Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-03-16
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
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- ne convention ana the regular
nominee have lost their charms, and
the party lash its potency.-Southern
Mercury.
Whenever our business men come
to understand the principles contended
for by the peoples party, they will as
suredly support tthem.-Pittsbu burgh Kan
san.
If the people have got as much
sense as the honey bees they will drive
the drones from the hive and let the
producers enjoy the fruits of their toll
Exchange
The senate coinage committee has
made an adverse report on the free
coinage bill, Carlisle, the democratic
leader, being one of the democrats who
voted against it
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So long as worlxingmeu vote for the
causes of the evils thev suffer, so long
will they enjoy the luxury of having
evils 10 complain of-Journal of
Knights of Labor.
Government money. government
railroads and telegraphs and govern
ment lands-these are the demands of
the people, and ''by the eternal they
Money is redeemed by individuals
every time it is used to pay debt, or
as medium of exchange of material
wealth. 1t is redeemed by the people
or government every time it is received
| for dues or taxes.
So long as the seventy-cent silver
dollar buys as much bread and pays as
much debt as a one hundred-cent gold
dollar the gold bugs may howl their
heads off, but they cannot make the
workingmen or farmers believe that
the gold dollar is any better than the
silver dollar -Pittsb sburgh Kansan.
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Members of the reform party can
be consoled when the epithet lamar
chist'' is hurled at them by the repub-
lican leaders, for in the ''60's" when
republicanism was in its infancy the
same epithet was applied to them, and
with equal bitterness-and yet they
are with us to-day.-Great West
MANY a business man who would
gladly double or quadruple the wages
of his workmen, did his competitors do
the same, is forced to close his eyes
and his heart against the misery and
want of our modern civilization, be-
cause to do aught else would mean
ruin to his business-Iowa Tribune.
Demand shorter hours, struggle for
higher wages, fight pauper immigra-
ton, legislate against monopolies and
quarrel about the tariff till Jay Gould
turns phiIanthropist or till doomsday,
but so long as the system exists that
puts ninety seven per cent. OF the
wealth into the hands Of three per
cent of the people no relief will come.
journal of Knights of Labor.
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1t is refreshing to hear the gold
bug organs talk about the ''absurdity
and infamy' of the free coinage of sill
yer. when the decentralization of that
metal in 1873 was so infamous that the
principal actors in it protest that they
did not know what they were doing
and the president that signed the bill
denied that he understood the effect Of
the measure. re.-Progressive Farmer.
Two weeks ago the Globe Demo
crat told the cotton raisers of the south
that the world could use Z, 800. 600 bale:
of cotton but not $500, 900, and if they
persisted in raising so much they mus
expect to sell it for what they could
get. Last week the school census
taker reported that 10000 children il
Chicago could not go to school fol
want of sufficient clothing. OF such il
the kingdom of-.-Alliance Tribune
The Sentinel says: THE silver
measure proposed by Mr. Bland, wer,
it to become a law, would instantly
put our currency on silver basis, ant
reduce the value of every life insur
ance and every deposit in the saving
banks of the country by not less thar
one-third." If the SentinePs logic i
correct, and the Advance does not dis
pute it. then bv a parity of reasoning
it will increase the value of land an,
labor by one-third. How do you lik
your logic?-National Advance.
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Roger Q. Mills when in opposition
though free silver momentous ones
ton, and in his own words "had ad
vocated it in and out of congress; an
had voted for it." But now, since th
democratic party must square itsel
by the Wall street standard or run
campaign without Doodle, why he SAYS
sfree coicage of silver would not i
the slightest manner relieve the f1nar
cial distress of the country" The
why did he advocate and vote for it
Mills reputation as a monume 1ta
demagog e will soon be made.-Huro
Is. d. Ruralist.
The fondest hopes of the most eal
nest lover of humanity have been rea
iZef in the action of our convention i
St Louis. A mob err, grander decfar;
ton of principles and demands wa
never penne1. Cool, calm and earnes
it is a terrible arraignment of the ol
parties It's very simplicity and direc
ness; its man assertion of huma
rights; its eedom from bunco1nb an
jingoism will commend 1t to the hear
of all thoughtful lovers of their cour
try and their kind. On that pi attorl
we can elect president next Noven
ber Let every one 60 to work at one
The plutocrats or the people must pc
ish. Alliance Tribune.
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Thomas Watson, the peoples par
mem Der from Georgia, has intro luce
bill into congress authorizing the e
penditures of the 500, 900. 600 in go
held to redeem the sa46. 600, 900
greenbacks now ia circulation. Seer
tary Foster recommended such
measure last summer oil the grount
that ':the SS46. 600, 900 greenbacks a
full legal tender and the g I'D
therefore not needed to redeem the z
But Foster and all the rest of Il
cabinet and the president and vel
large majority of the old party mel
bers of both house aud senate W
Jump onto Watson's bill with bo
- feet, as cranky, wild and faaa tica
measure. Osborne News
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