Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-06-12
Senator Carlisle to the Farmers.

WAsHINcroN, May 31.-Scnatol
Carlis2s has Wsttts;. 4 lengthy letter
to B. +. Howard, of Tuskagee, Ala.
in response to his (Howard's) request
for the Senator's views on tho agri-
cultural suh.treasury proposition as
contained in the bills before Congress
to provide for q system Of ware,
houses for farm products Throughout,
the country to be operated by the
government, which is to issue its
notes upon products stored therein.
Senator Carlisle says that How
ards statement that lie, and thos,
associated with him, arc in favor Of
equal justice to all ond special favors
to none, embodies sound Democratic
doctrine, and if it had been strictly
adhered to in Congress in the past
twenty-five years the evils of which
farmers and others Justly complain
would have been ayertcd, and the
whole country would now be pros
porous and contcnted. "But," says
the Senator, "thc farmers have
been taxed SO long for the benefit OF
other classes and have seen so much
legislation for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of
corporations and syndicatcs that
their patience is exhausted, and find
ing it impossible for the time being,
at least, to abolish the system which
has oppressed and dcspoilcd the
greatest industrial interest of the
country, they are now demanding
the very policy which they have
heretofore denounced as unjust and
ruinons, shall be applied to them, or
rather part of them, for no scheme
has yet been suggested that would
operate alike upon all farmers. But
no evil can he corrected, no wrong
can be rightcd, by increasing its
magnitude and extending the scope
Of its operations. There is but one
ctfcctual remedy for the evils which
undoubtedly exist, and that is to
reverse the policy which produced
it,"
The Senator, af;1; fuliearsing the
features of the proposed sub-trcasu-
ry plan, and noting the fact that
farmers themselves will pay more
than their fair share of the cost of
erecting warehouses, and that the
officials connected with them will he
partisans Of the administration in
power, says:
"Thcrc are more than $4,000
counties in the United States, but
not more than Onc-third OF them, if
that many, produce and sell annu-
ally more than 100000 worth of
wheat, corn, oats, cotton and tobacco,
and therefore not more than one
third of them could possibly avail
themselves of this plan if it were
adopted. 1t will be seen, therefore,
at the very outset, that it is the plan
to compel the government to issue
and distribute money for the benefit
of the people living in rich and pro-
ductivc counties at the expense of
people living in poorer and less pro-
ductivc ones. Moreover, it is plan
to enable unscrupulous spectators to
take advantage of the farmers Pc
cuniary necessities and cxtort cxor-
bitant prices for food from the pco-
pie who reside in cities, towns and
villages, and from people who reside
in the country but do not own these
particular agricultural products.
cit is evident that no farmer will
subject himself to the labor and cx-
pcnsc OF transporting his products to
public warehouses, and to all other
charges which he must pay for Sto-
rage, for handling and for taking
care OF them while there, when he
has barns and granaiics ut home, I'M
less he is in debt and absolutely
needs money, which the government
is to advance, and he is in that un-
fortunate condition, from what
source is he to acquire means to re-
deem the products by returning the
money and interest and paying ware
house charges? In a great majority
of cases, he will never be able to re-
deem them, but will be forced to
lose the remaining 20 per cent. Of
his products, or sell his warehouse
receipt for whatever he can get for
it, which will he very little; for it
must be remembered that after he
gets his warehouse receipts he has
the remaining interest OF only 20
per cent. less charges for interest,
storage, etc, and this is all he can
dispose Of.
ale will find the time rapidly APP
preaching when he must have the