Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-27
ALLIANCE NOTES.

With SO many great and noble OBJ
jects and principles before us, the
Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union should be inspired with a lofty
and steady national enthusiasm. Let
all our brothers and sisters remember
the magnitude of their calling and
speak and act for the future of our
country with becoming zeal and de-
votion, Union Alliance.
1t is becoming more and more APP
parent day by day that the republican
party is nothing more than a democratic
side show. If there has been any doubt
on this subject heretofore the action of
the fifty-one democratic clubs of South
Carolina in sending delegates to the re-
publican league at Cincinnati on April
81 must remove that doubt Republic
anism in Kansas is merely scheme of
the rebels and democrats of the south
to break up the alliance Advocate.
Maryland is arran1ing to have one
of the most vigorous and wide-awake
alliance educational campaigns that en-
ergy and earnestness can inaugurate
and conduct They see the necessity
of certain economic and political re-
forms, and they are going to make
tremendous effort to bring them about.
They are gathering and educating
themselves for the onset, and the state
never experienced a greater stirring up
than it will have this year.-EXchange.
The arguments (?) of the Mississip-
pi kickers against the sub-treasury bill
are strangely similar to those offered
by the grand old party in the state of
Kansas. In fact, they are inspired by
the same spirit Those who are en-
gagged in the Mississippi kick are dyed-in-
the wool democrats. and there is really
no difference in the policy of the two
parties. We would suggest that they
follow the example of the democratic
clubs in South Carolina and join hands
with the republican league.-Advocate.
"A call has been issued for an indie
pendent convention to be held at Des
Moines June 8, for the purpose of nom-
mating state ticket Each county is
entitled to ten delegates under the call.
Representative men of the Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union, Farm
ers' Mutual Benefit association, State
Grange. Knights of Labor, Citizens and
Federation of Labor, Trades Assembly,
United Mine Workers and all industrial
organizations of the state are invited to
participate, not rs representing organi-
cations, but as individuals.
The n. Y. Tribune asks: .'How
can the government loan money at one
per cent. when it pays three per cent,
at least, for the money it borrows,
without making up the difference by
fox- ~ f,f0
ruptcy?" This fool question is being
copied by the plutocratic press as
squelcher to the sub-treasury and the
land loan bills. For the miller to bor-
row -four, or the baker to borrow
bread and pay interest for the use of it,
would be manifestation of far better
sense than for the government to Dor
row money. That the government
should borrow that which it alone has
authority to create in unlimited
amounts, is an absurdity SO preposter-
Gus that no reason has ever vA+ ,,een
assigned for l. As well might the
Creator borrow sunlight with which to
light the universe.
While the real estate mortgages
foot up 500, 100000 in Iowa, they ag-
BTtBdle Only S3S, OUD, uoJ IN Ala Dana, and
these mostly due to mining and manu-
featuring investments. In Iowa the
capitalist owns the mortgage and re-
ceives rent by way of interest In Ala |
bama the title is Ia the capitalist, who
receives rent direct In Alabama the |
tiller of the soil wants the sub-treasury
law, SO that he may get relief from the |
landlord by obtaining money on his
cotton In Iowa he wants government
loans on land SO thai he can escape
from the clutches OF the mortgage
holder Government loans on land is
measure that viii bring general relief |
in the north, west and east, while such
loaas in the south would only give the
rich plantation owners greater advan-
tage. The fact that the masses in the
southern states are tenants and that
the land IS owned in large bodies by a
few IS why the sub-treasurv hi! Is In !
great demand there. Missouri World.