Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-12-02
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

money; copper IS not money; nickel Is
not money; paper is not money, until
they are made such by law. Intrinsic
value has no more to do with money
than the weight OF a hog has to do with
the number of ounces in a pound of
pork. Kansan.
The one fact that the republican
and democratic parties get together
when the supremacy of the hitherto
dominant party is threatened by new
political force is proof positive that
their former bitter warfare has been
only sham, designed to blind the eyes
of the people.-Topeka (Kan.) Advo-
cate
The moment loans from the gov
ernment shall be granted upon the i'm
proved lands of the country, that mo-
ment the lands will be in demand.
Every ybody will find it desirable to
have property that is good security for
q government loan. The land-loan
scheme is the "sheet anchor of all our
hopes. Every intelligent farmer will
stand by it.-St Louis Monitor.
The days of majorities for the old
parties has very largely gone by. Boies
has a minority of the total vote of
Iowa If Post is elected in Nebraska,
he also has minority vote. If Jolly
Is elected to congress in South Dakota
he is several thousand in the minority.
The republican candidate for congress
in the Fifth Michigan district is not
less than 1000 in the minority. Nc
Kinle~ in Ohio lacks not less than so.
600 votes of having a majority. The
present governor of Kentucky is mi
nority candidate by 729 votes-Non-
conformist.
Senator Plumb says the peoples
party is dead! Look out, granger and
city toiler. These utterances of the
plutes are to discourage. They are
lies of the lowest stamp. The peoples
party lives-it will live until it has
tossed the carcass of the present finan-
cial system into nil It will live until
every dealer of money becomes no
longer debt-creator by its method of
existence, but a debt-lifter 1t will
live till ten million stomachs are no
longer belted with silk sash, woven
by the hands of toll to deck the rotund
bodies of money-dealers. 1t will live
until he who produces will be the
measurer of profits 1t will live until
the toilers' children can rise into the
higher in life. Listen not to the lies of
the aristocracy. They are the rifle
pits OF the old order of despotism. Let
humanity" and justice be the breast
work Of the new order.-Great West
He that tlaughs last laughs best" is
an old but true adage, and particularly
applicable to the result of the elections
in Kansas As the official returns come
in the fact is proven beyond doubt
that the peoples party has not only
held its own, but has actually made
gains all over the state. The vote as
accredited to the peoples party last
year was larger than the peoples party
vote this year. but the fact that the
peoples party vote last year was aug
mented by democratic votes is studious-
ly avoided in the comparisons made
this year by old party organs and poll
ticians This, of course, is done to
create the impression that there has
been an actual falling off of the peo-
ple's vote, when the real truth is that
the new party has made gains every-
where, and the best evidence of this
fact is that it required com bination of
both old parties to make showing as
one.-Topeka (Kan. Alliance Tribune.
There are several surprises in store
for tho country by the legislatures
elected Tuesday of last week, in which
the alliance members of the United
States senate will be increased. The
news does not crop out in the asso-
ciated press dispatches, but it is in
volved in the results and will develop
at the proper time. Those who sup
pose that alliancemen were mapping
during the progress of these campaigns
will be undeceived at the proper time.
The alliance mem bership in the recent
elections attended strictly to business.
While the leaders were busy whooping
up the hayseeders, they were also busy
fixing to capture the legislatures and
to secure the election of senators who
will be in accord with their demands
for relief and their purposes to be put
on an equality with all other vocations
and businesses, where there will be
equal rights to all and special favors
to none" That they have succeeded
beyond the roseate expectations of
their friends is a source of congratula-
tion and joy. 1t may be confidently
expected, as result of the elections
last week, that three, if not four,
United States senators will be secured
in accord with the farmers movement.
Slowly but surely the onward march
of right and justice is assured to those
whose labors are founded in faith and
urged in the fear and admonition of the
Lord. d.-Montgomery (Ala) Alliance
Herald