The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-05-01

OF US all to let him live to be older
than Methusalah, he stands poor
chance of ever realizing his dream
1t is stated in holy writ that a
day is as thousand years and a
thousand wears as day. With
the farmer who is vanity hoping to
borrow money from the govern
mens the day will surely be Il thous-
and years off, but the political
tricksters VINO preach such fancies
hope to see the thousand years of
office holding transformed in to-
morrow.
The promised land that lies be
yond the political Jordan is very
enticing to those who propose to
cross Jordan in an official boat 4.
And what sort Of a boat haze they
got? I'll not make fun of it. | do
not deal in ridicule and any propo.
sition advanced by the farmers of
South shall ever claim my calm,
careful and serious consideration.
My sympathies are with them even
in the hour of error, and when the
new and false prophets seeking Of
fee are undertaking to divert their
attention from the true policy which
would ultimately work out their
salvation. When l thIak of not
only how the brave and true sons
of Mississippi toll, but in many
cases how alongside of them their
true and pure hearted wives and
daug hters are embrowned in the
July sun, working to keep the wolf
from the door, and how these men,
their wives and children are robbed
and ground down by the merciless
and shameless system of taxation
enforced by a political party In
power, placed there by the corrupt
use of money, fiIched from the peo-
pie. say any demand that comes
from these oppressed people shall
ever engage my thought and atten-
ton. Substantially every man
who owns cotton, corn, oats, wheat
and tobacco can take it to the
warehouse and get eighty cents of
It's then market value. That Is
what this bill proposes. But mind
you. these products are classified
by an autOcrat, probably an alien
appointed by the ruling autocrat at
Washington. These products can
remain in the warehouse twelve
months, and the producer is to pay
one per cent. interest. 1t is the one
per cent. interest that is so attrac-
tive to us who have been paying
ten and fifteen per cent. 1t is true
the farmer gets eighty per cent.
when he turns his products into the
warehouse, but does it not strike
you that if he sold it outright he
would get 100 per cent. or al it
was WORTH But he wants TO wait
for rise in the market. Everyone
knows how fluctuating the cotton
market is, but these financial doc
tors will solve that problem and
make 1T fuctuate only the farmers
way, it he will only vote to put the
f. d. into a good fat office in the
meantime. Every one knows that
twO-thir1s of the cotton of this
country is exported, and that the
price of the same is regulated in
Liverpool and other European
markets. And do these advocates
of this chimerlcal scheme propose to
regulate the foreign markets of the
world too?
So you see what miserable stuff
the southern farmer Is treated to.
After the products have been stored
if there should be a falling off of
fifteen per cent. you lose, for it
takes much to pay the cost of stor-
age, tax, etc. And who will pay
the general losses? Why, the
tax payers, of course.
The mantle that is TO cover this
grand and gau1y scheme is a fexi-
BILE currency. Now, our commit
tee took that man Macune's expert
testimony on this point. He is the
man, you know, who makes con-
venient loans during hot political
fight, so they say. He was asked
by Senator Higgins how much cur
rency it would take to meet the in
fiux of products to the warehouses,
and said on January 1st, about
$1,000, 100000.
Sand how much on July 1st p
asked the senator.
"Not a cent" ans wered Macune.
What kind of logic is this? How
much of such nonsense are we to be
dosed with? The very idea of in
creasing the volume of currency
on January 1st., when crops are
just harvested and everybody has
money, and withdrawing it in July
when everybody is hard pushed
and anxious 10 borrow. Bear in
mind that whatever Is borrowed
has to be paid. The government
takes from the people, it does not
give to them. have every conf
dence that when the farmer gets
his consent to look into and ex-
anime this scheme, concocted as it
is by a secret political order for the
benefit of men not their real friends,
then be will renounce it. | can
only appeal to you to stop and
think. Nv countrymen. there is a
deIusion abroad; the agricultural