Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-12-03
AIMS OF THE ALLIANCE.
II the Democrats Fail II, = Third Party
Inevitable naath


II the Democrats Fail II, a Third Party
Inevitable - Death.
The National Farmers Alliance has
given out its first declaration from
Washington since the election After
stating that the Alliance has elected
sixty-three members OF Congress, the
declaration goes on to say: Party poi.
ticans say IL was the tariff. Both old
parties want that to be the fight again
in 1892. Once more we tell them that is
q side issue. You could not get the
farmers to listen to your tariff speeches
in 1890; you will not in 1892. There
we're no petitions sent in for free trade
We never said word against the tariff
We did say we desired fair ad justment
OF the tariff. We wanted a revenue for
the Government economically admins
tered. II fifty per cent (average) is
necessary for protection to the laborer
and manufacturer we want this average
per centum so adjusted that it will not
Cypress the poor and be of advantage to
the Oh. We do not think we are fairly
treated when eighty per centum was put
on many Of the necessaries, while twenty
per centum was put on Injuries to
bring about the average We said if
binding Irvine ought to be free
land 1t ought cotton ties and
bagging ought to be treated in the same
way. The Brotherhood North said we
will stand by the brethren in the South,
and they did We said: War issues are
dead; we want a reunited country.
Ingalls, and others wanted to fight the
fn.
together. Veterans ofs both armies
were there and are there. We stood
united for more currency. Foreign in
vestments have so increased that to pay
the interest 1t takes not only our annual
product of gold, but we are drawing on
our reserve already coined-even with
the balance of trade in our favor Yet
the annual interest and dividends call
our gold all out of our country. The
legal tenders are fixed in amount by
law; the National bank currency is
constantly being reduced by the retir-
ing process; fire and flood are destroying
our currency yearly. The reserves
grow greater just in proportion to de-
posits, while our population is increas-
ing, and our demand for currency is also
AhOACaoAhB1 Ohb ONA OuLLChSJ 10 oOcdQlly
decreasing We ask that our currency
shall be increased. We want as many
dollars per capita as the rate of tariff
per hundred This would not equal the
per capita Of France, and we have need
for far more than France. We said, and
we challenged criticism, that if the
farmers were as we'll of as they were
before the war-so that they were Just
one crop ahead-the entire circulating
medium would not pay for their crops.
II they put the money into their pock-
cts and went homo with it not a mer-
chant banker or broker would have a
dollar. We presented bills with view
OF increasing the currency; we were
ridiculsd and called 'agrarian hum
bugs" So the people, in their wrath,
hurled these men from power. If the
Eifty-second Congress gives US no re-
liOf-if they do not make an effort so to
do-they, too. will be hurled from
power. II Democratic House is dis
posed to aid US and Republican Senate
oppose Us we will wipe the earth up
with the American House OF Lords We
shall wait patiently and SEQ what the
Democrats will do; II they do not aid us,
then . third party v Just as inevitable
rs death"