Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-06-08
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

Every county in the state of Mis-
souri, will have peoples party ticket
IN the field in the state election.
There have been organized 872
Farmers Alliances within 100 days in
Iowa They all will be found with the
peoples party in November.-NewN Ma
ton.
The free and unlimited coinage Of
silver will instantaneously obtain the
much talked of parity between gold and
silver. No matter what the ratio estab-
hshed by law might be the result would
be the same.-Alliance Gazette.
The peoples party in Maine has
just held its state nominating conven-
tion. 1t stands squarely on the ST.
Louis platform, and also declares for
equal suffrage, regardless of sex, and
for federal prohibition of the liquor
traffic.
-Germany's railroads, operated by
the government, put s25, 100000 into
the public treasury every year. They
work four times as many laborers to
the same length of road as in America,
and give the people much superior
accommodation.
Ben Tillman says that unless the
democratic party at Chicago adopts the
alliance demands, South Carolina will
vote with the party that does This is
enough to tell where South Carolina
will go after the Chicago convention
Southern Alliance Farmer.
In Texas $50 peoples party clubs
have already been formed, over 300 since
the middle of April. These clubs cover
14S counties of the state. The move
ment is spreading everywhere. Moth
ing like it has ever been known in the
state. The people will Yule.-National
Advocate.
Query: What would become Of the
democratic party if Grover Cleveland
should die? When you have answered
the above here's another: If Grandpa
Hat and the Artful Dodger should 'be
called beyond" what would become of
the republican party?-Butler mo }
Weekly Union.
The universally of public alarm at
the coal situation and prospects ought to
convince the last doubter that it was a
big mistake not to put a coal national
1zation plank in the st. Louis platform,
and that it would be bigger one not
to add coal resolution to the platform
at the Omaha convention.-NewN Nation.
Gen. J. B. Weaver declares the
democratic party will not carry three
southern states owing to the perfidy of
the party on the silver question "The
Atlanta Constitution says there is only
one way to hold the south and that is
to pass the free silver bill; if 1t is not
done the party goes to limbo"-the
peoples party.-National Advance.
President Roberts, of the Pennsvl-
vania railroad, says that railroad COM
binations tend to promote legislation
which will end in disaster to all corpor-
ate interests. However that may be,
the end will be for the benefit of the
people, who are bent upon taking these
roads out the field of speculation, and
restoring them, through public conduct,
to their legitimate function of cheap
and equitable transportation.
Nation.
Notwithstanding all our talk in
favor of silver don't let it slip your
mind that we do not believe in using q
commodity as money, and that we be-
lieve government fat makes all money,
and it makes no difference what materi-
al the government fat is placed upon,
and the cheaper that material the bet
ter. We simply advocate giving silver
an equal show with gold-nothing
more; and that while we have gold
money we should have silver.-Ch1cago
Free Trader.
High tariff protects foreign invest
ment in American industries. All these
foreign investors want is high rates of
interest on money, which they cannot
obtain at home. This country being
new and productive offers them q splen-
did field to operate in, and we, in our
blindness, tempt them to come and
bleed us by our financial and tariff
legislation. We impoverish ourselves
by contracting our medium of exchange
and increasing our cost of living, and thus
invite foreign syndicates to purchase
our industries, control our business and
dictate our legislation. It is high time
for the people to wake up and call a
halt to this suicidal policy.-Topeka
New Age