Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-03-09
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.


Push the currency, land and trans
portation questions-an the other rem
edies that are needed will follow. Keep
right in the middle of the road-South-
ern Mercury.
With 81, 1000 millionaires and 2, 900, =
600 tramps, this ought to be happy,
prosperous country, but it is not Two
millionaires and 81, 900 tramps would
be more to the point-Progressive
Farmer.
Webster defines the word ''plutoc-
racy" as follows: "a form Of govern
ment in which the supreme power is
lodged in the hands of the wealthy
classes alone; government by the rich;
also a controlling or influential classes
of rich men"
The great political econ omists who
solve the economic problems for them
asses" who are too ignorant to do their
own thinking, are just now busily en-
gagged in explaining to the poor mort
gage ridden people of the south that
they are suffering from an over pro-
duction of cotton. Nebraska Independ-
emit
There is no question that the aver
age citizen desires to be right politically
and to cast his ballot for the best inter-
ests of the people. If you can reach
his reason and conscience through a
rational presentation of the truth you
have a convert who will not waver in
the hour of political excitement.-Ex-
change.
Every man VINO believes that gov
ernments are instituted to serve the
interests of the governed, the great
est good for the greatest number, and
not only believes but supports measures
tending to effect that end, is a demo-
GRAFT 1t is not preaching, it is acting,
that solves the problem. It is not
collar we want but the principle. -
San Antonio TEX Truth.
If Hill receives the delnocraJlc nom
ination for president, German can have
his manufacturing industries protected
by tariff, Cal Brice allowed to work
the Tennessee convicrs and Tammany
permitted to continue to plumber the
tax payers of New York City. 1t is
great victory" for the alliance. Of
course "Crisp is not much of factor in
the situation" 1t is all a matter of
method" to bring the silver question to
y
but bring 'er to the front 1--WE shall
see what we shall see. National Re-
former.
On the floor of congress Jerry Simp-
son, backed by eight men, good and
true, challenged both democratic and
republican congressman to point to
single law that had been enacted in the
interest of the wealth producers of the
country for the last twenty years, and
not one of them dared accept the chal-
lenge. Think of it, oh We men who go
into Mysteries at every election for fear
your darling old party will be defeated
The man who will, with willful blind
ness, vote himself and family into pow
erty at the dictates of party boss is
certainly stranger to the instincts of
true manhood. "A liance Tribune.
The man who thinks that the CEN
trail idea of this great reform move
ment is to cheaper goods is badly in
the dark; and the man who is trying
to cheaper goods that he must buy is
also trying to cut down still lower the
earnings of the people who create
them. Vote for a system that will re-
move all the leeches, the land sharks,
the loan sharks, the railroad sharks,
the trust sharks and all other sharks,
and you will soon find that wages will
rise, the products of labor advance
everywhere. wealth be better distrib-
uted, the hours of labor would shorten,
more time for reflection and self-im-
pFoYement- chill esAbor would vanish,
there Will be more comfortable homes,
etc. If you want a better system vote
for it -Exchange.