Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-08-19
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

about So, 774. S6s less than last year.
1t is claimed that Russia will have
"a. OOO, 600 bushels of surplus wheat for
export this season. This is only two
thirds of her annual export for the past
four years.
The late state convention of Mis-
sissippi was composed largely of law
yers, almost wholly of professional
men, and not Il farmer on its important
committees.-Nat Economist.
And now silver is going to England
under orders for purchase. This does
not correspond with Mr.. Sherman's
prophecy that America would be the
dumping ground of the silver of Eu-
rope. There is evidently miscalcular
ton somewhere
The brethren in Mississippi are con-
tinuing the fight all along the line No
one need have the least uneasiness
about the unity or growth of the aili-
ance in that state. The mendacity of
the opposition only serves to strengthen
and encourage. ge.-National Economist.
1t is entirely legitimate for the
farmers to unite in holding wheat, and
other crops to get the highest market
prices obtainable. 1t is a question be-
tween the producer and the speculator,
and the producer has the right to all
the consumer pays, less the necessary
cost of handling and transportation.
Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.
The Capitals special from Morris
county, speaking of the judicial cleo
ton, says: 1.-The entire republican vote
of the county will undoubtedly be cast
for an independent candidate, as well
as that part of the democratic strength
that is not in the alliance" 1t is very
evident that southern rebels are getting
In their work among republicans out in
Morris county in the interest of the
democracy (Kan- Advocate.
Says the Journal of Agriculture:
'All farmers cannot hold their wheat,
but if those who are able, hold their
wheat, those who have to sell will have
the benefit of the increase in price"
Just so. And the Journal might have
added that if the sub-treasury plan
were in operation those who were not
compelled to avail themselves of its
provisions would be equally benefited
with those who did so avail themselves.
Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, says ''the
alliance and democratic party will pull
together" Northern republican papers
howl that the alliance is a southern
democratic annex. Liston to these en-
dearing pet names applied to southern
alliancemen by the Montgomery Adver-
tiser, the democratic state organ of
Alabama: 'Bastards," ''mutineers,"
''pirates," ''conspirators' and trait
ors." The Mobile Register says 'amen"
to the above. Rather an inharmonious
annex" The pulling together" seems
to be over very rocky road.-Weekly
Union.
Republican editors should get to-
gether and come to an understanding.
While the Capital is telling its readers
of the solidity of the democratic party
of the south and the futility of the hope
of northern alliancemen that the peo-
pies party will gain any strength
south of Mason and Dixon's line, the
Clay Center Dispatch correctly sizes up
the situation and shows that there is
the same danger of the overthrow of
democracy in the south as Of republic
anism in the north. This will never do.
Get together, gentlemen, and arrang to
all tell the same story.-Advocate.
| huo ItII OJ COuuIlcS have U6lu Ul6lr
July meetings, and without exception
every one has denounced officially, in
severest terms, the Fort Worth scab-
e-anti-sub-treasury gang The
scabs palmed off huge fake on the
press outside of the state, by the use of
the telegraph and mails. Thirty-seven,
all told, was the sum total of their
corpuseS. They dragooned Texas far
and wide and failed to produce a cor
poral's guard. The subsidized press
blowed and puffed the meeting for all
it was possible, but no one is deceived.
Dallas TEX Southern Mercury
While some of us can hardly re-
strain a smile as we watch the reform
remnants in the old parties waiting ex-
pectantly for the republican Ethiopian
to change his skin and the democratic
leopard his spots, we cannot help re-
specting even mistaken loyalty to past
traditions. There must, however, be a
limit and an end to such waiting. The
time Is at hand when all true men must
shake the dust of the old parties from
their feet and take their places in the
ranks with those whose chosen task it
is TO free American industry from its
oppressors. No party attachments or
preferences must be allowed to stand in
the way of this. Journal of Knights of
Labor.
President Polk, of the Farmers AL
lance, who has just returned from his
southern tour, said he had been quoted
incorrectly as saying that the great issue
was the tariff and free coinage and that
with these issues the alliance would all
rally around the sub-treasury bill
Now" said he, ''the issue is not the
tariff, the free coinage of silver or the
sub-treasury bill. The issue is the re-
form of our entire financial system.
Neither the issuance of more money
nor the col1ectiQa of less taxes will
alone do the people any good. The EN-
tire financial system of the government
must be changed before anything else
that may be done can correct the exist
ing evils. Exchange.
1t is time the leaders of the people
stopped fooling away their precious
time discussing gold basis, free and uli-
limited coinage of silver, and other
nonessentials, and get down TO bust
ness Shall the people loan their credit
to themselves through government
banks, or shall they allow the present
bankers to loan the peoples credit for
their private benefit? In short, shall
the people do the money loaning bust.
ness of the nation for the benefit of the
whole peaple, or shall they allow the
present bankers 40 DO The business fol-
their own selfish endsg This people are
ready for government bank in every
post Office. Where are the leaders OF
the people?-John Stebbins, in Noncon.
formist
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