Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-05-18
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

line county Alliances IN AldDana
are unanimously indorsing the St
Louis platform. Jefferson county, in
which is the great city of Birmingham,
had only two dissenting votes.
So the republican platform has
dwindled down to honest money" and
the democratic platform has simmore1
down to tariff REFORM" and each pair
OF words is what they call principles
But If you ask any of them to explain
the principle involved, they fly right off
the handle and begin to abuse the
calamity howlers." We would rather
be calamity howler than a nonentity.
Topeka Tribune.
There is very common error cur
rent that the silver bullion bought by
the government must be paid for in
gold. The law of 1890 provides that the
bullion purchased shall be paid for in
treasury notes, and that these notes
shall be redeemed in gold or silver coin
at the discretion of the secretary of the
treasury 1t is the discretion" of the
Wall street treasurer that makes the
mischief. ef.-Nonconformist
The soldiers and sailors of this ma
ton saved the union for the money
loaners. The money bags ought to pay
them liberal pensions. 1t is not right
to ask the toiling producers to stand
the expense of pensions through tax
alton. Senator Peffer's bill is in line
with good sense. His idea is to tax the
millionaires through the levying of an
income tax to provide a fund for pen
sions.-Denver Coli Road.
The following warning appeared in
the New York Tribune at one time:
''The time is near at hand when the
banks will feel compelled to act strong
ly. Meanwhile very good thing has
been done. The machinery is now fur
nished by which in any emergency the
financial corporations of the east can
act together on a single days notice
with such power that no act of congress
can overcome or resist their decisions.
Great West.
The following North Carolina
counties have recently indorsed the st.
Louis conference: Edgerton, Moore,
Idell, Durham, CASTOR, Burke, Warren
and Rockingham. Previous to the
action of these counties, the st. Louis
platform had been indorsed by the fol-
lowing counties: Chatham, Franklin,
Richmond, Wake, Tyrrell, Catawba,
Sampson, Wayne, Dublin, BERTHE,
Wilson and Chowan. The old north
state takes her time about it, but she
gets into line all square.
Says the Morning Call: Senator
Heacock, of Santa Barbara, is In town
| and says that much uneasiness is being
felt in southern California because of
the Farmers Alliance. The republicans
are beginning to see thu drift of events
and are standing by themselves, but the
danger is not over by any means" We
should say it wasn't-it is just begin
ming. standing by themselves is
good, but in the light OF past events, IL
is not at all unlikely that they will be
obliged to do as they did in Kansas
namely, ''stand in" with the democrats
In common fight against the alliance
| and the third party.-West Coast Mail.
Within the past three years twenty
nine democratic state platforms have
demanded the free and unlimited coin
age of silver. So, over half of the states
have declared in favor of it. The United
States had, by last census, SO, ,262, $50 in
habitants. These twenty-nin states
have a population of 1899, ,1s6-more
than three-ffths of the entire popula-
ton. The remaining states, having a
population of only "a, ,623, ,O06, are divided
on the question. This makes it plain
that at least two-thirds of the people In
the United States are in favor of free
coinage. Yet, after all this, all these
pledges, the democratic house, with
clear majority of 14S members, aided by
Is republicans and peoples party men,
came to a tie vote on the bill.-Progress-
i've Farmer.
Gen. Weaver estimates that at the
close Of the rebellion there were %, ,O0O,-
900 people in the north using the cur
Ireney then in circulation and 10000, 900
IA the south not using it. The cessation
Iof hostilities added forty per cent. pop
Iulation to the number using the curren-
ley, and there should have been a pro-
portionate increase of currency, instead
OF the decrease that was Immediately
and most unwisely begun, and kept up
ever since We have now 65, 900, 900
population with less circulation of cur
rency than when we had really only
25, ,O00,0 900. This has led to contraction
of values, depression of business and
hard times, and the remedy is to in
crease the currency and keep increasing
it as population increases.
(Kan.) Gazette.
Livingston is reported to have said
repeatedly at Washington that he could
come back to Georgia at any time and
in a half dozen speeches put the alli-
ance and peoples party where he
wanted them. In word, he thought
he carried the alliance in his vest
pocket. He knows his mistake now.
Less than one hundred people, all told,
turned out to hear Livingston at Deca-
tur, the day after his defeat at Douglas
Vile Even his Atlanta crowd had de-
serted him, and not man from the
counties roundabout did him the honor
to go to hear him speak. The demo-
Gratis have got the worst of it in every
joint debate yet held, and they know it.
They are demoralized and desperate
and only keep up courage by the mos
reckless Misrepresentation of the facts
regarding the meetings held-Atlanta
(Ga.) Peoples Party Paper.
'Rah. 'Rah, ,Rah,
To the rank and file in the old parties
who manage to find in their politica
fealty and faith distinction without &
difference: 81 challenge you at thi
moment" said Rayner, of Maryland, il
his speech on the tariff bill in the house
on the 18th. ito eliminate the issue O
revenue reform and to give m,
single definition that viii distinguish
the two parties, the one from the other
'Rah for the republican party; 'Rah
'RahI 'RahI 'Rah for the democratic
party; 'Rah, 'Rah! .Rah!-Tiger r-rl!,-