Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-02-08
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

Capital in its organized capacity
commands that labor forsake its unions
or go without employment
We submit that he who seriously
/ repeats the Lords prayer and takes
that which he has not earned, is hyp-
ocrite and the truth is not in him
What is the difference between a
man who dare not speak or teach his
honest convictions for fear that he NAV
lose the chance to earn living, and
that of an abject slave?-Brookfield
! (Mo) Union.
Time and again England has
changed the weight of their coins with
! out asking us Both they and we de-
monetized silver without "a conference.
mo foreign Intervention with our do
mestic affairs. Iowa Farmers Trib-
unc.
How many of the papers that cling
| TO party instead of the people are saying
| anything about the Nicaragua canal
steal? How many? Do you know of
any? Both republican and democratic
| platforms indorsed the scheme-Fav-
| etteville ARK. Libcrator
Looking at it from moral point of
! view, what is the difference between n
man holding wealth secured by force
and that of a man holding wealth Gre
ated by others and secured through
laws enacted by purchased Lawmakers?
Iowa Farmers Tribune
The determination of the Pennsyl-
vania and the Vandalia railroads to dis
charge all freight handlers who refuse
| TO leave their unions has led to the dis
closure of general plan among the
roads to kill the unions off If this
proves true the only effective response
is popular demand for the public own
ership of the railroads. New Nation.
There is bread famine now raging
In Connecticut, and yet we have school
| of political economists which claims
that supply and demand governs the
price of wheat, and that an over-pro-
duction caused the present low price of
wheat It's a queer ''over-production"
that leaves a state crying for bread, eh!
friends?-Marshall (Mo) Independent
Waterman.
In the Arena for April, 1891, APP
peared the following startling figures
compiled for census reports: ''In 1850
fifty rich men each saved 81, $50, 900,
while 1862, 900 poor men each saved
Sl5. Fifty rich mems expenses were
81, 100000 1862 900 poor mems ex-
penses, 50, 996, ,52O, 900. Fifty rich mems
indirect tax burdens were 81. s37, 200;
1862 600 poor mems taxes, SIPS, 649,-
240."
Capital is thoroughly organized be-
cause in a contest it has everything to
lose. Labor is slow to organize and
hard to hold together because it has
nothing to lose. But it has all to gain
We are rapidly becoming a nation of
property-guarders Laws to shield and
protect persons are growing out of
fashion. Servants and property are the
two great divisions - Fayetteville
ARK. Liberator.
If the people had known that over
a million and a quarter votes would be
cast for Weaver, and that half that
number would come from the south,
they would have placed the peoples
party in power, for nine-tenths of the
voters who have given the subject
thought believe it would be better for
all concerned and tend to perpetuate
liberty if the principles which were set
forth in the Omaha platform should be
made to rule the nation. n.-Brookfeld
| (Mo) Union.
Liberty can only be maintained
through the intelligent use of the right
of franchise by the industrial people
Therefore it becomes the duty of all
fair-minded people to inform them
selves and aid others to an understand
| ing of economic laws which should rule
a just government. In this day and
! age no man can do his full duty who
! does not study to make his actions con-
form to the good of his race. To ac-
| knowledge the rule and work for free
and pure ballot is to be loyal to Ameri-
can liberty. y.-Brookfeld (Mo.) Union.
The inheritance tax in New York
state brought into the state treasury
81, 7S6, 21S last year, and yet it is only a
one per cent. tax on direct inheritances
and something more on collateral So
popular has it become in New York
that the tax commissioner will bring
before the legislature this winter bill
for largely increasing it We hope to
see New York's example followed gen.
orally. A very slight inheritance tax,
eXcmpting small estates and increasing
according to their size, would easily
| pay the entire state levy in every state
in the union. Anew Nation.
Cleveland is not looking very close
" to find statesman for his cabinet
from the cotton growing states Six
cent, cotton, the direct result of de-
monetizing silver, don't seem to hatch
out the kind of statesmen he desires to
take into his political family The
chances that they might be tinctured
with the free coinage of silver craze OF
the southern people seems to be the
great obstacle in the way. The solid
south" is Il thing of the past. Gold
basis and cheap cotton has frozen and
busted the solid south" democratic
nest-egg. -Shelbyville QlL) Peoples
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