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

house Scheme to FleceS.
WASHINGTON, May S1.-To B. F
Howard, of Tuskegee. Ala, Senator
Carlisle has written letter in response.
to Mr.. Towards 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.. Towards state
ment that he and those associated with
him are sin favor of equal justice to all,
and special favOrS to nOne," embOdleS
sound Democratic doctrine, and, if it
had been strictly adhered to in con-
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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of corpora
tions and syndicates 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-
handing that the very policy which
they have heretofore denounced as I'M
just and ruinous shall be applied to
them, or 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
it's magnitude and extending the scope
of it's operations. There is but one eff
fectual remedy for the evil which I'M
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 1850 counties in the
United States. But not more
than one-third OF them, if that
| many, produce and sell annually
more than 100000 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
|
| county, in order to procure ware
| house. must produce and sell annually
| farm products valued at 100000. 1t
will be seen, therefore, at the very out
| set that it is a plan to compel the gov
| eminent 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 I'M
scrupulous spectators to take advan-
| tage of the farmers pecuniary necessi-
| ties and extort eXorbitant prices for
! food from people who reside in cities,
| towns and villages and from people who
reside in the country, but do not own
| these particular agricultural products.
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 ne can get for them, which will be
for Of 1,an
| that after he gets his warehouse re-
| ceipts he has a remaining interest of
| only 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