Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-09-16
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

labor.
Press the fight. A vote for the plu-
tocrats is a vote against Bette and tho
babies.
Nothing proposed by the alliance
has SO aroused and ratified the money
power as the sub-treasury scheme. This
strikes it in the vitals -Pittsbu Kan
san.
The peace, comfort, happiness and
prosperity of people does not depend
upon their aggregate wealth, but upon
the more nearly equal distribution of
it.-Nonconformist.
Don't let up in your efforts, boyA
Remember that in the last days of the
the plutocrats will shovel out
Doodle by the bushel to perpetuate their
robberies.-Alliauce Tribune.
The democratic and republican
parties in Kansas and Texas will join
hands to down the peoples party move
ment. England and Wall street direct
the dcstinies of both old parties Den
yer Col Road.
One of the most insulting sugges-
tions made against the agriculturist by
the leaders OF the old parties, is that
the bountiful crops will secure his re-
turn to old political associations and
his obedience to old machine methods.
Advance.
The 'calamityite" so often men,
toned by plutocratic journals, is man
who is opposed to the present legalized
system of robbery, and especially one
who opposes the idea that the relief
needed can be obtained through either
of the old parties Alliance.
Now just watch them. From one
end of the country to the other tho
monopoly papers say that good crops
are going to kill the reform movement
But if it don't and bad times prevail on
account of low prices, they will lay It
to "overproduction." - National Ad-
vance.
Mark the words of Congressman
Oates, of Alabama: 1.-THE fight on the
alliance leaders has just begun" These
scab politicians make no war upon our
principles. They hope by an un-
principled war upon our leaders to de-
stroy their power for good.
Toiler.
If some of our two-foot rules were
made of brass and some of iron, and
heat would expand one kind and con-
tract the other, there would be as much
manifested in attempting to
keep them equal as in attempting to
keep our gold and silver dollars equal.
In Kansas the democrats and re-
publicans are fusing against the peo-
ple's party. Speed the day. There is
no more effective way to kill the mo-
nopoly octopus and open the eyes Of the
people to the fact that there is no diff
ference in principle between the old
reminiscences.-National Advocate.
Whoever controls the volume of
money of any country is absolute mas
ter of all industry and commerce." was
said by Thomas H. Benton. If he were
in Alabama to-day and insisted upon
that 'vagary" the Montgomery Adver-
tiser and Mobile Register would try to
read him out of the democratic party.-
Alliance Herald.
1t would be we'll for all leaders"
TO take lesson just now. When you
try to divert the order from its princi-
pies you may expect to be sat upon. 1t
matters not who you are. where you
are from, nor what you have done,
when you join issue with the masses
don't expect them to surrender. Week
ly Toiler.
Politics, to a politician, means the
instrumentality by which an Office is
procured. To the great mass of the
people it means way by which rights
are protected, liberties preserved and
interests advanced. To a partisan it
means the blind following of the lead
ership of men whose chief concern is
their own welfare and self-aggrandise-
ment
If the political parties are in favor
of granting the demands of the farm
ers, as both of them claim to be, is it
not little strange that they are now
threatening to unite in order to defeat
the farmers? The fact is, their most
serious dread is loss of the Offices Be-
yond that they care very little for
party or party name, or the people
Progressive Farmer.
We are informed that unusual har-
mony prevailed in the demo-republican
in the Eighth judicial dis
trict and Judge Humphrey was nomi-
mated by acclamation. Why should
there not be harmony? When the sham
fight between the two old cats ceases
and they come together in a loving en-
brace, there is of course nothing to dis
turb their blissful harmony. y.-Advocate.
Gen. Rice, late of Fort Scott, now
has 'vindicatd" Kansas in a long, open
letter. Rice is an old fraud, and foisted
himself on the peoples party last fall
as a candidate for the legislature, but
was ingloriously defeated in district
strongly peoples His "vindication" is
in line with Joe Hudson's and is in the
interest of the money sharks.-Pitts-
burgh Kansan.
The democratic and republican fu-
sion in most of the judicial districts of
the state is evidently preparation to
set aside all laws the peoples legis-
lature may enact Our voters under
stand the game and will see to the
election of honest judges to interpret
the laws, trusting that all who desire
the good of mankind will stand shout
der to shoulder while the columns
sweep on to victory. R Detwiler. in
Alliance Tribune.
1t is wrong to make metals the
basis of our currency, because there is
always limit to governments sup
ply of metal, and when calamities be-
fall nation and its supply is likely to
be shut of, or when it is naturally
weak there is an inducement to hoard
for the scarce season. This is why gold
and silver always hides during wars
and greenbacks are forced to the front
TO sustain faltering credit If the
greenbacks will do this when a govern
ment's credit is weak, why not risk
them when the credit is good?-Weekly
Toiler.
OnOuI0 Be SJuoled.
Farmers should study the land loan
doctrine of the peoples party-study it
and determine it for themselves If Il.
probable operation will not be tn hat.