Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-01
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

They will find it the liveliest corpse
they ever monkeyed with.
The so-called democracy that de.
serts the poor and runs under the wing
of plutocrats, is the kind the people are
after with steel pointed prod-Ex-
change.
The n. Y. World very frankly and
emphatically says that the work of the
Cincinnati conference may well "alarm
republicans, and make the democrats
decidedly uneasy"
The appearance of over-production
is really due to the inability of the peo-
pie to buy, and their inability to buy is
the result of excessive scarcity Of
money, produced by corporate greed
and contraction of the circulating
medium of the country through the
medium of so-called law-Southern
Mercury.
1t is held by some political. econo-
mists that all currency must be issued
upon some value as basis Those
who are fortunate enough to possess
the value selected as a basis will not
only enjoy the benefits that accrue
from the increase, but they will derive
an additional benefit 10y reason of the
use of their product in this way as
basis.
Our government does not consult
the people as to what their interests
are 1t consults national bankers and
other capitalists who instead of study
ing how to make money plenty and
usury cheap so control the circulation
as to produce the opposite effect Is
ours government of the people, by
the people and for the -Kokomo
Qnd. Industrial Union.
We are sneeringly told by our enc
mics that you can't legislate men rich,
when we speak of the poverty In the
land. Well the millionaire list gives
the lie to that, for money has been leg
islated into their pockets by the mil
hons. That is just what the govern
ment has been doing for the past thirty
years 1t has been legislating one class
rich and the other class poor.-Alliance
Vindicator.
In the Wisconsin Farmers Alliance
convention the committee on consolida-
tion reported in favor of the Wisconsin
branch becoming a member of the Ma
tlonal Alliance and suggested that the
proposition be submitted to the local
branches for action. The Cincinnati
platform was indorsed and resolution
adopted looking to the amalgamation
with the Knights of Labor to establish
a third party in the state.
The ridicule with which the old
party press is so lavish has, in every
instance, directly the opposite effect
from that which Is intended Human
nature invariably revolts against it, as
it does against every manner of insult;
and the people are satisfied that the
parties do not resort to it because, in
their judgment it is the best policy to
pursue, but because they have nothing
better to offer.-Advocate.
The republicans in the north are
very much troubled because the alli-
ance is going into politics. They beg
them to stay in the republican party,
thus admitting that it is only certain
kind of politics they object to. The
democrats in the south moan over the
alliance being in politics and they ask
why don't you stay inside the demo
cratic party, thus showing it is only a
certain kind of politics they object to-
Alliance Vindicator.
The ''ringsters'' and 'hosses' fear
the coming political storm. They have
failed to stay the movement by attacks
upon it, and now they hope to weaken
it by resorting to the cowardly and
knavish practice of attacking a man
and men with whom they are not ac-
quainted; with whom they have never
spoken; with whom they have no affili-
alton, and who, so far as their knowl-
edge goes, they are deliberately and
Indignantly trying to slander and mis-
represent. nt.-Progressive Farmer.
Don't forget to attend your alliance
meeting. Bear in mind that delegates
are being chosen to the county conven-
tions, which will elect delegates to the
state convention. These delegates
will shape the policy of the alliance for
1892, as it will be too late for the meet
ing in 1892 to make any change of pol
icy. Watch that partisans do not get
in as delegates. See that only those
who have been outspoken against the
Hall policy are chosen. 1t will be busy
times with the farmers for the next few
weeks, but as you prize the alliance
demands, attend your meeting.-Mis-
souri, World.
Talk about the alliance and demo-
cratic platforms being one and the same
thing. They favor about as much as
Johnnie and his grandmother and are
about as we'll suited fog companions.
The fact is they antagonize each other
at every point There is nothing in
our platform that the democrats would
touch with a ten-foot pole but the tariff
question, and we are divided on that
Do they or are they likely ever to in
dorse our views on land transportation
and finance? When the stars cease to
shine and the great king of day with
holds his mellow golden light from this
beautiful earth of ours we may conf
IDENTIFY hope Ia see "a union of the alli-
ance and democratic parties ON the
great principles of political and econo-
mic reform, but not until then.-Inter-