The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-24
\ National HOg-Pen and Pig-Tail
Money.

We tie with pleasure that syste-
matte movement is on foot IN Alabama
and Mississippi to call certain errlng
brethren squarely to taw on the SUP
treasury bill and TO force them to sub
scribe to every line and letter OF the
Ocala platform or get out of our noble
order. The 4 mericdD, as Sub-organ
and assistant Toiler of the Alliance,
heartily approves this heroic course
and demands that the same rigorous
measures be adopted in this State for
the purpose of roofing out heresy and
making treason odiOus. This great and
Denefcent measure must not be lmped-
I'd by factious opposition and stabbed
t6 death by the hands of traitors, and
The Il mCricdH, as Sub-Organ and as
|iStant Toiler aforesaid, is determined
hat it shall not fail for such reasons.
We deem it the proper time, now that
this subtreasury battle is being Joined,
to disclose some further plans which
have been revolving in the mind OF our
wise and worthy President. One of the
most insistent objections which have
been made to our Subtreasury scheme
is that it is partial in its beneticence, in
that the stock-raiser is denied partici-
patton in it's benefits. Our worthy
President has felt the force of this OBJ
lection and proposes to meet IL IN
practical way. We are authorized to
state that he is now preparing a bill to
to ObYiate this trouble, and that 1t Will
be introduced at sthe next session of
Congress by Brother Rice Pierce. This
bill applies only to swine, but other
oils will be introduced as soon as per-
fected to extend the operations of the
law to other live stock. The bill pro-
vides for great national hOg-pen, to be
known as the "Swineyard Subtreas-
ufV," and every farmer is to be allowed
To deposit his swine in its vaults and
keep them there for a year and day.
In order to provide means for feeding
them, the Picker bill is to be amend
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take small toll from each turn of corn
brought for deposit i'll the natlonai
oorn-crib. In order 10 make the Amer
lean hog the basis of sound and health
ful circulation medium, our worthy
President has conceived plan as novel
and original as is brilliant and ingen-
iOuS.
This Federal hog-pen is to have two
sub pens, one of which is to be known
as the Pen of Weights and Appraise-
meut and the other as the Pen OF Cur
ttilments aud Authorization. When the
farmer brings his hogs for deposit they
first pass through the Pen OF Weights
and \ ppraiSement, whore they are sep
arateIy weighed and valued and the
pro per figures written upon a card and
tied to the tail of each hog. Thence
they are driven to the Pen of Curtail-
Inents and Authorization, where their
caudal ornaments are neatly shipped
oil and returned to the farmer, these
tails to be his receipts. Hogs having no
tails when offered for deposit are to be
thrown out as multilated coin. After
passing through this pen they are next
taken to the Pen of final Deposit, or
Swine Vault, as it is called, there to be
held for redemption. 1t is provided
that each pig-tail shall represent so
many dollars per inch and shall be cut
the proper length to represent the full
value of the hog with 10 per cent added.
These tails, according to the plan of our
worthy President and Oil Inspector, are
TO be legal tender for all debts including
custom-house dues; though Brother
Pierce is inclined to think that it would
be sufficient to make them receivable
for State and county taxes. Whlchevt
view prevails there will be provided an
abundance of cheap and convenient
currency, and the hog raiser will be
supplied with a means for meeting his
most pressing necessities while holding
the bulk of his hogs for better price,
they being cared for and fattened in the
meantime without trouble or expense
to him. Whenever he thinks the price
iustifies it he may redeem bis hogs and
throw them on che market. To do this
he simply appears and presents his tails
to the proper officer, who indentifes the
hogs by fitting the tails to their proper
stIimps, The office assigned to this
work Is called the Department Of Tall