Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-05-25

Inauguration of this movement, they
will be convinced that it is plain case
of you'll be damned if you do" and
you'll be damned if you don't" and
how any intelligent member of the
Farmers Alliance will permit these
foolish and ridiculous assertions to have
any influence upon him is, to say the
least, peculiar, when he must know
that if we were to surrender every de-
mand except an increase of the circula-
ton, by an issue of legal tender notes
direct to the producer, the fight would
be just as bitter as it is to-day. This
congress, knowing full well that three
fourths of all the people are in favor
of such measure have not
reported, nor have any of
them introduced, except some
member of the alliance, any measure
looking to such a consummation. The
power of those whose interests are to
maintain high-priced dollar have been
able to prevent even the free coinage of
silver, and it is more than probable that
the Hatch anti-option bill, and all other
measures that would in any way inter-
fere with their interests, will be either
defeated or prevented from coming to
vote AS citizens, without any consid-
Grafton of whether we belong to the al
lance or any other organization, in my
| Judgment the time has come when we
should rise above party or prejudice
of any kind and, after careful investi-
cation, vote for what we believe
to be the best interests of home and
country. 1t seems to me from the very
| nature of present conditions that the
eastern and southern democracy must
| divide whenever the question of finance
is made an issue, and that this is of more
Importance to the laboring people of
our country than all else combined
| there can be no dispute. Again, it must
| be patent to all who are thinking men
| that the people of the south and west
will not surrender finance as an issue
in the next campaign; and if this di-
| vision must come, which it surely
| must, 1 cannot see how there could
be more propitious time, and
do not believe that any legislation
| looking to the interests of the masses
can be accomplished until the south and
west are politically united. Those ad-
vocating an independent movement be-
| llcVS OI1dO Cd1 OC dSSOL1PAioAiCo DOoO Oy
that means. They contend with reason
that prejudice against republicanism in
the south and democracy in the west
would prevent many from voting their
interests that would do so under new
name free from such prejudices. This
is not time when men should consider
individual interests, but we should al
conscientiously bend our energies to ac
complish the release of the people from
the class legislation that now oppresse
them. The foolish cry about love O
party is simply pretcnse. man to b.
a patriot should love his country and b.
willing to vote with any party that OF
fers the greatest relief. Now the pee
pies party, like the democratic and re
publican, must come before the peopl,
with its platform of principles, and
pray God that the people may be patri
otic and independent enough to vote TO
that party whose success they conscien
tiously believe will bring the creates
good to the greatest number of our pee
ple-Ben Terrill, in National Econc
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