The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1891-07-11


years. Pehdly had to pay a tax Ito be
allowed to hold his property to the
United States, and you paid none to be
allowed to hold yours. This is pitia-
BILE and shameful argument they use to
smear and plaster over the sub-treasu-
ry in order to make it appear plausible
and decent politically.
I recognize and appreciate the incal-
culable blessings in labor, civilization
and enlightenment which the patent
right system has wrought to promote
the prosperity and happiness Of the hui
man race.
He who would, Or does, cry it down
would remand mankind back into the
barbaric ages, when women were made
beasts of burden and veritable slaves.
An eminent iurist, in his decision on
taxation, says, "Whenever the govern
ment takes by taxation the money of
of tho people out of their pockets, for
the purpose of bestowing it upon any
individual or class OF individuals to en-
able them to better their condition in
life,i is none the less robbery because
the transfer is made under the form Of
law"
The word OF God opposes it, for the
Golden Rule says, do unto others as we
would wish to be done by. Henry G.
Turner, one of Georgia's best members
of Congress. says that out Of every
three dollars you pay on necessaries
that you are forced to purchase, you
pay two dollars under the protective
tariff.
ST you have paid this much on qui-
nine, and matches land you know you
have paid more) it is reasonably cer-
tain that the same rule is true on dry
goods, groceries, tinware, hardware,
bagging and ties, and all the hundreds
upon hundreds Of articles tariff taxed.
Rich farmers and spectators held
corn and cotton this year for an advance
in prices. and ask you poor farmers
and laborcrsi If you have been benefited
by this? Did help you to get better
prices on corn and produce you had to
sell in the fall? No; not a cent.
My Alliance neighbor, Presley had
to sell last fall, thirty bushels of corn at
fifty cents per bushel, and this spring
he had to pay one dollar per bushel
for ten bushels of it back. Now, all
the difference there is between the
sub-treasury system, which you want to
build up for the benefit of your officials
and the spectators, and my friend
Presley's. wherein he stored his thirty
bushels of corn last fall, is that every
body is not taxed to build and run his
kind Of a sub-treasury. And this is the
kind Of a sub-treasury scheme which
you are beseeching poor men to help
YOU to saddle tax on all men and wo-
men to build and run wherein rich
| farmers and spectators can hoard,
store and hold the products raised upon
farms until they advance in price, the
better to be enabled to exact greedy and
extravagant gains from those who are
forced to purchase for consumption.
Are YOU zone gallus' farmers as the
Southern Alliance Farmer charmingly
calls you) and laborers willing to tax
yourselves, your children and grand
children to build and run such gigan-
tic scheme for plundering this country ::
Some of the advocates OF this meas
ure paw up the ground and beat down
the bushes in their holy horror and
abuse of class legislation which is
making millionaires of manufacturers
and others, and swallow as a precious.
sweet and delicious mOrsel, the class
Legislation of the sub-treasury scheme,
which will enrich spectators and es-
tab]ish warehouses wherein rich men
can store products raised upon farms
and hold them at Taxpayers expense
until they can extort unrighteous gains
at the expense of cont %'mers Of farm
productions. u
No wonder men living in towns and
employees on public works oppose 1T,
for the law Of self-preservation demands
it.
It will be one OF the biggest trusts
and combines to enslave the masses
vet attempted to be placed upon an
unsuspecting people, and shuddel
when think Of it for the poor classes
Of this country, when it il inaugural.
ed. The great millionaire corn and
wheat raisers of the West, like Dal
rvmple & Co., will then have all they
want. >. >,
| ANY sensible man can see that II II
acco1nplishes what it Is hoped to do BY
it's advocates, all poor men and other'
will have to pay more for flour and 9th
0r COmmOulIlco ~ HOAuS uiA>t "A'SAi 'H>
are forced to purchase.
Many Alliance leaders tell you MOI
| to believe anything written or spoken
unless they sanction it, and some o
them say you ought not to read any
thing but Alliance literature. gotter
out by them; in other words, they sa!
wa are babies. not capable of forming
opinions for ourselves, and We mus
, look to them for a thus sayeth the Lore
!, on all public demands.
Is it possible that we free-born mel
and women must depend upon them tt
! form and express our opinions before
: we are allowed to utter them Ma,
10th the Southern Alliance Fd'n,e
said It was egotism in Alliance mel
. who were opposed to the sub-treasur!
to expect it to allow us to be heard /,
it's columns, and said Bob Ingersoll an'
, his friends could with equal prophet.
demand of Methodist and Baptist ps,
Ders to be allowed to write in their col
, rmns against Christianity.
Ingersoll is not q member OF an!
Christian church and doesn't claim tt
, he Christian, and this is an infamou
,, comparison, wanting in reason an'
, .,,,o o,d IN irs,11t tn tha