample of these lies and insults
it will have no space for any other mat
ter.-EX.
The tenth annual session of the Ma
tional Farmers Congress was lately held
at Council Bluffs, Iowa; $50 delegates
representing thirty States were present
Weather was beautiful, all the stores
and many of the residences were deco
rated. The proceedings were of a very
pleasant and useful nature, many in
struotive papers being read.
The Farmers Alliance, by united Do
htical action, can put itself on record as
the great mortgage litter of the nine
teenth century. Congress is the place
to get in the second chapter. Chapter 1
is organization; chapter is new laws;
chapter 8, general prosperity for wealth
producers. Therefore, on with the
Farmers Alliances!-Advance Thought
The one joke in the Kansas platform
is the demand for the free coinage of
silver, "a measure strongly opposed and
vigorously denounced by the late DEM
| ocratic Administration, led by ex-Presi-
| dent Grover Cleveland" People who
remember the fierce fight made by the
| Republican leaders are not to be hum
bugged by any such subterfuges Kan
Sas City Star.
Before the next convention of the
National Farmers Alliance meets at
Ocala, Fla, in December next, it Is ex-
pected that fully 5000, 900 farmers will
be enrolled in its membership, all
pledged to support the industrial, COM
mercial and political aims of the order.
| It is only few months since the name
Of the organization became known, but
already it has become active in Wash
ington and in half the States of the
Union.-N Y. Sun Not EditoriaL)
The corn which farmers had to sell
last fall for ten cents per bushel, In or
der to satisfy old Shylock's demands, is
now being sold to wage-earning con-
sumers for fifty cents. With Shylook
on one hand and the board of trade man
on the other, corn raisers and corn
| consumers have a hard time of It.
| But the farmer says: 81 was obliged
to soil my corn. had interest to pay"
II by your vote you would force the
| Government to loan money direct to the
people on real estate security and a$ q
low rate of interest you would not be
in such fix. You would have little
|
could keep your corn--SentineL
silver and indian wheat.
| The rise in silver has added very
largely to the cost of Indian wheat, and
the Mail and Express says the friends
OF silver have demonstrated the correct
ness of one of their tenents which the
advocates of a gold standard have al
ways contradicted They can not help
seeing now that the United States
which is the largest silver pro-
ducing nation in the world, has
for years been playing into the hands
of Great Britain, which, being the larg-
est silver buyer in the world, has had a
very strong interest in making gold as
dear as possible and holding on to as
much of it as the laws of trade would
permit AS long as we were buying
2,O0O, 600 ounces a month the treasury
} was perforce bear on gold. 1t was
using every effort to get it as cheap as
possible, and in this attempt it had the
cordial cooperation of Great Britain.
! Now that we begin to buy more than
twice as much the position is changed,
and Great Britain is a competitor at a
great disadvantage. For years the
American farmer has been selling his
wheat for gold in competition with In
dian wheat, which was bought with sill
YER, and so the British importer bought
silver with his gold and exchanged fol
Indian wheat until the price rose to /;
point at which it became cheaper to pay
for American wheat with gold Nov
that silver has risen Is per cent-to b.
exact silver has risen 164 cents abov,
the highest price of last year and ha
regained in seven months what it los
in seven years-the price of Indial
wheat is advanced just that much, ant
is handicapped by that percentage Il
competition with American wheat
very considerable percentage of the in
crease in the price of wheat to-day i
, due not to the fears of a short crop. bu
D to the fact that the Englishman find
Indian wheat virtually advanced NOR
than half way to a parity with tn
q American grain.-N. Y. Investigator.
GRAIN RATES.