Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-29
sUB-TREAsURY IDEA.
Great Struggle for Mastery Predicted Two
Years Hence-FalIacy OF the
Farmers Argument
NAcoeDooHEs. TEX, Aug. 3. 1890.

Editor Gazette.
Inots some arguments In your issue of
yesterday. in support of the sub-treas-
uty idea. by one w. H. Minter of steph-
euyills. 1: is hardly worth while argu-
ing the matter with any one who is
troubled with that idea. The fact boiled
down is, that the farmers wish to make
more out of their products than the de-
mand will warrant, and they want the
general government to feed them, while
they store their products until famine
comes and forces hungry people to give
FIVE times the value of biscuit, or go
hungry STILL wheat farmer wants his
neighbor "a cotton farmer perhaps) TO
give him 81 bushe. for his wheat or 90
hungry, and the cotton farmer wants his
neighbor(a wheat farmer perhaps) 10 give
him twenty-five cents per pound for his
cotton or go naked. and the two together
want the consumer who does not farm to
give So per bushel and fifty cents per
pound for what he gets or go naked and
hungry to boot. This is the matter put
into nut shell.
Now, we will suppose for argument,
that the prices go up this way on all pro-
ducts; what is saved to the farmer, if he
has to buy any of the products of an
other? What he makes on cotton IL he
makes cotton his business, will have TO
be spent on extra values on every other
item which he buys. ANY man with
thmble full of sense ought to grasp this
proposition at once. Money is only VAL
liable as il represents some commodity
which we use as susteuance or luxury.
Ii travel 100 miles on train at cent
per mile, that cent is worth as much to
me as II i had cents, aud had to pay 8
cents per mile, fare. II have to buy
suit OF clot es, and can get $40 suit for
$40, that identical $40 is of the same val
ue TO me as the $50 would be if l could
not find the $40 suit. A barrel of flour
that costs 81. so is just as cheap to me il
pay all have for it. as it would be ut
So, if pay all have for It.; for get the
same benefits. If 500 will buy as much
this year as 5000 will next year, 1 ain
just as well off with 500 as with 5000
year from now. What is the use for
person to have bushel of money if it
does not represent any more values than
q pint would under other conditions?
Again, suppose the sub-treasury bill
is passed. Where is the money going to
come from TO advance to these patriotic
farmers? 1t can't be taken from the
national money box for that is the prop
erty of the whole people. There are 90
900, 600 farmers or persons dependent
upon that for living in the United
States. There are on the other hand
IS, 900 900 of all other classes in the
United States. The latter class of oiti-
zens will hardly consent tor the general
government to lend their share of the
public money to the farmers for the pur-
pose of starving their own (the 46, 000,-
000) families.
Again, l am in the lumber business in
Nacogdoches county. Our business is
essential to the comfort of every one ex-
cept Mexicaus who live IN dug-outs. 1t
might be that another terrible dearth in
lumber circles will come such as we had
in 1884 and 1885. Under similar con-
ditions we would have the right to ask
the general government to interpose in
our behalf and advance us 80 per cent.
of the values OF our lumber so that we
could hold it till all the houses rotted
down and population doubled and
people would be forced to pay our
schedule of prices. or live in dug-outs.
Surprising that the sub-treasury bill OBJ
tains and prices advance In response to
and my neighbor, John Smith, will go
to farming, and Jim Brown will go TO
farming. and everybody that can buy
ten acres of ground will plant it in somey
thing TO eat ana wear, and before man.
seasons everybody that lived near the
country would be raising what they con-
sumed, and we would quit buying the
fresh pork, corn, potatoes, chickens,
and oil nj fhinoS thar
pay the farmer for. In consequence of
a condition like this, a surplus of farm
products would soon be piled up which
the world could not consume, and of
course would rot on the farmers hands
or sell at u ruinous price, and the sub
treasury idea would be busted. 1t seems
to me like we have too many farmers
now, if they expect high prices for their
products. If l were farmer l would
only want about q dozen in this county
SO that 1 could have q picnic all the
time, and get my own prices for what
raised on the farm. We have a surplus
of farm products now, and of course the
supply will govern the demand, and the
general government could not withhold
bread from the hungry when her ware
houses were bursting with grain. Two
years hence we anticipate the greatest
struggle for the mastery that has ever
been fought on the American continent,
and II will be solved at the ballot-bo
between men like Mr.. Minter and those
who disagree with him, it matters not
what their present politics are. There
will be no Democracy or Republicanism in
this fight; ali present lines will be abol-
ished, and the fight against paternalism
will be waged by the two classes, sub
and anti-sub. OF course my father was
no prophet. but wait and see what we shall
see, unless radical change comes over
the dreams of the farmer within two
years. {. W. ].
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