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FARMERS ALLIANCE.
NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.
THE sUB.TREAsURY BILL.

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THE SUB-TREASURY BILL.
The idea That 1t Provides Only For the
Farmers Shown to BE Ridiculous.
As the organs Of monopoly are trying
to scare weakened and shallow
Drained people to death over the posi-
bility of the passage of the sub-treas-
ury bill, we set out below that bill in
full. The monopolists say it is uncon-
stitutional, undemocratic and unrepub-
lican because it provides only for the
benefit of the farming class. The idea
that it provides only for the farming
class arises from q superficial view Of
the matter. The aim is not more toI
provide for the farming class than it is
to promote the welfare of all classes byI
making the formation of trusts, corners
and combines impossible. BY corneringl
grain, cotton, tobacco and money, the
whole country, except the monop-I
olists, is severely injured, and
the imposition of paltry fines
and short terms of imprisonment
do not operate even in the smallest de-
gree to prevent their formation. 1t is
true that, in order to reach these COR
ners, we have to provide warehouses
for the storage of farm products, and
money to be advanced in part payment
of their value, and thus not only is the
farmer Immediately benefited, but the
whole country is benefited resultant
", and quite as much, if not moro,
than the farmers. The Federal Govern
ment makes an annual appropriation Of
$l,s50, 900 for the use Of the Agricultural
Department Of the Government. Will
! any one contend that because the
farmers receive the immediate bene-
fit of this appropriation, that only
they are benefited and that it is
of no advantage to the whole coun-
try for the farmers tn thrive, and receive
from the Government encouragement
and assistance in their business? The
Government ,ppropriates annually SsO,.
100000 for tie improvement of our
rivers srd harbors, the benefits arising
from winch are enjoyed most immedi-
ately ard in greatest degree by the mer-
chant vessels who are in the free and
daily use OF our great waterways. Will
it be said, however, that this appropria-
ton is entirely for the benefit of the
navigator class, and that the people Of
the "hole country do not participate
i'll some degree in the advantages thus
}, secured to The nav;gators? We do not
pre- pose to 60 into q discussion of this
question, and only print the bill that
those whose attention Is now for the first
time perhaps being directed to it by
these furious attacks Of the monopoly
organs, may have the opportunity of
reading it for themselves, and of decid-
ing upon its merits, uninfuenced by
empty dcnunciations. It will be no
ticed that it is non-partisan measure,
having strong advocates and opponents
in all parties and is not adopted as a
distinct plank in any platform, and is
merely suggested by large element of
our American citizenship as o possible
remedy for the very greatest evil viii III
this country ever has or possibly ever
WILL "t, OIL SuSouEvCI, Vudt 10, Ulc lOI"
nation Of combines and corners for the
purpose Of depressing the price of the
five great American agricultural
products, wheat, corn, oats, cot
ton and tobacco, when the farm
er is compelled to go into the
markets. to sell, and then when the
:, farmer has sold out, to corner the pro-
i duce and make the consumers pay all
that they possibly can and still subsist,
the average difference between the price
paid the farmer and the price paid by
the consumer, As shown by statistical
tables, being 10 per cent. The burden
Of this huge steal is borne partly by the
farmer and partly by the consumer. Of
course, in approving the Picker bill, we
only approve the principle embraced in
it, and not every provision. 1t is mere
~ a skeleton proposition, subject to
change and amendment in committee
and upon the floor, and is liable to be
changed very materially in form. II
the Government will only incorporate
into law the essential features of the
Piclkler bill, we will be satisfed.-Nash.
vile (Tenn) Toiler.
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