Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-29
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

"A great and mighty overturning of
the political methods of this country is
an absolute certainty in the near future.
May the Supreme Ruler hasten the dayl
Exchange.
We cannot trust as leaders In the
great reform movement of labor those
who in many acts of their lives show
that they are themselves worshipers of
the golden calf.
Bill Nye, in speaking of the alliance
movement, says: at is backed by a
power and principle that, when it wins,
will make the professional politician
hunt cyclone cellar, and take an UNI
brel!a with him
The people of New England have
been greatly shocked. They have been
listening to some cold facts from men
who dared to declare them. Jerry
Simpson and Ralph Beaumont are made
OF the right kind of material to invade
this plutocratic section. Others will
soon acknowledgements.
How unreasonable these farmers
are, to be sure. In Iowa they are actu-
ally demanding that railway property
should be taxed just the same as farm
property When will these hayseeds''
understand that the talk about equal
ity contained in the declaration of indie
pendence is only meant for the orna-
mentation of fourth of July orations
and is not for everyday wear?-Ex-
change.
1t used to be proverb that if a
man had learned a good trade he was
secure against want If this was ever
true, it is SO no longer. In the first
place, the man who has learned trade
must also make sure that he can get
some monopolist of opportunities who
will employ him, and then he must also
make sure that no machine will be in
vented that will enable an unskilled
man or perhaps child to do his job
journal of Knights of Labor
Judge PETER, the new Kansas sem
ator, thinks all young persons should be
taught substantial hadicrafts. He has
eight children, of whom three are
daughters. The boys have all learned
the printers trade, and the eldest
daughter has been taught to set type.
One son is a locomotive engineer. One
DAUGHTER does amanuensis work and re-
porting, but also sets type. The second
daughter has been trained to keep ac-
counts, and the youngest daughter is
the stenogfapher in the Kansas Farmer
office, of which paper the father is ed
itor.-EXchange.
Pennsylvania reports over 200 sub
alliances, with a membership exceed
ing 10000. The state is organizing fast
and will soon be in the front rank
Wisconsin and West Virginia are also
falling into line, the former with 28O
and the latter with 44O sub-alliances.
Kentucky is showing up grandly. She
already has an active membership of
over 10000 divided among Q, 400 sub
lodges New England is also getting
ready to enter the race. Truly the
good work is spreading as upon the
wings of a cyclone. Let us stand firm,
and victory and prosperity will be ours.
Alliance Advocate.
The New York Sun, extreme demo-
cratic; the New York Tribune, radical
republican, and the New York Times,
acknowledged mugwump, are all sing
ing the same tune in opposition to the
sub-treasury plan. Nothing else seems
to trouble them but cheap money to the
people. This shows plainly that they
are all actuated by the same desire and
governed by the same motives. 1t is
Wall street against the sub-treasury
plan from now until the people decide
which they will take. Let the fight
come on; the enemy is now located and
the alliance guns can be turned in the
right irection.-National Economist,