Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-27
THE DIE is CAST.

The National Organ OF the r. A. q L. U.
Advises Alliancemen to Quit the Twin
Frauds.
The position of the Economist, often
defined in its columns, as to the Farm
ers' Alliance and political parties, is un-
changed, but the condition of the ma
tion is very materially changed polite
ally. Both the republican and demo-
cratic parties have had three years to
consider the alliance demands, and have
been repeatedly invited to accept them
or any part of them. Both these parties
have held their national convention
and made platform directly opposed
to the principles involved in these de-
mands, but in favor of concentrated
wealth and monopoly. The Economist,
as the special champion of the great
common people, cannot longer call upon
the people to make sacrifice of their
feelings for the old party they have long
loved so well, with the hope that there
is the least shadow of a chance for them
to receive any relief whatever from it.
1t has uncovered its own wicked ends
and purposes at its recent national con-
veption, and stands squarely as the
avowed enemy of every man who has
dared protest against the reign of plu-
tocracy by even winlxing at the doctrines
of the alliance. The very substance of
the peoples demands as expressed in
every reform paper and upon every
stump are equal rights to all; special
privileges to none" More money
and less taxes And this doctrine
g, l;e4ae4af,,1 10 tho nh
dominate the democratic and the re-
publican parties that they have an
nounced fight on the great peoples
movement that shall know no compro-
mise 1t must be crushed out of exist
ence they say. What does it mean? II
means that the great common people
who love this government and have
fought for it's principles, if they are
honestly devoted to the principles OF
truth taught and advocated by Jeffer.
son, Webster, Calhoun, Clay, jackson
and Lincoln, no longer are welcome in
the ranks of the monopoly-ridden ma.
chimes which mask under the names ot
the parties represented by these illus
trious men of history
Has the Economist changed its base
then? No, not at all. It is fully. firmly
and completely devoted to the cause Of
the people, and will never swerye from
that positions but both old parties have
placed themselves in an attitude which
excludes alliancemen from membership
unless they stultify themselves by sub
ordinating their principles to the party
policy. 1t remains to be seen how many
such alliancemen they will find. Not
many; and they are more than vel
come to take all such, because they
would be of no value in the comma
struggle.
One thing is certain; the Economis,
cannot ask any man ta fight for the ALI
aAce demands in either of the old par
ues, because they have both turnet
them down, and made support of th.
demands and support of new part,
Ior the people, synonymous Call /
peoples party, independent party, peo
pies union or what you please-excep
taird party; it is not that, because ther,
IS no longer any issue between the OLE
parties; they are allied In the employ O
monopoly 70 beat this young giant o
the people, and there are but two sides
monopoly and anti-monopoly. It mat
ters not that the monopoly side ha,
two parties with different names