Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-03-23
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES


The Georgia alliance will stand
solid on the Ocala platform and will
support no man or party that does not
accept these demands-Southern Allt
ance Farmer.
There is good time coming when
no foreigner shall presume to own
land In the United States The soil
belongs to the toilers, not to the spoil.
ers-Iowa Tribune.
After the two old parties have
made up their platforms and declared
against free silver, where will those
democrats and republicans who be.
lieve in free coinage goP The door of
the independent party stands open.-
Nebraska Independents
"A government has as much right to
defend its peoples lives from hunger as
1t has to defend them from death by
foreign bullets. The Russian govern.
ment would not hesitate to ask loan
prosecute war; it could easily OBJ
tam loan to obtain wheat for its
starving people, an the United States
could easily supply the wheat taking
kussia's notes for the food supply.
truth.
What grand platform we have
got-the best ever promulgated in
America Read it carefully, paste it in
your memorandum book and carry IL
along with you-it is good diet for the
hungry. Now organize peoples clubs
In every township and school district.
Don't lose any more time-organize at
once AMI begin the fght-plutocracy's
forces must be downed this year.-But-
Ter (Mo.) Weekly Union
The Standard Oil Co. has recentIv
advanced the price of coal oil in To.
peka 2x cents per gallon. Their agent
here says they sell about 10. 900 gall
Ions per day, so that by simple turn
OF the wrist the people of this city are
MADE to pay $3.50 a day more than be.
lore for light. 1t is also said that oil
could profitably be supplied at five cents
gallon; If true, we are paying $3.50 a
day more than we ought.
(kan.) Alliance Tribune.
Mr. Harter, of Ohio, sent ont cir.
culars to all The G. A. R. posts warning
them of the infa nous schemes of tbe
SILVER men who wanted to pay their
pensions in 20 cent dollars How he
Ao'os 'h0 soiuier! lie was equally
vociferous in denouDcing the miner
who, he said, would take 20 cents worth
OF silver and get 100 cents for it. but he
failed to show how the 100 cents AGAIN
became 20 cents when paid to the
soidler on his pension. on.-Congressman
clover, In Pittsburgh Kansan.
The next president of the United
states will be named at Omaha This
state ment will be denounced as bun.
comb by the press of both of the old
parties, but it will be found to be cor.
rect The discomfort of the industrial
classes is widespread and their upris.
ing Is Almost universal. The color
line Will be wiped out IL the south,
and the peoples ticket will sweep this
country like a cyrlone. There is-ne-
power upon the face of the earth that
can resist the forces now concentrating
In this grand movement of the people'
Advocate.
The people need banks, but thew
should be government banks. The
power which national banks now have
TO issue substitute for money and tar
the people for its use is wrong and
must be abolished Not only theoretic.
ally, but practically, national bankers
i've on the interest of what thew owe
They issue their own promises to nav
and loan them to the people at what
ever interest they can get A national
bank note is good" only because
backed by the government. II wouId
oe Just as goo1 note were the national
JAM not in it, and would not cost the
people from ten to fifty per cent per
annum to keep it in circulation as IL
now does.-Iowa Tribune
The n 1nconformist takes no mart
in the mourning over the suffrage
plank at the hands of the conference.
At no time have we considered IL
good politics in any sense to embody IL
as a part of the platform. At the
same time there exists no stronger adj
vocate OF woman's rights than this
paper For twenty years the soldiers
have murmured about so many resolu.
tons and pension planks, only for
them to prove SO Intellectual they lose
their fine flavor In Kansas, in 1890.
the peoples party had neither suffrage
nor prohibition in their platform. Yet
as soon as their represen tatives gained
control in the house they passed the
most liberal suffrage law that ever
passed any body. The women know
the sentiment of this movement and
they have sense enough, upon re-
hection, to agree that for good politi.
cal reasons they will get Justice much
quicker for not making it an issue to
nght over in this election -Noucon.
formist.