Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-02-15
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

who cause the hard times, scarce money
and suffering?-
The federation of labor is to enter
into an educational campaign, and de-
sires the use of public school buildings
for the use of labor meetings
John G. Carlisle has been converted
to the anti-silver throng of fnanciers.
He has resigned his place in the senate
to be secretary of the treasury under
Mr.. Cleveland This is probably merely
coincidence.-Iow Farmers Tribune.
With due respect for the opinions
of those who may think state banks
beneficial, we again enter our protest
against any such legislation. Take the
tax off if you want to, but establish no
more state banks of issue.-Raleigh
| IN. c. Progressive Farmer.
True happiness in this world is only
found in the effort to render the lot of
some fellow-being happier one. The
lending of helping hand to your poor
er neighbor is a fundamental principle
of the alliance. Do you carry it out?-
Columbia Is. c. Cotton Plant
ALL economic and governmental re-
forms must spring from and receive
their support from the laboring classes
The wealthy are making fortunes by
| present systems and want no change,
and induce the ordinary politician to
prevent any being made. Memphis
| CTenn.) Weekly Toiler.
The election of Stephen M. White,
democrat, to the United States from
California was accomplished over the
dead body of a man who was elected as
populist-Kerns, of Los Angeles
Yes, over his dead body, for traitors
and sell-outs are ever worse than dead
Iowa Farmers Tribune.
Nothing but party spirit prevents
| Cleveland's taking Sherman into his
cabinet The man who cheated the ma
ton, and in 1878 surreptitiously passed
the act under which demonstration of
silver occurred, is fit minister for the
president who opposes the setting aside
OF that act San Francisco Press.
What a cowardly lot the democrats
are! With everything their own way
they dare not repeal the Mckinley law
or declare for free coinage. Eighty per
cent of them were elected on platforms
pledging them to do both these things
They are cowards and the year 1896
will see them cleaned out.-Road
john Sherman, as the counsel for
the Nicaragua canal subsidy scheme, is
quite modest His bill only asks for
bonds sufficient to build the canal and
pay the company's debts, but it pro-
vides a surplus fund of $12, 600, 600 to
divide up among the men inside the
pool. Sherman knows what he is
after.
Brethren of the south should take
some good northern reform paper, and
| brethren of the north should read the
southern papers in addition to their
own. This would post each as to the
| work and hindrances in each section
| and bring us into closer fraternal rela-
tious with each other.-Nashville
(Tenn.) Weekly Toiler.
1t is evident that the only way to
suppress poverty is to increase the
quantity of wealth, and that wealth
can only be increased by the applica-
ton of labor. Hence, the very essence
of this association is the employment
of labor. Everything else in it is sub
ordinate and auxiliary to this object -
| Warrensburg MO Labor Exchange.
The education and organization of
the laboring classes are actually neces-
sary to enable them to tear off the
shackles that are being gradually fast
ened on them. That farmer or laborer
is short-sighted who fails to see the
necessity of organization; and he is
hard of hearing if he does not hear the
clanking chains plutocracy is forging
to bind the masses. St Louis Journal
of Agriculture.
Senator Perkins was in Topeka all
the time Jerry Simpson was there and
remained one week after Jerry left, but
republicans did not waste any tears
over the sad spectacle of a United
States senator neglecting his duties at
Washington. Even the so-called demo-
cratic papers lamented Simpsons pres
ence at the state capital, but not a
word did they say in condemnation of
| Perkins.-Clay Center (Kan-) Dispatch.
Congressman Springer's amend
menu changing the mode of electing a
president does not propose a direct
vote of the people but merely does away
with the electors It proposes that the
minority vote shall be counted in each
state and cast its proportionate amount
of electoral votes Had the Springer
plan been in force during the recent
election the electoral vote would have
been as follows: Cleveland, 211; Har-
, rison, 1873; Weaver, a.; Bidwell, 6. AS
Cleveland lacks $50, 900 of having pop.
ular majority, the election would have
gone to the house of representatives
The gold-bugs are concentrating
, their forces in the present congress.
They are now ostensibly working for
the repeal of the Window silver act
Gen. Weaver, in the last issue of his
paper, warns the friends of silver that
this is not their real intention; that il
this act were repealed then the Bland
act would again be law and that Is
much more favora bic to the white metal
9 than the present law, for it made silver
j legal tender 1t is probable that the
conspirators intend to repeal the clause
providing for the purchase of bullioI
and leave the law unchanged in Other
respects ts-Aberdeen Is. d. Star.
Our national executive boarC
', deemed the bond presented by L. X
Taylor, the national secretary, INSULT
cient and refused to accept it. He re
turned from Washington to Lincoln
county, and we suppose he is gettin,
! up another bond L. X. Taylor is
lawyer by profession and became eligi
BILE to membership on the grounds tha
he was editing a reform paper at Fay
etteville and ceased practicing law
Since he is no longer an editor of an,
paper. and not being a farmer or
: farm owner. the question was present
). ed to the national executive eommitte
as to whether he is now eligible t
membership under the constitution
y We are informed that the question viii
!. be referred to the national judiciar
]. committee for decision.-Nashvill
(Tenn.) Weekly Toiler.
4 PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY.