Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-09-02
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

IuOuSy - nOG wealth.
Money is the medium of exchange.
Anything is money that is legal
tender.
"A legal tender is that which VIII
pay debts.
Our 7S-cent silver dollar is a legal
tender for lO0-cent gold dollar.
Three hundred and seventy-three
new primary alliances have been or
ganized in Alabama since the last state
alliance held its annual session.-Al-
lance Herald
1t Is Righteousness, not robber
tariffs or gold-bugism, that exalteth a
nation. In other words, ''equal rights
to all and special privileges to none.
Pittsburgh Kansan.
If there is one man who has been a
traitor to his convictions, a curse to his
country, and tool of plutocracy. that
one man is John Sherman But he
made millions by it-Grcat West
Who would have dreamed that the
republican party, which elected Harri-
son, declared in its platform for free
silver coinage? Ah, look out that you
do not nominate men in your (our)
party who do not believe In living up to
your platform!-Great West.
The Ohio peoples party platform
declares in favor of female suffrage and
the naturalization of the liquor traffic.
These measures are ultimately bound
to succeed. They are based upon the
eternal principle of right and justice
and they cannot be long suppressed
Advocate.
The masses of the democratic party
OF Kentucky took the first step towards
independent political action by voting
for the new constitution In the face of
the opposition of Carlisle and other
great democratic bosses The next
step may take them out of the e. O. D.
Missouri World.
The alliance has control of the next
legislature of Kentucky by a majority
OF two in the senate and thirteen in the
house. The politicians are very much
surprised that this new factor in poll
tics has demonstrated so much strength.
Some of the congressman from that
state are very apprehensive about their
future safety.-Alliance Herald.
Nearly $50, 600, 900 of government
money is always deposited with certain
bankers without interest charge. The
bankers loan this money, and may be
said, in the language of the street, to
have soft snap" Meantime the
proposition to use less than $50, 600, 600
to build warehouses in which to store
the basis of all wealth, is met with ter.
rife opposition.-Great West
The Kansas City Times says that
the editor of the Advocate seems to be
the only man left who supports the
sub-treasury, the land loan and the
government ownership of railways; but
the county conventions, as they assem-
bic, continue to unanimously indorse
these measures, and we do not feel very
lonesome yet The Times admits the
evils OF which the people complain; will
1t kindly point out a better remedy
than the one proposed?-Advocate.
One of the saddest spectacles of
history is that of a great political party,
born OF the patriotism and love of free
dom OF great people, degenerating to
be the plant tool of power that stops
not at the enslavement of a race but
seeks the subjugation of the toilers of
all the world and that to conceal its
true purposes stirs the depths of Sec
tional prejudice as some hard-pressed
denizen of the sea stirs up the slime
beneath to cover his retreat-Iowa
Tribune.
The alliance leaders and the true
blue bosses in Maryland had sharp
little game at their last state conven-
ton. The alliance was conceded the
governor and the true blues took the
platform, which was devoted to adula-
ton of Senator German. It now trans
plres that the alliance is preparing to
control the next legislature and relieve
Mr.. German In the little tilt of CITY
superiority over hayseed management,
the superiority got the taffy and the
hayseeders got all the emeat-Alliance
Herald
Some sneeringly ask: "What right
have the farmers to demand that pros
perity to all other classes be dispensed
through them (the farmers)? The
Mercury replies by stating that it can
be accomplished in no other way. Apri.
culture is the trunk of our civilization.
Other avocations are the branches.
Fertilization must be applied to the
roots of the tree, not to its branches,
When the tree thrives the branches viii
bloom; when the trunk languishes, the
branches wither and die. See?-South>
ern Mercury.
Those Ohio people who are given to
looking below the surface and discover
ing the hidden cause of things are be-
ginning to rather more than suspect
that there is mutual understanding.
amounting to a common purpose and
interest between the leading repub-
lican and democratic organs in that
state They are beginning to believe
with some belief has deepened into GER
tainty-that the Commercial Gazette
and the Enquirer are simply journal
iStic Siamese twins with a common
ownership and common purpose.
Well, why not? Except for purposes of
make-believe, there is not enough diff
ference between the two old parties to
warrant the trouble and expense of
keeping up two sets of newspaper or.
gans. journal of Knights of Labor.