Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-12-10
KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER TO- $780, NO 30

1oCC ears upon one stalk, ana again
seven nubbins blasted by hot and dry
winds. Joseph interpreted this dream
to mean full crops and failures He
recommended to the King and sub
treasurer to store the surplus during
the years of plenty Did not Joseph's
sub-treasury scheme save Egypt and the
surrounding countries? We also have
years of plenty and years of failures The
sub-treasury would enable US to hold our
grain until we know what the next crop
would be- Often it would save US from
buying back our own product at twice
the price we received. with railroad
charges both ways Would not this be
for the general welfare as much as light
houses on our coasts or big appropria-
tions to worlds fairs, that only the
rich can hope to see. Brother Hall op-
poses it as he does National banks. be-
cause 1t is class legislation. A Yankee
sometimes answers a question by ask
ing another. Perhaps the best way to
wipe out class legislation is to demand
our part If we farmers got our part in
proportion to our mum bers like National
bankers we should have S72, 600, 600, 900
at one per cent. instead of the paltry
sum of $50, 600, OOO put bankers and
families at $50, 600 and our number at
80, 600, 600. II the other Industrial
classes joined hands with the farmers
in demand for fair play, that is, to be
treated by the General Government as
it treats bankers, the combined wealth
of this country and England, estimated
at $50 900, 600, 600 would but little more
thon MI ol lonv
lation is it any wonder that so few of
our boys are found in collegesP
Brother Hall says it would bring
financial ruin to the farmers of
our entire country. If this kind
of legislation Injuries the farmer as it
has the National bankers, I, for one
want to be surrounded by such ruins
(plenty of greenbacks at one per cent
Brother Hall opposes it because it is
unjust and inequitable, only 81 out of
ia counties in this State getting the
benefit of the law, and those the rich
est These 81 counties most likely fur
nish half the grain that is sent to the
markets from tn State. If it wentinto
Government warehouses would it not
give small counties like Webster bare
instead of glutted markets to sell on.
Again he says, that the paying out of so
much money in those 81 counties will
so increase the volume of currency that
the price of every thing will be doubled
What good time for the small counties
to sell their wheat, pay their debts,
taxes and patch the old wagons for an
other year. Brother Hall says the
warehouse would require 80, 600 bins.
All the wheat ever shipped from
Webster has graded 2, and 4 No
number l ever reported and re-
! jected, Government warehouse
would not want TO touch. So his 80. :
600 bins are reduced to nine for
wheat, oats and corn. He speaks of the
expenses; railroad, freight and elevator
charges are deducted from the farmer
| when he sells his wheat Elevator
charges are made to cover interest, taxes
= 7,-=-srses. In a Government ware
| he est and taxes can be dropped.
Impox md distillers have bonded
warehors why not the farmer? Inn
porters ca1tsship goods under bond from
New York tc ST. Louis. Why can't we
| ship grain from one bonded warehouse
by paying freight or as letter is sent
from one Office to another. This is the
only bill before the country for the re-
| lief of our class. Let US have it. 1t
would pull the fangs of the option deal
ers by making the price of grain nearly
uniform the year round. am for the
sub-treasury scheme Edmund Hos
mer in Journal of Agriculture.
Marshfield, Mo.