The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-01
Carlisle Shows the Error of the
Grain Storage Bill.
sPEcuLAToRs WOULD PROFIT.
Farmers. Alliance Forging Chains
for Its Own Enslayement.
MIR. ClarkseE's Visit to Seattle to BE
Followed by Tariff Bill
VIII Ne Reported 70 the senate in .
Week.

WAsHisGTos CRY. May 3i.--Senator Car
lisle has written TO b. F. Howard. of Tus-
keegee, Ala. in answer to request for his
views upon the bill providing for system
of government warehouses for farm pro-
dacts. upon which products treasury notes
shall be issued. Carlisle says in the begin
ming that the statement of Howard and his
assistants that they are in favor of equal
justice 10 all and special favors to none en-
bodies sound Democratic doctrine and ii it
had been strictly adhered to in congress
during the past twenty five years the evils
OF which the farmers and others justly
complain would lave been averted and the
whole country would be prosperous and
contented.
The farmers have been taxed so long for
the benefit OF other classes. and oppressed
By legislation for the aggrsndizement Of
corporations and syndicases, that their
patience is exhausted. and they are now
demanding that the very policy which they
have heretofore denounced as unjust and
ruinous should be applied to them. or
rather to part OF them, for no scheme
yet suggested would operate alike upon
all farmers. But no evil can be corrected
by increasing its magnitude and extending
its operations. There is but one effectual
remedy, which undoubtedly exists. and
that is to reverse the policy which pro-
duced il.
The senator. after rehearsing further the
proposed sub-treasury plan. and noting
the fact that the farmers themselves
will pay more than their fair share of the
cost of erection OF warehouses. and that the
officers connected with them will be par
tisans OF the administering power. says
that not more than one-third of the $500
counties in the United States produce and
sell annually more than $500 .0)0 worth Of
agricultural products, and there fore under
the bill not more than one-third of them
could avail themselves of this plan. At
the very outset, therefore. it Is the plan to
compel the government TO issue and dis
tribute money for the benefit Of people liv-
ing in the rich and productive counties at
the expense of the poorer ones. Moreover,
it IL plan to enable INSCRIPTIONS specu-
lators to take advantage Of the farmers
pecuniary necessities and exact exorbitant
prices for food from the people. In great
majority OF cases the farmer would never be
able to redeem the deposited products. but
would be forced to lose the remaining 20
per cent of thei: value or sell his ware.
house receipts for whatever he can get for
them, which would he very little, for IL
must be remembered that after he gets his
warehouse receipts he has remaining an in
terest OF only 20 per cent. less charges for
interest. storage. ETC., and this is all be can
dispose of. He will find the time rapidly
approaching when he must have money to
redeem his products or sell his small inter-
all hov to k< sold az liz
tion by the government. and this will be
the golden opportunity of the spectators,
whose agents will swarm all over the coun-
for nominal sum.
Senator Carlisle argues at length to show
that the plan proposed would produce an
annual expansion and contraction of the
currency which would result in unset
ting the market upon which the farmer
must depend for the sale of his crops No
such scheme as this project will afford, for
controlling the markets for purely specu-
latiye purposes says he, has ever existed in
this or any other country, and no more
perfect plan for the oppression OF the poor
could be devised
In conclusion he says that even il it
could be conclusiyely shown that this or
any similar scheme would be pecuniarily
beneficial to any particular class of the peo-
pie he would still be opposed to il, because
in bis opinion it would be another wide and
dangerous departure from the principles
upon which our political Statutes are
founded. 1t would in fact be the longest
step taken in time of peace toward con-
solidation OF power in the federal govern
ment and subjection of the private affairs
of the people 10 the contio oil of central and
irresponsible authority.