The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-22

better one is suggested. The writer
never has been an enthusiast over
this measure. But a majority are
for it, so we don't propose to kick
against the majority. No other real
Alliance man will. Since we have
bad time to study the Sub Treasury
| plan we are more f~avorably impressed.
In the first place it would take the
ruling of prices entirely out of the
hands of spectators, and supply and
| demand, would govern prices. Second;
all of the surplus products would not
necessarily go into the warehouses at
the same time, a small portion being
sufficient to keep up prices according
to quantity. Hence the storage ca
paclty need not be so large. Third.
If only one-tenth of the counties IN
the United States would be entitled
to warehouses, that many, or even
o~ne.twentieth, selling $500, 900 or
more as a surplus annually, would
be no Objectionable part of the bill
from the fact that the surplus that
could be stored in this number Of
warehouses would govern prices at all
times, and people living in sparsely
settle countries could get as much for
their produce as farmers living in
sight of an immense warehouse. We
do not care if only one warehouse be
built, just so it is large enough to
hold a sufficient quantity of the sur
plus to keep up values instead of their
being controlled by a few greedy
spectators as it now is.
Some Of the opposition say that
grain and tobacco could not be
handled in this way-nothing but cot
ton. That is a mistaken idea. The
comparatively small quantity to be
stored in order to govern the price
could easily be cared for. A few
spectators a buy up and store
enough to control prices now. Then
why not the men who raise the grain
and tobacco? When we have a short
crop of any certain products, the spec
uIators can buy up the surplus easily
and for years it has been a notorious
fact that prices Of farm products go
down when there is a short crop in
stead of up as they should. The
Sub Treasury plan will knock the
bottom out of all this underhand rob
berry. Stick to it unless you get some,
thing better.
Some of the papers charge the asso-
ciate editor with a desire to get up a
sensation during the absence of the
editor. in chief in the northwest. So
far as that goes Col. Polk has been
absent and in Washington City for
more than six months. The writer
thinks he did get up a small sensa-
ton. He will continue to get up sen
sations whenever public men buck
against the Alliance, and the bigger
the mar the bigger will be the sensa,
ton. 1t looks like there will be an
other sensation before long. The en-
tire Alliance will be responsible for
it. 1t is a well-known fact that a
large NUMBER of our Senators and
Congressman represent their own
pockets only. 1t is a we'll known fact
that a good many of them can be
found in Washington bar, rooms and
other places Of resort when some Of
the most important measures deman1
their presence, and when they are be-
ing voted on. 1t is a well known fact
that more time is spent in %quarreling
on sectional matters han there is on
reform questions in the American
House of Lords. This and other
things will require a general cleaning
out of our national legislative halls
and the Alliance will have to sound
the battle cry. We do not want to
sacrifice good men in this affray be,
tween right aud wrong, but Senator
Vance and other good men are mott
fed of the fact that we are terribly in
earnest and the wishes of the 100, 900
people composing the Alliance in this
State and the millions in all the States
are not to be trifed with and set aside
without the consent of the Alliance.
We say this as a member of the
Alliance. If the majority of the ALI.
ance people say that we are wrong we
will respect their opinions, and con-
clude that we are mistaken. In the
meantime The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
will continue to strike out from the
shoulder and will hit any man who
tries to impede the progress of the
Alliance, and if he is too big to walk
over we will walk around him, for
get there we will, and if our brethren
in the Alliance expect to falter at
every step, and we know they do not,
then they will have no one to blame
but themselves.