Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-15
NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.

aug IhIOuBn IeDrBld bH1S t1He3 III Is
the Farmers Alliance. Chicago Senti-
mel 4.
We devote considerable space this
week to the sub-treasury plan which at
this time seems to be the all-absorbing
topic of interest
All money now in circulation, it will
be found upon careful analysis of the
causes that contribute to its exchange
able value, is based on the consumable
productof labor at last-Exchange
VIII those men who oppose the sub
treasury plan place themselves on rec
ord against the National bank plan, the
whisky warehouse plan and other like
schemes? We pause for reply-Luray
Union.
Who will dare deny that the financial
system of this Governm ent is faulty,
when the crop can not be moved with
out a panic unless the National Treas
urer lends sixty millions to New York
banks.-Exchange
In 1859 there were but two million
aires in the United States, now there
are thousands of them. How did they
get so wealthy, and who did the wealth
come from? Ask any honest farmer and
he will soon tell you. Exchange
He is blind as a mole who does not
see unmistakable evidence of dissolu-
ton within the ranks of the two old
parties. Partisan hatred and partisan
blindness nstitute stock and trade of
the two dominant parties. People are
becoming disgusted with the racket
Ohio County (KV) Farmer
The Chicago Herald is authority for
the statement that less than one-third
of one per cent of the population of the
United States controls seven-tenths of
the wealth of this country. In other
words, this comparatively insignificant
number can and do control seven out of
every ten dollars of the wealth of the
Nation. Odd, isn'tit?
National President L. L. Polk, of the
Alliance, and L. +. Livingston, presi-
dent OF the Georgia State Alliance, will
speak at Topeka, Kan, at the meeting
of the Kansas State Alliance, to be held
October Is and 16. On Thursday, the
10th, it is proposed to make a grand
demonstration. Two fine flags are of
fered to the largest delegations present
that day.
Radical of radicals would perhaps
aptly define the Twentieth Century,
On. " 1t puts an absolute truth when
it says: Every person who has one
dollar loaned out at interest is taking
something that he does not produce.
Some laborer is poorer by as much as he
is richer. Interest is wealth acquired
by law, not by labor. The interest
taker is parasite"
The Massachusetts Labor party gath
cred in Dexter Hall, Boston, recently
in State convention. Tho following
State ticket was nominated: For Cover
nor, Charles E. Marks, of Somerville;
Lieutenant-Governor, George R. Pearce,
of Lynn; Secretary of State, John F.
Dowd, of Hyde Park; Treasurer, George
J. Moulton, Boston; Attorney General
]. Johnson. Greenfield; Auditor, P. F.
ONeill, Boston.
The Farmers Alliance and kindred
organizations held convention at In
dianapolis September "a and organized
the Peoples party. The st. Louis plat
form was adopted. The hammer and
plow were adopted as the party emblem,
20 he placed at the head of the ticket un-
A. ''e Australian ballot law. A State
tiola. ~ - nominated, headed by James
NJ Iobnsor of Davies County, for Au-
ditor.
The old party politicians would be
nowerless without the a ID of the farmers
and laborers Why, those great men"
that people "look up to AMI trembie
before, would be considered common
plugs If the voters that hold them 70
would step aside and let them rest on
their own strength. Rub up against
these great men" and you will find
them just ordinary human beings with
perhaps little less conciousness and
little more deceitfulness than the aver
age. ge.-Exchange.
A careful distinction should be made
between the sub-treasury plan and the
b-Treasury bill The former was
adopted by the National Farmers Alli-
ance and Industrial Union, and it was
made the duty of the legislative COM
mittee to prepare the latter. This they
did as their Interpretation of a good
plan to carry out the purpose of the
former The committee and the order
generally will be glad to have any per-
son improve on the bill lL-Economist.
Is this going to be the year of ju-
bilee" for farmers? Never before in the
history of this country, since the war,
have farmers forged to the front in pol
itics as they have this year. In Mis-
souri, they controlled the dominant
party in convention. and dictated the
nomination of a State ticket; in Ten
nessee, South Carolina and Texas they
have named the next Governor, and in
! large number of States they will send
their own men to Congress 1t verify
looks as il the farmers were going TO
! ''get there" All that is necessary is to
stand together and work for the COM
mon cause; keep up their organizations
and not grow careless with the first
! taste of success. Exchange.
AN ABSURD OBJECTION.
/ The Oppon nsnts of the Sub-Treasury Plan
| Absurdly Claim That 1t VIII Tax the
People.
Some of the opponents of the sub
treasury plan. in their anxiety to for.
mulate objections, have gone so far as tc
claim that the money necessary to carry
out the plan must be first taken from the
/ people by taxation. Upon this pre-
sumption. says the National Economist,
the bill is denounced as uneonstitution,
! al and class legislation. They would
have the shoemaker, the carpenter and
all those engaged in other branches Of
productive industry. as we'll IS the non