Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04
CARLISLES PROTEST.
Concise Review of Sub Treasury Scheme.
Analysis of Its Operations.
II Strengthens the Control of the Markets by
N, speculstnrs- Injurious to Farmer
and the LabnrIng Nan.
Louisville Courier-JournaL


senator Carlisle, induces the Courier
Journal to publish MIR. Carlisle's letter
on the subject in full. The substance of
This letter has been sent out 10y the Asso-
cia,ed Press, but It is so clean and con-
elusive n its demonstration of the i'm
-raclicubility OF the measure that the
Courier-J Ournal gives il entire.
UNITED STATES SENATE,
WAsHEGToE. d. c., May 80, 1890.
B. F. Howard, Esq, Tuskegee, Ala.:
DEAR SIR-Your favor stating that you
ere member OF the Farmers Alliance
Of Macon county, Alabama, and request
inr me to give my Views on what is COM
monty known as the ''sub- treasury
plan'' was duly received, and lake the
earliest opportunity to reply. You state
that you have been a Democrat for fifty
wears, and that you and those with whom
vou nre associated are in favor of
.'euual ju tice 10 all aud special
favors to none. - This is sound
Democratic doctrine, an IL ii mad been
strictly adhered 20 in congress during the
Inst Quarter of century the evils OF
which the farmers ana other classes of
our people justly complain would have
been averted and the whole country
would he prosperous and contented.
But unfortunately the paterual theory
Of government, which owes its origin
in this country TO the advocates of IA sys-
fem OF taxation which makes unjust dis
examinations against part of the people
for the purpose of increasing the profits
of another part has been SO frequently
embodied in our legislation during the
last twenty-five years, that instead of
recognizing n common interest in the
general welfare It has divided the people
into warning classes, each striving to Sc
cure for itself some peculiar advantage
at the expense of all the others.
The prevailing theory is that the indi-
vidual citizen must not rely upon his own
efforts III the transaction OF his private
business, but that he has right TO APP
peal and ought 10 appeal TO the govern
ment for financial assistance in every
emergency, forgetting that the govern
ment has not and never can have nuy
money except what is realized by taxa
ton in some form upon the people OF the
United States. II Is a theory which
grossly miscOnstrues and perverts the
pow ers of the government, paralyzes in
dividual effort and destroys that spirit of
self-reliance and independence which is
an absolutely essential qualification for
good citizenship in free republic. 1t
not only demoralizes the people but II
persisted in II will convert the
government itself into a patriarch
al despolism, with absolute con-
troll over all the financial, industrial and
personal Interests OF its citizens. The
farmers of the country have been taxed
so long for the benefit of other classes,
and have seen so much legislation for the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF corporations and syn
dicares. that their patience is exhausted,
and finding it impossible, for the time
being, at leRst, 10 abolish the system
which hns oppressed and despoiled the
greatest industrial interests OF the coun-
try they are now demanding that the
very policy which they have heretofore
denounced as unjust aud ruinous shall be
applied to them, or rather "a part of
them, for no scheme has been suggested
vet that would operate alike upon all
farmers
They have been oppressed and de-
spoiled by unjust legislation must be
admitted by all who have given any
attention 10 the subject, and when they
see measures favorably reported TO con-
gress 10 tax them still further for the
purpose of raising money to pay subsi-
dies and bounties TO wealthy steamship
corporations and 10 the producers of
su-ar and silk, which are among the
least important of our domestic products,
Il is not at all strange that they should
become more dissatisfied than ever, and
more urgent in their demands for lief;
but no evil can be corrected, no wrong
can be rEhted by increasing its magui-
tude aud extending the scope of its Ope-
rutious. There is but one effectunl rem
edv for the evil which undoubtedly ex-
lists, aud that Is TO reverse the policy
which pro iurel IT.
IIIE SCHEME EXPLAINED.
The demands made by the farmers in
some parts OF the country have been for
muluted, and al their request bills have
been presented in the house and in the
senate which nnny of them think will
afford the necessary measure of relief.
/ need not undertake to state all the de-
tails OF these plans, for whatever the
particular provisions of the bill may be,
the whole scheme In It's general form ami
design Is vicious in principle and If
adopted would prove in practice ruinous
TO every interest it is intended 10 bsne-
Mt. The plan to which you alIudH in
your letter is TO establish what nre to be
dencmuated sub-treaSuries, aud erect
puhiic warehouses in every county in the
Cnitrd States which produces and sells
annually more than $500 900 worth OF
wheat, corn, oats, cotton and tobacco,
auA permit the Owners of these products,
whether farmers OF not, TO deposit them
IN these warehouses and receive from the
government, IN treasury notes, to he
Issued expressly for thai purpose, so per
cent. OF The market value OF the prod
ucts. OF course there must be officers
anu employees TO take charge of these
warehouses aud their contents, receive
ana re ript for the products deposited,
pay ONT the money to the deposItors. re-
ceIve the money when the products are
redeemed, sell uuredeemed property,
an generally TO exercise the combined
functions of wnrehousemen. bankers,
Auciioueers aud executive officials.
IAN these officers and employees must
ue compensated for their services either
10y lees charged To the depositors of prod
ucts, or by payments out of the public
Treasury, and all or nearly all will be
pariisnns OF the administration in power,
uerHuse under the constitution they can
not be chosen by the people. but must
be appointed by the president or the head
OF department., or the Judges of the
United States court.
II is proposed 10 appropriate the sum