Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-05
NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.

NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.
Father McGlynn can abolish poverty
If he will lecture in behalf of Senator
Stanford's plan to loan money direct to
the people.
We believe ninety-fve out of every
one hundred Alliance members favor
the Sub-Treasury bill L-Toisnot IN. c.
Rural Home.
President Polk has issued official proc
lamation for the organization of Califor-
MIA State Alliance. Brother j. s. Bar
bee, National organizer, is authorized
to organize at San Jose on the 4th of
November.
Cassius NJ. Clay, of Kentucky, puts
the question tersely when at the con-
clusion of an article in favor of Govern
ment railroads, he asks: Shall the
people own the railroads or the rail-
roads own the people?"
Senator Vance told the people in his
| speech at Raleigh that 10000 men
| owned four-fift OF the wealth of the
country with its 60, 900, 900 people! That
| is as bad as the situation of affairs in
Ireland, about which there is always so
much mpathy.-Oxford IN. g. Public
| Ledger.
The strike on the New York Central
railroad has been declared off, but the
strike at the ballot box has been de-
clared on. The Vanderbilt tribe may
now begin to count their losses. Their
attack on the Knights will be brought
home to them through legislation in the
| inf Of
If man says the Sub-Treasury bill
| is unconstitutional, show him the argu-
ment and the facts in last weeks Pro-
| gressive Farmer and ask him to answer
1t. If he is seeking your vote and fails
| to tell you how he stands on that meas
ure, call him out on it. The politicians
forced the measure into the campaign
as an issue. Let them stand or fall on
| it it-ProgresSive Farmer.
Did the reader ever stop and consider
why such large per cent of anti-mo-
nopoly papers are a failure while SO
many that serve the interests of monop-
| oily get rich? There is but one cause:
Monopoly sustains its papers, and the
| people do not fight them, and when the
people attempt to sustain anti-monopoly
papers monopoly fights them with all
its might and main. Therefore, the
only chance is for the people to adopt
their tactics, fight monopoly papers and
sustain their own with redoubled vigor
National Econom St
Farmers create seven-eghts of the
wealth of the country, pay seven-eighths
OF the taxes, directly and indirectly,
and still they are in debt to money
lenders more than they can ever pay
under the present system. The wealth.
producer is the debtor while the nom
producer is the creditor The Govern
ment loans to the National banker
$3.50, 900, 900 at one per cent, and these
in turn loan it to the farmers at from 8
to 20. No wonder the farmer is in debt
when the Government has entered into
copartnership with userers to keep
him in debt-Industrial Age.
1t is a sad commentary on the future
OF agriculture that an advance in the
price OF farm products is given by many
OF the Eastern journals as the cause of
ihe present financial crisis If this be
true, the logical conclusion would fol-
low that hard times in the country made
better times in Wall street; that in or
der to prevent future panics the farmer
must continue to sell his products at a
loss. Unless all signs fail the farmers
of this country are going to change
these conditions and hereafter stand
square upon the demand of ''equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none. National Economist
|
ADDRESS TO BUSINESS MEN.
r..,,o1 r., A. E1-oon.tro F,.,-.x.;t1oo .e A.
Citizensi Alliance of the City of Emporia
Kan.
The natural condition Of an indus
trous people inhabiting fertile coun.
try, is one of general prosperity. When
this condition does not exist but it is
found that the greater part of the
wealth of nation is possessed by few
of is citizens, investigation will dis
J close the fact that the result is due tx
the control by them of legislation gov
erning agencies which in their opera
ton vitally affect the welfare of each
member OF society.
The control by fnanciers of Congress
sional legislation regulating the supply
; of money. Is becoming generally recog
nized as the chief cause of the present
condition of enforced idleness and in
dustr.al depression.
It will not be denied that the nature
or character of money is less general,
understood than that of any human de
vice in common use Much of the ap
parent mysst.c-g9. however. that now sur
rounds the subject will be dispelled b,
realization OF the fact that money i
simply the legal representative of actua
property.
When it is considered that money Is
legal device created by law and issues
by the people of nation for their con
venience in facilitating exchanges o
property and products; that in the pres
ent complex state of society, withou
it such exchanges would be PRACTICAL.
y impossible; that while direct exchange
t of actual property are accomplished
with difficulty, the legal Representative
r Is in universal demand; that obligation
incurred for actual property are pay
able, not in that for which the obiiga
: ton is given, but in its lega; representa-
(. tive; and that in the interest of capi
er tai the issue of the legal Representative
- in the United states is restricted {
N about one per cent of the assesse,
Talue Of the property Of the country