Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-05-04
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

Congress has lowered itself in the
estimation of the people Of North Caro-
lima by its failure to pass the silver bill
The people will be trif1ed with no long
er. They will begin to act for them
selves hereafter.-Progressive Farmer.
1t was spectacle for gods and men
to witness, to see the Wall street demo
Gratis receiving instructions from ex-
Speaker Reed how to flibuster against
the free coinage bill. The people should
know that the republicans and demo
Gratis Of the east joined forces in defeat
ing free eoinage.-National Economist.
The democrats of the Missouri house
indorsed Cleveland for president, there
by declaring in effect that If they can
help it no increase shall be made in the
money volume, not even by free coinage
of silver. Get together, you who favor
an increase in the money volume; get
with the new party in hurry.-Mis-
souri, World.
Wealth is the creation of labor. The
mission of government is to protect the
creator of wealth in the undiSturbe
possession of it. There is little game
called financiering, and little power
of government termed class legislation,
which have been working in co-opera-
ton to secure all the wealth created by
labor, while the laborer is kept in
penury and want.-Alliance Herald.
The resolutions continue to pour in,
and they are all one way. Everywhere
the people are indorsing the ST. Louis
conference, and propose to stand to-
gether in this movement. The old poll
ticians are absolutely astounded at the
solid front being presented against the
machine in politics. 1t has been veri-
table Bull Run" among the politicians.
Atlanta (Ga.) Southern Alliance
Farmer.
The plutocratic element of the
democratic party of South Carolina is
preparing for a contest in the approach
ing election. It is disregarding the
action of the state executive committee
and all the features of the regular or
ganization, and seems to be intent upon
launching a new party in that state.
The Tillman party seems to be very
thoroughly intrenched and not liable to
be hurt by the Wade Hampton boilers.
Alliance Herald.
The Kansas City Star (dem.) says:
''The vote on the silver question was a
gratifying surprise. The barrier which
prevented the passage of the Bland bill
is, without any doubt, the well known
firm opposition of Mr.. Cleveland to any
legislation of such nature. Tariff, not
silver, is the issue of the time" The
St Louis Post-Dispatch (dem.) says:
''Their (the free silver men) defeat now
will certainly be followed by the nomi-
nation of Cleveland or some man of the
same views"
The newspapers of the country NAV
ridicule it as they please, but the fact
remains indisputable that Senator PET
fer's bill for creating fund for set
ting our army Of idle laborers at work
on extensive public improvements, and
thereby removing the strongest incen-
tive to crime among the poor" is, next
to Secretary Blaine's reciprocity scheme,
the wisest and most statesmanlike
measure that has been proposed since
the war. Every consideration of the
best political economy, of humaneness
and self-protection combined to urge the
passage of Senator PETERS bill or some
equivalent. t."-Atchison (Kan.) Cham
pion.
The mighty forces at st. Louis
needed not the behest of any man or
men to unanimously unity. The time
had come. The positive element en-
bodied at st. Louis will rapidly aggre-
gate to itself in the south and west the
negatives who are repelled from the
warning factions in the old parties. AS
the weeks and months roll by the in
evitable result of these conditions will
be made manifest. The entering wedge
will of its own weight cleave the old
parties and open the path for the
united peoples party to walk into the
White house. 1t is only short run
from st. Louis to Washington.-Char
town (Mass.) Times.
The partisan political campaign is
getting red hot in Texas, notwithstand-
ing election day is seven months off. It
is noticeable that in all the votes taken
on preferences, reported in the dailv
press, the rural population are not con-
sidered. They are, however, carefully
watching events, and preparing to take
lively hand at the proper time. The
Mercury would suggest to the political
prophets to put their ears to the ground
and listen. There is an ominous silence
which usually precedes the storm. Free
men will not follow fools or towards if
they know it. Some of the last legisla-
ture would do well to pin this in their
hats.-Dallas Southern Mercury
This is no time for hating and
pickering, but for action. The ques-
tions now pending before the bar of
public opinion are of great moment.
They must be settled; and upon the cor
rect solution depends their perpetuity
of this greatest of all republics.
Reader! you are an integral part of
this government! Which side will YOU
be found on, that of human rights or
for the interests of plutocracy? You
must answer by your action! If you
love home, family, country, and princi-
pies more than party name you will de-
fend the st. Louis conference platform
with your voice, and vote likewise. II
you are a slave to prejudice you will
stick to the machine. Dallas CTex.)
Southern Mercury.