Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-15
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

The monopoly party, like the pro-
slavery party of Kansas, dies hard, but
it dies just the same.
Had it not been for the solid pha-
lanx of the populists in the house the
bill to repeal the silver purchase act
would have passed.-Creston ia In
dependent
The spectacle of little Dan Lamont
in the important office of secretary of
war will furnish a fine theme for some
writer of burlesque opera.-Marion
(Kan.) Times
"A great many people at the late
election were so afraid that they could
not get what they wanted, if they voted
for it, they went to the polls and voted
for what they did not want and got it
Queer world this--Iowa Tribune
The Minnesota senate. by a vote of
"a to s, has approved of a proposition
to amend the constitution by providing
for tax not to exceed 5 per cent on
all inheritances above such sum as may
be exempted by the legislature. Van
guard.
What has the present congress done
for the people? Nothing. absolutely
nothing. 1t has appropriated money to
the extreme limit of prospective reve-
nue., but has done nothing to reduce
taxation, increase the circulating me-
dium or lessen the burdens of the peo-
pie. 1t has left many huge steals in
embryo to be matured by the soulless
schemers of the next congress-notably
the demonetization of silver and the
Nicaragua canal steaL.-Butler MOI
Union.
Even old Dan Voorhees,, of Indiana,
has gone over to the money power,
after his many brilliant speeches in be-
half of good financial system. The
other day in the senate he voted with
old John Sherman for issuing more
bonds to pile up gold in the treasury to
redeem greenbacks, when there is now
and has been for fourteen years, one
hundred million dollars in coin kept
there idle, for the alleged purpose of
redeeming greenbacks that nobody
wants redeemed. Missouri World.
Why not try the populist reform
plan of finance for one year. Give us a
circulation of at least $50 per capita of
gold, silver and legal tender paper.
There is not the least bit of danger in
the experiment The other plan has
been on trial for six thousand years.
and to-day there is not nation on the
face OF the earth that is not worse than
bankrupt If our plan made it worse
than it is, we should at least have lit
tie variety to relieve the monotony of
(Mo. Industrial Union
The Missouri legislature has passed
the abridgement of rights bill, provid-
ing that no employer, superintendent
foreman, or other person exercising
superintendent over any mechanic,
engineer, fireman, switchman, baggage
man, brakeman, conductor, telegraph
operator, laborer or other workman,
shall, by contract, agreement or au-
thority, bind, compel or coerce any en-
ploye into withdrawing from any law
full organization or society. A pen
atty of from $50 to $1,000 fine is pro-
vided for each violation.
1t has been given out as cold fact
that the great reform of the tariff is
to be brought about by Mr. Cleveland
on the following basis: Relieve the
people from excessive taxation, with
out forgetting the interests of Ameri-
can labor, or American manufacturing
enterprises" All the relief that will
come to the overburdened tariff tax
payers by such temporizing policy
will not amount to much. 1t is not
only Juggling with words, but is a
''criss- crossing" of fundamental prin-
ciples 1t will not satisfy the western
democrats who voted the ticket 'just
once more" to settle the tariff question
Peoples Paper.
During the last campaign every
democratic and republican speaker pro-
claimed from the stump and the ros-
trum; every democratic and republican
newspaper reiterated it week after
week, that the tariff was the great
question to be solved before the finan-
cial or any other question should be
thought of, and that the silver question
was of secondary Importance. Now,
since the election, the tariff has
dwindled into insignihcauce and silver
is the great and important question.
Either they lied then or they lie now.
Let democratic and republican papers
and speakers settle that point t-John-
son County (Mo Union.
The man who believes in the doc
trines of jefferson and jackson sur
renders no vital principal when he
comes into the peoples party. The same
thing is true of the old free -soiler who
went into the republican party in it's
origin, because he believed that slavery
was wrong and ought to be abolished
With chattel slavery out of the way,
we have reached the point where there
is no antagonism between the Jeffer-
sonian democrat and the Abraham Lin
coin republican. Both are equally
averse to a government by an aristocra-
cy of any kind. At this time their nat
ural place is in the peoples party, ad-
vocating measures of reform which are
for the best interests of our common
humanity. ty.-Alma Kan. News.
Since the prohibition agitation in
Georgia some two years since, num-
ber of experiments have been in progress
in various parts of the state to deter
mine the relative merits of prohibition,
high license and the dispensary. Pro-
hibition, it is said, is practically given
up as unworkable, so that great in
terest centers in the issue between high
license and the dispensary. Clark
county, in which is located the town of
Athens and the state university, adopted
the dispensary plan, the county itself
taking the whole liquor business into
its hands and selling liquor through an
agent The results of the experiment
are said to be eminently satisfactory in
many particulars The annual report
of the county treasurer shows that the
county has made net profit of s14,OO
from the business, and that there has
been very small amount of actual
drunkenness and few crimes that could
be traced to the abuse of hquor.
THE LABOR QUESTION.