Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-10-21
MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS, WE
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
Money is the creation of law.


Money is the creation of law.
The privileged classes must go.s
-Shylock demands tribute, the toiler
asks compensation
-Republicanism leads the people to
poverty, poverty to crime. crime to per-
dition.
Politicians don't like an increase of
the volume of currency. Neither does
Wall street
II the peoples party are calamity
howlers. the republican party are ca
lanity creators
The prosperity yawpers are trem-
bling at the ever-onward march of the
calamity howlers.
If it had not been for silver money
the contraction in two years must have
been $47, 740, 1877 instead of the claimed
expansion of $3.50, 21s, 159, or a differ
ence of SIT, 95S, 296.
We give the republicans to under
stand that we will howl, howl, howl,
till the last privileged thief is driven
into his den or hung up by the neck
Pittsburgh Kansan.
Our debts stand for our investments,
and not for our losses. They represent
our enterprise and not our misfortune,
our prosperity and not our poverty
Kansas Republican League.
The law of supply and demand, as
relates to all products of labor, is not
the sole regulator of price. There is
another consideration. The supply and
demand of money. Weekly Toiler.
The alliance is raising a multitude
OF leaders as safeguards for the peo-
pies rights in the future. 1t is sur
prising to see how intelligent some of
these hay-seeders are.-Alliance Echo
The contest Is between the men
who are weighed down with the 9,OOO,-
000 mortgages and the 81, 900 men who
own more than one-half the property
in the United States.-National Re-
former.
Roger @ Mills has heard from the
late New York democratic convention
which met in Saratoga, but was ma
nipulated by Wall street. and has gone
back on free coinage of silver, and now
declares it will afford no relief-tariff
is the only issue. Missouri World.
The busy season is over and the
nights are growing longer. Now is the
time to rally your forces. Let every
allianceman be at his post and be there
for purpose, make things lively, set
the world afire with your enthusiasm
and the case is sure to win.-Alliance
Echo.
Gold is not recognized by any value
save that made by law, which Is it's
stamped value, that regulates it. Silver
was made a commodity in 1878, hence
it fuotuates in price just as any other
commodity will do. Had it a fixed
value by the fat of the government it
would be as stable in price as It was
before 1878 when its value was SO reg
ulated. Toiler.
The manager Of q loan and trust
company, largely interested in
Nebraska, Kansas, Dakota and Mis-
souri, property, says: 1--WE have to-day
a vast amount of interest secured by
chattel mortgages, that we had
charged to profit and loss that
will be paid in from go to 90 DAYS.
We have sold more land In tho past
two years than ever before. "-Query-
How did they get this land?
"A grand alliance barbecue Il an
nounced at Pittsfeld, Ill, October 14th
and 18th. Senator PETER, Hon L F.
Livingston and Mrs. Lease will posi-
lively be present and President l. L.
Polk and others are expected. Prepara-
ton is being made to feed Is, 900 people
The committee calls for So, 900 to defray
the expenses of feeding the multitude
The alliancemen Of Illinois are de-
ternined not to be outdone by their
southern and western brethren.
-Alliancemen. keep cool Be calm
Keep your nerve. But stand to your
guns like men. Be as firm to your
principles as the rock of Gibraltar
This campaign of lying, vituperation
and base slander, is only carrying out
the plot that was deliberately planned
months ago in New York city, notice
OF which was given through the Pro
gressive Farmer at the time. Let the
other fellows do the lying. Let us
Nand by truth and principle.
Raleigh, IN. c. Progressive Farmer.
Secretary Foster says he can use,
In case of necessity, the 800, 600, 900 in
gold held to redeem green backs
There is no doubt of it. That money
has been kept in the treasury for
twelve years for no other purpose than
to keep it out of the channel of trade.
The original resumption act contem-
plated the retirement of greenbacks
with gold but it was amended so as to
prohibit the retirement of greenbacks
and therefore there is and has been no
use to keep that 500, 900, 900 in the
treasury. Missouri World
Soon after the gold discoveries in
California move was made in Europe
to demonetize gold The German states
and Austria demonetized the yellow
metal in 1857. Failing to get England's
cooperation (England had gold stand
ard) the movement was changed to one
for the demonetization of silver. Had
the proposed gold demonstration in
Europe succeeded, we presume John
Sherman would have secured the de-
monetization of gold in the United
States, and would allege as reason
why gold should not be remonetized
that it had deprecated. Missouri
World
\ Gold Basis.
Secretary Foster recently made a