Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-05-25
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

ALLIANCE NOTES.
An equitable system of taxation
that will compel men to pay taxes in
proportion to their ability to pay is a
needed reform that should not be lost
sight of.-Our Best Words.
Up to May /, sub-alliances in the
State of North Carolina to the number
of $50 had indorsed the st. Louis plat
form and declared for independent
political action.-Exchange.
The silver dollar is legal tender for
only So or under. Make silver dollars
legal tender for all debts, public and
private, and issue greenbacks to three
times the amount of the free and un-
limited coinage of both gold and silver.
This will give us $50 per capita, and
will settle by practical test which kind
of money the people prefer.-Noncon-
formist.
If there be any so foolish as to sup
pose that the mortgages are not being
paid off, let them look over the leading
papers of this city last week. The
News contained 26 sheriff's sale no.
tices, the Interior-Herald A, and the
Gazette 10, making a total of so. So In
a few days there will be so mortgages
paid off Now let the fools who have
been claiming that the mortgages are
not being paid off, shut up.-Hutchin
son (Kan.) Alliance Gazette.
Says the Mitchell Is. d. Gazette
Georgia, Florida and North Carolina
are sure for the peoples party. Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and Texas are forging
ahead at an unprecedented pace. The
peoples party will come very near tC
electing the next president" Dom
say Every near" Just take pros
pective glance at the political history
of this country back to 1860 and com
pare then with now. Are not the
signs of the times pointing more
favorably to complete turnover
now than then?-Butler (Mo.) Weekly
Union.
President Polk, Of the Farmers Al
lance, says that the real political issu'
of the day is the reform of the entir'
| financial system of the government, anC
| that this reform must come before eX
isting evils can be corrected. He look
upon the free coinage of silver, tax re
| form and the sub-treasury scheme a
mere make shifts that would not brin
| permanent and lasting relief to the pre-
| ducing classes. President Polk is right
Usury, upon which our entire monetar
system is founded, is the giant evil tina
curses our land to-day and is the paren
of all other evils of which the peopl
| complain.-Our Best Words.
| The present move of the people i
! not spasmOdic or convulsive effort, a
| the two old parties and hired allies d
vainly hope. 1t is but the PHILOSOPHERS
result of existing conditions; it is tn
voice of the great and mighty people;
is manifestly and Enthusiastically a resul
of educating the popular mind in politi
cal and economic measures. Our peopl
are a reading, intelligent people, an
! when their viii is recognized, and tn
power of money and corporations t
rule, oppress and enSlave is broker
such results will be succeeded by a
era of peace and prosperity unparallele
in the history of a nation.
| Cause.
The following are the county all
ances which have indorsed the s.
Louis platform, so far as heard from u
to hour of going to press: Burke, Cha
ham, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin
CASTOR, Iredell, Moore, Richmond
Rockingham, Wake, Warren, Tyrrel
Catawba, Sampson, Wayne Duplil
Chowan, Bertie, Wilson, Johnston
Pamlico, Mecklenburg, Forsyth, Pei
der, Allegheny, Brunswick, Perqu
mans, Cleveland, Pasquotank New Hal
over, Cabarrus, Montgomery, Jone
Mcdowell, Martin, Yancey. Up to tn
has not indorsed the demands.-Raleig
IN. c. Progressive Farmer.
Prior to the call for the June co
vention of 1890, in South Dakota, whiC
decided for indie pendent political actio
a letter was sent to every alliance, as
ing an expression of the wishes of tt
majority. In replying nine-tenths askt
that the step be taken. In the electio
following the republican vote of tt
previous year was cut down from "a, o.
to "a, 1000 The democratic vote from q
600 to $4,000, and the independen
l., polled over $4,000. To-day the streng
) of both old parties is wasted away al
no good judge will deny that the pc
pies party will carry the election.
not be afraid to trust the people. G
ganize Lift up the standard and t
masses from both the old parties w
come to it. Party lines will be light
) men when home and children are
ke.-NonconformiSt.