Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-11-11
DEVOTED UPBUILDTNG CITY COUNTY.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER HI, 1891.
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

children to prosper. want your country
to prosper, vote the peoples ticket
With famine in Europe the price
of Americas wheat is low. Can't hold
our wheat Oh, for the sub-treasury
plan.
-Idleness begets crime. Fifty dol
lars per capita money volume will give
every man a chance to work at living
wages.
How bitterly the republicans fight
the short dollar" yet we never had
short dollar in this country except of
republican make.
We have not the slightest doubt
but what the success of the alliance or
peoples party principles would bring
laughing prosperity to the homes of
the people. Missouri World
The farmers average net income,
with which he must support his family
and pay his taxes and interest, is 1878.
This estimate is based on figures given
by the statistician of the agricultural
department.
"A higher range of legitimate prices
is the salvation of the masses. Too
much labor and products in the dollar
now. Takes too much sweat to pay a
dollar of interest, dollar of taxes, a
dollar OF railroad charges
The old parties are getting together
in some localities, ''to resist" they
say, ''the socialistic tendencies of the
alliance" but in reality for the offices
and for the continuation of the power
Of the $1,000 to skin the people-Mis-
souri, World.
Will some of the advocates of the
doctrine that intrinsic value is essen
tial in the material of which money
shall be composed, be kind enough to
inform us upon what property the in
trinsic value of gold and silver de-
pends? Please be specific and clear in
the explanation. This is question we
desire to see ventilated. Who will give
us the answer?-Advocate.
Senator Plumb says there cannot
be three sides to a question That is
true. On the finance, land and trans
portation questions there are but two
sides. The people are arraying them
selves on one side, while republican
and democratic tools of the money
power are trying to rally the partisan
blinded to the support of plutocracy.
Where do you stand in this contest,
brother?-Alliance Tribune.
1t is disgusting to read in the re-
publican papers the vile slander Of
President Polk, against whom they can
prove not one thing, and rememb Der
that these papers are the organs of a
YfU hirvh &<,
Mosby, the heartlessly cruel guerilla
The devil is gentleman while voting
the old parties ticket; an honest man
becomes devil when he declares his
independence. See?-Missouri World.
To the masses of the American
people the unbounded wealth Of this
country, its treasures of art, its means
Of production, transportation, commu-
nication and exchange, securing a COM
Portable, secure existence, are as inac-
cessible as if they existed on another
planet, and yet they could easily obtain
them if they were aware of their con-
dition and only would go to the ballot
box to vote for themselves instead of
for their oppressors journal of
Knights of Labor.
The numerous tramp pictures and
dialogues now current in the papers are
often very funny, but should be dis
couraged by the reformers. The i'm
piled sneer in all these things is that
tramps are such from choice. If so,
why were they unknown before the
war? The simple fact Is that most of
them took to tramping from necessity.
Two months tramping will turn most
honest work seekers into drunken bum
mers. Hence the degradation of which
the funny men make such sport.-Sen-
tinel
1t is now claimed that the democrat
ic party never favored the free coinage
bill All right; it would not be surpris-
ing to see the two old parties quarrel
ing over the question of which one is
entitled to the credit of demonetizing
the silver dollar. The power of Wall
street and the absolute need of funds
for the campaign of 1892 will, no doubt
bring the democratic politicians to far
more surprising conditions than this.
If there is free coinage bill passed at
all at the next session, it will doubtless
be with the understanding that Presi-
dent Harrison will veto it-National
Economist.
The trouble with many opposers of
the sub-treasury bill is that they argue
against it, bringing the present exist
ing conditions against its provisions to
crash and demolish. The fact is that
when the provisions of the bill are law,
and the other demands. which are its
under-pinning, are law, present condi-
tions will not exist and you cannot
urge the power Of speculation, national
banks and foreign flnanciers against
the measure, when to exist it must first
do away with those conditions and
provide for it. The alliance diagnoses
these hurtful influences, and kills them
with the remedy; thereby saving
producer and consumer from their
grasp.-Alliance Watchman.
The National Reformer calls for
votes from the National Reform Press
association as to the place Of holding
the February convention. This is right
and will give the executive committee.
which meets in Indianapolis on the 10th
OF November, information as TO the
Will OF the people In regard to the place
OF meeting. Washington was selected
by majority of the committee who
agreed by mail because it was impos-
sible to get meeting of the commit
tee prior to the 22d of August, and the
law required six months notice. This
has now been given, and II there is
strong enough sentiment shown the
eommittee In favor OF change Of 81
place of meetinG there Is no law to
prevent them changing. It is entirely
with the committee. and the chairman
OF the executive committee of every
organization of producers willing to
cooperate is entitled to seat as a
member of that committee. National
Economist
Very Iuquisifive.
Allow do you like your landlady2
B.-She Is a very clever woman, but
she has entirely too much curiosity.
-a,s