Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-01

He Gives His Views on the Proposed Gov
eminent Warehouse Bill.
WASHINGTON, May 31st-Senator Carl
isle has written very lengthy letter to B.
+. Howard, of Tuskegee, Ala, in response
| to request for his views upon the bill pro-
vidlng for system of Government ware
houses for farm products, upon which pro-
ducts Treasury notes only are to be issued.
Inc Senator says: I'm the beginning the
statement of Howard ard his associates,
that they are in favor of equal justice to ali
ana special favors to none, embodies
sound Democratic doctrine, and if it had
been strictly adhered to in Congress for the
past twenty-five years the evils of which
farmers and others justly complain would
have Deen averted, and the whole country
would now be prosperous and contented.
The farmers have been taxed so long
for the benefit of other classes, and seen go
much legislation for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
corporations and syndicates. that their pa
tieace ID exhausted, and they are now de.
manding that that very policy which they
! have heretofore denounced as unjust and
ruinous shall be applied to them, or rather
| part OF them, for no scheme vet sug-
gested would operate alike upon all the
farmers. But no evil can be corrected by
increasing its magnitude and extending the
scope of its operations.
| There is but one effectual remedy for the
evil which undoubtedly exists, and that is
to reverse the policy which produced it."
The Senator, after rehearsing the feat
ures proposed in the ub-Treasury plan
and noting the fact that the farmers them.
selves will pay more than their fair share
OF the cost of erecting the warehouses and
that the officers connected with them will
be partisans OF the Administration in
power, says that not more than one third
OF the $500 counties of the United States.
If that many, produce and sell annually
more than $5OO,000 worth of agricultural
products, and therefore under the bill not
more than one-third of them could avail
themselves of this plan.
AT the very outst, therefore, it is q plan
to compel the Government to issue and
distribute money for the benefit of people
living in the rich and productive counties
at the expense of the poorer ones.
Moreover it is q plan to enable I'M.
scrupulous spectators to take advantage
of the farmers pecuniary necessities and
extort exorbitant prices for food from the
people.
I'm great majority of cases the farmer
has never been able to redeem the depos.
tied products, but he is forced to lose the
remaining 20 per cent. of the value or sell
bis warehouse receipts for whatever he
can get for them, which may be very lit
tie, for it must be remembered that after
he gets his warehouse receipts he has a re-.
naming interest of only 20 per cent, less
| the charges for interest, storage ETC., and
| this is all he can dispose of.
He will find the time rapidly approach.
ing when he must have money to redeem
his products or sell his small remaining
interests, or allow them to be sold at public
auction by the Government, and this will
be the golden opportunity of spectators,
whose agents will swarm all over the
country, ready to take receipts from the
embarrassed owners for merely nominal
sum-
Senator Carlisle argued at length to show
that the plan proposed would produce an
annual expansion and contraction of cur.
rency which would result in absolutely de-
stroying the market upon which the
farmer must depend for the sale of his
crops.
No such facilities as this project will af-
ford for controlling the markets, for purely
speculative purposes. says he, have ever
existed in this or any other country, and
no more perfect system for the oppression
of the poor could be devised.
In conclusion, Senator Carlisle saws
even if it could be conclusively shown
that this, or any similar scheme, would be
pecuniarly beneficial to any particular
class of the people, he would still be un-
alterably opposed to it, because, in his
opinion, it would be another wide and
dangerous departure from tine principles
upon which our political institutions are
founded. 1t would, in fact be the longest
step yet taken in the time of peace toward
consolidation Of power in the Federal
Government, aud the subsection of the
private affairs of the people to the control
Of the central and irresponsible authority.