Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-01

in effect as compared with the usury
mill.
The people are thinking, and the
legalized robbers and parasites are
quaking
Charity is a great blessing, but ii
there were more justice less charity
would be required.
Put your hand in your pocket and
feel around That is the issue, friends.
and don't you fail to remember it
Road.
The London county council is con-
sidering the question of esta blishing
municipal coal yards and retail at cost
to the poor.
How queer it is that the farmer can
have an ''over-production" of every
thing but money.-Des Moines ia }
Farmers Tribune.
-Laboring men should not forget
that the present congress declined to
pass the anti-PinlIerton bill. The next
congress may be depended upon to fol-
low suit Stick to your old parties
Road.
Direct legislation is the only method
whereby the people can have just such
laws as they need and not be troubled
with the numerous, foolish and unfair
laws which now burden them.-Mem-
phis (Tenn.) Unionist
If n democratic congress repeals
the 10 per cent tax on bank circulation
and inflicts wildcat and red-d dog money
on the country, Mr.. Cleveland's admin
istratiOn will be retired in 1896 in igno-
miny and disgrace. Exchange
The farmer who joined the alliance
and yet sticks to his old party while it
promises nothing and is doing nothing
to carry out the demands of the alli-
ance, shows his bad faith to his busi-
ness interests and his fellow farmers
St Louis Monitor.
The whole question of politics has
become matter of business purely
Bankers, money lenders, bondholders,
and monopolists generally act toge ther,
while the industrial classes remain di-
vided. If the latter would act for their
interests as promptly as the former do
for theirs, reforms would soon be
brought about st. Louis Monitor.
birmingham, England, is larger
than Boston, Mass. The former city
owns its own gas, water and electric
pl?nts. The cost of maintaining them
in 1892 was about one million dollars.
The cost of sustaining the same insti-
tutions in Boston, under separate cor
porate control, cost nearly ten million
dollars Comment is unnecessary -
Road.
On the 9TH inst the populists in the
Nebraska legislature succeeded in elect
ing Judge William Vincent Allen, of
Madison county, to the United States
Senate. He is whopper and square
in the middle of the road. Take cour-
age, boys, everywhere. Senators PETER
Kyle, Stewart and Allen will compare
favorably with any four senators in
that body.
EVERY manufacturer ought to re
member that his fortune was not
achieved by himself alone, but by the
cooperation of his workmen. He should
acknowledge their right to share the
benefits of that which could not exist
without their faithful performance of
duty Not until the capitalist is just
enough to recog nize this truth can he
ever join a group of workmen and feel
himself among his friends. Peter
Cooper.
The Philadelphia Ledger urges the
railway companies to get up petitions
in favor of the repeal of the Sherman
act, and In the same article points out
that the continued coinage of silver
will have a tendency to increase the
wages of railway employees That may
be good reason for the railway kings
to get up petitions for the demoneti-
zation of silver, but hardly good rea-
son for the employees signing them. -
Journal of Knights of Labor.
Steward, of Nevada, has been re-
elected to the senate, but he has
dropped out of the republican party.
Last year he supported Weaver for
president The republicans of his state
recognized that he had left them, and
put up senatorial candidate agains
him. He is returned to the senate
therefore, as populist, or an independ
ent, and in all calculations hereafter a.
to the strength of the parties in the
senate his change of party base should
be taken into the account t-GiCbe
Democrat
The man of moderate means-wortl
his twenty, fifty OF one hundred thou
sand dollars-has nothing to gain BY
siding with the trusts Why7 BE
cause the policy of the trust is to wipe
put the capitalist of moderate means
'the trust wants to fix prices to sui
itself 1t cannot do this when there il
competition in the way, The moderate
capitalist, while he lasts, is a aampet
itor. He, therefore, is marked by tb
trust for destruction and is only help
ing an enemy when he helps the trust
Berlin PA Record.
"A big soatherp city daily, in refer
ing to the anti-option bill. says it
"avowed aim is to benefit one eiass il
the community at the expense OF TN
other" Yes, it is designed to benefi
the masses at the expense" of elias
OF market wrechsrs who sell what the.
do not own. 1t is class legislation oI
the same principle that laws agsiss
highway robbery is-that is, it discrim
mates in favor of the people by protect
ing them, aad against the robbers b
seeking to prevent their depredations
journal of Agriculture.