The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-17
THE sUB-rREAsUKY PLAN.
An Allianceman Makes Some Points in
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MONTICELLO, FLA, April 14-Editor
Morning Nel0s: In an editorial of April 10
you say: "There is no probability that con-
gresS will approve of the sub-treasury plan
of the farmers alliance. Il could not
very well do so. The sub-treasury plan is
nothing more nor less than that the gov
eminent shall go into the factorage busI-
ness. The government has about as much
to do as it can attend to now" Ii you have
reference to the present congress, then I
agree with you. A congress, composed of
forty-two millionaires in the Senate, with
only sixteen farmers in the House of Repre-
sentatives out of membership of over 400.
is not likely to give the needed re-
Lief to the tillers of the SOIL 1t is
altogether within the possibilities that a
future congress may look with more favor
upon the bill. Certainly its passage might
be greatly fastened should all the farmers
in the country speak out as plainly to their
representatives in congress as did the 100,-
600 Kansas farmers to j. j. Ingalls, the
other day, when they told him he had been
representing them eighteen years, and if
he had ever favored a single measure for
their relief they had yet to hear of it, that
they would not vote for a single member of
the legislature who favored his reelection.
The government might be engaged in
worse business, and doubtless is, than be-
coming the factors of class who bear 80
large proportion of its burdens, and who
produce so much of its wealth aud obtain
farmers would be glad to get
rid of their present factors, who
charge them per cent. per month instead
of | per cent. per year, and who are rolling
in wealth, some OF them millionaires, while
the farmers whUSe cotton they have been
handling are not near SO ven off. The re-
public of France in 1S4S,1t9 save itself from
a financial panic, through decree of the
convention, allowed the farmers to deposit
their produce in warehouses and to obtain
therefore certificates which were made ne
gotiable, affording the needed relief. The
great overshadowing need Of the farmer is
an abundance of cheap money. The capt.
talists who control it would have it dear
and they combine to make it so just at the
time when tho farmers debts fall due. when
lie is forced TO market his crops.
Statistican J. r. Dodge, of the agricult
ural department, shows his unfitness for
the position when he attempts to prove
that the cause of the present depression in
agriculture is owing TO overproduction.
He asserts that there has been an increase
of production in this country, even more
rapid than the increase OF the population"
And yet, according to his own figures, the
gross production Of wheat for the first half
of the decade, beginning with 1880, was
142, 779, 5SS bushels greater than the last
half of said decade, while the increase in
population during the last named period
over the first half Of the decade was
S.C62 500 bushels. No. the cause is deeper
seated than overproduction. and the farm
ers will not cease the inquiry until the roos
of the disease is reached and a remedy APP
piled. ooo ooo
bales began the cry of overproduction, to de-
press prices, and the same old cry is kept up,
although crop of 100000 bales does not
seem to be too much. Tue startling. sig
nificant fact which has actually woke up
the slow, patient tillers of the soil is that
this crop Is nor worth S35, 100000 more
than it was while in their hands. and they
are wanting to know what great crime they
are committing to want 70 put themselves
in position to do the holding. thereby, en-
aiding them to put these millions in their
own pockets. ALLlANoEAAh' =