Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-24
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

The alliance in Maryland Is thor
oughly awake and proposes to take
hand in the coming campaign. 1t is
growing rapidly.
Remember that slightly over one
third of the voters can elect president
by joining together, while to control
the nominations in the old parties it
requires at least one-half of all the
voters
Hon. Clarke Lewis congressman
from Mississippi, has announced his
candidacy for the senatorship in place
of Senator Walthall. Brother Lewis is
good man and will make a strong
fight. He stands square on the Ocala
demands Exchange
One of the mortgage companies do
ing business in this valley, recently
sold IS, 900 acres of land to an English
syndicate, which will put down artesian
wells and irrigate. The land in ques-
ton was chiefly falling into the COM
pany's hands through foreclosures 1t
is to be hoped the experiments may be
successful. Is. d. Repub-
lican.
The Cincinnati Times-Star, with
tears in its eyes, remarks that the plat
form of the peoples party makes mo
direct reference to the tariff. " If the
Times-Star will scrape the moss off its
back it will learn that the tariff Is a
dead issue. The time is past when the
people can be longer humbugged with
the tariff fake.-Kokoma Qnd. Indus
trial Union.
The Capital is unable to discover
from the Cincinnati platform what is
to be the policy of the peoples party
upon the tariff question. The party is
not responsible for the Capitals lack of
understanding. That is a natural de-
feet The peoples party has under
taken some great reforms, but supply
ing brains to those to whom nature has
denied them is not included in the list
of its undertakings Advocate.
The industrial organizations of
Kentucky are in the field with full
state ticket. They have indorsed the
Cincinnati platform, perfected their
state organization, and elected their
state central committee. Those pres
ent at the Covington convention stated
that the party would have a candidate
for the legislature in each county; they
did not hesitate to declare that these
candidates would be elected.-Advo-
cate.
The most tremendous engine of
party power is back of the peoples
party in its wonderful organizations
1t enters the field with over five mil
lions of members in it's various
branches In Wisconsin it will be
i
January /. In Minnesota it has a gi-
gantic force back of it-aud commit
tee in whom we all have confidence
Let us move with power and dignity
Great West
The lies of the party press in re-
gard to the peoples party are already
climbing to mountain heights. Look
out for them, grangers. When you
see these statements made by our bit
ter foes believe them not. The move
ment is on. 1t is on to stay. You must
expect the most cunning and crafty
opposition. We have no daily papers,
and our several hundred reform papers
cannot meet the issues as promptly as
is desirable. But hold your own with
dignity, and with personal power-and
Great West.
No paper in America has made a
more determined fight for the demand
that all revenues, national, state or
county, shall be limited to the neces-
sary expense of the government, eco
nomically and honestly administered, "
than the National Economist. 1t start
ed the cry for more money and less
taxes and the burden of it's constant
song has been the reduction of expenses
by the general government. And the
Charleston World acuses the National
Economist of opposing these principles
because it refuses to participate in the
partisan fight on the tariff question:
Economist.
The Boston Morning Journal, COM
menting upon that part of the Cincin-
natl platform relating to the issue of
legal tender currency, says: ut thus
adopts the craziest features of the fear
full and wonderful financiering which
has wrecked the Argentine republic -
Nothing but ignorance or a disposition
to willfully misrepresent the facts could
induce a statement of this kind. There
is not single point of resem blance be-
tween the financial system of the Ar
gentine republic and that recommended
in the Cincinnati platform, and any body
with the sense of an oyster ought to
know it.-Advocate.
Economists have for 500 years been
trying to adjust the volume of money
! to the available amount of precious
metals. This is, and must always re-
main, as impossible as ''squaring the
| circle" because the metals always run
away and hide in time of trouble, war
or civil commotion. The real problem
| is to-day the same as it has always
been, and it is very simple one-to
adjust the volume of money to the vol
ume of commerce. All that is neces-
sary is to permit the commodity to fin
| ish its own fuX, be its own security,
! float itself into market. This is the es-
! sence of the sub-treasury plan
| The Dallas News, a representative
southern democratic paper, in a lengthy
| editorial on the prospects of the final
strike for justice, among other things
says: ut would be premature to spec
ulate as to the precise consequences OF
the apparition of this new party.
| Doubtless it has come to stay and il
has fate-like glance in relation to po-
litical events in 1892 The forces capi-
talized in the peoples party may meet
with defeat in its first campaign, but
they will not relax or dissolve. 1t is
the nature of such forces to accumulate
with resistance and to gain fresh I'M
petus for renewed onset after every
baffled effort 1t is important, then, in
view of the possibility, if not probable
| ity, of the ultimate success of this party,
to understand that the money question
is its main issue"
THE NEW PARTY.