Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-11-04
DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF THE CITY AND COUNTY.
NOVEMBER 4, 1891.
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

If you think the old parties are
having an easy walk away In Ohio,
you don't know the fellows who are
running the peoples party campaign
Nonconformist
No proposition of the peoples
party so worries the money shark party
as does the sub-treasury plan 1t
makes them wild and knocks them
silly.-Pittsburgh Kansan
The most amusing feature about
the Ohio dispatches the past week is,
both parties very charmingly decline to
speculate upon what the farmers will
do" Isn't it too bad that the town
buns are unable to figure on the per-
petuity of this grand and glorious
country until they hear from the farm
ers!-Nonconformist
The Colorado republicans asked for
free silver. The party in two, or per-
haps three, other states may also be in
favor of it AS between the two
parties on this question the case proba-
bly, stands about thus: Against free
coinage, the republicans in forty-four
states and the democrats in seven. For
free coinage, the republicans in four
states and the democrats in forty-one
-Globe-Democrat
AT the annual meeting of the state
Farmers Alliance of Michigan the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted without
dissenting voice: Resolved, that we,
the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union of the state Of Michigan, heart
lily indorse the Ocala platform, and fur
tO hn foil -
America that we are unyieldingly in
favor of independent political action
as outlined at the Cincinnati confer
ence"
The people are mildly asking that
the democratic party make money"
an issue in the battle of 1892 The
ringsters, Cleveland, Mills, ct al, seem
to think their little put-ins will seal
the public mouth. The masses are de-
termined to force the issue The demo-
cratic party has got to speak either for
or against more money" Will the
party seek its support from Wall street
or from the people? Let the next con-
gress say.-Weekly Toiler.
I'm 1867 honest John said: 81 say
that equity and justice are amply salts
end of five years in the same kind of
money, of the same intrinsic value it
bore at the time it was issued" In
1878 millionaire John Sherman said:
''To refuse to pay the bonds in gold
would be reputation and extor-
ton and would be scoffing at the bless
ings of Almighty God. Dakota Ru-
ralist
-Plutocracy is a modern word, hav-
ing place only in the supplement to
Webster's latest dictionaries. where it
is defined to mean ''a form of govern.
ment, in which the supreme power is
lodged in the hands of the wealthy
classes alone; government by the rich;
also, controlling or influential class
of rich men," 1t is q power which,
though unnamed, has crushed the cor
ner stones of republics and laid waste
empires.
Down in Tennessee the convict
lease system is to be continued four
more years and honest laboring men
will be starved out of their homes, and
over in Ohio other honest laboring men
are yelling themselves hoarse in behalf
of democracy led and dominated by
United States Senator Cal Brice, a
principal owner of these same Tennes-
see mines Verify if laboring men
sometimes get it in the neck they de-
serve it t-Nonconformist
Gold at Buenos Ayres, Argentine.
recently rose to premium of 800 per
cent The government has issued de-
cree. the substance of which is the
issuance of a forced currency and fixing
the premium on gold at $50 per cent
The government has also suspended
payments in gold for two years. In ad-
dition a new monetary unit has been
adopted, composed of fixed amount
of silver and nickel This money is
now being coined. Banker
Three hundred years ago the bank
of Amsterdam issued its certificate of
deposit against the plate and jewelry
of the people, and these certificates
passed as money. Wherein does this
differ from the sub treasury plan of the
Farmers Alliance? The bank of
Sweden, also, issued money to the
farmers up to two=thirds of the as
sessed value of their lands at four per
cent interest Town property was
also taken at the valuations of the fire
| insurance companies Are we going
to remain half civilized in the United
States to please Wall street? Not
much, If the Farmers Alliance knows
itself, and we think it does. Pacific
! Union.