Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-04-19
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES


must Loyalty support the nation, but
not look to the nation for support
Money is now the government in
stead of that government being the
provider of money for the use of its
people.
-Gold-bugs and protectionists have
been telling us for years that free trade
and free coinage would drive all the
gold out of the country. Why don't
some of those wise statesmen tell us
what it is that is driving gold out at
the present time?-Clay Center Dis
patch.
All the money in the world would
not pay our debts, and the people can
not earn enough to keep the interest
paid. For these conditions the two old
parties, which have controlled the
financial policy of our government, are
responsible.-S Francisco (CaL Peo-
pies Press
The Kansas Trust and Banking Co,
of which ex-senator Ingalls, was presi-
dent, has failed for about l,O0O 00O
and the hopes of depositors have be-
come an ''iridescent dream" Another
evidence of the general prosperity per-
vading all departments of business and
another argument for government
banks of deposit
Railroads are glad to haul postal
car which would accommodate sixty
five people for only five times that mum
Der of dollars, all the way from New
York TO San Francisco. 1t would of
course be rank socialism to suggest that
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future has in store for people when
they begin to think what the ballot box
is really for.-Junction City Kan.
Tribune
At the end of the civil war we
were the most prosperous nation in the
world Plenty reigned throughout our
land There was enough money to
properly carry on the business of all
our people To-day, outside of the cap
itaiistic class, it is nearly impossibl BILE to
find a man who is not loaded to the
guards" with debt. Nothing pays and
interest is compromising. San Francis
co Peoples Press
The Atkinson House Furnishing
Co, of Boston, Mass, has failed with
liabilities of 81, 800, 600. The assets of
$3, 100000 The cause assigned for the
failure is ''stringency of the money
market" Thus, one by one they go,
and still the fools will say there is an
abundance of money in the country
and everything is all right Whoop-er-
up for the grand old party. Advocate
The men who are now claiming
that a silver dollar should contain a
dollars worth of silver at the present
market price are the individuals who
fought the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to l, secured its demonetiza-
tion in 1878 and are responsible for its
low price to-day. Gold does not fiuctu-
ate because of free coinage law
What is true of the yellow metal is also
true of the white metal Tie law
makes the money.-Missouri World.
-Paradoxical as it may seem, the
overwhelming majority by which the
democrats have gone into power is go
ing to prove the most direful calamity
that ever overlook the party. If they
redeem their promises to the south and
west, it will kill them in the east, and
vice versa. AT best, the democratic
party, as at present organized, is COM
promise between conflicting elements
and interest, and the same has come to
signify anything or nothing. as you
construe it. Southern Toiler.
The indications continue to
strengthen the suspicion that the gold
bugs in the democratic and republican
parties will get together by 1896 and
that the next presidential ticket will
be acceptable alone to that element
The question will then come squarely
before such men as Senators Morgan
and Pugh whether they will yield upon
the altar of partyism the principles
they have advocated all of their lives,
or will they be true to the people who
have honOred them - Montgomery
(Ala Alliance Herald.
At the city election held in Oakland,
Cal, last week, there were four tickets
in the field-the municipal league, peo-
pies party, democratic and republican.
The municipal league ticket, with the
exception of treasurer and auditor, was
successful, the two offices named being
captured by the populists, who polled
over $500 vOtes-a gain of 1000 votes
since the general election. The repub-
lican and democratic tickets were mot
in it" The Oakland Populist had a
picture of rooster, in its last issue,
Growing over the result - Missouri
World.
If the courts should permanently
enjoin labor organiza tions from making
use of the strike and boycott, as now
seems probable, such organizations as
have relied upon these weapons as a
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be deprived of their cohesive power
The crisis is bound to come Their
only recourse to avoid dissolution, is to
adopt the principles of political action
advocated so persistently by the
Knights of Labor and the Farmers AL
lance, which recognizes the ballot as
the most effective modern weapon in
the irrepressible warfare of labor
against the aggressions of its oppress-
ors.-Junction City (Kan) Tribune.
-Convertibility of property is the
touchstone of the financial condition of
people Human senses demand va
rious means of qualification. Not only
do men get hungry, but their bodily
comfort demands clothes A man NAV
be rich in clothes but poor in food, or
vice versa In fact, with the subdivision
OF industry which modern production
demands, one man, as rule, is rich
only in one kind of goods If he can.
not exchange his goods for others to
satisfy his diversified wants, he becomes
poor indeed Hence medium of ex-
change is absolutely essential to civil
lied society. and no civilization can be
permanent in which the medium of ex-
change is monopolized and made the
subject of speculation. = Spokane
(Wash.) Industrial World