Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-09-11

TIE EDGEFIELD CONGRESSMAN ON
TIE sUB-TREhsURY, BILL.

From the Hampton Guardian.
The following letter from the Hon.
George d. Tillman was written to a
gentleman in this county, and while
not intended for publication, we take
the liberty of placing it before the
readers of the Guardian:
House or REPRESENTATIVES,,
WASHINGTON, ID. g., August 16.
Dear Sir: | cannot see how any
Allianccman or otherwise can want
moro money issued; besides free
coinage Of silver and abolition of
national banks, with substitution of
grcenbacks in sufficient quantity to
do the business of the country on a
cash basis, would require about $50
per capita in coin and paper, and We
now have about &15 in coin, which
would make it necessary to issue
about $50 per capita, or $950,0O0.-
600 in grcenbacks, estimating the
population at 65,000,00O. AS l am
in favor of relieving the money IA
mine to the above extent; besides
being willing to Tighten taxes
on tho poor and middle classes by
lcyying an income tax on the rich to
the extent of a hundred million dol
lars or so, it occurs to mo that there
is no necessity for tho sub Treasury
bill to pass if I can got the other
measures through, and they are Al
lance measurcs-at least in Barnwell
County. $
TROJAN HORSE AND nUMBUG.
The sub-Treasury bill is q humbug
and a Republican Trojan horse also.
The bill is unconstitutional because
it provides for the manager of the
warehouse to be elected. Now the
I'd section of Article 2 of the Con-
stitution Of the United States re-
quires every officer and employee of
the Federal Government to be cap
pointed" This shows that whoever
drafted tho bill was an ignoramus,
and the bill is nl democratic, unjust,
crude and improbable throughout.
If the bill should become Il law
Tho manager az! q! :hc o.hcr ON.
ployees at n warehouse would all be
Republicans-carpet baggers, SCALA
wags or negroes-when a Rcpubli-
can President. should be in power.
Besides the manager there would
have to be a bookkeepcr, a clerk, a
CASHIER, a teller, a weighcr, a sampler,
a shipper, a Waterman, and at least
three laborcrs to handle the cotton
twelve employees at good wages,
which would make every warehouse
virtually a little headquarters or
fort to defend the interests Of the
Republican party. What decent
cotton planter wants any such cat
tie either storing, sampling, grading,
selling or shipping his cotton?
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE?
Again, every crime committed in
the warehouse, and every contract
relating to cotton in it, would have
to be settled in the Federal Courts
hot State Courts. How would
our people like to be dragged away
from home to Charleston, Columbia
or Grcenvillc as parties or witnesses
for assault or battery, or for forgery,
breach of contract, stealing, embez-
element, ETC.? There would be
plenty of these offences or civil
suits growing ont of the warehouse
transactions amounting to 100000
or more a year.
Another absurd and unjust pro-
vision of the bill is It that "any owner"
not producer of cotton, corn, wheat
or outs a store it, or rather pawn
it, and draw eighty per cent. of its
value, which sum he can keep for
one year at 1 per cent. interest.
Now, everybody will store his cot
ton-merchants and spectators
more than planters, becauba they
a get tho use of money so cheap,
and, second, because tho more money
put into circulation the higher the
price of any article in the markct4