Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-08-28
Volume xLI.-No 81.
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Now, again, take this thing 81
raising wheat and corn out in thu
Northwest. These products spoi
sometimes. Say the corr was worth
50 cents q bushel when it was put ii
the warehouse, and it spoils SC that
it Is worth butS25 cents, You say
what difference does that make I'd
us? It just makes this difference,
The government has to sustain the
loss and you have to pay your share
of the taxes with which it makes
that loss good. The whole thing ii
bad; it is rs bad as some bad whis.
key | heard of once. This whiskey
was SO bad that if you stuck your
nose to the bung hole, you could
smell the niger that held tho goose
that eat the corn that made it.
There arc a great many people who
are making protensions to be the
friends Of the farmer at this time.
They have suddenly discovered
that he is an organized power, and
they wish to pretend to be his friond
for what they can get out Of him.
Now | could, no doubt, catoh q great
many votes by advocating this a a:.esaa-
sure, but I will not ask for his vote,
if the condition is made that I help
him do something that will ruin him.
| could promise you to vote for this
measure, and, in all probability, /
would never have it to do. 1T will
not do to scnd men to Congress onsa
single issue--ono plank of a plat
form. You want a good all round
man to represent you, and you want
him on a platform that is long
enough and broad enough to leave
him room to work for your best in
%tcrest. When I went to Congress,
eight years ago, tho Blair educational
bill was one of the most noted moa-
surcs before the people. Men have
boon elected to Congress on that one
issue. They have sat through thoir
term, having a good time, and have
never been called upon to vote on
the bill. They have been reelected
and sent back again and again, and
the bill has never yet come up for a
vote in tho House: l have no idea
that this bill will ever come up either,
and | could easily promise to sup
port it without danger either to you
or myself, but | cannot pledge my
self to such a measures
The proposed warehouses to be
established under the sub.treasury
bill, have been compared to those in
which bonded whiskey is stored, and
the observation made that if the
government can build warehouses
for tho whiskcy men, there is no rea-
son why it cannot build them for the
farmers. Now there is no more rela-
ton between these two than there ID
between an elephant and a canary
bird. The government has Just six
times as much interest in every gal
lon of whiskey as the manufactures.
The manufacturer makes the whiskey
and finds that it will not sell fol
enough to pay the tax and other ex-
pcnses. The government says to
him, every well; I won't force you
to sell it. You build a warehouse
and store away your whiskey and
wait until it increases in age and is
fit for the market, but to make sure
that you don't slip it away, you must
give me the keys of the warehouse.
| will let you keep this whiskey for
so long time, ard if you do not
soil it, at or before the expiration OF
that time, why I will sell it myself
and will take out my part Of it, and
if there is anything left you can
have it," 1t is just on the same
principle as tho auditor assessing
your property. He has you to come
around in January and tell him how
much your property is worth, and
finds ont how much taxes you are to
pay, but he does not make you pay
it then. You are allowed the use Of
tho property until the next fall, and
then you must come around and pay
tho tax. If you dom, the sheriff
will take charge, sell the property,
pay the tax and his own expenses,
and return you the remainder.
Walhalla, $. G., to Mantle, Conps