Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-18
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.

The Wisconsin house, which is large
~ democratic, has passed resolution
opposing the free coinage of silver.
This occurred after Cleveland's letter
The state of California is fast COM
ing TO the front in alliance matters.
The seed of alliance ideas had been
sown by its independent press long be-
fore the alliance organizer made his
appearance, and when he came the peo-
pie were ready. Let all the other
states be up and doing or the Empire
State of the Pacific coast will be in the
lead.-Exchange.
BE careful in electing delegates to
the next state meeting of the f. & L.
I. of Missouri. Don't send any one
merely because he wants to go, but see
to it that he thinks more of alliance
principles than he does of his party.
Some delegates are now being elected
by district unions, and we have some
reason to believe that the Hall and Chew
outfit are not idle.-MisSouri World
"A prominent member of the order
in Missouri, says the National Econ
omist, writes to the national secretary
as follows: Our order in Missouri is
in deplorable condition. The deter
mination of some of the leaders to use
it in the interest of partisan politics has
done the work. 1t is said that nearly
every union has become a democratic
club, but our membership has become
nearly one-half depleted, in some coun-
ties over two-thirds of the members
have dropped OUT
The alliance has now reached the
danger line of its existence. 1t is too
strong to be injured, and its principles
are too just to be fairly and openly con-
tested. Trickery and special pleadings
on the part of its enemies are the only
effective weapons that can now be used
The order should be prepared for this,
and remember that unity of action and
faith in each other is the only defense
against such attacks. Let the membe
ship stand together as one man, and
make the fight for home and family
National Economist.
President Harrison has given con-
gress to understand that he will veto
any measure that may be sent to him
looking to the free coinage of silver.
EX-President Cleveland has reiterated
in manner unmistakable his hostility
TO free coinage. One is recognized as
pre-eminently the leader of his party;
the other is the official head of his party
and at present of the country. When
the old darlzey preacher informed his
hearers that there were but two roads
to follow, and that one of them led to
perdition and the other to damnation,
fhOrOnph1u f1.itr 1,ro&har
derstood the meaning of words a little
better than his minister, exclaimed:
"Den dis chile takes to de woods!' We
feel very much as this darLey felt. If
these two are the only political roads
that lie before the American people, we
shall take to the woods.-Mt. Vernon
Ill.) Progressive Farmer.
Shrinking men will sit down and
ask themselves the question, who are
the men that oppose the free coinage of
silver, they will find that they are with
out exception the men who have stolen
he wealth of the country in the name
of the public credit, and few men and
newspapers whom they own soul and
body. The motive which moves them
to express most rancorous and bitter
hatred of silver money is the fear that
any increase of the circulation will
lessen the value of their stolen swap,
and so loosen in some degree their ban
dit grasp upon the financial windpipes
of the people. Some causes should per-
ish by the meanness of those who up
hold them; and this gold standard cause
is one such cause. Anyone knows that
these men are not to be trusted upon
any questions of financial reform. For
no measure will suit them that compels
them to be honest men and earn their
hvings by useful labor as other men
do.-Raleigh On. c. Progressive Farmer
We see it so frequently stated that
the mission of the alliance was to de-
feat Ingalls,, and that purpose accom-
plished that it would rapidly decline
and perish from the face of the earth,
that we desire to interpose a word of
correction. Is it for moment sup
posed that this organization has been
extended over thirty-eight states of the
union and an aggregate membership of
over three millions attained for the
sole purpose of defeating the rides
cent dreamer? Journalists who are
f. eding their readers upon this kind of
taffy are either very stupid or they
have but very little regard for their
reputation. The purposes of the or
der are distinctively set forth in the st.
Louis and the Ocala platforms, and the
defeat of ingalls, or any other man who
stands in the way of the accomplish
ment of these purposes, are only Incl
dents in the progress of the organiza-
ton, means wherebE the end sought is
70 be attained. Only this and nothing
more. Topeka (Kan.) Advocate.