Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-12-17
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.


All the old party hacks complain that
the sub-treasury bill involves class legis-
lation What if it does? Farmers as q
class are injured by class legislatio and
now they propose to right themselves by
the same kind of law, and call upon all
good men to aid them. Weekly Moni-
tor.
II is amusing to observe the eager
ness with which the 2x4 editors print
the remarks of some other fellow against
the sub-treasury scheme. Like the
small fry polit clans they wait till the
bosses have spoken, and then, parrot
like, jump up and say, ''me too!"-
Arkansas Economist
Cable dispatches state that the Bank
OF France has loaned the Bank of En-
gland SIS 600, 600 at three per cent. to
aid in the present financial crisis. In
this transaction may be found an object
lesson of great Importance France
with S67 per capita is loaning money to
England that has but S2l per capita at
three per cent, while England with sal
per capita is loaning money in the
United States that has less than SIS per
capita at about seven per cent
Just now the old party papers that
were not prepared for the late political
disasters are advising the farmers that
all the ills of which they complain can
not be cured through legislation The
farmer is cautioned not to neglect his
farm in any event; to attend carefully
and intell'gently to his needs, and, in
ferentially, to trust the politician for
the rest Such advice has been given
before, but just at present the farmers
are not inclined to take kindly to it and
have determined on little independent
action of their own Exchange
All the duties of life so far as material
affairs are concerned, are included in
the production and consumption of such
articles of necessity, comfort and lux
ury as contribute to our continued ex-
istence and our happiness That is,
the world only produces by its labor
what it consumes, and it only consumes
what 1t produces by it's labor. The
only trouble s that we have an illogical,
absurd and oppressive system of pro-
duction and distribution, which COM
pels the producers to turn over to nom
producers. in the shape of interest rent
and taxation, as much of the products
of their labor as these non-producers
may demand Exchange.
What food of light comes through
the chasm made by the collapse of the
Barings! To see the Bank of England
scurrying around the world. scooping
up driblets of gold, here a little. there
a little. The internal policy of contrac-
ton has overreached itself, and pitt
full situation is disclosed. The bank
ers. lacking money. have been balloon.
ing the credit of their customers with
their credit, and the first hard-headed
fool who wanted to see some money has
prec' 'pitated d sclosure of the weak
ness of the whole situation and pricked
the bladder VIII ch has been blown up to
such vast d mensions The wicked
digged pit and have fallen therein.
Pr de goeth before a fall. Yes, finance
is thing which for common man to
pretend to talk about is presumption.
Economist.
All the window glass manufacturers
in the United States west of Pittsburgh
have organized a combination to con-
troll production and increase prices to
consumers The new tariff bill pro-
tects the trust from foreign competition
and it avoids home competition by or
ganization. Under our present system
all the great productive enterprises of
the country will be organ zed into
g gantic trusts and the people will be
powerless unless they bring the whole
power of society to bear to take control
0f the truStS and OOorato tho huai1aoa
of the country for the benefit of the
people. All the signs of the times
point to naturalization as the ultimate
solution of the problems which are
forcing themselves upon the considera-
ton of the publ c mind and the public
conscience. Industrial Age.