Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-28
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.

The address of L. L. Polk, President
of the National Alliance, is S44 D
street, Washington, d. c.
The workingman who gives his voice
and vote to the support of the enemy of
his class, is worthy only of contempt
Nonconformist.
If there is God who judges human
ity, he will hold the laboring man re-
sponsible for casting his vote for the
enemies of human happiness.-Ex-
change.
In the proportion that a laborer gives
his support to monopoly, he lacks the
element of good citizenship. Ye can
not serve mamnon and the people
NonconfOrmist.
Shame on the man who. toiling the
years away for mere pittance, slavish-
ly votes for his heartless taskmasters,
who absorb the bulk of his labor's pro-
uct.-Nonconformist.
We suggest that Alliances and other
labor organizations should pass votes
of thanks to Senator William Stewart
for his recent speech in the Senate on
the finance bill.-Missouri World.
Revolution by force is not necessary.
Let every man do his duty in the way
provided by the Constitution, and every
evil can be remedied, every wrong
righted and prosperity will smile on all
the people.-Exchange
The Progressive Farmer calls atten-
ton to Senator Stanford's bill authoriz-
ing the loan of money by the Govern
ment upon the security of real estate,
and adds: '"To us it seems an easily prac-
ticable scheme of financial expansion.
This opinion is formed upon a very
slight study of the question"
Now is the time for small men who
are connected with the Alliance to be-
come conspicuous by opposing the sub
treasury plan. Such persons can find
ready access to the columns of the op-
position press, and can be read, not for
what they say, but for what they are.
A few examples of this character have
already appeared; not much of an in
crease need be expected. 1t is a lone
some, Improbable condition.-Ex-
change.
The money kings have been working
every kind of scheme for twenty-five
years to beat the farmers, and since the
late election they are making all sorts
of excuses to convince themselves and
the farmers that nothing is wrong, that
it is what might be expected in an off
year. The farmers hoisted their signal
of distress but Congress needed it not.
Wall Street sent up its wall and the
Government flew to it's rescue. If the
farmers stay by their organizations
they will take the wind and water
out of the inflated stocks and bonds,
and all other kinds of sham securities,
and the Government will be powerless
to relieve.-Gladbrool Qa) Labor Re-
view.
The only valuable use that either sill
yer or gold has as money, except for
subsidiary coin, consists in the limita-
ton of quantity. There is no such
thing as intrinsic value in a commercial
sense. The light of the day, the heat
of the sun, and the air we breathe have
intrinsic qualities, and are essential to
animal life, but they have no value be-
cause their quantity is unlimited Value
results from the desire to possess, and
limitation of quantity. If the stamp of
every Government in the world were
removed from both its gold and silver
coin, and neither of those metals could
ever again be used as money. their prin-
cipal value would be destroyed. The
desire to possess them for any other
purpose would be trifing They would
not be costly enough for ornaments, and
the supply on hand would be sufficient
for an indefinite period for use in the
artS.-SenatOr Stewards Speech in the
Senate.
The old debauched political parties
continue their efforts to fix the public
attention on the tariff dog fight so as to
avoid the currency question, which is
the essential cause of hard times and the
true reason why political revolution
swept over the country on November 4,
1890. The Democratic demagogues
make, or seek to create, a prejudice
against the Republican tariff because
the prices have advanced on merchan-
disc. The Republicans deny that there
| has been any advance of necessaries of
life except in farm products and such
| advance is due to the Mckinley bill.
| There has in fact been an advance of
prices all along the line of farm prod
ucts and merchandise on account of
| the increased coinage of silver without
| regard to the tariff Herein lies the
tariff sham. With an increase of mon
| ey put in circulation there will follow
| an increase of prices. Decrease of money
makes hard times as increase makes
better times.-Three Rivers mich. }
! News-Reporter.