The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-17

bers who will ever be elected to either house
OF congress Will, after taking the oath to
support the constitution of the United
States, be satisfied to so far pervert the pow
ers OF congress as to place the governments
In the attitude of issuing money directly
to the people on personal account and on
pledges OF real or personal property for Its
repayment" He adds. very truly, that
this useless discussion and agitation OF an
Impossible measure of supposed RELIEF TO
the people draws away their attention from
and disturbs their concert of action in ref
erence to those measures of actual and SUBJ
staniial relief which are easily in their
reach"
Colonel Thomas Hardeman, of Georgia,
has also written strong letter on the sub
ject, the tone of which imp les that there Is
imminent danger that the Alliance will
overthrow the Democrats in South Caro-
lima, II not in Georgia also. unless per-
chance the Federal election bill shall scare
the white men back to their proper places
under fear OF new regime OF negro SUI
premacy. Concerning the sub-treasury
project Colonel Hardeman says:
Il am compelled to say 20 you that de-
nouncihg class legislation, which mas built
up special industries at the expense of the
farming interest OF the country, you now
demand policy for yourselves of favorit-
ism In legislation-a special system which,
II granted you, should be granted to all, and
II granted to all would convert this govern
ment into financial agency to conduct
and control the private business OF its citi-
zens.
Believing, as do, that this measure, If
adopted. which do not believe its authors
anticipate, would bring incalculable injury
to every interest of the country-com-
mercial, industrial and 'agricultural-Ic cam
not indorse it as a measure upon which
men may and will ride into position and
place, but, sooner or later, you viii dis
cover that it was conceived in deception.
born OF artiice. and must eventually die
from the diseases its unfulfilled promises
and dangerous principles will engender."
The sEb-treasury plan proposes that the
government shall build a lot of warehouses
for the storage of agricultural products
and receive such products therein. advanc-
ing to the owners so per cent. of the value
thereof, issuing legal-tender notes for the
purpose. Senator Morgan is quite right IN
saying that there will never be congress
in which 10 per cent. of the members will
vote for such a measure. Probably Mr..
Hardeman is right in saying that the au-
thors of the scheme do not expect that it
will be adopted Nevertheless it
may prevail like the grip, over
a wide extent of country, and bring
about very fantastic political results.
In Kansas the prevailing folly of the alli-
ance is of somewhat different kind, tax
ing the form OF demand that all lands be
appraised by public authority, and in
cases where there has been Is shrinkage of
value and where the land is mortgsged,
the shrinkage be apportioned equiiably to
the mortgageor and mortgage. This de-
mand is in some localities coupled with
demand that all laws for the collection of
debts be abolished. In Minnesota the
alliance only asks, for the present,
that the United States supreme
Court be abolished. so that "the people"
can do what they like with railroad prop
erty. There never will be 10 rer cent. of
congressman in favor of the Kansas and
Minnesota plans any more than there will
be in favor of the Georgia and Carolina
plan. Yet the amount of political disor-
ganization may be as great in the North
west as in the Sou beast. although at pres
ent the signs of it are not so manifest.