Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-04-20
FARMERS ALLIANCE,
ALLIANCE NOTES.

The earth was made for all the peo-
pie and not for few.
I Party is means, not an end The
coetrine that the end justifes the means
Is pernicious.
The end of political effort is abso-
lnte Justice and right, but the means
must be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Economist.
Its mighty poor government that
Goes nothing except to keep its subjects
from numbering each other, while they
skin each other.-Cincinnati Herald.
The senate financial committee re-
ported adversely on the income tax bill,
which shows plainly that the senate
stands for the rich and against the poor.
1 In charging that free coinage of
silver IS building up monopoly for the
millionaire silver mine owners the gold
eng mine owners are opening grave
Tor themselves observation-disclosures
The peoples party is thoroughly
united from one end of the country to
the other The old parties are badly
spl1t up over several questions. "A house
divided against itself can not stand.'
1t is cheering, indeed, to see such
! an universal sentiment among the vast
millions of wage earners in favor of the
peoples party. They feel that it is a
tangible nucleus around which they
can all safely gather to promote their
common good. Speed the work of
unity, good brothers, the farmers are
with you, soul and hand to the end
st. Louis Monitor
The republicans place their hopes
of success in the presidential contest in
the prospective divisions and blunders
OF the democrats. The democrats put
their hopes in the past blunders of the
republicans. 1t is not very edifying
political situation, in which each of the
/ two great party organizations of the
country relies most upon the mistakes
and follies of the other. Behold, my
/ son, said OXenstiern, with how little
wisdom the world is governed Jus
/ tice.
The machine" is working to pro-
/ iuce division among alliancemen and
/ Ehe reform element generally. 1t is the
one thing to be desired by them. Do
not worry about name or fret about de-
tails. We are agreed on principles,
which is the essential thing to u.s. Bury
! petty jealOusies in the same grave with
the bloody shirt and let organization be
pushed to certain victory. In order to
do this let the interest you take in your
neighbors' education in the reform work
assume a practical shape. They must
read reform literature to understand the
character of our movement Right
. there is the point where you can get in
/ your work. Read your paper and pass
if on to them, or send them few copies
/ direct from the office.-Alliance Watch
man.
There is a vast difference between
the unthinl<ing followers Of the old par
| ties and those who are marShalled under
/ reforms banner The former have no
/ clearly defined principles of their own
| they wait til the convention" COM
posed OF the bosses and big ~ guns who
/ get their inspiration from Lombard and
Wall streets, speaks. Then they are
! for the partee; ''them's my sentiments,
tut With those who are supporters of
! the St. Louis platform it is different.
That platfOrm is the crystallization of
! the sentiments of reformers; is the en-
| bodiment of their wishes, the creature
! of which they are the creators, and is
| the result of years of patient, careful
study. The man who supports said
| platform uncOnsciously proclaims to the
world that he is thinker and that he
has the good of his fellow man at heart
Butler (Mo.) Weekly Union.
The consumer pays all the charges
connected with the production and dis
! tribution of the article that he pur-
! chases. Under our present system, in
terest is added to every article that is
| offered for sale. Hence it follows, as a
| logical sequence, that under this sys-
tenn no person can avoid the payment of
| interest by keeping out of debt. Usury
is pre-eminently the curse of our pres
ent economic system. The laws of
! Moses classed usury as one of the penal
| sins, and experience demonstrates that
it is a destroyer. Yet, usury sways
the scepter in every Christian country
Such being the fact is it not about time
! for Christian people to be waking up
and insisting that the church shall re-
turn to the original teachings of the
! founder of Christianity, who ''scourged
the money changers (usurers) from the
emple?'-Lincoln (Neb) Farmer.
"A man is idle and hungry. He is
one of the thousands and hundred of
thousands in the same condition. He
may take his choice between several
alternatives. He may beg, steal go to
| the poor house, or starve. If he steals
! he becomes a thief, and if caught is
| branded as a criminal If he begs he is
called a vagrant, and liable to work
| house sentence for vagrance. If he goes
/ TO the poor house he is branded as a
pauper. If he starves he dies and is
hurled in the potter's field. If he has
boys they will grow up to become
/ tramps, buns and criminals. If he has
girls they will doubtless become
/ bad women. In the same city are other
men who. without any labor at all, live
on the fat of the land, and hold high
OFFICIAL and social position. These men
are chosen to administer justice to the
/ poor wretches who are the victims of
bad social system. This is modern
! justice.-Chicago Herald.