Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-02-25
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.

Maryland Is progressing and interest
is manifested in every part of the State.
Cecil County will soon add county Or
ganization.
Secretary Beaumont says that he has
sent charters OF the National Citizens
Alliance into thirteen States and new
territory opens up every day.
General Superintendent Humphrey
states that the colored Alliance is grow
ing in membership throughout the en-
tire jurisdiction, and that the order in
dorses all the demands, putting partic-
ular stress on the sub-treasury plan.
THE Alliance is growing rapidly on
the Pacific coast. That whole section
seems to be ready for the movement,
and is taking hold of it with earnest
ness and vigor. If the present rate is
continued California will be the banner
Alliance State in the near future. The
press of that section seems to catch the
idea, and the Alliance finds friends
wherever it goes.-Economist
Mrs. Anna L. Diggs, one of the noble
ladies who took an active part in the
late canvass, is going To Washington
this month to act in the capacity of COR
respondent for the Nonconformist and
the Advocate, as wei as to look after
the interests of her sex in the way of
legislation. Mrs. Diggs carries with
her the best wishes of thousands who
have learned to admire her talents as
displayed both as a writer and a speak
er.-Nonconformist.
If all mem bers of the Labor Reform
party, in their hearts, We're in favor of
an industrial system that denied any
ones right to appropriate the earnings
of another, the legal absorption OF
wealth would soon stop The trouble
is, that the average laboring man, the
bulk of whose earnings, to-day, are GO
ing to his employer, looks forward to
the time when he, too, can live off the
earnings of others. Too many people
are anxious to play parasite!-Noncon-
formist.
There are some people within the
ranks of organized labor who would
cruelty any one among them who hap
pens to have more brains or possesses
sufficient courage to make any sacrifice
necessary to advance the cause which
he believes to be a right and just one
But the worst of this is that there vii
be found men stupid enough to be lee
by these smiling villains and helI
destroy those whom they can least af
ford to lose. But such is the case
Northern Light.
1t would be interesting to know JUS
what would be the result if the "capi
tall invested in the United States post
office was represented by stock" wa
tered or otherwise, upon which the
people were compelled to pay dividends
If such a gigantic business can be car
ried on without the aid of any capital,
what is the use in having things so ar
ranged in regard to railroads, telegraph
and other public enterprises as to com
pei the payment to stock and bondhold
ers of hundreds of millions annually
The man who first invented bonds dis
covered the means whereby many MAJ
has been robbed, and was glad of it
Exchange.
Men may prove traitors, violating
their oaths and selling their honor for
mess of pottage, but the Alliance, anC
the Peoples party, and the reform
movement, viii go right on growing
and engthening, and the waves o
the coming dispensation will rise highe
and higher, until they overwhelm al
the enemies of human happiness. Th,
reform movement is relentless in it
onward trend. Individuals count fo
nothing only as they serve the righ
spies and traitors, and selfish place
| hunters will be cast aside in the clarity
| ing process. Ingalls,, and the human
scum that serves the purposes of sucl
men, will find their place amongst tn,
rubbish discarded by honest thought
! The cause of justice and humanity viii
triumph. Those who oppose it ar,
building their house on sand. d.-Noncon
! formist
Doyou imagine that the great battle
in the United States Senate owe
''closure" and the 'force bill" and il
the House over various measures ar,
being waged in the interest of the peo
pie? If you so think, put some fla
seed in your eyes to clear away tn,
scum so you can see: dig open your ear
SO you can hear; hammer your head ol
a rock until you can think a little
These warning statesmen are the bes
of friends. Their interests are identi
cal. Their apparent warfare is simpl,
a sideshow to aInuse the masses whom
both parties are fleeing. These polit
ical dead beats called statesmen are ap
parently divided only to keep those di
vided off from whom they live Thei
so-called policies" may be dressed
little differently, but is the same fellow
beneath the clothes, They know ii
but the average man has not learned
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