Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-04-26
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.


unionists and begs for the privilege of
aiding them to secure their just de-
mands.
The peoples party of Wisconsin is
growing. In the spring elections it car
ried La Crosse, Ashland, Merrill and
Hudson, and polled a very large vote in
Oshkosh, the only cities in which mu-
nicipal tickets had been placed in nomi-
nation by the peoples party.
While Cleveland is building up and
consolidating modernized Hamiltoni-
an federal party, the Jeffersonian dem
ocrats and Lincoln republicans, north
and south, are preparing to defeat this
new mongrel federalist party in 1906
Shelbyville Qll.) Peoples Paper
DO the laboring men see the chains
that are being forged for them? Every
laborer, no matter what his calling,
who stands aloof from labor organiza-
tions, is helping to forge the chains
with which corporate greed will bind
the masses.-Journal of Agriculture.
Those who have fixed incomes. or
annuities, as matter of course favor a
gold basis-their income buys more
However, since such people produce
nothing and add nothing to the world,
but live off the labor and thrift of 9TH
ers, let their wishes in this silver strug-
gle be the last ascertained. Give labor
the right to fix what they should
bestow upon those who labor not
Road.
Here's to our friends in Cleveland,
0. At the late city election the candi-
date for mayor on the peoples party
ticket, Gen. Ed. S. Meyer, received over
5000 votes. In 1873 Cleveland polled
5.045 reform votes, but through sell-outs
and fusionists they dwindled to about
600. The recent vote shows that Cleve-
land (the city, is on the right road and
in the middle of it, too.-National Ad-
vance.
DO you recall how the fraudocratic
democrats made the wellxin ring about
the force bill? OF course you do. Do
you recall the fact that Cleveland's
premier was the advocate of force bill
that was so ultra that even the repub-
lican party did not indorse him? Yet
this force bill advocate is the premier
of the present administration. Mr..
Fraudocrat, where are you at?-Alli-
ance Herald.
Financial lunacy' consists in be-
lieving that currency that vibrates
with every cashiers ''imprudence" and
collapses with every smash-up of a
bank, can be improved. You are
financial ''lunatic" if you declare that
the law can issue and the wisdom of
men (honest men) regulate the volume
of money-that is if you mind what the
sarcastic daily newspapers say.-Gran-
ite Falls (Minn.) Reform Advocate.
The present and coming social crisis
in this country is the result of an at
tempted seizure of the government and
of the country by plutocratic revolu-
tion, and of the resistance of the people
to the attempted usurpations. One
phase of this crisis is the open, brazen-
faced attempt to prostitute the militia
service to the interest of the plutocrats
against those who resist them, and the
boycotting of the militia service by the
workingmen is the response of the peo-
pie to this attempt.-New Nation.
The "unearned increment on acres
is the value that attaches to them on
account of the growth of the communi-
ty built on them. 1t is rent Tor in
creased price, which is rent. The un-
earned increment on dollars is the
value that attaches to them by reason
of the growth of the community in
which they circulate, or by the export
or holding out of use of some of them.
The unearned increment on dollars is
measured by interest Tor increased pur-
chasing power, which is INTEREST,"
Spokane Industrial World.
At the late city election held in
Oakland, Cal, 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 1890 votes-a gain of 1000 votes
since the general election. The repub-
1ican and democratic tickets were mot
in it." The Oakland Populist had
picture of a rooster in the succeeding
issue, Growing over the result.
Americans do not stand alone in
opposition to monometaliSm. One hun
dred and forty-eight members of the
British house of commons voted against
1t, with 229 in favor. But England is
the creditor nation of the world and to
it contraction of the currency is in
crease of wealth. America, under mis-
rule of the old parties, has become a
debtor country. It's people, states,
counties, cities and nation. owe English
capitalists. To the United States con-
traction of the currency means panic
and destruction.-San Francisco Peo-
pies Press.
The Minneapolis Times has discov-
cred through a correspondent of the
New York Post who has been studying
the ''populist movement" in the west,
that said movement is due to "a rapid
and general spread of socialistic doc
trines." Bellamyism is the rage" And
on top of its discovery the Times
hopes that the course of the present
''reform" administration will be such
that political thought may by 1898
have returned to it's normal channels. y
This is not the language of progress
The Times is looking through the big
end of the political telescope
Falls Reform Advocate.
The Toledo decisions in the Ann
Arbor railway strikes cases are astound-
ing to many people, but like thunder
claps they may clear the skies We be-
lieve they are good law. Under present
industrial systems man is mere chat
tel. He has no more right to obstruct
commerce than one has to lay log of
wood across railway track. What is
humanity that it should interrupt even
the flow of dollars into the pockets of
capitalism? Men are even less entitled
to consideration than beasts. They are
part of the machinery of commerce.
If the decisions arouse working men
from their lethargy before it is too late,
they will serve more useful purpose
than was ntended.-Aberdeen Is. d.
Star.
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