Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-12-23
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES


alliance has increased nearly $4,000 In
the past year.
The government ownership OF
railroads would wipe out Wall street
a consumm alton devoutly to be wished.
The southern, western and north
western people must unite If our pres
ent liberties are to be perpetuated.-
Southern Mercury.
Every county alliance in North
Carolina has adopted the Ocala plat
form without nay. That's the way
they split on the sub-treasury."
Gold and silver, forever fuctuating
in their own value, can never be made
an accurate measure Of the value Of
other commodities.-Adam Smith.
The supreme council of the f. A.
and l. u. reflected the sentiments of
the progressive elements of the alli-
ances throughout the United States -
Pittsburgh Kansan.
Treasury notes secured by the
pledges of the faith and credit of the
government with or without interest,
will make better currency than gold or
silver. Victor Bonnet
There are 81, 900 millionaires and
1000, 900 tramps in this country. When
there were no millionaires there were
no tramps. These two are inseparable.
journal of Knights of Labor.
To divide and quarrel among our
selves over details and personalities, is
exactly what the gold bugs want us to
do. stand fast, therefore, and be not
entangled again in the yoke Of bond
age"
The money power has at last found
a foeman worthy of its steel The al
lance bids defiance to all the powers
of subsidized monopoly and the yeo-
many of America are standing by its
side.-Pittsburgh Kansan.
Our reports so far, from different
parts Of the country, show that the
bulk of the surplus wheat is already
out of the producers hands. 1t will
not be long after the middlemen get
possession of 1t till the prices will 20
up-Journnl of Agriculture.
The alliance in Virginia now has
about l, 400 subs and 90 county organic
atoms, having a total membership of
33, 400, an increase of II, EOS over last
year. Every county in the state is
in a sound healthy and growing condi-
tion.-Wytheville (Va-) Alliance News
Confidence in the stability of our
financial institutions and universal
prosperity continues Dun's last re-
port showed up ten more failures than
the week previous and about fifty more
than the same week last year, with
no unusual stringency in any particular
locality" Oh, Lord!-Nonconformist.
To prove the value of paper money
we offer the following statements The
Bank of England suspended specie pay
ment from 1897 to 1921. For this period
of twenty-four years paper money paid
all debts, public and private, and car
ried England through her wars with
France and America. louisville (Ky.)
Farmers Home Journal.
The scab alliancemen, of Texas
met at Corsicana and elected B. j.
Kendrick, of Waco, president and J. 8.
Gilbert of Cadda, vice-president.
They expect to make it national and
absorb all the acknowledgements from
the national alliance. This Is a. it
should be, and there is where they be-
long.-Alliance Watchman.
The intrinsic value idea of money
was the idea in the days of crude bar
barism. The simplest and most perfect
form of money is that which represents
nothing but transferable debt, such as
paper 1t Is only when states have
reached high degree of civilization
that they adopt this perfect form OF
money. -Rees' Encyclopaedia
In his Thanksgiving sermon al
Washington, d. c., Rev. DR.. r H Nc
Kimm made this astonishing state
ment: "In Illinois, carefully collected
statistics show that one-half of the IN
telligent worki1gmen are not even
able TO earn enough for their daily
bread, and have to depend upon the
labor of women aud children to exc
out their miserable existence"
We believe in doing a good TURF
when we can, and we are going to put
those fellows who believe In intrinsic
value of money into a right smart bust
ness Gather up 500 cents QntrinsiC
value half dollar) and swap them fol
Eve silver stump-tailed dollars Qntrin.
sic value So T5), swap these again fol
one full-fiedged yellow gold piece, and
you will make 81 so by the operation
If your theory Is correct II not, why
not? II You are real spry you might
get around twice and make 50 per day.
Why don't some of you try itP-Rice
(Kan.) Eagle.
The unanimous vote by which l.
l. Polk was again elected president Of
the national Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union shows how much In
fiuence the libellous assaults of the ole
party press exert upon the mem ber-
ship of the organization. Acting upon
the principle that the injury of one il
the concern of ALL" the more these
emissaries of plutocracy attempt to teal
him down the stronger will be the de
termination of the brotherhood to hold
him up. Falsehood and SANDER have
lost their force wherever the educa
tional influences of the order have ex
tended. Topeka Advocate.
Secretary Foster lately said to the
bankers association; ~ am of tn,
opinion that, owing to our rapid growth
in population and wealth and the ex
traordinary development in all kind
of business yearly, the increase in on
circulating medium somewhat proper
tionate to our growth in population i
absolutely demanded" This is pre-
cisely the position taken by the pee
Piles party, and precisely the statemen
which all republican papers and speak
ers of Kansas have persistently de
nouneed as anarchy, socialism, repudi
alton, fanaticism, etc, ad nauseum
Mr.. Foster eonyicts the entire reput
lican machinery of Kansas of unblusf
fng falsehood, and vtpdicates to tn
fullest degree the position Of the pee
pies party. But perhaps, Foster Is
liar and q calamity howler.-Lawrene
(Kan) JeffersOnian-
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Neatness an Girls.