Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-06-07
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.


ccpital.
Labor alone makes capital of any
service to mankind.
Eternal vigilance" is as much a
necessity now as it ever was.
Money has only statutory value, -
SO said the supreme court of Iowa.
ALI the value that money has as
money is ''in the stamp and not in the
material"
1t is not enough that we read the
lessons of history We must learn to
apply them.
Before which shrine are you bow
ing to-day-the golden calf or the
golden rule?
Deeds, not creeds, will take fore
most places in the thoughts of men in
the coming century.-Iowa Farmer S
Tribune.
Failures all over the United States
ere piling up, and still the administra-
ticn continues to redeem silver certifi-
Gates with gold. Pile on Mac Duff
Cleveland. We think you'll yell, ''hold,
enough in 6.-Independent Watch
man.
-Demonetize gold, make silver coin
age free and issue few hundred mil
lions of full legal tender greenbacks
and it will teach the gold cranks of this
country lesson on intrinsic value that
they are sadly in need of.-Farmers'
Tribune.
circles resulted in the failure of large
number of business firms as well as
banks-national banks, too. If Uncle
Sans people could catch on to the fact
that this greatest financial system of
ours is fraud, things would be differ
ent.-Advocate.
The gold dollar is dishonest dol
lar, because the material from which it
is made is SO limited that it can
easily be ''cornered." And SO long as
men are dishonest and we are big
enough fools to retain it as the stand
ard of values, men will corner it and
it will continue to be dishonest-F
er's Tribune.
Where the demand for an article is
imperative and the quantity limited,
the price will go up and all other things,
as measured by it, will fall in price
How blind to his own interest is the
man who would make medium of ex-
change out of such an article, unless he
was largely interested in the product.
Gold is that article.-Farmer's Tribune
In the Pennsylvania legislature, re-
Gently, two bills were reported, one ap-
propriating $3.50, 900 to increase the eff
tciency of the state militia, and the
other to protect the union label The
first was reported on favorably by the
committee, and the other tabled with
an unfavorable report. Corporations
got in their work against abor in both
the above cases.-Tacoma wash Sun.
The Issue, of New Orleans, the
organ of the laborers of that city, reads
the unions Il lecture on voting and
tells them that if they mean what they
say in their platforms they should be
found in the industrial legion, the only
semi-secret organization that has for
its purpose the securing at the ballot
box the demands of the people. Louis
lana VIII have many legions before the
summer is over.
President Cleveland is understood
to be half persuaded to call the pro-
posed extra congress to meet in June,
instead of September. If this pro-
gramme is carried out, it is expected
that congress will remain in session un-
til July and then take a recess until
October, escaping the months of Au-
gust and September, which are usually
the most disageeeable and unhealthy
months in Washington.
The Kansas City Journal is gloating
over the fact that a few stalwart dem
ocratic papers are springing up in Kan
sas. 1t fails, however, to tell that the re-
publican Doodle fund is being drawn on
for the grease" with which to run
these papers. The republican party is
growing very generous in its dying
hour. 1t is even supplying the funds
to keep alive one or two pretended pop
ulist papers.-Clay Center Dispatch
We notice a great many of our ex-
changes are abusing the Jews because
they are speculating on the miseries of
this country. This is all wrong. The
Jews are not the ruling class of this
country. Go to work and change our
laws; then their trade, that is com
planned of will be gone The man who
complains all the time, and is not will
ing to vote to help himself, may have
good sense, but he has mighty poor
judgment-Lamar (Mo) Industrial
Union.
We are told that if we enact certain
legislation we will drive capital out of
the country. People seem to think we
should legislate to invite foreign cap
n tn n1lrS Sh
have done so. AS result the earnings
of that capital must now be exported
to the home of those capitalists. Gold
is the commodity they demand for ex-
port; we cannot mine enough gold to
supply that demand. Hence the vir-
tual premium on gold. ld.-Pennsylvania
Farmer.
How can we restore the value of
silver? by free and unlimited coinage
of silver. England by law establishes
the price of gold. The bank of England
is compelled to take at that price all
gold offered. That fixes the price of
gold throughout the civilized world.
If our government would coin for its
owners all silver delivered at the mint,
no owner of silver would sell for less
than It's coinage value. All silver here
and elsewhere would then be worth it's
coinage value and the original price of
silver would be restored.-Pennsylv
mia Farmer.
1t must be apparent to the honest
rank and file of the democratic party
by this time that the fellows who are
in the saddle are no better than their
republican predecessors whom they re-
Gently unhorsed. They are all COM
mitted to gold-bug policy, and the
only hope of change is for honest men
of all parties to join hands with the
peoples party and overthrow the whole
outfit. The Wall street end of the re-
publican and democratic parties con-
trolls both of them They are one in
all things except in name, and he must
be blind who cannot see it.-Topeks