Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-15
THE FIGHT is ON.


The IrrepressIble Conflict Between Capital
ism and Labor is Already Waging
Flercely.
The members of the Farmers ALI
ance may make up their minds that
everything that can be done will be
done to disintegrate our order. And
we need not fiatter ourselves that this
work of disintegration will be delayed
until the beginning of the campaign of
1892.
There is reason to think that the
work of destruction has been already
begun. We have heard that promi-
nent man in this state has said that the
railroads of the state employ twenty
thousand voters, whose action at the
polls they can control, and that these
twenty thousand men shall be made to
vote for any negro before they shall be
allowed to vote for any man who voted
Tor railroad commission bill. Let us
make some little estimate of the forces
that will be arrayed against us in
this contest. The republican party
will do all it can to destroy the ALI
ance, because that party knows
that If the alliance gets control of pub
Hc affairs there will be an end of their
policy of financial oppression The DEM
ocratic party will do all in its power to
discourage the alliance, because that
party knows that to turn the country
over to the Alliance means the perma-
nent retirement of their bosses from the
management of national and state af-
fairs The manufacturers will fight
the alliance to the death, because they
know that alliance success is the end of
their schemes for the robbing of the
country in the name of protection. The
railroads will resist the alliance with
all their enormous power, because they
know that the success of the alliance
means the controlling of the railroads
IN the interests of the people, The tele-
graph monopolies will fight the al
lance, because they know that order
is committed to a postal telegraph sys-
tenn. The banks and brokers will fight
the alliance, because they know the al
lance has declared against their plans
of oppression and robbery.
These are the main forces that are
even now arranging themselves against
the alliance. 1t must be confessed that
the outlook Is not as roseate with hope
DIS IL might De. but tnen the alliance
has the right on its side in the conflict,
and it cannot fail. In setting the repub-
Hcan and democratic parties in the hosts
that are to be arrayed against the ALI
ance we do not mean to include the
rank and file of those parties-only the
organizations of them. We are sure
that the principles of the alliance are
democratico-republica in the broadcast
and truest sense. We mean to say that
our contention for equal rights for all,
and special privileges for none, embod-
les all that is good in the principles of
both these old parties; and we are glad
to know that thousands upon thousands
of both democrats and republicans have
joined us and are standing with us in
this conflict. But let us remember that
our foes are numerous and powerful,
and will do all they can to defeat our
movement. We invite to our ranks all
classes of men who are willing to in
dorse our principles and work to embodv
them in just and fair public administra-
tions.-Raleigh IN. c. Progressive
Farmer
The South Dakota legislature has
passed bill for the Australian ballot
system and the governor has signed it