Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-24

try, is the violation in recent times, by the
practices of the government, of this principle,
and the dangerous extent to which it has gone
in paternalism.
The bills under consideration would require
the expenditure OF many million dollars for the
construction of offices and warehouses, and the
furnishing Of elevators and cleaning appliances.
1t would also require an army Of officers and
employees to carry out its provisions. And these
buildings and the salaries of these officers and
employees would have to be paid for BY taxes to
be levied on the people, thus increasing on
them the very burdens under which they now
suffer.
This bill only provides for one manager for
each county, to be elected by the vote OF the
people whose property he is to value, without
This shows that the craftsmen of these bills had
no just conception ofwhat force would be neces
sary to execute the proposed law. The selection
Of these managers by the vote of the people
whose property they are to value, and bind the
government by that valuation, would be adanger-
Gus experiment. 1t is proposed 10 make the term
of Office OF these managers two years. And they,
like other offices, would undoubtedly become
political, and the candidates from whom the
people would expect the largest favors would
pect of this question which l suppose could not
have been considered by your Alliance, and by
other Alliances in Texas and in the
Southern states. Our people cannot have for
gotten the reign of despotism, plumber and
robbery which prevailed during the horrors OF
what was called reconstruction. The minds OF
the people of the Northern states yevoited at
this, and the result was a large majority of
Democrats in the representative branch of the
Forty-fourth congress. The Republican party
inaugurated and has sustained the class legisla-
ton which has caused the sacrifice of the inter
ests of agriculture of which the Alliances and
others now complain, and from which they now
suffer. The Republicans know as well as we do
that there are only two chances for
their retention of political power. One is by
the influence and money Of the class interests,
corporations and trusts which have grown up
under their policy. The other is by engender-
ing and keeping up sectional and war prejudices.
They have never been satisfied with their former
effort at reconstruction. They are now contem-
plating and preparing for a renewal OF that
policy through laws which they propose to pass
to regulate congressional elections. Under the
proposed laws they intend to establish an army
of Federal officers throughout the South, whose
chief merit in obtaining and retaining offices
will consist Of the extent to which they can
mtsrepresent aud prosecute the Southern peo-
pie. The policy of these bills would. il en-
acted, give them another very large force Of
Republican officers and employees to aid in
fastening the chains OF despotlsm our peo-
pie. This would not be done by the one mana
ger, which 1t Is proposed to elect in each
county, but by the corps OF officers and EN-:
any such bill should become 8 law.
On the deposit in the warehouses by the far
mers Of their cotton, tobacco, wheat, corn,
oats, seeds and other farm products suitable for
storage, they are TO obtain receipts showing
the quantity, grade and quality Of such farm
products, and their value at current rates at
such locality ut the date of deposit, and express
ing, cleaning, warehousing and other charges
that will run against such farm products
while on Deposit In these quotations
copy from one Of the bills, These receipts are
TO be negotiable by Endorsement. The holders
of such receipts ''shau be entitled to receive
from the treasury OF the United States, in
treasury notes, eighty per centum of the full
value of such receipts And these bills pro-
vide that 1.-THE payment to him of said notes
shall constitute loan by the government Of the
United states, for which said products depos-
tied shall be security The farmer is
to make the deposit OF his produce, obtain his
certificate and receive eighty per cent. OF the
Falne OF II In money. He will not obtain this
money for the purpose of keeping il eleven
months or less, and then add one per cent. in
terest and the charges on his produce for the
purpose OF redeeming is and taking his produce
out OF the warehouse. His necessities viii re-
quire him to get tbs eighty per cent of the vslue
Of his produce to be used for other purposes.
And when that Is spent he viii be unable 70
deem his produce By paying his debt with one
per cent interest and the charges for ware
housing, ETC., and viii be compelled to sell for
whatever he can get; or, he cannot sell within
the eleven months, the government is then to
put his produce on the market and sell il. And
in either event the chances Will be that he viii
lose the twenty per cent. of the value Of his
produce; that Is, that in the end he viii be
twenty dollars In the hundred poorer than he
world have been II he had sold his produce in
the open market, beside AL his extra trouble in
going through the forms prescribed BY these
bills.
It win be observed tia. under the provisions
OF these bills IL the produce should be over
valued, or, IL after Il Is valued, the prices
should fall, so that It would not sell for as much
has been paid for il. with interest and charges
added, tia government would have no remedy,