Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-02-11
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
NEWS OF TIE MOVEMENT.


Money lcapitaD is said to be stored
mp labor; yet it is all owned by men
who never did days labor in their
lives.
The difficulty of getting steady work
at profitable employment is increasing
day by day Something must be done.
Exchange.
Ignorance may be enslaved, but one
might as well undertake to bind a
whirl-wind as to enslave a thinking,
reading, intelligent people.
Newspaper sentiment and the tone of
correspondence indicate that the Citi-
zens Alliance organized at a most pro-
pitious time, and that it viii grow at an
uncXampled Economist.
The National Citizens Alliance, which
is the organ Of the order of the same
name, has made its appearance, being
published in Washington City. 1t is
edited by Ralph Beaumont, National
secretary, and is full of vim.-Econo-
mist.
According to the Toledo Blade, not a
Millionaire but a six billionaire has
come. Ills name is Jay Gould. "If,"
says the Blade, Gould owns what he
claims, he IS interested in railroads
alone to the amount OF six billion dol
lars
The wolf win not enter Mr. Russell
Sagc's door yet awhile. Last week a
decision was rendered in the United
States Circuit Court at st. Paul, which
gives him Il clear title to 5000, 900 acres
of land in Minnesota valued at SO, OOO,-
600. N. Y. Standard
Some of Missouri's delegates forgot
their obligations and misrepresented
the State order. The growing intelli-
9ence and zeal of the membership will
not brook such bigoted partisanism
much longer-there will be a general
reckoning at the next state meeting.-
Butler (Mo.) Union.
The Grcenbacll aud Union Labor par
ties, the Alliance. Knights of Labor and
all other indu trial organizations, have
been as john the Ba aptist, crying out in
the wilderness against the evils of the
country and preparing the way for the
great party of the pc ople now being or
ganized.-Exchange.
The number of suicides in the United
States in 1o90 was 2,440. In 1889 it was
1924, white in 1858 it was but 1,4s7.
The rate of increase in 1890 over 1889
was, therefore. nearly 10 per cent. The
increase of population during the same
period was. at the outside, but four
per cent, so that the suicides increased
five times rs fast as population.
The plea put forth by the National
banks that their business is unprofit-
able, and therefore they must reduce
their circulation, il. sheer nonsense.
Every one Of them knows right well
that they are selling their bonds in or
der to realize the enormous premium
there is ON them They already have
another bonl scheme on hand to take
the place Of those that are sold.-Ex-
change.
The death OF the American harvester
combine IS announced, but no one has
yet been found whD was a pail bearer,
or who was even present at the funeral.
These thirtv-tive nillion dollar COM
bines are not so easily killed Such an
emphatic protest, however, went up
from all over the country that the Big
Eighteen found it necessary to have
funeral notices printed and obituaries
published in the papers. But let no
one be too certain that there has really
been a funeral. Farmer
The Farmers Alliance is a protest
against present conditions; a protest
against the unequal distribution of the
profits arising from labor in production;
u protest against those economic meth
DDS which give to labor a bare living
| and make capital the beneficiary of all
life's pleasures and comforts 1t is q
protest against continual toll on the
| one hand, and continual ease and COM
fort on the other. 1t is a protest against
forced economy. debt and privation to
the producer and peace, plenty, happi-
ness and prosperity 20 the non-producer.
Alliance Tribune.
What the people want and what they
will have. is that the Government take
! charge of our whole financial policy.
/ Have in every state and county a sys-
| tenn of fiscal agencies, wherein the peo-
| pie can deposit their surplus money,
n1d from which they can borrow on
real estate security or warehouse re-
ceipts for -pcrjshable farm products
! That the Government issue greenbacks
| to the amount Of $50 per capita of pop
ulation, and more If necessary to do the
| business on a cash basis, these fiscal
! agencies to pay pensions or any other
| Government debt.--Concordia (Kan. J