The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-06-05
THE FARMERS.
SENATOR CARLIsLFs LETTER
ON WAREHOUSE SYSTEM.
FARMERS CONDITION sKEToHED
Carlisle Shows the Man with the Hoe the
Failacy of Aslxinga System which
Won't Work.
s CONDITION sKEToHED

WASHINGTON, May 30.--The National Re-
publican executive committee at their ses-
sion last evening elected Powell Clayton
of Ark, and Hon. w, B. Scott of West Va.
members of the committee.
To b, F. Howard, of Muscogee, Ala
Senator Carlisle has written letter in res
ponse to Howard's request for the Senator
views upon the bill providing for system
of government warehouses for farm product
upon whichlproducts treasury notes may
issued Senator Carlisle says that Howard's
statement that he and those associased with
him are in favor of equal justice to all and
special favor to none, embodies sound DEM
ocratic doctrine and if it had been strictly
adhered to in congress in the past twenty
five years the evils of which farme
and others justly complain would
have been avoided and the Who'll
cou ltry would now be pros porous an
contented. But, says the senator, farm
ers have been taxed so long for the benefi
OF other classes and there has been 30 much
legislation for the aggrandizement of cor
porations and syndicates that their patienc
is exhausted, and finding it impossible, 70
the time being. at least to abolish th
system which has oppressed and despoiled
| the greatest industrial interest of the
country, they were now demanding that
the very policy which they have heretofore
| announced as unjust and ruinous shall be
applied to them or rather part of them,
| for no scheme has yet been suggested that
would operate alike upon all farmers. But
no evil can be corrected, no wrong righted
| by increasing its magnitude and extending
| the scope of Its operations.
There is but one effectual remedy for an
evil which undoubtedly exists, and that is
to reverse the policy which produced it,
The senator after rehearsing the features
of the proposed lsub-treasury plan, noting
the fact that farmers themselves will pay
more than their fair share OF the cost of
erecting the warehouse, and that, officers
connected with them will be partisans of
the administration in power, says: ny
There are more than 2083 counties \
the United States, but not more than tQne
third Of d them, ZEN II that many produce an W.
and tobacco, and therefore not
more than one third of them
could possibly avail themselves of this plan
if it was adopted, for the bill provides that
a county in order to secure atwarehouse
must produce and sell annually farm pro-
ducts valued at $6O0,0OO. 1t will be seen
therefore at the outset that it Is plain to us
for the benefit of the people living in rich
and productive counties at the ev'azse Of
the people living in poorer and less produc-
tive ones.
Moreover it is a plan to enable unscrup-
ulous speculators to take advantage Of
farmers pecuniary necessities and extort
exorbitant prices for food from the people
who reside in cities, towns and from the
people who reside in the country, but don't
own these particular agricultural products.
1t is evident that no farmer will subject
himself to the labor and expense of trans
porting his products TO public warehouse
and to all the charges which he must pay
for storage, for handling, for taking care q
them while there, when he has barn and
granary at home, unless he is in debt and
absolutely needs money which the govern
ment is to advance 1t.
In great majority Of cases he will never
be able to redeem warehouse charges and
he will be forced 20 lose 20 per cent of the
value Of his products or sell his warehouse
receipts for whatever he can get for them,
which will be very little, for IL must be re-
membered that after he gets his ware
house receipts he has remaining interest
of only 20 per cent less charges for
interest, storage, etc. This is all he can
dispose of. He will find the time rapidly
approaching when he must have money to
redeem his products or sell his small re-
naming interest in them or allow them to
be sold at public arntion by the govern
ment and this will be the golden opportun-
ity of the spectators, whose agents will
swarm all over the country ready to take
warehouse receipts from embarrassed own
ers for merely nominal sum. The receipt
is simply privilege of redemption like q
pawnbroker's ticket, and the farmer being
himself unable TO remain will be forced ul-
timately to dispose Of 1t at any price Of
fered.
of intelligent farmers in this country will
unite in asking the government to estab-
lish system which will compel them. in
large number of cases, to sacrifice the
products of their labor