Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
CARLISLE'S DOCTRINE
The Newly-Fledged Senator Makes a
Bold Assault Upon the
GOVERNMENT WAREHOUSE SCHEME
1t Would Greatly lnjure Instead Of Benefit
the Farmers.
JUST A HARVEST FOR SPECTATORS

WASHINGTON, May 31.-To B. F. How
ard, Of Tuskegee, Ala, Senator Carlisle hal
written letter in response to Mr.. Howard'i
request for the Senator's views upon the bill
providing for a system of Government ware.
houses for farm products, upon which pro.
duct treasury notes may be issued. Senator
Carlisle saws that Mr.. Howard's statement
that he and those associated with him are in
''favor of equal justice to all and special
favors to none" embodies sound Democratic
doctrine, and if it had been strictly adhered
to in Congress in the past 25 years the evils
of which farmers and others justly COM
plain would have been sverted and the
whole country would now be prosperous
and contented. The Senator then says:
But the farmers have been taxed SO long
for the benefit of other classes, and have seen
80 much legislation for the aggrandizement of
corporations 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 interest of the country they are
now demanding that the very policy which they
have heretofore announced as unjust and
ruinous shall be applied to them, or rather a
part of them. for scheme has yet been sug-
gested that would operate alike upon all
Farmers. But no evil can be corrected no
wrong can be righted by increasing its :Iaeni-
tude and extending the scope of its operations
There is but one effectual remedy for the evil
which undou btedly exists. and that is to reverse
the policy which produced it.
SOME GRAVE OBJECTIONS.
The Senator, after rehearsing the features
of the proposed sub-Treasury plan and not
ing the facts that the farmers themselves
will pay more than their fair share of the
cost of erecting the warehouses, and that
the officers connected with them will be par
tisans OF the administration in power, says:
There are more than $500 counties in the
United States, but not more than one-third of
them, If that many, produce and sell an
pually more than $500 900 worth of wheat,
corn, oats cotton and tobacco, and therefore
not more than one-third of them could possibly
avail of themselves of this plan if 1t were
adopted for the bill provides that a county, in
order TO secure warehouse, must produce and
sell annually farm products valued at $500, 900.
1t will be seen, therefore, that at the very out
Set ii is a plan to compel the Government. 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.
Moreover, it is plan to enable un-
scrupulous spectators to take advantage of
the farmers pecuniary necessities 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.
1t is evident that no farmer will subject him.
self to the labor and expense of transporting
his products to the public warehouses and to
ali the other charges which he must pay for
storage, for handling and for taking care of
them while there when he has barns and gran
aries at home, unless he is in debt and abso-
lutely needs the money which the Government
is TO advance, and if he is in that unfortunate
Scondtion, from what source is he afterward to
acquire the means to redeem the products by
returning the money and interest and paving
the warehouse charges7
A STRIKING POINT.
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 sell his warehouse receipts for
whatever he can get for them, which will be