Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-04-05


anarchy, and although the search for
the highest degree of liberty may lead
us into socialism it will never lead US
into anarchy.-Wasp
The people should continue to push
the financial question, graded income
tax, etc, and make them leading is
sues. 1t is strange that such just
measure as an income tax law should
be so song delayed of Agri-
culture.
If the people of this nation expect
again to enjoy their birthright they
must overturn and drive from power,
state and national, both the repu blican
and the democratic parties. Since 1865
they both have been but the willing
tools of plutocrats, foreign and domes-
tic.-Southern Mercury.
We have noticed within the past
week that some half dozen new papers
have started-all advocating the new
party. Public sentiment is the reason
for their birth. The million voters
who made stand against plutocracy
are receiving reinforcements at a rate
which foreshadows a sweeping victory
in the next engagement - Missouri
World.
Wheat is still going down. The
gamblers intimated that they would
raise the price of wheat if the anti-op-
tion bill was defeated. They did raise
the price the next day, but have been
hammering it down ever since 1t can't
be the millers' and elevator combine
that is depressing prices, for their har-
vest and great power were to follow the
adoption of the anti-option law(D-
Journal of Agriculture.
Interest is at present a means of
centralizing wealth in the hands of the
few. Were the people as a whole to be
the lenders, interest would not concen-
trate wealth, but each dollar paid in
this way for the use of money would be
practically divided among sixty-five
millions of people. The evil of interest
could thus be avoided and at the same
time the benefits of the use of capital
could be enjoyed.-Missouri world.
Gold has been offered to the secre-
tary of the treasury in even exchange
for silver and treasury notes from
almost every city in the west These
offers have been accepted by Secretary
Carlisle to an amount of over ten million
dollars 1t is only temporary make
shift, however, and will prove to the
thoughtful a powerful lesson showing
the weakness of our present Indian
wampum, barbarian, gold basis system
of finance.-Shelbyville QlL) Peoples
Paper.
The peoples party is the only one
that cast votes in every state in the
union at last election. No votes were
cast for Harrison in Florida; none for
Cleveland in Colorado Kansas, North
Dakota and Wyoming and the latter
got but two in Idaho; no votes were
cast for Bidwell in South Dakota, South
Carolina and Louisiana. In a letter
from DIR. Houghton, of Connecticut,
member of the national committee he
gives sixteen as the vote cast in Della
ware.-Industrial News
The business of any country or Sec
tion is just what the amount of money
in circulation there at any given time
makes it If our money volume were
doubled business would take an imme-
diate new life, the soil, climate, seasons
and people all remaining just the same
| as they are now. In other words the
| present stagnation of business is caused
by the dearth in money, not because of
any change of natures laws or of the
wants or desires of the people-San
Francisco Peoples Press
The Wyoming legislature passed
resolutions indorsing women's suffrage
They held that after nearly twenty-five
years trial their state had in every way
been benefited, and especially had
been morally improved They claim it
has made peaceful and orderly cleo
tions, good government and pure pol
itics." Not one county in Wyoming
can boast of a poor house, and their
jails are empty. Surely this ought to
be great encouragement to reform
workers all over our land We say:
'Hurrah for Wyoming!"-Weekly I'm
1, ion.
Both branches of the city council
OF Philadelphia have unanimously
passed resolutions asking congress to
provide for the ownership and opera
tion of the telegraph and telephone
systems of the United States by the
government. Thus, men who have not
been in sympathy with the peoples
party movement are led by actual
knowledge of the abuses of corporate
privilege to recommend the only effect
ual remedy, and in doing so they are
uuconsciously stepping upon our plat
form. Such things constitute the most
hopeful signs of the times. Advocate.
The real object which Wall street
expects to gain by the issue of bonds is
not to increase the stock of gold in the
| treasury, but to secure a convenient
method OF converting government paper
into interest-bearing bonds Having a
corner on green backs the banks would
draw the gold out of the treasury to pay
for bonds. As fast as they turned the
gold into the treasury to pay for bonds
they would by demanding gold for gov
ernment paper draw it out again to
purchase more bonds This is the Wall
street scheme and the prospect is that
leit will be successfully carried out to
considerable extent = Alma Kan. J
| News.
Equal Suffrage.
The concurrent resolution submitting
the constitutional amendment granting
right of suffrage to women upon terms
of equality with men has passed both
houses of the Kansas legislature and
has been signed by the governor. The
people will vote upon the proposition at
the general election of 1894 So plain
al act of justice should not need a
single word of argument in support of
it Ii there is any reason under heaven
why the amendment should not be rati-
fed at the polls we are too dumb to
know what it can be. The proposition