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A PRETENDED ISSUE.
The Two Old Parties Are waging a sh

The Two Old Parties Are Waging n Sham
Battle Over Less Than Five Per Cent.
The Galveston Union Workman seems
TO be greatly exercised over the phrase
''pretense of an issue" employed by the
Mercury with reference to the tariff
question, and feigns to think that the
Mercury favors protection. The posi-
tion of this paper was well defined on
that question before the advent of the
Workman. We stand fat-footed on the
resolution passed at the Indianapolis
session of the Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial Union, which demands that
congress shall put all cotton goods on
the free list This is farther than the
democratic bosses go. Again, we in
dorse the st. Louis conference platform
adopted last February, which reads:
I'VE demand that all national and state
revenues shall be limited to the neces-
sary expenses of the government, econ
ornically and honestly administered.
The tariff is not the most vital cues
ton Money, land and transportation
are all of more direct Importance. Tariff
Is an indirect tax, and should be re-
duced to revenue basis for federal
purposes only, placing all the neces-
saries used by the masses of the people
on the free list, as demanded by the
alliance. What we object to is that the
money power, lodged in the east, is
using the two old party machines to
prevent the people from considering
any other question. Such a course is
solely in the interest of plutocracv.
in the interest of the creditor
class, the bondholders, n.-4-
owners and money ls-A = gage
na..- spare no pains or ex.
--Ase In magnifying the tariff question
even to distortion, and thus by neglect,
ing and ignoring the more vital ones
tions OF currency, land and transporta-
ton, tariff is strained into sspretense
OF an issue And the worst of it all is
that the two old parties do not intend
70 do anything. The ..pretense of an
issue between them now amounts tc
one-fourth of cent a yard on calico
ana less than five cents on the dollar on
the entire tariff list If this is not q
pretense of an ISSUE" what could be:
The Mercury is not only in favor of an
agts,al and decided reform of the tariff.
but OF other reforms as well We mean
what we profess.
The strangest thing is, that so many
papers which are in position to do SC
much for reform, not alone of the tariff.
but all along the line, blindly follow
their party bosses" and sectional pref
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WILL AID OUR PARTY.

The Attempt to Force Harrison and Cleve-
land On the Conventions Overdone BY
the Money Power.
In all the strong republican states
where the democracy has absolutely no
chance to secure the presidential cleo
tors, the state democratic conventions
held have chosen Cleveland delegates
and instructed them. But in states that
are likely to go democratic they are
more cautious, and generally send their
delegations uninstructed. The repub-
hcan conventions in democratic states
have also been free to support Harrison,
while in republican states they have been
more cautious. In national elections
votes are of no value in states where
the party is in a majority; it is states,
only, that count. And it is now plainly
evident that the prominent thinking
men of both parties are beginning to
fear and quake and tremble at the au-
dacity of the plutocracy in forcing upon
them, in spite of the protest of the peo-
pie, Cleveland and Harrison. The in
fiuence and the money of the plutocrats
is brought to bear in favor of the nomi-
nation of these two men, because be-
tween them they have no choice, and
consequently it would not be necessary
for them to spend any money in the
election. Verify all things tend to
make the third party success.-Na-
tional Economist.
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CHURCHES.

NHRISTIAN.-Prcach every sunday al
~ IL O'Clock, n. m. and 4 go p. m, by Elder
J. Y. Nicholson. Prayer meeting every We'd
nesday night sunday school at 10 clock n. m.
every Sunday. Pastors residence at the par
sonage study at the chapel,
METHODIST AL.-Servicesevery
4NA Sunday at IL 90 a. IN. and 80 p. IN. Sun
day school every sunday at TO- M Prayer
meetnA every Thursday evening at $50.
Strangers Invited. }. NJ. ARCHER, Pastor.
DRESBYTERIAN.-Se .-Serviceseverys sunday AT
= II a. IN. and 80 p. IN. Sunday School al
10 a. m.
TATHOLIC CHU URCH-Services once ever,
~ month in the Gobiele buiiding on North
Main street. REV, % hARA, Pastor
NERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN-Hold res.
" uiar services at Minyoaa, Barber county,
the second and fourth Sundays in each mouth
At Forrest school house on the second SUNDAY
Cedar Creek school house on the third Sunday
BY Elders Shamberger. Smith and Neher.
OT. MARKS MISSION.-Sunday school al
~ $3.50 O'Clock on every sunday afternoon, IL
the g. A. II. hall. Children please come.
PAPTIST-Preaching 1st and3rd SundaylI q
- m. aud at 800 p. m, every sunday. Sun
day school at Is o'clock. a m. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening of each week. Rev. w. A
Cain, Pastor. Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave
nd Cherry Streets.
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FARMERS ALLIANCE.

1t is just little disgusting to find
so many reform papers advertising plu-
tocratic organs for the sake of a paltry
exchange, or offering to club with such
organs so as to catch few subscribers
in that way. There are plenty of re-
form papers and magazines to club with.
Don't aid the plutes in scattering men
tai poison. Advance.
The alliance presidents and execu-
tive boards of the F. A. and l. T. of all
the southern states and Oklahoma met
at Birmingham lately in secret confer
ence and unanimously decided to hold
the organization solid for the peoples
party. The democratic vote on the sill
yer bill has done its work. Now for
united country.-National Advance
They tell us the dollar will buy
more now than ever before. 1t will
buy more of some things. 1t will buy
more labor and products of labor. Will
it pay more debt, more interest, more
railroad transportation or freight cr
taxes than it would in former times?
These are questions for the common
people to consider.-Topeka (Kan.) Ad-
vocate.
The members of the Farmers Alli-
ance are not troubling themselves
whether the democratic nominee shall
be Cleveland or Hill, nor whether the
republican nominee shall be Harrison
or Blaine. Those two parties are MAX
ing record in their nominations, and
when completed it will be inspected by
the people who, at the same time, rest
@11a
home to go to if they do not like either
one.-National Economist.
Remember, before you denounce
the sub-treasury plan, that at present
| every fall there is terrible depression
in all other business, because money is
taken away from them to move the
farmers crop. Then stop to think that
with currency increased proportion
ately with the size of the crop, that the
present volume of money could stay in
the channel of ''other business" de-
preston be avoided, business increased,
and good times prevail. Think of it.
Alliance Watchman.
The Acorn. of Marshall, Ill, makes
the good suggestion, and we heartily
second the motion: ''Let the peoples
party celebrate the Fourth of July all
over the country and at every point
where they can obtain kilograms from
Omaha on that day it should be ar
ranged for them to do so. If the old
rutters want to kick because we favor
mixing politics with our Fourth of
July celebrations, why, let them kick.
We are going to make just that sort of
mixture, jeremiah, and you fellows
can't stir it with ten foot pole, either -
ST. Louis New Forum.
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LAND MONOPOLY.
ohtaxed occupancy and Use Should BE tn.
Only Title to Land.

Untaxed Occupancy and Use should Re the
Only Title to Land.
The natural resources of the United
States are simply gifts of the Creator to
all the people. The object of govern
ment should be to secure to all. from
the highest TO the lowest their inalien-
able right to share in these bounties of
tod The poorest man who drags his
weary limbs through city strAc.;,s or
along the country roa0s 1oo,,;na fo-
~. 49, - .ae esa~ of any other man so
mis- natural right to develop
wealth and share in its productions is
concerned. This is what jefferson
meant when he said ''that all men
are created equal;" and this is what
the peoples party mean when
they declare that the LAND, in
Guiding all natural resources of wealth,
is the heritage of the people, and should
not be monopolized for speculative pur-
poses" The resources of this country,
which do not owe their existence to
either the hand, or the brain of man,
are capable of supplying labor with
work and wealth-there are not men
enough in the state of Missouri to de-
velop her resources-and yet the state
contains thousands of men who cannot
find work for their hands to do.
The land and that contained
within it was created for use
purposes by tenants would either
cause such properties to become vacant,
force their owners to sell, or else operate
in the same manner as would the single
tax Suoh . tax could not be shifted.
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SCIENTIFIC TAXATION.
Does the Single Tax System Possess thu
Perfection Claimed For 1t By Its AdvO

Does the Single Tax System Possess the
Perfection Claimed For 1t By Its Advo-
Gates?
Since the publication of my series of
articles in reference to the single tax,
have noticed several communications in
print, criticising my views, and have re-
ceived various leaflets and pamphlets
with paragraphs marked to call my
special attention thereto.
All of these communications and
marked paragraphs seem to aim at the
one single object of emphasizing a GER
tain line of argument which is succinct-
iy presented in marked paragraphs in a
leafiet sent me by Mr.. J. NJ. McGarvan,
of Denver, Col.
The paragraphs are found in leafiet
entitled Taxing Land Values" by Mr..
Henry George, and read as follows:
That taxes levied upon land values, or to use
the politico economic term, taxes levied upon
rent do not fall upon the user of land AMI can
not be transferred by the landlord TO the ten
ant, is conceded by all economists of reputation,
However much they may dispute as to other
things, there is no dispute upon this point
Whatever himsy reasons any of them NY
nave deemed il expedient to give why the tax
on rent should not be more resorted TO. they all
admit that the taxation of rent merely dimin-
ishes the profits of the land owner cannot be
shifted on the user of land, cannot add to prices
or check production
Here, for instance, is piece of land that has
vaue-let it be where it may. Its rent, or
value, is the highest price that anyone will give
for Tit is a bonus which the man who wants
TO use the land must pay to the man who owns
the land for permission to use it Noso, II a tar
be leried on that rent or ralHe this in icse ad
to the ,ciuiHgness of any to pay more for the
tdRd than before; oeS H in any tcoy add to
the ability OF the olrner to demand more To sup
pose, in fact, that such tax could be thrown
by land owners upon tenants, is to suppose that
the owners of land do not now get for their
land all it viii bring; is to suppose that simply
whenever they want to- theycan put up prices
as they please.
The comical phase of the situation is
that there seems to be an effort made to
disabuse my mind of ideas and theories
l never dreamed of entertaining and
certainly have never advanced. To this
misapprehension seriously object As
a small boy might say: 'T want show
for my white alley"
For instance, the above argument
bears upon a point in reference to which
| have been either entirely misunder-
stood, or else purposely misrepresented
/ have never even intimated that the
single tax would be added to presen;
prices and thus Increase the price of all
goods, wares aud commodities offered
for sale. have readily conceded that
the trend of the argument seemed ia
prove that prices would be decreased by
just the sum of the tariff and rev
enue taxes and all direct taxes levied
upon buildings and goods, wares and
merchandise. Indeed, as the rent Oh
value tof landl is the highest price that
any one viii give for its usen and the
single tax takes all such rent as tax,
- q Fs4s ssOuIa sznzsZy % =.
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PRESIDENT POLK.
He is Solid For the Cause Of the People
Despite Falsehoods.

He is Solid For the Cause OF the People
Despite Falsshoods.
The daily press Is always sending out
some fake from Washington about the
alliance.
Its latest is to the effect that Presi-
dent Polk is advising the alliance to 60
back into the democratic party.
This lie is too plain upon its face. No
one who knows Polk would for an In
slant credit it Polk Is open and strong
for the peoples party, and says that il
is the only hope of the people
This report. however, shows to what
extent the lying, subsidized press VIII
go.
They report democratic meeting six
times as large as it is, and any other
meeting about one-sixth OF what 1t hon.
estly is. This is their style. They are
paid to do It this way, and it must b
done in no other style.
Don't let any of our people be fooled
or discouraged by any of these lying
sheets. Stand solid to your colors, and
- =, ---i, - tbe and A1
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ODGE KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE Is, 1892 NO.
NO. 4.

udices. and refuse to say one word for
reform, except about tariff; thus assist
ing, perhaps unwittingly, the plutoc-
racy to perpetuate existing conditions
which are gradually impoverishing tn e
people; slowly but surely absorbing all
property, forging the chains of tenant
ry. want, ruin and moral degradation,
which, when consummated, will bring
the end of the republic-Dallas, Tex,
Southern Mercury.
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The above is a cut of the instrument used by
DR.. Terrill in the eXamin alton for Catarrh and
all Nose and Throat diseases. 1t enables the
Doctor to show his patient the condition of the
affected parts, and III needing treatment eX-
planning It's necessity. The doctor will guaran-
Tee u cure in every case of Catarrh he treats.
You can be treated at home, Instruments and
medicine furnished.
DIR. Terriil has just returned from Chicago,
where he has been taking course in the Post
Graduate School, also special cousc in cleo
ricity, this being the second course Of the
Kind the doctor has taken within the last two
years. The doctor is the only physician i'm the
southwest who has taken taese special courses
In electricity, and Is consequently the only one
familiar with its latest scientific application.
DISEASES OF W0MEN-Dr. Terrill has
made diseases of Women "A speciality for y
years, and has all the late Instruments halter
les. electrical appliances, etc, FOR their sue
cesSful treatment, including FibrOid IumOrs,
LaceratiOns, displaCements, EnGrgCmeuts,
Prolapsus, UlceratiOns, Leucorrhea diseases
of the Ovaries, Painful, Irregular or profuse
NERVOUS DISEASES-Dr. Terrill wishes 10
call the attention of those suffering from merry.
Gus diseases, Paralysis, Nervous Pros;ratinn,
Seminal Weakness, etc, to tire wonderful cur
ative effects to be derived from electricity
when scientifically applied. and desires to state
| that he fully restores lost power and vigor in
! either sex, and positively gual antees cure IN
| the last mentioned disease.
The Doctor has the four different batteries
used ~ medical treatment. VIZ: \ Is inch fofi
| plate static Battery, also hity Cell Cabinei
Galvanic and taradic Battery, also the Anglo
| American Cautery Battery and the Caldwell
cr Aneshettic Battery with which the Doctor
will cure Head Ache or any ain Tin minutes
| free of charge. These batteries are the very
| best manufactured.
To young and middle-aged men:
"A SURE CURE. erGes. Fss q SEfg '.i'r
| ~ vice which brings organic weakness, destroy
: ing both mind ana body, with all the dreades
| ills permanently cured.
| SKIN DISEASES-All kinds cured where
! 0thars have failed.
HYDOCELE AND vARIC0CILE-A cure il
every case. No cutting.
RHEUMATISM SM-Positively cured by the aic
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PILES, FISTULA-And all rectal disease
| cured. No knife, no paiu A cure guarsinteesi
URETHAL STRUCTURE quickly and per
mauently cured by Electroysis. No cutting
no pain. no money until cured.
SYPHILIS-Ihat drea led disease OF man
| kind quickly and permanently cured by ths
new treatment without the poisonous drug,
| # hygone days.
| DR.. Terriil's success is based upon facts
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Ihird-Medicine are pre- pared IN his iabratory
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/ ton.
Twenty furnished rooms for the accornmo
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i5S Worth Nam ST. Kchaa, Kansas.
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GEN. WEAVER'S BOOK.
"A CALL TO ACTION"
JUST OUT, PRIcE, S1.5O.

Contains twenty chapters, as follows:
The Senate; The Speaker OF the House:
Supreme Court; ImproVldent Disposal
of Public Lands; Finance in War and
Peace; The Gerry Mander, with Orig
inal Caricature; The Silver Problem:
Evolution in Crime. or Improved Meth
ods of Piracy; Public Debts; A Com
parison-Rome, Britain and the United
States; Finance and Land Ownership:
Dives and LaZarus-COntrasts; Trusts;
The PinkertOns; Transportation Prob.
| lem; National Banks; The Su5-Treas-
ury: Remedies Considered; The Great
Uprising its Interpretation -TheCoun-
try $ Cali to Action; Danger and Duty
This book discusses the great ques-
tionS now pressing for solution from an
| original standpoint, and differs from all
other works extant in its treatment of
public questions.
NO VOTER SHOULD BE WITHOUT 1T.
The following testimonials speak for
! themselves:
LINwooD, LEAvENwoRTH Co, KAsr
| GIN. J. D. WEAVER, Des Moines, Iowa, Ny
| Dear Sir: ! have read your book with the
greatest Interest. No other publication ap-
! prOaches ii in the presentation of our cause in
| a bisto;1c and o2ical form. From Is to '6S |
was resident engineer of the L. p. railway
Kansas Division. and hence familiar of my
! own knowledge with the real cost and methods
OF railroad construction. For ten years after
that had to great extent the sale and con-
| troll of the land interest of the Company, both
| Congressional and Indian Reservation, hence 1
know that in these matters you speak - by the
| card. Ii was a carnival of robbery and cor
1 ruption. and its extent and enormity so great
| that II ls difficult to make people believe that
such a state OF affairs could exist, or that the
same Influences are steadily al work. Yourex-
pose OF these things can not fail to be of great
| oeneflt. and for one, desire most heartily to
| thank you. Union of Church and State would
| horrify the people. III they can be brought to
! see the insidiOus union of the State and corpo-
| rate money power thar is being consummated.
| far more dangerous and threatening to their
/ liberties, they would assert their rights and
| power one man.
| have given away the copies got of you at
| st. Louis. TO good men who are still lin bonds y
| tnd inclose money order for copies more.
| ter the same purpose.
am, with highest regard. yours sincerely,
| W. A. HARRIS.
| Mr.. W a. Robinson. of Girard, Kas.. writes:
Your chapter on the Supreme Court is worth
! more than the price of the book.
The Daily News. Des Moines, Ia. says:
1T abounds in thought and important infer
! nation from cover TO cover, concerning our
| corporation-Tidsien country, and should be read
| ny every one. "
/ Kept IN Stock at INDEX Office.
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COAL AT COST.
Why Not Nationalist the Coal Mines In th .
Interest of the Whole Peonla9

Why Not Nationalist the Coal Mines In the
Interest of the Whole People7
The Reading anthracite coal combine
covers only the Pennsylvania mines and
chiefly affects consumers east of the
Alleghenys and the lakes West of
this region there are abundant supplies
OF the cheaper bituminous coal which
has not yet been taken in hand by a
combine. On account of the greater en-.
tent of the bituminous coal fields,
spreading as they do under many states,
1t will be matter Of greater difficulty
to bring about an effective conspiracy
among the mine owners. If, however.
the anthracite combine proves the tre-
mendous money-making success II in
showing itself, can any one doubt that
the bituminous mine owners will pres
sently be getting together on a similar
basis?
II eastern manufacturers may hope
for the moment to escape the exactions
OF the Reading combine, by adapting
their furnaces to bituminous coal, and
ordering from the west, they certainly
cannot expect to find permanent relief
in that quarter. II, again, the western
consumer, not being immediately at.
fected by the anthracite combine, Ia
tempted to be Indifferent to the plight
OF the eastern consumer, he will soon
discover that he is in the same boat
with him The south Is not so depend
ent as the north upon coal for domestic
consumption, on account of the warmth
OF the climate, but its manufacturing
interest would receive serious set back
from the general cornering of steam
fuel which is impending.
Let west and east and south unite al
Omaha In resolution, demanding In
the interest of the freside and the fac.
tory alike, national ownership and oper.
alton of the coal mines and the supply
of the people with coal at cost.-New
Nation.
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Ouite n Mtstak..

''of all the contrivances for cheating
the laboring classes of mankind none
have been more effectual than thai
which deludes them with paper money
1t is the most effectual of inventions
for fertilizing the rich mans field with
the sweat of the poor mans brow
Daniel Webster, as quoted by the Chi
cago Herald and reprinted by the To
peka Capital,
"When all our paper money Is made
payable in specie ON demand it will prove
the most certain means that can be usec
to fertilize tie rich mans field by ths
sweat * the poor mans brow."-Daniel
nebster, as quoted by Leland Stanford
recently in the Senate. hattaI
kan Republic
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IS YOUR TINE oura

If this notice is marked with
an x il shows that your time
has expired. Please notify US
of the fact If you want the pa
per continued.
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pILEi PILES! rILEs..l

Try Beggs' famous German Salve
1t relieves at once. Sold and warrant
ed by j. r. Young and j. ID. Karr.
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X d ELDRED POST, No. ia, meets
u, "A, M 2d 4 4th Saturday in each month
OF the court house la Medicine Lodge, at 7. N
All comrades cordially invited.
l.. Il. WILLIAMS, Post Commander
john w. UPPERMAN, AdJutant.
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ENSIGN ENCAMPMENT No. 69, L. o. o. +
Meets first and third Friday of each month
Visiting Patriarchs cordially invited to attend
s. L. ALLEN H.P. q. X. HARRIS, &. L.
w. II. ROUSE, 5. W. j. G. WALSTAO, ).
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NAOMINo.s 81. REBECCA DEGREE I. o. o r
Meets the I'd aud 4th Wed. nights, each month
Mrs Il NJ. ALLEN, N. q,
MRs. AUG. SCMJDT, Secy.
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CIRCULATION.

The Index" has, and can
prove the largest circula-
tion of any paper in Bar
ber county.
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DELPHIA LODGE, No. li0, K. of p, meets ON
Monday evening of zach week, at the n. of T..
hall. Visiting Knights in good standing inVi-
ted to attend. j. NJ. bAhEf, =. Y.
A. NJ. HoUCHIN, X. of II. & ).
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SOCIETIES.

CYPRUS CHAPTER No. SO, Il. a. M, meets
I'm Masonic Hall every 2d and 4th Thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
CHESTER /. LONG, II. =.
T. B. PECK, SccY.