St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-01
FEDERAL PAWNBROKING.
Carlisle Picks Pickler's Ware
house Scheme to Pieces.

WASHINGTON, May 31.-To B. f
Howard, of Tuskegee, Ala, Senator
Carlisle has written letter in response.
to Mr.. Howard's request for the sena-
tors views upon the bill providing for
system of government warehouses for
farm products, upon which products
treasury notes may be issued. Senator
Carlisle says that Mr.. HoWard'S state
ment that he and those associated with
him are "in favor of equal justice to all,
and special favors to none," embOdies
sound Democratic doctrine, and, if it
gress in the past twenty-five yearS,,the
evils of which farmers and others
justly complain would have been
averted and the whole country would
now be prosperous and contented. But,
says the senator. the farmers have been
taxed so long for the benefit of other
classes, and have seen so much legisla-
ton for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of corpora
tions and syndlcates that their patience
is exhausted, and finding it impossible
for the time being, at least, to abolish
the system which has oppressed and
despoiled the greatest industrial inter-
est of the country, they are now de-
manding that the very policy which
they have heretofore denounced as un-
Just and ruinous shall be applied to
them, OF rather part of them, for no
scheme has yet been suggested that
would operate alike upon all farmers.
But no
Evil Can be Corrected,
no wrong can be righted by increasing
its magnitude and extending the scope
of it's operations. There is but one eff
fectual remedy for the evil which un-
doubtedly exists, and that is to reverse
the policy which produced it. The
senator, after rehearsing the features of
the proposed Subtreasury plan, and
noting the facts that the farmers them
selves will pay more than their fair
share of the cost of erecting the ware
houses, and that the officers connected
with them will be partisans of the ad-
ministration in power, says: There
are more than $500 counties in the
United States. But not more
than One-third OF them, if that
many, produce and sell annually
more than S500,000 worth of wheat,
corn, oats, cotton and tobacco, and not
more than one-third of them could pos
sibly avail themselves of this plan if it
were adoeted, for the bill provides that
a county, in order to procure ware
house. must produce and sell annually
farm products valued at $500,000. 1t
will be seen, therefore, at the very out
set that it is plan to compel the gov
ernment to issue and distribute money
for the benefit of the people living in
the rich and productive counties at the
expense of the people living in the
poorer and less productive ones. More
over, it is plan to enable un-
scrupulous spectators to take adyan-
tage of the farmers pecuniary necessi-
ties and eXtort eXorbltant prices for
food from people who reSde in cities,
towns and villages and from people who
reside in the country, but do not own
these particular agricultural products.
1t is evident that no farmer will subject
himself to the labor and expense of
transporting his products to the public
warehouses and to all the other charges
which he must pay tor storage, for
handling and for taking care of them
while here, when he has barns and
granaries at home, unless he is in debt
and
Absolutely Needs the Money
which the government is to advance,
and if he is in that unfortunate condi-
ton from what source Is he afterwards
to acquire the means to redeem the
products by returning the money and
interest and paying the warehouse
charges? In great majority of cases
he will never be able to redeem them,
but will be forced to lose the remaining
20 per cent of the value of his products,
or sell his warehouse receipts for what
ever he can get for them, which will be
-, l~<, ot11, 4
that after he gets his warehouse re-
ceipts he has remaining interest of
ouly 20 per cent, less charges for interest,
storage, ETC., and this is all he can dis
pose Of. He will find the time rapidly
approaching when he must have money
to redeem his products or sell his small
remaining interest in them, or allow
them to be sold at public auction by the
government; and this will be the golden