Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-29
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.


stood and approved by Mr. Carlisle" !"
Two minds with but single thought,
two hearts that beat as one.-Noncon-
formist
The bankers in all the big cities are
riveting the chains upon commerce and
industry. They are putting into the
notes they use when making loans to
the people the condition that the notes
must be paid in the gold coin of the
United States"
The democrats are trying to get
some consolation out of the idea that
Treasurer Carlisle was once free sill
yer man. 1t would be we'll enough for
them to remember that the devil was
once an angel of light-Lamar (Mo
Industrial Union.
If workingmen need and desire just
laws, they can trust to their employers
to have them enacted At all events,
they seem to think SO, to judge from
the way they presist in voting for plu-
tocrats at the command of their masters.
Fort Worth Advance.
The president says the whole power
of his administration will be exerted
to maintain the public credit We ad-
wise our readers to watch and see if
this does not mean that he will issue a
new batch of government bonds. The
gold-bugs' plan of maintaining the pub
lie credit is to increase the public debt.
Let them try it at their peril Iowa
Farmers Tribune.
The London Economist. a financial
and economic journal, says that all
commodities fell in price for the years
1890 and 1891 seven and one-tenth, and
for this year (1S92) over five per cent
making an average loss of over twelve
per cent in three years on every article
grown or manufactured, gold excepted.
At the same ratio, in twenty-four
years property would cease to have any
value.
The time is rapidly coming when
workingmen will be simply forced int
the peoples praty. 1t is question of
the masses against the classes, and
there can be only two parties. There
will be new alignment, and the re-
publican and democratic parties will
naturally fall into one, in spite of the
claims the politicians are putting up to
keep them apart Spokane Wash. In
dustrial World
The Central Labor union, of Cleye-
land, O., the most prosperous and pow
erful body of organized labor in the
country, has decided to put up candi-
date for mayor of the city, to be voted
for at the coming spring election.
That looks like business and indicates
that the labor unions and federated
trades will go into politics. That is a
fp.ily hot L -
with the ballot.
The attempt to keep down the
money issue has absolutely failed. 1t
is the supreme issue. 1t is the divid-
ing line The republican party's effort
to avoid this issue, it's failure to meet
the responsibility of the times, has OBJ
liberated the party The democratic
party will be forced to take the pluto
cratic side of this issue and it, too, will
go down. The American people will
not long be controlled by plutocracy.
-Creston Qa-) American Independent
There are still those who seem to
be afraid the farm organizations are
going into politics." Those who seem
to be most fearful of this are almost in
variably those who hope to draw the
order into their particular party. Fail
ing in this they raise the cry of 'going
into politics." II is nonsense, and like
many other bluffs is employed for a
purpose, that purpose being to keep the
people out of educational influences.
and maintain the supremacy of those
who are in politics for spoils.
| gressive Farmer
The farmers and laborers have GER
tainly had experience enough in the
past to realize that they themselves
must take the ''misdirected reins of
| government" and work out the peoples
salvation. If this country is to retain
| its much-boasted freedom, a change
must be had and the sooner the better,
for with the gold of Wall street hold.
ing high carnival it will be but short
time until the American workman will
be reduced to state equal to European
serfdom. Farmers and laborers, ''get
move on yourselves" take hand in
| legislation and knock the Doodle office
| seeking system into cooked hat-Ar-
kansas Farmer
There can be no doubt that Grover
Cleveland will use all his power and in
fiuence as president of the United
| States to effect the complete demoneti-
cation of silver. In so doing he will
ignore and override the sentiment of a
large majority of his party. In so do
ing he will drive wedge that will rift
the democratic party asunder. Already
| is the republican party dead in spirit
/ Its monopoly leaders to-day stand
closer to Grover Cleveland than a
majority of his own party. The out
! come will be a new grouping of politi-
cal forces within the next four years.
| 1t will be the masses against the
classes, the great plain people against
the money power. (Neb.)
Acknowledgements
The democratic party owes its suc-
cess to the large labor vote that abaa.
| doned the republicans because of their
persistent violation of every pledge
they ever made to workingmen. Rail-
road men, for instance, were particu-
| larly anxious that law should be
passed compelling railroads to use au-
| tomato couplers. Well, the bill has
| passed congress, but not by democratic
votes. Bat fer the ten populists and
the republicans ia The house, the bill
| would have been defeated by an over.
whelming majority. The populist vote
alone saved the automatic coupler bill
from defeat How much did these la
Dor organizations gain by throwing
their strength to Cleveland and by that
means guaranteeing his election? There
Evas but one party in the field that was
| q true friend to labor and that was ths
little party that fortunately had
strength enough to prevent the defeat
of a bill that was designed to protect
! the lives of railroad brakemen.
(Kan.) News
| THE LABOR QUESTION.
ppon . Wise Soiut;e CT It's Problems Ee-
pends the Existence Of the America Rey