Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-03-30

Money VI the people
Transportation. BY the people.
-Plow and Hammer.
The 'paper legal tender poison"
that Hill wants to get rid of is what
the people want and more of it It is
poison to Shylockian systems. s.-Mis-
souri, World.
Organize at once for your ratifca-
tions. Spring work will soon be upon
you, when only the politician can hus-
tie. Lose no time. The harvest is
ripe e-Nonconformist.
The tug of war is upon u.s. Let
every man be bold and true to his
cause Not only that bat let him be
willing to sacrifice time for the cause
of reform. m.-Weekly Toiler.
Under the national bank law the
bankers draw orders on the people,
bearing interest and the people are
obliged to cash over. Best system for
the bankers the world ever saw.-Iowa
Tribune.
The two per cent National Union
Cordage Co. (re) bait is not catching the
alliance farmers as easy as the ''one-
half per cent. commission on the gross
sales in the state" caught the business
agents National Reformer.
-"When the trumpet gives forth an
uncertain sound, who shall call to
arms?" But there is no uncertain
sound in the demands of the great in
dustrial conference. The call to arms
is distinct and clear; so clear that every
patriot in the land will wake and hear.
Exchange.
In calling the national convention
for July 4, the St Louis conference
acted wisely. Both old parties will
then be before the country with their
Wall street candidates and straddle
platforms, and nothing that they can
do afterwards can prevent the onward
march of reform. Tribune.
Now is the time for the loyal alliance
man to keep his mouth shut but both
eyes and ears wide open. Every scheme
that the partisan mind can design will
be put in motion to distract and con-
fuse the embership. Keep in line,
brethrenl Don't be decoyed into the
enemy's camp. There will be plenty
of time for you to determine how you
will vote. Don't be led into an organi-
cation and tied!-Southern Mercury.
Intrinsic value is no more an essen
tial to money than a dead locomotive
Is to train of cars. Get up steam and
apply it to the locomotive and it will
pull the train. That is fat, or power.
A mountain of gold would not satisfy
the cravings of one single hungry pau
per. OF course it could be exchanged,
swapped or traded for many things;
but it takes law, fat, the power Of the
government, the will of the people, to
make it money. ey.-Southern Mercury.
The Pennsylvania Railway Co. has
Just published an official statement of
its earnings and expenditures for the
year 1891. Its total earnings are given
as $134, 254, 612, and its expenses S91.
$4,000, leaving net earnings of $40, =
434 952 1t appears that this single
corporation has an income one-third as
great as the nation. Such figures as
these give striking illustration of the
stupendous character of capital combi-
nations in this country.-World-
Herald.
This movement of the producers
and laborers is for equal rights to all
and special favors to none. Every man
who tolls for his daily bread, whether
in store, shop, Office, furnace or field,
is equally interested. The success Of
it means benefit for all Its failure
means heavier burdens, more toll and
less profits to all Buckle on your
armor and fight for your rights and
your liberty, the protection of home
and the freedom of your children.
Alliance Herald.
-"I feel sure that the readiest way
to turn public thought and effort into
this channel (i e., to abolish the pres
ent appalling inequalities) Is for the
workingmen to organize q politica
party. No social question ever getl
fearlessly treated here until we make
politics turn on it. The real American
college is the ballot box. On questions
like these political party is the surest
and readiest, if not the only, way tc
stir discussion and secure improve.
ment. Wendell Phillips
The St Louis gathering was an in.
dustrial conference, not a politica
| convention This fact should be borne
| in mind by the people who are asking
why it didn't nominate a ticket 1
set forth the reforms that the wealth
producers need and are determined t.
have, and it served noticed on ''who
ever it may concern" that if political
funerals are necessary before these re
forms can be gotten, then the tiller
and the toilers are ready to get tn,
corpses ready y.-Journal of Knights O
Labor.
peoples party should remember tha
the government has not dollar an,
cannot obtain dollar which is no
taken from the people by taxation.
We would like to ask this metropolitan
educator on finance if ''the government
cannot obtain a dollar which is no
taken from the people by taxation
where the people get their dollars
We opine it will find the question a
difficult of answer from its standpoin
as the question (which was first, tn
hen or the egg?" is to the deuier of tn
scriptural theory of creation.-Iow
Tribune.
Omaha is the place and July th
time for the nomination of the mex
president and vice-president of tht
OHiICu 4AS COuNOntIOH 10 dS
semble on the anniversary of American
independence has very plain duty t
perform. The St Louis convention G
industrial organizations has agreed uI
on platform that is satisfactory to al
and which all are pledged to stand NJ
on. The convention should plant itsel
Squarely on that platform without an
change, nominate Its candidates an
ad iourn. This course will insure sue
cess. ANY other is fraught with daJ
ger.-Topeka (Kan.) Advocate.
Kept HIS Shirt Dry.
The Fairfield tMe.) Journal heard c
man the other day who took a move
method of keeping dry when caught i
shower. He was cutting bushes ia
from shelter when a shower came ur