The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-07-03

people, LnOugn SOME may nave HaSJl-
ly committed themselves to this plan,
steadfastly want only what is right
and what is wise and best, and will
be free to reconsider any premature
conclusions reached upon questions
so important. When the causes
which have produced disease are in
sight, what is the reasonable and
natural remedy? Is it not eradica-
ton Of the causes? We have seen
that the evil is largely that Of inc
qualities and determinations. Yet
it is proposed by this plan that,
while We gather money from the
whole people with one hand to pay
about forty eight millions of dollars
interest annually on the public debt
at rate of about 4 per cent, we
distribute it with the other at l per
cent, but only to those who can put
up cotton, corn, wheat, oats, or to-
bacco. Is this equal and exact JUS
tice: How would it practically
work ? To illustrate: Suppose a
poor widow owns house and lot
only, but no farm products except
sucn as with the labor of her hands
she is able to buy for the food of
herself and children. She reaches
the point where she must borrowII
She cannot, under this plan, mort
gage her house and lot and obtain
money from the Government, sdsshe
goes to her neighbor, who is noH a
farmer, but having some cotton or
wheat that he does not want to sell
at once, he has placed it in the
storehouse and borrowed 80 per
cent. of its value at l per cent, and
he lends i: to the distressed widow
at Z per cent. Yet she pays the
same tax on the necessaries of life
that he does in order to provide the
money to build the storehouses and
pay the officials, agents, book keep
ers, weighers, guards, &C., to keep
the business up, in order to furnish
storage and cheap money to GER
tain class only. q use the word
class in no offensive sense.)
Shall | agree to vote tor law
under which this is possible As
suredly not. If the plan of lending
money to the people by the people
is to be inaugurated, in the Ian.
guage of the declaration Of Alliance
principles, let it be done upon the
basis of equal rights to all anG
special favors to none"
Where will the blacksmith 90 tc
get his equal share at l per cent in
! order to pay off mortgage on his
house that is running at the ruinous
rate of 10 per cent. What will
the shoemaker do? Would it moi
prove the inequality OF this plan tc
see the faithful mechanic or brick.
layer forced to sell his home because
, he could not borrow so per cent. o.
its value from the same Government
to which he daily pays taxes to en-
able it to lend to his neighbors, wht
have no more in value than he anC
, pay no more tax? Does it not de-
mand the same allegiance of him in
, time or war and peace They have
wheat, corn, cotton, oats, or tobac.
co, and his belongings are in the
shape of home. Is that any rea.
son for the discrimination ? Where
are the equivalent advantages to
the fruit and stock growers and
toilers in countless other worthy
callings, who have none of these
products
Again, those who have presented
the supposed advantages ofthis plan
before the committees of Congress
estimate upon the Census of 1880,
that ST counties in the United
States would fall within the propos-
ed rule tor a store-house, &c.
Georgia is put down for Al, or an
average of less than five to each
Congressional district. Take the
Seventh District, with it's Il coun-
ties; it would, upon the basis pro-
posed, have three sub-treasury
counties-Floyd, Barlow, aud Cobb,
all contiguous, and possibly one or
two others. What would a store
house in Rome be worth to the
Dade, the Catoosa, or the Murray
County farmer? What per cent. of
the value of his wheat, corn, oats,
or cotton would it take to haul or
ship it to Rome Sub-Treasury I?
Suppose he should want to pay the
advance and take some of it back
home for consumption +; how much
o. it's value would the railroads
have taken tor transportation?
II a bale OF cotton be hauled or
shipped from Lafayette to Rome
for storage, would not that be an
extra expense to the Walker Coun-
ty farmer? Could he not finally
sell it at Lafayette for as much as
he could get at Rome, when he sells
for shipment to the mills Would
not the same be true of the Acworth
farmer or merchant in shipping to
Marietta or Cartersville-or the
Whitfield farmer or merchant who