Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-01-06
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

O6 DJ mas D6en palQ SIX times dlTed0yS
and is now being paid the seventh?
Compute the interest and the original
principal and see.-Arena
On every hand we hear of the issue;
some believe it is the tariff, others the
currency question, but, the fact of the
matter is, it is principle VS. the almighty
dollar.-St Louis Monitor.
France, with population of one
ha of that of the United States, has
greater amount of money in circulation;
still there are fools who talk of an in
fated currency.-St Louis Monitor.
The peoples party is more demo-
cratic in purpose aud principle than
the democratic party, and more repub-
lican than the republican party. This
is why sincere democrats and republic
ans are joining it.-Exchange.
Under our plutocratic system of
finance the government loans its credit
to the banks and paws them interest
on the loan The banks loan their
credit to the people and charge them
interest on the loan. In both cases the
people foot all the bills and the banks
reap all the benefits. Advocate.
"A friend said to US few days ago:
"What does it mean? Every body is
talking on certain lines. Even my
barber talks to me on social questions.
Are we undergoing social transitionp"
We answered him in the affirmative,
and called attention to the fact that
water ALWAYS commences to boil next
to the fire. e.-Iowa Tribune.
just now great deal is being said
and written about the irrepressible con-
fict between capital and labor. The
Mercury suggests that it would be a
good form to begin to discuss the diff
ference between the capitalists and the
laborers. If the discussion should veer
around till it gets on this ground, it
will be the first requisite necessary to
an amicable solution of this vexed
question. Mercury.
The election of Crisp, as speaker of
the house, was glorious victory for
the better eleme 1T of the democratic
party-we mean the progressive re-
form element. We feel confident in
saying that the alliance members will
receive due recognition at his hands.
He is a silver reformer as well as q
tariff reformer and believes that the
party should not plant the white flag
to the gold bugs. gs.-Weekly Toiler.
Every alliance congressman. who
was elected as an advocate of the Ocala
demands, will stand by those demands
at all hazards. They will not go into
any party caucus on any question op-
posing these demands, because no
party has any right to make such
measure the subject of caucus agree
ment Again, every individual member
has perfect right to stay out of any
caucus he may choose. Econ
omist.
David B. Hill has made a speech.
It was a great speech; but the brave(?)
de mocratic pI'ess OF TIC sLs,Ss hvvs1
knew it. Yes, the governor of New
York has declared for free coinage
for the free coinage, if you please, of
the 371H grains silver dollar-the "a
cents silver doliar-tae very same sill
yer dollar demonelized by the repub-
lican party in 1878, and the same silver
dollar Grover Cleveland said should not
be coined free.
banking is the chief factor in the
mechanism of exchange. When the
producers of wealth, have sufficient in
telligence, to provide themselves cur
rency at cost, by which to effect ex-
changes, pay debts and employ them
selves in producing what they consume,
tfrey will then be masters of the situa-
ton. And until they do this, they will
be compelled to pay tribute to banks
and moneyed syndicates in the shape OF
usury, for the privilege of exercising
their natural rights to exchange the
wealth created by their labor.-Ad'
vocate.
The alliance congressman and SEN
ators in Washington are the happiest
fellows at the capital. They will not
be pulled and hauled around by men
seeking federal appointments They
are the only genuine, straight goods
representatives of the people-the
masses-the producers have in Wash
ington. We have nine members in the
house and two in the senate, who are
the real and only representatives Of
the people who produce the wealth OF
this country. The other members anC
senators are the representatives of the
banks, goldbugs, railroads, corpora
tions in general and the mach inc pol
iticians. Tribune.
The old parties have all the advan
tage of the political inertia of the
masses. Hundreds and thousands oi
men remain republicans and democrats
because they haven't the time anC
energy to become independe ents. L
takes time to read. 1t takes braiI
work to solve political problems. /
takes originality to step out of the olC
ruts and take a new line of action
Hence the Independent ranks contain
the men of thought, of originality, o.
courage. The Independents are inves
tigators; they are political inventor
and discoverers: they are the radical
of the age, and through their actions
the human race is going to take its mex
great forward step.-Nebraska Inde
pendent
Although there is circulating me
dunn of SOL per capita in France, ant
the ruling rate of interest is three pc
cent, there is less complaint of strlu
gency in monetary affairs. A PROPOSE
ton is before the legislative bod,
of the cou try for the governmen
to loan money to farmers on thei
lands at two per cent. interest an
it is likely to become a law, thougl
not very much necessity exists for il
France has long since learned that
high rate of interest is not conduciv,
to the prosperity of her agriculture
aud instead of allowing set of col
morants to feed upon it and destroy il
as has been done in America, ever
safeguard, protection and encourage
ment is given. Besides such favorabl
legislation as is kept upon her statutes
an appropriation of $50. 600, 600 annr
ally is made TO encourage and develo
her agriculture. France Is model 70
uS-Little Rock lark Farmer.