Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-10-14
FARMERS ALLIANCE,
ALLIANCE NOTES.


death-grip on our people. Shyloclx
must go. Pittsburgh Kansan.
-Ifthe laws fat cannot make money.
how does it happen that seventy cents
worth of nickel and copper combined
is stamped into one hundred nickels
worth five dollars and a full legal
tender for that ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ist
The charity shown by the pluto
cratic press towards the shortcoming
of Lew Hanback, shows strong in con-
trast to their malevolence in manufact-
uring crimes and charging them to the
family of Mrs. Lease.-Alliance Tri-
bune.
The old party howlers insist that
the peoples party in Kansas, sis going
to pieces" However that may be, the
opposite must be said of the old parties,
they are going into one piece and not
much of piece either.-Hartford Ex-
aminer.
Which is first for you, the platform
OF your party or the principles of the
order? Which are you most in love
with, your democracy or our declara-
tion of principles? No man can serve
two masters Choose We this day whom
ye will serve.-Alliance Echo.
The peoples is the only national
party in the United States. The plat
forms, doctrines and speeches that are
approved and applauded in Kansas and
Ohio, are received with enthusiasm in
South Carolina and Alabama. We are
all brothers Kansan.
The New York Times says If the
parties want to win the support Of the
business men they must speak out in
no uncertain way against free silver
coinage" All right. Let her go! The
alliance will speak out in no uncertain
way on the other side when the par
ties are heard from.
Farmer.
The democratic and republican
papers in Ohio have forgotten their old
enmity toward each other and are put
ting in their best licks abusing the
peoples party, which both protest
amounts to nothing. Well, if the peo-
Piles party amounts to nothing, why
put In your time abusing it?-Plow and
Hammer.
There has not been an official report
of reduction of indebtedness from a
single county in the last three months.
An official statement" must be sworn
to. The statements published by the
plutocratic press as official are neither
official" sworn to nor true. They are
lies published for political effect ALI
ance Tribune.
All the difference between the
land-loan plank in the alliance sub
treasury plan and the present system
of borrowing money on lands from the
banks. and capitalists is little matter
of ton per cent. per annum interest on
the loan. This little item is what
MAKES the people prefer the alliance
plan. The money mongers desire to
continue to pocket this ten per cent.
and this is precisely what the fight is
about Mercury.
You at once destroy the power of
money to oppress whenever you take
away from it the power to accumulate
by interest. Whenever money can ac-
cumulate more value by being loaned
than labor and capital combined can
earn, it possesses power that ought to
be destroyed. No power on earth, save
the power that makes it, can control it,
and it then can only be controlled by
the governments willingness to loan to
its own citizens at low rate of inter
Ruralist.
Don't become befuddled over all
this discussion about an eighty-cent
silver dollar. The gold-bugs know
better than any one else that when
free coinage becomes a fact silver
will at once be worth one hundred
cents on the dollar. Then the govern
ment will not buy silver, but every
man who has silver will take it to the
mint and get dollar for every 371
He would be chump to take any thing
less. Now only a part can sell their
product, hence a depreciation in price
Dakota Ruralist
When Simpson and Weaver visited
Georgia, the unprincipled scoundrels
who manufacture campaign lies pub
lished in the subsidized press that they
had to be smuggled out in haste to keep
them from being lynched. The same
influence when President Polk recently
visited Kansas filed the papers with
lies about his war record and personal
character. tits perfectly useless to say
so, but it is true that L. L. Polk did not
have charge of any prison during the
war, and he did not utter the cowardly
bosh attributed to him by the press
during his Kansas trip.-National Econ
omist
"A gentleman delivering a speech
held up a greenback, and taking a
yreenback dollar out of his pocket and
holding It up to the audience asked:
What is this? A dollar And 1t is a
good dollar; good for the farmer, the
mechanic, the merchant the sailor,
every body What makes it a good
1ollar? Because every dollars worth
of property in the United states is be-
hind it, and the life's blood of every
rue and loyal American citizen is be-
lind it And that makes it a good
iollar" The gentleman made this
speech at Skowhegau, Me-, in 1861 and
his name was, and is James g. Blaine.
It was at time when the money kings
lad not bought and paid for him
National Advance.
When the New York times asserted
hat the good price which will be paid
or wheat the present year cannot
all to modify the views of the north
western farmer upon the question of
and finance" it exhibited a
Tery narrow and superficial view of the
among the people. The fact
S, the country to-day is in an open and
determined revolt against the whole
Ievilish system of jobbery and robbery
hat has enthroned itself in power in
rider to plunder and despoil the toilinp
masses of the nation. Do not deceive
old plutocratic thieves; we
Inow what we want, and if the hypo-
ritical boodlers that run the subsidized
,ress of the country do not understand
t we can tell them-Pacific Union AL.
lance
-For long wnIle the STATE press L.
1ored the grand alliance rallies ana
public speakings. but now they have
changed their tactics and alwavs have
heir repOPferS aro,,vd a.