The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-20
\ NEWS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1891
hEEGULAH CAMVAIGE.
The Alliance appointments for NewnerFy
County-Principles and Demands
OF the Order to be TX
planned.

At Cromer's Store, on Tuesday, Sep
tember 1st, under the charge CT the to!-
lowing Alliances, to wit: Liberty Hall,
Beth Eden, Garmany Academy and
Mt. Bathel.
At Bush River church, or Wednes-
day, September 2nd, under the charge
of Jalara, Kinard's, Reedersvllle, Trim
itv. BoaZman's and Faugharvile ALI
anccs.
On Thursday. September Sd, at st.
/ Luke's church, under the charge OF St.
! Luke's, Saluda, Utopia, ONeall and
soeirview Alliances.
Friday, September eth, At s..
"A Cat's church, under the charge OF st.
jolly Street, Pilgrim, Ware
/ It. Tabor, Gallman's Academy
rpn's Creek Alliances.
L>aay September 5th, at st.
Plckens cosurch, in charge of Camp
pretty heavy d>!easant and Maybinton
tory. Now we W
Of pickens TO hone%,nndd ConntV Ce nu.Si isectur.
and answer few qut1es, doctrines and
First, is it true that :e will be fully
growing poorer ever since 90 o.
Do they not know men 41H07 ~ 1''0'
dition has been steadily il;nyited tc
ever since the war? Have they
every neighborhood farmers whollances
made and kept money by farlEen' ~
since the war? ,e
Are not the general conditions OF the
country and people improved? DO they
not live in better houses, eat better
food, wear better clothes than a few
years ago? Are they not learning more,
are their churches not better, has not
the entire country improved, except
where it was injured by thriftless col
ored tenant labor, and all in spite Of a
tax rate the highest in the State, on
account of railroad subscriptions?
How many of the men who listened
to Lecturer Je.c'ries and Colonel Keitt
can figure out how the land loan and
sub-treasury would help them?
In the Fall everybody who has cot
ton can get money either by selling or
by borrowing on the staple. The pinch,
the time when poor men need to be
helped, is in the summer. The sub
treasury would not lend on liens or
chattel mortgages or personal credit. 1t
would run out of business the men who
do. Even the alliance stores and ex-
changes would &c al only for cash.
Would anybody be helped by the
land loan scheme but those who have
land already mortgaged or who own
land and desire to borrow on it to lend
at higher rates to their neighbors?
Would not the ability to borrow
money on land at two per cent make
men who have land hold it tighter?
Would it not make it harder for the
poor man to buy land?
Suppose Pickens County grows 10000
bales of cotton at $40 a bale. When
that is sold outright it puts 100000 in
the hands of Pickens people. Suppose
they all used the suo-treasury, drawing
only eighty per cent. of the value. That
would put only $500, 900 in the hands
of Pickens people, wouldn't it? And
interest and insurance would have to
be taken from that.
Sub-treasury advocates tell you their
scheme would make money more abun-
dant. How do they get over these
figures or make eighty per cent. as
much as hundred? Ask them.
If your cotton rose in price you would
be winner. If it went down you would
be loser. Did you ever try holding
cotton for a rise? How did you come
out? Judge the future by the past.
If every man whose land is mort
gagged now borrowed money from the
government Oh it, who would get that
: money? The holder of the mortgage,
the man to whom the money is due.
Would you get a dollar of it? How?
Does the mortgage holder owe you any
thing? Have you anything he wants
to buy? Do you reckon he is going to
be so flush with it that he'll give you a
few hats full: The land holder who is
under mortgage will have his debt
transferred from the private lender to
the government, his time extended
and his interest reduced. That is all
right for him if debasement Of the cur
rency doesn't ruin all together, but
how will it help the free land owner or
non land owner?
And you man who work occasionally
or regularly for wages: Is it not to your
interest to have the dollar put in your
hand a sure, solid, full dollar, worth
one hundred cents at the store or any
where else, now and twenty years
hence, if you can lay by a dollar now
and then? Can you afford t. risk Eav-
ing your dollar you have worked fol
, discounted ten or twenty or thirty
cents, or to find when the rainy day
,, you have provided for comes that your
dollar is good only for half dollar, al,
though you have done dollars worth
of work, put dollars worth of your
time and muscle in it? Don't you know
that wages are always the last thing te
rise? Don't you know you and youl
family Will suffer if you are earning
: only the same dollar you now earl
while prices are kiting up and YOU
=, dollar will pay for only half the fooc
and clothes it buys now?
These questions may be taken, an
swered and thought over in othe!
places besides Pickens.
), Sell When There's Demand.
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