The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-06-12
ADVICE TO THE ALLIANCE.
Senator Carlisle Gives His Views on the
SubTreasury Plan.

| w ASllNGION, May ol.-IO Is. +.
Howard, of Tuskeegee, Ala, Senator
Carlisle has written lengthy letter in
response to Howard's request for the
Senator'S views upon the agricultural
sub-treasury proposition, as contained
in the bills before Congress to provide
for system of warehouses for farm
produce throughout the country, to be
originated by the government, which
is to issue its notes upon the products
stored therein.
Senator Carlisle said that Howard's
statement that he and those associated
with him were Sin favor of equal JUS
tice to all and especial favors to none"
embodies the Democratic doctrine and
If it had been strictly adhered to in
Congress in the past twenty-five years,
the evils Of which the farmer and
others justly complain would have
been averted aid the Whole country
would now be prosperous and con-
tented. But" says the Senator, "the
farmers have been taxed 50 long for the
benefit Of other classes and have seen
so much legislation for the agerandize-
alent OF corporations and svndicates
that their patience is exhausted, and
finding it impossible for the time being
at least to abolish system which has
oppressed and despoiled the greatest
industrial interest of the country, they
are now demanding that that policy
which they have heretofore denounced
as unjust and ruinous shall be applied
to them or rather part Of them for no
scheme has yet been submitted that
would operate alike upon the farmers.
"But no evil can be corrected, no
wrong can lie righted by increasing its
magnitude and extending The scope of
its operations. There is but one effect
ual remedy for the evil which undoubt-
edly exists and that is to reverse the
policy which produced it,"
The Senator, after rehearsing the
features of the subtreasury plan and
noting the facts that the farmers them
selves will pay more than their fair
share of the cost relating to the ware
houses and that the officers connected
with them will he partisans of the ad-
ministration in power, says:
"There are more than 2,400 counties
IN the United States, but not more than
one-third of them, if that many, pro-
duce and sell annually more than
S500,000 worth of 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 plan to
compel the government to issue and
distribute money for the benefit of the
people, living in rich and productive
counties at the expense of the people
living in poorer and less productive e
ones. Moreover, it is Il plan to enable
unscrupulous spectators to take ad-
vantage Of the farmers pecuniary ne
cessities and eXtort eXorbitant prices
for food from the people who reside in
the cities, towns and villages and from
the people who reside in the country
but do not own these particular agri-
cultural products.
NO farmer will subject himself to
the labor and expense of transporting
his products to the public ware houses
and to all the other charges which he
must pay for storage, for handling and
for taking care of them while there
when he has barns and graneries at
home unless he is in debt and needs |
the money which the government is to
advance and if he is in that unfortu-
nate condition from what source is he |
offered to redeem the products by re-
turning the money and paying the
warehouse charges: In the majority |
Of cases he will never be able to redeem
them but will be forced to lose the re-
manning twenty per cent. Of the value |
of his product, or sell his warehouse re-
ceipts for whatever he can get for it,
which will be very little, for it must |
be remembered that after he gets his |
crops ware housed he has remaining an
interest of only twenty per cent. less |
the storage, and this is all he can dis
pose of. He will find the time rapidly
reaching when he must have money to
redeem his products or sell his small
remaining interests in them or allow
them to be sold at public auction by |
the government and methinks this
will be 4 golden opportunity for those
agents who will swarm all over the
country ready to take ware house re-
ceipts from embarrassed owners for
merely nominal sums. The receipt is
simply privilege of redemption like a
pawnbroker's ticket and the farmer
being himself unable to redeem will be
forced ultimately to dispose Of it at any
price offered. don't think that anv
considerable number OF intelligent peo-
pie in this country will unite in asking
the government to establish system
which will compel them, in a large
number of cases, to sacrifice the pro-
ducts of their labor