The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-10
THE NEW DEMANDS OF THE FARM
ERS.
How they are Viewed by Western Re
publican Newspaper.
ICleveland Leader.

ment of their interests. The right be-
longs alike to working capitalists, pro-
fessional men, tradesmen, in fact to all
nationalities, sexes, and colors. The
organization of societies for mutual
protection ond advancement is one of
the distinctive features Of our social
and political systems. But there is
great danger that these organizations
may run into extremes and infringe
upon the constitutional rights of Others. !,
The boycotting outrages ofthe knights
of Labor furnish a notable example Of
this tendency of one organization
mercilessly to trample upon the rights
of others, aud yet the Farmers Alli-
ance affiliated with the Knights of
Labor in Atlanta.
The dressed beef bill has .been de-
clared unconstitutional, and yet it is
advocated by the Farmers Alliance.
1t is utterly impossible for the farmers
to secure the enforcement of such a
law unless they elect ignorant or cor
rupt men as judges of our courts, and
they surely do not wish to do that.
Every man of intelligence knows that
the real purpose of the movement
against dressed beef is the raising of
prices for Ohio cattle. In other words,
it is an attempt to do what the Con-
stitution forbids, and virtually levy a
tariff upon the products cf other
States, thus violating the fundamental
principles of the Federal Union and
opening the way to hostile Interstate
legislation threatening the very exist
ence of the republic. Its this forget
fulness alike Of the Constitution and of
the rights Of consumers and Others
generally which proves the Farmers
Alliance in Ohio, on the showing Of
its own spokesmen, to be unsafe.
Let US consider another subject, the
Sub-Treasury plan. One of the chief
pillars of the Farmers Alliance, Colo
mel Livingstone, President Of the Geor-
gia Alliance, recently described. this
plan as follows:
The Sub-Treasury plan proposes
briefly that the government take the
farmers staple crops into its ware
houses and issue to him negotiable
certificates at SO per cent. of the value
of his products. With no charges but
the bare expense of storage and insur-
ance the crop is kept there one year.
In that time the farmer sells it, month
by month, simply by letting the sup
ply keep up with the demand. This
will regulate prices and prevent corners.
It will break up all this speculation
which is encouraged by the present
system.
A more impracticable scheme than
this was never advocated by intelligent
men. All classes of manufacturers
have a right, equal with the farmers,
to ask the government to store their
products and issue money on them
until prices rise. What is just for one
class is just for all others. The coal
dealers and the clothing men have
suffered great deal on accoant Of the
mild weather of the past winter. Yet
they have no claim upon the govern
ment. They have no right to ak the
government to build ware houses for
the storage Of their products and to
issue Treasury notes to them for the
value thereof. Every branch of busi-
ness must be depressed at some time,
but the afflicted ones must not think
that they can fly to the government
of countless ware houses all over the
country and cause the creation Of an
army Of officials, the whole entailing
heavy expense and burdensome taxa
ton. The Leader entertains too nigh
an opinion of the intelligence of the
farmers of this country to believe that
they will insist upon carrying out this
scheme.
Mr.. J. R. Dodge, the statistician of
the Agricultural Department, in his
report for March, says that a feeling Of
discouragement exists among farmers
in Great Britain, France, Germany,
Italy and other countries. The de-
preston is prevalent alike in monar-
chies and republics and under the
most diverse economic systems, but it
is less severe here than in Europe.
"Corn and wheat" he says, "are cheap
because of overproduction," because
an empire in the West has been carved
up into farms, which have over
whelmed the world with their pre-
ducts. If the manufacturer finds that
he is Cutting the market with his
product be turns his energy into some
new channel. If it does not pay to
raise so much corn for the market feed
it to hogs and cattle, and in that
shape it will bring from thirty to forty
five cents per bushel. Fruit, butter,
cheese, poultry, eggs, and wool pay
good profit, but it is Improbable to
depend entirely upon one crop like
corn or wheat. Diversifcation of pro-
ducts is the remedy, and to secure this
every farmer must rely upon his own
intelligence and not upon any organi-
Zation.
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