Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

The order in both North and South
Dakota seems to be on a boom. Reports
from that section dre very encouraging.
President Adams has organized a
lecture bureau for the state of Louisi-
ana. The brethren of that state are up
and doing, and the order is prospering
IN consequence.
Every alliance man is in favor of
the free coinage of silver, the sub-treas-
ury bill and the abolition of the nation
al bank system, and will not accept any
compromise that does not secure all this.
Brother D. +. Allen, state organizer,
writes that Allegheny county, N. Y,
has siXty-fve sub-alliances At that
rate New York will be heard from in
the near future. Economist.
National Secretary J. II. Turner
says that he is now having more calls
for the sub-treasury plans than ever be-
fore This does not prove that the alli-
ance has abandoned that measure.-Na-
tional Economist.
Anarchists and traitors is the
latest title applied by plutocratic editors
= to the poor conservative farmers who
refuse to any longer send the tools of
monopolies to legislatures and executive
offices. Exchange.
Indiana farmers are said to be pay
ing 100000 a year for interest on
mortgages, to say nothing of what they
are paying for money borrowed on per-
sonal security. This is equal to rent
al of over So 20 per acre to the state
Exchange.
a off ton Of n6r1c frswy
irresistibly promotes a general demoral-
ization of mankind, and is directly re-
sponsible for the increasing lack of
principle among men and for the spread
of compulsory dissipation among
women.-EX
The ideal to be attained would be
society whose system of production and
distribution will enable every human
being to enjoy life to its fullest extent
according to the comforts and luxuries
furnished by the respective standard of
civilization.-Jou of Knights of
Labor.
State Organizer ID. F. Allen writes
Secretary Turner that New York has
five county organizations and there
are six others counties with dates set
for organization. New York will add
another to the roster of organized states
some time in April. Econo-
mist.
Lewis G. Devore, of Georgetown,
O., writes that there is quite boom
in the alliance and that the old party
politicians are quaking in their boots.
In Ohio there are now over 300 subs, of
which Brown county has twenty-five
with several applications for charters
Economist.
The Second congressional district
union, held at Chillicothe, Mo, Febru-
arY 90, indorsed the amended demands
of the Farmers and Laborers' union,
as adopted at 0cala, Fla, and elected
as a delegate to the state union H. A.
Newman, of Randolph county, and de-
clared for the Missouri World as their
choice for official organ.
-''Knowledge is power" Yes, and
so is steam. But there is no more
power in knowledge unapplied by
means of organization and concentra-
ton in the required direction than in
steam escaping from kettle. The
steam engine complete in all its parts
and in operation is to steam what or
ganization and systematized effort are
to knowledge. Labor Advocate.
They are not infallible prophets
who gravely assume to foretell that to
carry out the principles of the labor
movement would cause disaster and up
heavals. What organized labor proposes
is eminently practicable and will be dis
agreeable in its consequences only to
those who do not desire to work them
selves, but live upon the product of the
labor ofnothers.-Journal of Knights of
Labor.
We are almost overwhelmed with
resolutions commendatory of Brother
Taubeneck. If we were to print them
all we would have to issue a double pa
per. The tenor of them all is ''well
done, thou good and faithful servant"
And, strange to say, as many of them
come from those who have been former
ly democrats as those who have been
formerly republicans. = Progressive
Farmer.
A correspondent writes that owing
to the active energy of the knights of
labor in Nebraska the Australian bal
lot is now a law The -Pinkerton
| bill has passed both houses of the legis-
lature and will receive the governors
signature in a few days. The eight
hour and maximum freight-rate bills
have passed the house. Some very per-
nicious legislation has been defeated
The order Is booming in this state, and
! the independent movement has come to
| stay.-Journal of knights of Labor
You may clotho the hog in broad
| cloth, but he is a hog still. You may
put a silk hat ON his head and gold
chain about his neck, but he is nothing
| but hog, and the bristles protrude
| through his jewelry. And Mrs. Hog!
Clothe her in satin, hang her ears with
diamonds. cover her mammary glands
with Valencian lace, and yet she is
nothing but hog; and when she speaks
you Gan hear between the syllables the
gutteral grunts that remind you of gorg-
ing and guzzling in the royal swill tubs.
-Ignatius Donnelly.
The stock argument of the anti-sn-
yer men is: IF the United States adopts
free and unlimited coinage of silver, all
| the silver in the world will be dumped
here, Let us look. at this moment
! Suppose an English or German owner
of silver desired to dump his pile, would
he do it free, gratis and for nethlng, or
would he trade it for cotton, wheat,
corn or something else that the Amer
ican people wanted to sell7 If the latter,
would any person be obliged to trade
with him unless they thought they
would be. advantaged thereby? If the
fea. is that these dangerous foreigners
Yill force their silver on US for nothing
| we don't mind shouldering other peo-
pies dread of this calamity, besides