Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-20
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.


superintendent Porter states that he
has now on file in Washington alb
stracts of 5000, 900 of mortgages. This
is an average of one mortgage for every
seven of the entire population of the
United States. Mr.. Porter is becoming
a first-class calamity howler."
The democratic papers of Mississippi
are quoting as law and gospel the arti-
cles found in the radical republican
papers in the north that are against the
sub-treasury plan. This is said to be a
strange world, but the ways of partisan
politics, when controlled by plutocratic
ideas, are past finding out.-National
Economist
-Arrayed against the plutocracy of
this country are 1850. 900 banded farm
ers, 900, 600 federated tradesmen, 600, 900
federated railwaymen and 500, 900
knights of Labor, all animated by COM
mon fears and common hopes, and they
will march to victory under the shining
star-spangled banner, while the pluto
Gratis can faunt the black flag that of
right belongs to them. The banded
toilers of America are conservatives to
a man, and as such will fight the i'm
perialistic revolutionists to the death.
Lester G. Hubbard.
We would most respectfully recon-
mend that the questions submitted by
the superintendent of the census to the
owners of mortgaged homesteads be
promptly answered so that he may com
plete his estimate of the debt resting
upon this kind of property. There has
been hesitancy on the part of many
about answering these questions be-
cause of the doubt respecting the sin
cerity of the department. If the census.
should be imperfect or unreliable. do
not let it be said it is because the peo-
pie refused to give the information.
Answer the questions. Advo-
cate.
1t is very difficult, it seems, for
some people to draw the line between
politics and partisanship Some misun-
derstood President Stilwell's able let
ter defining the position of the f. M. B.
A. His position is not that the F. M.
3. A must stick to their political par
ties. Not bit of it. He holds that so
far as the order is concerned the mem
bers have perfect right to do as they
please. They may stick to their par
ties or they may break away from
them; the order will not dictate to them
in any sense. 1t is the purpose of the or
ganization to teach the truth, and then
leave the members to act in the truth.
Mt. Vernon Gil. Progressive Farmer.
Judge Gresham is being doomed as
the presidential candidate for the indie
pendents. He would make an excel
lent candidate. Exchange. Judge
Gresham is being doomed by repu bic
ans who wish to catch the Independent
movement. Since when has Judge
Gresham made record as an independ-
ent, or when has he protested against
the extortions of usurers, the rapacity
of land robbers, or the machine methods
of party politics. If getting up racket
with Jay Gould is a qualification, can
didates can be multiplied with ease
We have had some experience the past
winter with men who became inde-
pendents when plums were ripe. We
prefer men who have made record of
years, like James b. Weaver-Lincoln
(Neb.) Farmers Alliance.
The Progressive Farmer, President
Folks paper, in recent issue had the
following: Equal rights to all, special
privileges for none Is the motto of this
alliance movement. This motto means
that the farmer-the owner of the land
means to see to it that he and his call
ing are not Disseminated against in the
administration of government But it
must mean more than this. 1t must
mean that the farmers who own land
nd hor Tod &c
bound to give their tenants as fair
chance to win something enduring and
substantial, as that which they them
selves demand. We want it understood
that the alliance movement was not in
augurated simply for the benefit of the
land owner. 1t was organized for the
benefit of all men, including tenants
upon farms"
The census returns for Iowa show
that the amount of farm mortgages in
that state on January 1, 1890, was $685.
634, ,957. 1t is safe to assume that the aver
age interest charge is more than per
cent, but taking that rate the farmers
are compelled to pay annual tribute of
S14, 900, 900 to men who toll not, neither
do they spin, yet dress in purple and
fine linen" at the expense of the pro-
ducers. If the government issu ed
money on real estate security at per
cent, the farmers of Iowa would save
$4,000, 600 year that now go to enrich
mainly the wealthy corporations of the
east and foreign money lenders, while
the "a, 900, 900 they did pay would go
practically into their own pockets. as
it would enable the government to
abolish all taxes now collected in Iowa.
The same thing would apply to every
other state in the union. The adj
vantages of this plan are SO plain and
obvious that one is surprised to find
people outside of the insane asylums
who oppose it--National Advance