Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-04-12
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.


"A party that is afraid to convene its
congress to carry out its promised re.
forms is fraud and a cheat and viii
be SO branded by an indignant people =
Iowa Farmers Tribune.
The pure-elections bill passed BY
the Missouri legislature and signed by
the governor is in the right direction.
1t provides for limiting the campaign
expenses OF candidates, the object being
to abolish bribery in elections as far as
possible.
If workingman is idle and hungry
he is liable to arrest and Imprisonment
for vagrancy. Why not arrest those
well dressed fellows who, without visi
BILE means of support, feed and fatter
on the best in the land. Fresno (Cal.
National Spectator.
Give us a chance!" was the chorus
OF the democracy before the election.
The people will have sufficient cause tc
give that party rest four years from
now if tangible results are not forth
coming-and Cleveland's veto on an ex
ira session is bad Indication
souri, World.
The law prohibiting what is known
as the gold clause" in notes, mort
cages and other obligations, and max.
ing silver as well as gold legal tender
for all debts in Kansas, is measure
for which the populists of the legisla
ture deserve credit Republicans
fought it viciously.
Stick to your old party. Don't read
don't think; don't do anything that
might be looked upon by your wealthy
neighbor as cranky" Take your med.
icine, if you are poor, and conform to
all demands pleas antly, and by and by
you will have to secure permit tc
breathe Gods fresh air-Road.
MY agency in procuring the pass
age of the national banking act was
the greatest mistake of my life. 1t has
built up monopoly that effects every
interest in the country. 1t should be
repealed. But before this can be ac-
complished the people will be arrayed
on one side and the banks on the other
in contest such as we have never
seen in this country. ."-Salmon P.
Chase
Henry Clews, of Wall street saws
that ''the disposition shown by some in,
terror banks to give their gold to the
treasury in exchange for it's notes is
satisfactory in more ways than one .
Yes, but he fails to state that it shows
that the people have as much conf
dence in the governments paper money
as they do in its gold money, and much
prefer to handle it.-Journal of Agri-
culture.
We have been quoting quite freely,
of late, from the St Louis Republic.
Not that we cannot find scores of fully
as able editorials in our many reform
journals, but that we may enable our
populist readers to prove to their demo
cratic friends that the ablest democ-
cratic journal of the west comedies that
populist principles are just and right
eous. Then, in case the Republic eats
crow and becomes a defender of that
which it now condemns, it will be
handy to quote the Republic against
itself.
Grover Cleveland's inmost soul is
stirred up with woe in regard to the
poor man, for fear he will have to take
cheap dollar. In the name of high
Heaven! do we have to be insulted with
that old chestnut, cheap dollar for
ever? Does he not know that the world
is full, running over with cheap men
and women, and that all sacred ties of
humanity, Christianity. education and
civilization are calling in tears of woe
and supplication for dear men and
women and a cheap dollar?-Lamar
(Mo) Industrial Union.
The first purely and distinctive
populist measure became a law under
the post office appropriations. Hon.
Tom Watson forced an amendment onto
that appropriation bill which granted
$40, 900 as a fund for experimenting in
free rural postal delivery. This will
not be attempted in villages or cross
road towns, but among the farmers
absolute. Mr.. Watson thinks this ex-
pertinent will develop into a general
free delivery among the agricultural
portion of the country. AS it now
stands the farmers help pay for delivery
of mail in cities from three to ten times
each day. Is it any more than fair that
the farmer should have a chance at
some of those favors? Mr.. Watson
thinks it is not and hence this expert
ment. National Watch man.