Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-12-30
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.


children die yearly for the want OF
food Great West
The alliance will hang out little
while longer down in Texas before
handing in its checks Between No
vember l and IS there were fifty-two
sub-alliances organized in that state. -
Alliance Tribune.
Dear dollars and cheap sweat, high
priced money and cheap labor. high
rate of interest and cheap products
that is the issue the money power offers
the people. 1t viii be accepted and n
fight TO the finish will follow. Alliance
Herald.
-George c. Beecher says: ut will
be we'll with America if the monopo-
lists surrender their privileges in season
10 prevent a social revolution. Prop
the heavens with justice aud they will
not fall; make law the synonym of
equity and there will be peace"
-Republicanism denies that the gov
eminent derives its powers from the
consent of tie governed, but asserts
that the people derive their rights from
the consent of the government To
this complexion has the American re-
public come at last Weekly Kansan
The twenty-second of February
conference Of all the industrial organi-
cations is u meet at ST. Louis. Every
national organization will be entitled
% twenty-five delegates and an addi-
tional one for each 10, 900 members in
each state. NV let everybody go,
whether delegate or not-National
Advance.
The Pennsylvania Farmer truth
fully remarks that because a farmer
takes an active part in politics is no
reason that he is neg Getting his farm
any more than the business man is his
business when he interests himself in
that direction. Neither should the
farmer be censured any more than the
business man because he wants things
run for his benefit once in a while"
"A little glimmer Of sense has at
length penetrated the thick skull of the
secretary OF the treasury. He has at
last discovered that gold is too mar
row a base upon which to build the
worlds financial structure One more
effort, Mr.. Secretary, ands you will find
that both gold and silver are much too
narrow base for the same purpose.
Light is breaking. southern Mercury.
And now the secret is given away
that prominent democrats in Ohio"
aided, by their money and their votes,
the election of representatives who
would vote for John Sherman's return
TO the United States senatel How
many Of these instances will it require
10 prove 70 the people that the two old
parties are in secret league to perpetu-
ate the rule of the Shylocl1s.
Sentinel.
The annual report on the statistics
of railroads in the United States, issued
from the office of the interstate COM
merce commission, shows that the
capitalization is 100000 and a fraction
per mile. As the roads could be built
for SD, 600 per mile, the public has a
very good idea of the extent of over
charging in passenger and freight rates
The railway system of this country
should be run by the people, for the
people, rather than by spectators for
speculators.-N Nation.
Says an exchanges: IF the next
congress does not pass an unlimited
free coinage of silver bill the money
question will be the top issue in next
years campaign" 1t matters not
whether free coinage be adopted or
not The money question will be the
chief issue in any event Inreality the
question of free coinage is about the
least important of the peoples party
demands lis adoption would not ma
terialiy increase our currency, and this
is the all important question before the
people to-day. Advocate.
We have received no official an
nouncemcnt rs yet, concerning the
place for holdin" the February confer
ence, but the press dispatches state
that St Louis Eds secured the plum.
and that the Mer hantile club of that
city Is preparing { r the reception of
the delegates. Some time ago the Non
conformist was adv ed by member
of the committee that st. Louis would
be chosen. but we RETAINED from maxi
ing the announcement until il should
be declared ial.-Nonconformist
The monopolists evidently believe
in n sharp competition by those who
live by their labor, because 1t is to
their advantage, while they do not
compete with one another. knowing it
10 be ruinous They lay aside individ-
uality, form pools, trusts and COM
bines, and thus wealth, constantly con-
centrates, year after year, enriching
the few and impoverishing the many
And we are told that this is modern
democracy and fashionable republican
ism. When will people learn these
things?-Southern Mercury.
Two stout horses can draw say two
tons This being the case, il would
require 3. 500 teams to draw the silver
now in the United States treasury. Sill
yer is commodity, like cotton, and
one would think that our old parties
had put under way n very tidy sub
treasury scheme in authorizing the
United states treasurer to buy three
and a-half wagon loads OF silver per
day as u basis upon which to issue u
paper money. Whv are the silver mine
owners made favored class? This is
n question now commonly asked on the
farms Of the west and the plantations
OF the south. New Nation
Many people say give us proper
basis for money. Well what is the
OASIS or nhIhihk Va a haNAOhNA o0hh
note? A United States bond. Then
what guarantee is behind a United
States bondP The governments obli-
CATION 20 pay. II is the governments
note. Does that make it good? Ger
tainly. Then why not issue the gov
ernment's notes in small denominations
called treasury notes? If the govern
meni's obligation is a sufficient back
ing for the great national banking in
situations why is it not a sufficient
backing for few millions of circulat-
ing medium?-Weekly Toiler.
CONVICT LABOR.
A Per.licious Policy Detrimental to Indus
trial interests. Witch " tli Force Wage