Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-21
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.

The time has come when farmers and
wage workers are rapidly laying aside
the prejudices of years and are finding
out that what Injuries one Injuries both
classes. They are also finding out the
duplicity of those who are dependent on
the differences of opinion that have
heretofore kept them apart. The two
faced politicians will soon have to lay
aside their masks, for, in spite of them,
light is breaking in the dark places
Alliance Leader.
The sub-treasury plan was readopted
at Ocala, Fla, at the annual council of
the Farmers Alliance. The president
of the Alliance in Missouri, though
claiming to represent 112 counties in op-
position to the sub-treasury plan, did
not find many mule-headed men, like
himself, to aid in obstructing the pro-
gress of the Alliance in the interest of
the Democratic party. just as long as
men like q. S. Hall are at the head of
the movement in Missouri, just that
long the order will be inefficient and
worthless. Hall is in no sense a re-
former, only as he sees the Democratic
y
Exchange.
The Democratic press of the country
claim to have discovered a gigantic
plot in the Farmers Alliance to destroy
the Democratic party by starting a
third party movement. This will be
amusing to Kansas readers, who will
remember how desperately Kansas Re-
publican papers during the last cam
paign tried to convince the people that
the Alliance was started for the special
purpose of disrupting the Republican
organization. Both party organs, for
once, are startlingly near the truth.
The Alliance was started for the ex-
press purpose of breaking up class legis-
lation, wiping out special privileges, :"
and securing relief from the results of a
financial policy that has been fostered
by the machine element of both of the
old parties. This is the plot, gentle
men, and as both parties are desper-
ately opposed to the desired reforms, a
third party becomes necessity.-Non-
conformist.
Mr.. U. S. Hall, president of the Mis-
souri, Farmers and Laborers' Union,
L d.
congress and denounced the sub-treas-
ury scheme and professed to represent
the views of 112 Missouri counties
That Brother Hall does not speak for
112 counties was demonstrated prior to
the election, when he issued his proc
lamation and threatened to revoke the
charters of all those Unions which had
placed tickets in the field independent
of the old parties. Brother Halls
proclamation had but one effect, it con-
vinced the brethren that Brother Hall,
like Brother Hickman, had a Demo-
cratic goose to fatten, and he feared
that the independent move might cut
off Democratic rations. If Brother
Hall is as familiar with the sentiment
of the 112 counties as he processes to
be, it may not then be necessary to re-
mind him that his views of the sub
treasury scheme are not the suprema lex
in South Missouri.-Union (Mo.) Bee.
If money must have intrinsic value,
it is evident that such value should be
equal to the money value, else the diff
ference would have nothing to sustain
it. Silver and gold go up and down in
price, but the debt paying power of a
dollar never changes. The number of
grains In a dollar have been changed by
law several times, but the power of the
dollar has remained the same. The
trade dollar of 1878 contained 400 grains
and was current dollar When
demonetized, it was worth only ninety
cents; but the smaller standard dollar
of 4121S grains, was still worth dollar.
A pound of copper is worth twenty
cents. When coined into money
it becomes a legal tender for
S1.6o. A pound of the nickel
material is worth about seventy
five cents Its money value is
s.. How much intrinsic value must
money have to make it good? Money
is simply check issued by society. 1t
bears the stamp of the Government to
show that it is genuine, and as a mark
of sovereignty. 1t is a legal tender for
debt because the law so declares. Every
one honors it because he is member
of, and has confidence in the firm that
issues it. Take the stamp off of it,
whether gold or paper, and it will
neither pay debts nor buy groceries.
Restore the stamp and you quicken ii
with a new life and start it on its cir
cult through the channels of trade
w. W. Green, in Progressive Farmer.