The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-01
CARLISLE'S BOLD STAND.
he DECLARES HIMSELF OPPOSED
TO THE ALLIANCE BILL

He Points Out That It Would Only
Increase the Facilities of Manipu-
lators-Farmers Would be Unable to
Redeem Their Crops-Itis Glass Leg
islstion, He Says.
WASHINGTON, May 31.-To B. F. Howard of
Tuskegee, Ala, Senator Carlisle has written
lengthy letter in response to Mr.. Towards
request for the senator's views upon the
agricultural sub-treasury proposition a
contained in the bills before congress to
provide for a system of warehouses
for farm produce throughout the country,
to be operated by the government,
which is to issue its notes upon the products
stored therein. Senator Carlisle says that
Mr.. Towards statement that he and those
associated with him are in favor of equal
Justice TO all and special favors to none
embodies sound democratic doctrine, and If
it had been strictly adhered to in congress
IA the past twenty-five years the evils of
which the farmers and others justly COM
plain would have been averted and the
whole country would now be prosperous
and conteDted.
ROBBED BY THE TARIFF.
"But.n says the senator. the farmers have
been taxed so long for the benefit of other
classes, and have seen so much legislation
for the aggrandizement of corporations and
syndicates that their patience is exhausted
and it is important for the time being to
abolish the system which has oppressed and
despoiled the agricultural industry of the
country. They now demand that the very
policy which they have heretofore
denounced as unjust and ruin
GUS 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 cor
rected, no wrong eau be righted by in
creasing Its magnitude and extending the
scope of its operations There is but one
effectual remedy for the evil, which IN
doubtedly exists, and that is TO reverse the
policy which produced it."
INEQUALITIES OF THEIR PLAN.
The senator, after rehearsing the features
of the proposed sub-treasury plan, and
noting tue fact that the farmers themselves
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: "There are more than 2, 400 counties
in the United States, but not more
than one-third of them, if that
many, produce and sell annually more
than 100000 worth of wheat, corn, oats,
cotton and tobacco, and, therefore, not
more than one-third of them could possibly
avail themselves of this plan, if it were
adopted. 1t will be seen, therefore, at the
very outset, that it is a 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 people living in the poorer and less pro-
ductive ones.
PUTS sPECULAToRS ON TOP.
Moreover, it is plan to enable I'M
scrupulous SPECTATORS TO take advantage of
the farmers pecuniary necessities and ex-
tort exorbitant prices for food from the
people who reside in the cities, towns and
villages, and from the people who
reside in the country but do not
own these particular agricultural
products. 1t is evident that no farmer will
subject himself to the labor and expense of
transporting his products to public ware
houses and to all the other charges which
he must pay for storage, for handling and
for taking care of them while there, when
he has barns and granaries at home, unless
he is in debt and absolutely needs the
money which the government is to ad-
vance, and if he is in that unfortunate
condition from what source is he afterward
TO acquire means to redeem the products by
returning the money and paying the ware
house charges?
WON'T BE ABLE TO REDEEM THEM.
''In great majority of cases he will never
be able to redeem them, but will be forced
to lose the remaining 20 per cent. of the
value OF his products, or sell his warehouse
receipt for whatever he can get for it,
which will be very little, for it must be re-
membered that after he gets his warehouse
receipt he has remaining 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 approaching
when he must have money to redeem his
products or sell his small remaining inter
est in them, or allow them to be sold at pub
lie auction by the government, and this will
be the golden opportunity of the SPECTATORS,
whose agents will swarm all over the coun-
try, ready to take warehouse receipts from
embarrassed owners for a merely nominal
sum.
LIKE A PAWNBRoKER's TICKET.
''The receipt is simply privilege of re-
demption, like pawubroker's ticket, and
the farmer, being himself unable to redeem,
will be forced ultimately to dispose OF it at
any price offered. | do not think that any
considerable number of intelligent people in
this country will sustain the farmers in ask
ing the government to establish system
which will compel them, in a large number
of cases, to sacrifice the products OF their
labor"
Senator Carlisle argues at some
length to show that the annual
expansion and contraction Of the currency
provided for in the bill would result in alb
solutely destroying the market upon which
the farmer must depend for the sale OF his
crops, and that the cotton farmers who are
supporting the sub-treasury plan would be
especial sufferers, because the plan 10 the
letter writer's estimate would close every
cotton factory in the country,
FACILITATES SPECULATION.
mo such facilities as this scheme would
afford for controlling the market for purely
speculative purposes have ever existed Ia
thls or any other country, and no more
perfect system for the oppression of the
poor could be devised. The exact quantity
OF product on deposit in the several public
warehouses will be known to every com.
mercial and financial center, and combina-
IONS to purchase and hold the receipts coulc
easily be made, especially when they can ot
procured by the payment of a small per-
centage of the value Of the deposit.
UNALTERABLY OPPOSED to- IT.
In conclusion Senator Carlisle says: 81
nave thus given you as briefly as the nature
Oh the subject would permit some Of the
reasons why think the proposed plan fol-
the relief Of the farmers would be injurious
instead of beneficial, not only to them, but
70 all the other uaoplo of the country. But