Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-04
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
IUws CT THE MOVEMENT.


latgre have passed a joint resolution
mcmorializing Congress to enact laws
providing for the Government loaning
the people money upon land security
Exchange.
Wonld not graduated tax on land,
increasing progressively with the ex-
tent Of the holding, with exemption of
homcsteads, effcctually prevent land
monopoly? If so, the remedy is simple.
Pacific Union.
Three thousand Alliance men in one
county in New York. The old parties
for q quarter Of century have sold out
their constituents to appease the gold
bugs so as to carry New York. We
wouldn't wonder if somebody else be-
sides Mr. Goldbug will have to be ap-
peased in order to carry that State in
1892. Missouri World.
The difference between the labor
movement as we know it and similar
agitations of the past is simply this: N
old times the workingman simply knew
that he was poor while others were rich.
Now he knows that he is poor because
others are rich. Then he thought that
social inequalities were due to chance
or the mysterious ways of Providence.
Now ne knows that they are caused by
robbery and njustice.-Labor Ad-
vocate.
We must have a graded income tax.
The wealth Of tie country is rapidly
crvstaliziug into q few hands, and the
evil viii increase in greater ratio if it is
let to itself The graded income tax
method will put stop to inordinate
gains. and turn vast sums into the chan
nelS of trade that now rest idle in the
Golfers of the millionaires. The Farm
ers' Alliance of Illinois has come out
squarely for this reform Indiana
Farmer.
How long is this tolast? Just so long
as the people submit We Americans
submit too readily to injustice Everv
poor man in this land ought to Join the
new party movement Yet many will
not. As long as they can manage to
keep soul and BODY together they will
go on in SuEscrvieucv to the old parties,
voting money into the pockets of jay
Gould & Co.. voting taxes ont of the
pockets of themselves. ''The fault,
dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in
ourselves, that we are underlings. -
Living Issues.
The st. Louis Journal of Agriculture
states in substance that the Democratic
party has indorscd the Alliance plat
form. 1t IS true the last State Demo-
cratic platform in this State read quite
similar TO The declaration of principles
adopted by the T. and T. L. at Sedalia.
But thcn the first thing the Democratic
Legislature did was to re-eiect Vest to
the United States senate, who is dead
set AGAINST Government leans. The
Democratic party seem to be unit on
Cleveland for President, who is known
to be opposed to the mildestof Alliance
demands.-Mis~ouri World.
If the Nicaragua canal will be of
benefit to ;itiS coontry. let the Govern
ment build and own it, not give away
its credit to enrich few scheming in
dividuals. Suppose the canal costs one
hundred millions. Let the Government
Issue that amount of Treasury notes,
costing nothing, give the War Depart
mcnt some uSeful work. and the thing
is done. The Government could build
a dozen such canals On the same terms
and not phase it's credit VIII our
statesmen" in Congress prove equal to
the occasion. or will they merit the ap-
pellation of knaves and fools?-Pacifc
Union.
a correspondent asks: What has the
Twentieth Century to say about the
farmers?" 1t has to say that the farm
ers' demand 10 have money lent to them
by the Government at two per cent. in
terest. secured by half the value of
their land, Is the most important plank
in their platform: and that if it is proper
fer the Government TO lend money on
Government bonds at low rate of in
terest it is just as proper to lend it on
land; and that the people will probably
see the point: and that if the leaders of
the farmers are incorrrptible they Will
probably get control of the Govern
Tcnt; and that if they get control Of
the Government it will be of great
financial benefit TO the farmers and
some financial benefit to everybody
else, except money-lenders.- Twentieth
Century.
Some of our pro-nonOpoly contempo-
raries are announcing that the Knights
of Labor and the other organizations In
the confederation OF Industrial organ
iZatiOns are committed to the sub-treas-
ury bill which was introduced in Con-
gress last year. 1t may not be amiss to
remind our friends, the enemy, that the
sub-treasury plan and the sub-treasury
bill are not one and the same thing
| There are not Il fcw members of the
Farmers Alliance who do not favor the
sub-treas'Ty bill, but we have yet to
hear of the first Alliance man who does
not believe in what is known as the
sub-treaSury plan. The sub-treasury
plan favors the loaning of money by
the Government to the people, upon
equally good If not better security, on
as favorable terms as it is now loaned
to the banks If there is any thing
wrong in this our pro-monopoly friends
would oblige by pointing out wherein
the wrong lies. journal of Knights of
Labor.