Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-17
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES,

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interest has been defeated in the New
York legislature. Of course it has.
The money, as usual, and the "brains"
were about all arrayed against the
people and again they were sacrificed
After the bill was defeated there was
great feast given in Albany to those
who helped kill it. Bankers reward
their rtools.-Exchange.
Let it be understood that the re-
casting and the regeneration of the en-
tire financial system of the country is
before the people, and will have to be
noticed in no equivocal way by those
who write the platforms of the parties
next year. This question of financial
reform will not down at the bidding of
the bosses, and they would just as well
make note of that fact and gov
ern themselves accordingly. President
Polk.
Alliance papers are springing up
everywhere. New ones are being
started and old disciples of other par
ties are enlisting under the alliance
banner. This is true in all states, par
ticularly of the northwest. And SO the
good work goes bravely on. All such
papers deserve a liberal support, and
Judging by indications they are getting
it. Rapidly multiplying papers de-
voted to cause do not indicate its
speedy death.-Kansas Farmer.
The Union Bee, of Humansville, Mo-,
hits the nail on the head when it says:
"The office-seeker opposes the paper he
cannot control; therefore, they oppose
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devotion to the Ocala demands and op-
position to demagogues who desire to
use the alliance for special political
purposes-their own advancement to
office. Alliance men, go on guardi"
There is general cry along the linei
''Put none but true men on guard to-
night. National Economist.
The alliance or reform paper that
will be taken i'm by Cham berlain' s
New York Reform Press News asso-
citation" is too green a sucker for re-
form work and will get frost bitten be-
fore winter comes. Now that Wall
street sees that it can't check this
movement it strives to fall in line and
direct it, well knowing that if it can
color the alliance reading matter a
monopoly tint they can influence the
peoples ballot But old Dana's mantle
is so transparent that triple fold of it
would not obscure the vision of a true
alliance man.-Butler (Mo.) Union.
We have received from the depart
ment at Washington copy of large
pamphlet by the postmaster-general on
postal savings banks. The argument is
good, and the plan is good, only it does
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want no other than national green back,
or gold and silver money, all on the
same level, handled only by national
banks of the governments own estab-
lishment with officers under bond to
transact the business and receive money
from the people on deposit or loan to
them at two per cent. on landed secur-
ity. If our government can refund the
outstanding bonds at two per cent. she
can do as well by the great common
people, otherwise our government is
advertised to be run in the interest of
| the moneyed classes.-Labor's Tribune.
The attempts of the old political
! parties to divide the people on the tariff
issue in 1892 will be failure. The
working people are thinking as they
never thought before and the result of
their conclusions in regard to the tariff
! question has caused them to see that if
there are any benefits in protection it
is not for them, and if there are any
! benefits in free trade it will not be for
! them. The laborer knows now that
whatever benefits may be derived from
either system they will be appropriated
! long before they reach him. He knows,
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and the working classes will turn their
attention to the vital issues, money,
transportation and land, and try to set
tie these questions and place them on
proper basis, SO that they may be Gin
it"-Winfield (Kan.) Industrial Free
Press.
Phil Chew has retired from the ed.
itorial management of the journal of
Agriculture, and the new editor is
writing paragraphs indicative of his
leaning toward a third party move
ment. The paper is supposed to be the
organ of the Farmers Alliance, but
with President Hall standing boldly
and firmly against third party it can
not have much encouragement from
the rank and file. The Farmers ALI
ance in Missouri is composed of Mis-
souri, democrats, and the organ will
probably discover this fact in due time.
Butler Times. All, indeed! Who
told you so? The Journal has already
discovered that the alliance in Missouri
is largely composed of men who used
to be democrats but will never be
again, and is pruning its sails accord.
ingly. In this respect it displays more
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The sub-treasury plan cannot be
killed by great constitutional argu.
ments, but as soon as ever some man
proposes something better it will die a
natural death. Here is a grand oppor.
tunity for destruction without verbal
deluges or stentorian combats with
time. In giving away this thing, that
the way to cause the Sub-treaSury plan
to die is to produce thing which is
better, all responsibility to the alliance
is here assumed; nay, more if the pro
poser of that thing be like Gen. Wash
ington, in that his modesty surpasses
his merit, if he will send the thing here
the public shall have knowledge of it
But if any man undertake again to say
that the better thing is that tariff re
1Ornn 1rduu, Ihe Mills OIL, anu the
wretchedly picayunist and reactionarJ
financial policy of Cleveland, let such
a man understand that his life will be
in peril Were not Ananias and hi.
wife Sapphira struck dead for lying;
Nevertheless, these howlers for Cleve
land and Mills are building wiser thar
they knew, for they are laying broad
and deep the foundations of a great
new party which will make this a gov
ernment of the people, by the people
and for the people. National Econo
mist
The Cincinnati convention, if al
reports are true, viii compare quit.
favorably with the recent Kentuck,
democratic convention. It rarely paw
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