Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-17
FARMERS ALLIANCE
ALLIANCE NOTES.
win the people think2

Will the people thinkP
Never indorse wrong doing when
you cast your ballot.
The mortgage is the skeleton in
many farmers home.
"A man may have hay seed in his
hair but none in his heart
Gold is for the few, silver is for the
many and the greenback is for all.
When money is dear men are cheap.
We all know what is meant by ''cheap
men"
The introduction of the referendum
would abolish bossism, machine politics,
boodleism and legislative corruption
There are several "facts about the
tariff" but the one which overshadows
all others is that it is a chestnut
National Economist
What difference does it make to or
ganized labor whether non-union men
be hired to take its place under the
protection of United States Pinkertons
or United States troops? 1t starves all
the same.-West Coast Mail.
In the United States seventy per-
sons are worth 81, 700, 900; and less than
fifty of these can control the currency
and commerce of the country at a davis
notice. One hundred are worth So, OOO,-
600, 600 and %, 600 own half the total
wealth.
Labor" says Karl Marx, ''is
bought at its exchange value and sold
at its use value. Exchange value is the
least amount that will permit the la
borer and his family to live, while the
use value is all the employer can
squeeze out of it"
The democrats all over the south
are exhorting the colored vote to stay
with the republican party. One colored
orator in Texas said to his audience the
other day: There must be something
wrong with both old parties when the
democrats advise us to stay with the re-
publlcans," and he advised his hearers
to vote for the peoples party. The col
ored vote will be cast almost solid for
the populist ticket in the southern
states.-Pueblo (Col.) Coming Crisis.
The true value of money cannot be
gauged by the current rate of interest,
but only by its ability to command the
products of labor. Twenty-Five years
rate of interest was 20 per cent, where
it now does not exceed or 10. Yet,
that money is of greater value in those
states now than it was then, is demon-
strated by the fact that So or $40 will
buy more of labor's products now than
$50 would have bought then.-National
Economist
This is year to vote for principle.
Judge Walter Q. Gresham proposes to
do it. Personal considerations pre-
vented him from accepting the Omaha
nomination, but he is a new party man.
To committee of the peoples party
which called upon him, he said: 81
will make speech in Chicago during
the campaign, indorsing your platform
and your candidate. / heartily sym-
pathize with you in this movement, but
am too i'll to carry your banner.
New Nation.
The democrats in Missouri denounce
the republican attempt at a force bill.
and yet the Missouri legislature passed
force bill for voters here in Missouri
by which independent voters have to
buy their right to suffrage Let all
honest men stand up for the right to
vote in Missouri, and elect a peoples
party legislature that will kill the in
iquitous three per cent clause too dead
to skin. Stand up for Leonard, Pink
ham, Neff, Baskin and Missouri
shall (Mo.) Alliance Watchman.
To add insult to injury, Mr.. McKaip.
of Maryland, introduced resolution to
have 10000 copies of the old force bill
OF last session printed at public expense
for democratic campaign purposes. A
more fragrant violation of both law and
precedent has not been witnessed in
years, if ever. 1t was denounced by
Mr.. Watson and others, but was passed
over their objections. As it stands
now, the people at large are taxed to
pay nearly $400 for the printing of this
incendiary document, which will be
used by the democratic party in the
coming campaign to stir up strife and
sectional contention. Such is politics.
National Watchman.
People should not conclude there is
no tariff question in this country SIM
ply because the two old parties occupy
the one extreme on the problem. There
is tariff question, and those who be-
lieve in human liberty are as much op-
posed to a tariff for taxtion as for pro-
lection. Any system of taxation that
falls as heavily upon the man who de-
pends entirely upon his days labor for
bread, clothing and shelter as it does
upon the man who owns millions of
wealth, is unjust 1t is as unjust to
raise revenue for the support of the
government by tax on the necessaries
of life, as it would be to raise it by a
poll tax.-0maha Tocsin