Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-08
NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.

A man who is non-political is very
nearly nonentity.-Alliance Gazette.
The Chicago Tribune says that the
'Greenbackers have captured the Farm
ers' Alliance" If the Farmers ALI
ance does not comp ain it need not con-
cern the MISUNDERSTANDING organ Of
Republicanism.
When Uncle Sam was hard up during
the war he borrowed money of the peo-
pie. Now that he is pretty ''well
heeled" and the people are hard up, he
Is mighty mean man If he will not re-
turn the compliment-Sentinel.
If there is single man in Kansas
who has any doubts about the leaders
of the old party being scared, let him
read q few of their organs. 1t Is one
endless harangue of lies within the
folds of the ''bloody shirt" We con-
cludo, and can say of truth, their case
is hopeless Alliance Gazette.
T. v. Powderly says that 1.-The work.
men of this age will not respond to as
sessmsnts to support strike, no matter
how just 1t is" If this is true the day
Of labor organizations is over. Work
ingmen must now turn their attention
to the land and money questions, or get
ready to fight, or prepare for abject and
irreparable slavery. Which will it be?
Twentieth Century.
The no politics. idea which dorni-
mates nearly all labor organizations and
which is upheld by "official organ"
grinders all over the country, is exactly
the policy which monopolists would
have labor organizations adopt When
labor bodies become tolerant enough to
permit intelligent discussions of politi-
cal questions at their meetings, leave
their members free to act as they please,
they will make short work of wage
slavery. Workman.
The laboring people have never been
able to accomplish the ends for which
they have organized, from the fact that
the different sections of the country
have been too much divided, There
has been too much North" and South"
about it The old bloody-shirt dema-
gogues viewed the situation long ago,
and have busted themselves to keep the
old wounds from healing. Now that we
have an organization which recognizes
q universal brotherhood, knows no
North nor South, there is dim hope in
the distance for the down-trodden Of our
country.-Bowling Green (Ky.) Union.
When the farmers make up their
minds that they have the power they
will stand solidly together and
make an industrial ticket and not be
fooled into whipping off after every
political blatherskite who wants them
to figure in the old party caucuses and
primaries, and by SO doing get good
men on the party tickets''-men who
are pledged to the party rings. To do
that our farmers had just as we'll close
their school house meetings, throw up
the sponge and declare they will 20 back
TO their first love and let the old ord or
of things continue and the county sea {
politician dictate-make the tickets and
run the machine. (Neb) }
Home Rule.
Tariff and free trade questions are
living issues and should be Intelligent
ly discussed. But no tariff or free trade
discussion which leaves out the cur
rency question can be of any benefit to
anybody. Without taking into consid.
Grafton their influence upon the cur
rency volume, tariff and free trade can
only mislead and befog, instead of en-
tighten and educate. The currency is
the pivotal vital question, and tariff
and free trade are subsidiary questions
The more person discusses tariff and
free trade, independent of the currency
question, the less he will know and the
better fitted he will become to be slav-
ish tool in the hands of some crafty
political ring. .-Fairbank (Iowa) View.
Free land, that is, the land held in
trust by the community or the State
for the use of all; free money, that is, 9
medium of exchange based upon the
products of labor and interchangeable
for service and the product of service;
public utilities owned by the community
or State, and their revenues used fol-
the public functions, education and SAN
itation, are the three fundamental re-
forms that the age demands Say what
we may, agitate as we can, play at poll
tics as we must, talk about the un-
crowned kings and queens of America,
who have voted themselves into novels
and their masters into palaces, the drift
and trend of the age is away from poll
| ties. from majority rule, or State rule
from church craft and king craft, to
wards an industrial age of socialism, ol
which the Golden Rule is the chic
corner stone.-Exchange