Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-22
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

Inc present Is one OF those times in
human history when great, even though
peaceable. revolutions are born. 1t
will be the birth of just laws and the
demand for execution.
There are now forty-four national
organizers at work in various parts Of
the union, besides a considerable num-
Der of deputy organizers. The work is
moving gradually forward all along the
line.
The New England states are knock
ing at the alliance door for admission.
The farmers there are becoming deeply
interested in the immense reform move
ment, and are making numerous appli-
cations for alliance literature and work.
ing instructions.
The Citizens Alliance takes in
everybody who is not eligible to mem
bership in the Farmers Alliance, SO
there is no excuse for merchants, doc,
tors, men of leisure or any one who
feels an interest in reform in politics or
better government to refrain from join
ing an organization for that purpose.
Those who year ago said that
farmers could never organize to do any,
thing are beginning to see a great
light. Even the dull-headed farmer who
said we could not do anything is now
knocking at the door for admittance.
Those who still set back in the harness
will soon be moving in the right direc-
ton by the force of their breeching,-
Farm View.
BY letter and otherwise the alliance
men of the great west and sunny south
are reaching forward to grasp each
other by the hand, and make the pros.
perity of each the great common cause.
Oh, let this spirit grow and spread over
the whole land! Let no mans petty
selfshness interiect itself to make a
spot in the peaceful banner of his great
brotherhood. Exchange
Mr.. Palmer having been elected to
the United States senate from Illinois,
after pledging himself squarely for free
coinage, the democratic steerers of Illi-
nois lost no time in proclaiming that
they were Cleveland, anti-Silver and all.
Messrs. Moore and Cockrell, when they
come to reckon it all up, will find they
haven't even got thirty pieces of silver.
journal of Knights of Labor.
-''Governments derive their just
powers f:om the consent of the gov
erned" is the great principle upon
which all free men claim free govern
ments to rest. Well and good Sup
pose one should decline continuing to
consent to be governed by politicians
and Oficeholders-what then? Will
they give him or her a chance to be let
alone, provided he or she will let them
alone. If not, the above assertion has
not the faintest shadow of truth-Citi-
zens' Alliance.
Wait until the outraged people of
this country can reach the men who by
trickery and legislative chicanery
robbed them of free silver, and the re-
suit will indicate whether the people
wanted free coinage or not. Free coin
age is demanded, and free coinage the
people will have, if they are compelled
to walk over the political graves of
both the old parties. Wall street and
New England have dictated the policy
of the last congress they ever will.
Their power is broken and their scepter
has departed. National Economist.
The old party politicians are dis
consolate and discouraged. When they
returned home from congress they
found their political fences all down,
their cunningly-devised schemes all
burst up and the Old Nick to paw all
along the line. just how to mend mat
ters has become a question of great in
terest Some have given up in despair.
Others have become defiant and called
upon the powers of Wall street for
help, while some have put on their
patched pants, sprinkled hayseed in
their hair, and are waiting to be taken
in out of the cold.
SO much gold is being sent abroad
that the government has refused to fur
nish bars for deposit and the coin is
sent instead. What has occurred to
cause this export? Is it the fear of the
free coinage of silver? That would do
to suggest as cause before congress
adjourned and during the discussion of
that measure, but it is no good now.
The fact is this excuse was always false.
This gold goes to pay interest and
dividends on alien investments and
nothing else. There is no other ex-
PLANTATION of the matter. About $780,
600, 900 will be sent abroad this year in
the shape of gold, wheat, pork and
other commodities to pay for foreign
demands. Citizens Alliance
The government issues money to
national banks. 1t is issued to them
not for the banks to do as they please
with it-they cam deal in real estate,
in live stock, in merchandise; they can
not engage in manufacturing, railroad
ing or any enterprise. The money is
issued to them to loan--to loan to the
people The banks are virtually loan
agents and the government is practical
ly loaning money to the people. The
loans are at per cent, plus commits
sions of the agents (the banlxs). The
commission is too high, being from to
IL per cent. per 'annun-equal to % to
50 per t. On a five-year loaa. Now the
proposition is 70 dispense with these
costly loan agents. Missouri World.