Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-05-13
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

employs capital. and not capital labor,
shall we approach the solution Of the
economic problems that seem to be
troubling the country and our age.-Pa-
cific Union.
Daniel Webster said: "When all
our money is made payable in specie on
demand it will prove the most certain
means that can be used to fertilize the
rich mans field by the sweat of the
poor mans brow"
The alliance meeting at Waco,
Tex, which convened Tuesday, April
21, had 800 delegates present the first
day. By a standing vote the body
unanimously indorsed Brothers Macune
and Tracy amid deafening cheers. So
1t proves that Texas will keep in the
middle of the road.
Between the political schemes of
the so-called commercial congress and
the boomers of the Cincinnati meeting
the alliance will be sorely tried. Trick
cry on the one hand and overzealous-
ness on the other must be met with
firm determination to consider we'll be-
fore every act.-National Economist.
Outside of the States of Missouri
and Mississippi the alliance is having
general boom. Texas is just now ex-
periencing a revival, while North and
South Carolina are doing splendidly.
Private advices from Georgia shows
that the order is stronger, more united
and determined than ever.-Economist.
This fact is becoming more and
more apparent each day that if the two
old parties want to get rid of the sub
treasury plan they must bring out
something better. The people will not
consent to be longer humbugged by
such men as Mills and Horr, who have
nothing but the tariff to offer.-Ex-
change.
Have you formed a Citizens Alli-
ance in your town? If not, why not?
Why amt you taking a hand in this
fight? Do you suppose that the enemy
is lying idle that way? Not bit of it.
He is like usury He works while we
work He works while we sleep. He
has no Sunday. He is everlastingly at
work. National Citizens Alliance.
Among the labor organizations care
full observation has shown, during the
past two months, a decidedly strong
feeling in favor of new political party,
to be composed of the industrial classes
as opposed to the monopolists. All
reference toindependent political action
has been received almost invariably
with hearty applause.-Boston Labor
World.
The workingmen and farmers are
becoming apt learners in the school Of
political economy, and have advanced
so far that they can plainly see that un-
der the present systems they need ex-
pect no improvement in their conditions
worth speaking of. They will gradu-
ate in 1892, and declare, at the ballot
box, that things must be changed.-Ex-
change.
Returning from organizing Iowa
state alliances, President Polk and
Lecturer Willetts attended a district
meeting of the patrons of toll at
Moundsville, w. Va. This meeting Of
delegates from sixty lodges in the Pan
handle voted to consolidate with the
alliance. thus adding $500 members at
one time to West Virginia.-National
Economist.
The F. & L. U. of the Twelfth dis
trict, at it's recent session at Clinton,
resolved to support no man for Office,
county, state or national, who did not
indorse the Ocala demands. The But
Ter Union was adopted as official dis
trict organ. A meeting of the county
lecturers of the district at Nevada, the
first Monday in June, was recommend
ed.-MiSsouri World.
From indications, which any man
should be able to discover, it is safe to
predict that the impending revolution
will take more active shape within the
next eight months than at any time in
the history of the reform movement.
By the time of the meeting of the grand
council, next November, the alliance
will have got together, and will be in
active cooperation with kindred asso-
Citations of wealth producers. Then
the work will be easy.-National Econ
omist.
in one of the rooms of the census
Office in Washington are to be seen ab-
stracts of nine millions of mortgages
which hang like an Internal incubus
over the homes and farms and business
of this country. And yet, when the
farmers organize to secure from the
government the fair play that is neces-
sary to enable them to clear off these
mortgages some of the impudent pa
pers of the old parties say that they do
not know what they want--National
Citizens Alliance.