The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-01-29
ALLIANCE NOTES.

The membership of the Arkansas
alliance has increased nearly $4,000 in
the past year.
California has over 100, 600 mem
bers in her state alliance. and has only
been really In the work about one year.
Great West.
The southern, western and north
western people must unite Il our pres-
ent liberties are to be- perpetuated. -
Southern Mercury.
Gold and silver, forever fuctuating
In their own value, can never be made
an accurate measure of the value Of
other commodities. Smith.
There are 81, 600 millionaires and
1000. 600 tramps in this country. When
there were no millionaires there were
no trampG These two are inseparable.
Journal of knights Of Labor.
TO divide and quarrel among our
selves over details and personalities, ID
exactly what the gold bugs want us to
do Stand fast, therefore, and DO not
entangled again in the yoke Of bond
age"
Tho alliance will hang out little
while longer down In Texas before
handing in its checks Between No
! vember and Is there were fifty-two
sub-a.liances organized in thas state
Alliance Tribune.
Dear dollars and cheap sweat, high
priced money and cheap labor, high
rate OF interest and cheap products
that Is the issue the money power offers
the people. 1t will be accepted and q
fight to the finish win follow.--Alliance
Herald.
George G. Beecher says: 'sIt will
be well with America II the uonopo-
Lists surrender their privileges In season
to prevent social revolution. Prop
the heavens with justice and they will
not fall; make law the synonym Of
equity and there viii be peace"
-Republicanism denies that the gov.
eminent derives its powers from the
consent Of the governed, but asserts
that the people derive their rights from
the consent of the government To
this complexion has the American re-
public come at last-Weekly Kansan.
ITO prove the value Of paper money
we offer the following statement: The
Bank OF England suspended specie pay
ment from 1897 to 1921. For this period
of twenty-four years paper money paid
all debts, public and private, and car
ried England through her wars with
France and America Louisville (Ky.)
Farmers Home journal.
"A little glimmer Of sense has at
length penetrated the thick skull of the
secretary Of the treasury. He has at
last discovered that ',gold is too mar
row base upon which to build the
worlds financial structure" One more
effort, Mr.. Secretary. andsyou will find
that both gold and silver are much too
narrow q base for the same purpose.
Light is breaking. Southern Mercury.
Says an exchange: sTf the :
congress does not pass an unlimited
free coinage of silver bill the money
question will be the top issue In next
years campaign" It matters not
whether free coinage be adopted or
not The money question will be the
chief issue in any event Inreality the
question Of free coinage IL about the
least important OF the peoples party
demands It's adoption would not ma
teriatly increase our currency, and this
Is the all important question before the
people to-day.
The monopolists evidently believe
in sharp competition by those who
live by their labor. because it Is to
their advantage, while they do not
compete with one another, knowing it
to be ruineaa They lay aside individ-
uaiity, form pools, trusts and COM
bines. and thus wealth, constantly con-
centrates, year after year, enriching
the few and impoverishing the many.
And we are told that this Is modern
democracy and fashionable republican,
ism. When Will people learn these
things?-Southern Mercury.
Tho unanimous vote by which I.
L. Polk was again elected president Of
the national farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union shows how much In
huence the Ebellous assaults of the old
party press exert upon the mem ber-
ship OF the organization. Acting upon
the principle that ''the injury Of ona Is
the saAsexn OF all,n the more these
emissaries OF plutocracy attelnpt to tear
him down the stronger will be the de-
termination of the brotherhood to hold
him up. Falsehood and SANDER have
lost their force wherever the educa-
tional influences of the order have ex-
ended.-Topeka Advocate.
Many people say give US . proper
haais fer money. Well what IL the
basis or backing OF . national bank
note? A United States bond. Then
what guarantee Is behind q United
States bond? The governments obli-
CATION to pay. It is the governments
note. Does that make It goodP Ger.
tainly. Then why not issue the gov.
evnmart's potes in small denominations
called treasury notes? If the govern
ment's obligation ID q sufficient back |
ing for the great national banking in
situations why Is it not . sufficient
backing for few millions of circulat-
ing medium?-Weekly ToileN
Secretary Foster lately said to the
hankers' association: II am of the
opinion that, owing to our rapid growth |
In population and wealth and the ex.
traordinary development in all kinds |
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