The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-06-13


plies from the market places. Why South
ern farmers should 20 into it l cannot COM
prehend. They buy their bacon and -four
from the Northwest, and if the producers are |
enabled to lock it up and hold it for higher |
prices it will be at the expense Of the Gotten |
grower. How is he to be benefited? When |
ne locks up his cotton against whom is he
contendiug? All his crop is sold. Two
thirds CT it goes to Europe, and the other
to cotton manufacturers in the United States. |
If the cotton grower expects 10 cell ut the
market price, and tries to force the manufac-
turer to give him more than the market price
the manufacturer to give him moro than the
market price, the manufacturer can close his
mill, turn his working people in the street
and wait until the grower is ready to sell.
He can stand the strain longer than the farm
er can. His employees will drink the cup of
suffering to its dregs but it will not come near
his lips. In the meantime the cotton grower
| will be paying the warehouse combination
price for his bacon, lard and flour, and if he
holds his cotton for the year provided for
/ by the bill he will put two crops OH the mar
ket at once, sell them at half price, pay in
| terest insurance and other charges and close
| up the transaction q heavy loser, Let us
| look at it from the position of the consumer
of farm products. What are they to do while
farm products are locked up in the sub-treas-
ury? What are they to do for daily subsis-
tence? What have they to deposit upon
| which to draw so per cent. of its value with
/ which to purchase their daily supplies? They
| are entitled to equal considerations with the
rest. AS Democrats, we all believe with Mr..
Jefferson, in "equal and exact justice to ALL"
| Our wholc,system offree government is found
l ed on that cardinal principle, aud tho Demo
cratic party was organized at the beginning
| to secure it. All the battles it has fought
! and all the victories it has won have been to
| favored class TuyIsIarron->s*;e marty has never
| When any measure is proposed for their
adoption it must impose its burdens and be-
stow its benefits alike on all. am thorough
ly convinced that the sub.treasury scheme
| will injure farmers and all others, but l am
presenting it to you in the light in which its
advocates present IT., as n measure beneficial
| to the depositors of the farm products, but
| injurious to those who have to buy and con-
sumo them. There is another objection to
| the proposed scheme that l am afraid was
not considered by my Democratic friends in
| Milan County. twill require ten or u dczeu
; officers at each of the sub-treasurics to re-
ceivc and care for the products deposited, re-
| turn to the dcpositors, and make settlements
| for advances, interest, insurance and other
charges, or sell them at auction and account
) | for proceeds Of sale, TO render accounts to
| the government, to receive its money, keep
books, make returns, and perform such other
| duties rs will be found necessary in conduct
ing so large a business. The bill only pro-
} rides for one such officer, but that is mani
festly insufficient and the Government if tho
bill Is passed. will provide force enough to
| execute its provisions Under the Constitu-
, tion they must be appointed by the Pre.i-
deut or by those under his authority. Have
my Democratic friends, considered what
would be the effect of filling the Southern
States with Republican Office holders dispens-
ing hundreds of millions of money? Doyou
want to return to the period Of reconstruc :
ton again? Have the Democrats of Milan
County forgotten tho throes and convulsions
through which we passed during that time?
The Republicans in the senate and House arc
holding nightly caucusc, to agree upon a
} | system of Federal control over our ballot
boxes, in order that they may take control
OF our elections, and by returning boards, ap-
} pointed by Harrison, have republicans placed
in office, instead of the Democrats who have
been elected by the people. Evor since they
secured the Administration and both branch
os of Congress they havo been busy devising
ways and means to overturn the Southern
State governments and put them again in the
control of mcrcenary hord of adventures
worst than the locusts and lice of Egypt. TO
} pass either Of these bills and inaugurate the
sub-treasury system would be to prepare tho
l way and make the paths straight for the
restoration of that control. 1t would bring
| to tho South period of corruption and op-
III M that hdses sT yst p4osded dFa fSr by ks h
t could be built without cost to the Govern
ment, and if all the Offices necessary to car
ry 1T into effect, could be filled with Demo-
Gratis, and If the Government had q thousand
millions ofgoid and silver to lend to the
farmers without interest, and without infat-
ing the currency, the measure would then be
full OF evil and destitute of any compensat-
ing good. Tho throwing into the circulation
OF a thousand millions of gold and silver
would raise prices very greatly, and while
the products the farmer had to sell would be
greatly increased in price, so would that
whlch he had TO buy. So that exchanges
would DO lifted upon higher plane, but
their relative value to oach other would be
just the same
The relief for which our farmers need is
the relief for which Cleveland fought and
ion. lhat relef was to give them more
markets and greater demand for their
products; that greater demand would raise
their prices and put into their pockets more
than u thousand millions of dollars annually
not OF borrowed money, but of money that
belonged to them, and which did not have
to be repaid to any one. While opening the
markets of the world to their surplus pro.
ducts would increase the value of what they
had to sell 1t would at the same time de-
crease the value of the things they had to
buy. This policy would begin redistribu-
ton of the wealth Of the country; and the
wealth that is now piled up in castles would
be distributed in the pockets of the pro-
ducers. The only way in which Congress
can emapcipate our farmers is to reduce,
greatly reduce, taxatioN on all manufactures
and other things which are imported and
which we have 10 buy, and thus let in five
or SIX hundred millions of foreign products
that are now kept out. When these come in
an equal amount Of cotton, wheat, corn and
other things wonld go out to pay for them.
and that would make an increased demand
which would increase the value of the entire
| crop many hundred million dollars. In 1881
we exported $3.50, ,OOO, 900 worth of agricul.
/ tural prnducts IhaL ia tl,a Ia..s-a..