Nevada County picayune., 1890-05-28

grower How is he To be benefited? :? When he locks up his cotton against whom is he contcnding? All his crop is sold. Two-thirds of it goes to Europe, and the other to cotton manufacturers in the United States
 If the cotton growers expect to sell at the market price, and tries to force the manufacturer to give him more than the market price, the
 manufacturer can close his mill and turn his working people in the street,
 and wait until the grower is ready to sell. He can stand the strain longer
 than the farmer can. His employees
 will drink the cup of suffering to the
 dregs but it will not come near his lips. In the meantime the cotton grower will be payIng the warehouse
 combination price for his bacon, lard
 and flour, and if he holds his cotton
 for the year, provided for by the bill, he can put two crops on the market at once. sell them at half price, pay
 interest. insurance and other charges and close up the transaction heavy loser. Let us look at it from the
 position of the consumer of farm products. What are they to do
 while the farm products are locked up in the sub-treasury What are
 they to do for daily subsistence? What have they to deposit upon
 which to draw so per cent. of it's value with which to purchase daily supplies: They are entitled 10 equal consideration with the rest. As Democrats, we all believe with Mr.
 Jefferson, in "equal and exact jus tice to all" Our whole system of free government is founded on that cardinal principle. and the D.mo- cratic party was organized al the be- ginning to secure it. All the battles it has tough. and all the victories it has won have been to preserve it.
 The Democratic party has never favored class legislation and it never
 will. When any measure is proposed for their adoption it must impose it's burdens and hestow its benefits alike on all. am thoroughly con vinced that the sub-trcasHry scheme will injure farmers and all voters, but am presenting it to you in the light in which it's advocates present it, as measure beneficial to the dcpositors of farm products, but in
 furious to those who have to buy and consume them. There is another objection to the proposed scheme that am afraid was not considered by my Democratic friends in Milan
 county. It will require ten or . dozen officers at each of the sub treasuries to receive and care for the products deposited, return them to the dcpositors, and make settlement for advances, interest, insurance and other charges, or sell them at auction and account for proceeds of sale, to render accounts to tic government, to receive it's money, keep books, make returns, and perform such other duties as will be found neces- sary in conducting so large busi- ness. The bill only provides for one such officer, hut that is manifestly insufficient. and the Government, if
 the biIi k passed, will provide force enough to carry ont it's provisions. Under the Constitution they must be appointed by the President or by those under his authority. Have my Democratic friends considered what would be the effect of filling the Southern States with Republican of fee holders dispensing hundreds of millions of money? Do you want to return to the periods of reconstruc- ton agaln: Have the Democrats of Milan county forgotten the throes and convulsions through which we passed during that time! The Re- publicans in the Senate and House are holding nightly caucases to agree upon system of Federal control over our ballot boxes, in order that they may take control of our elec- tions, and by Republican returning
 boards, appointed by Harrison, have Republicans placed in office, instead of the Democrats who have been elected by the people. Ever since they secured the administration and both branches of Congress they have been busy devising ways and means to overturn the Southern State gov ernments and put them again in the control of mercenary board of ad- venturers worse than the locusts and lice of Egypt. To pass either of these bills and inaugurate the sub- treasury system would be to prepare the way and make the paths straight for the restoration of that control, It would bring to the South period of corruption and oppression that by contrast would make the former pc riod of reconstruction respectable. If all the houses provided for by this 1 bill could be built without cost to the Government, and if all the offices necessary to carry it into effect could be filled with Democrats, and If the Government had a thousand millions of gold andv-silver to lend to the l farmers without interest and without innatlng the currency the measure would then be full of evil and desti- tutc of any compensating good. The l throwing into the circulation of q i thousand millions of gold and silver l ..I1 .a:.a ,,r;.no ,,,,,, ,,raotI,, and