Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-01-08

| Will probably be elected by the repub-
licans next year governor of Ohio, as
they hold the state by good majority
on the direct tariff issue."\
This testimony, in the columns of a
| great foreign newspaper, we'll known to
be hostile to the republican party of the
United States and its protection policy,
Is worth reading just now.
THE SUB-TREASURY SCHEME.
| Lincoln Journal
The sub-treasury scheme of the alli-
| ance prophets and dictators is one of
those doctrines that they reserve mostly
for secret advocacy in their lodges.
They are quite chary of putting it to
! the front in their national and state
declarations Of principles, but they use
| 1t with great effect in the rural lodges
for it is the greatest and most tyrannous
class combination of producers to force
the market to their advantage, ever
soberly put forward since the time of the
| French revolution. The anarchists
| would perhaps in an insane moment
adopt principal as wild as this, but the
anarchists are producers, as a general
serious attention.
in the co6ntry where proof is made that
the agricultural products amount to
$500, 900 per annum the secretary of the
treasury shall open out an Office to be
called sub-treasury and put up ware
houses of sufficient capacity to hold
all the agricultural products of the
country, such as cotton, grain, tobacco
and everything that will keep in store.
The Sub-treaSury being opened and the
| warehouses prepared, every farmer will
have the right to store his crops in the
warehouses, taking the receipt therefor.
The storage and insurance charges
shall be just sufficient to pay actual cost
of the same to the government. Upon
getting such warehouse receipt, the
farmer will step up to the sub-treasur-
ers office and draw an amount in
treasury notes that are legal tender,
equal to 80 per cent of the "market
price, of the grain or tobacco or cotton
that he has deposited. This money he
can keep for any time he sees fit. Fin
ally when he gets ready to sell his ware
house receipt he pays 1 per cent. per
annqm interest on the money the
treasury has advanced him and the stor-
age and insurance charges.
OF course the first benefit expected by
the alliance men from this arrangement
is the cash in hand, as soon as he stores
his crop. But the chief profit and adj
vantage is that he and his neighbors and
the farmers generally will be able to
combine and refuse to market the years
product Of grain or cotton or tobacco
until the famine in the land is sufficient
to send up the price.
The chief attraction of the scheme is
| 4l,n ~ %x,f Il
the people at large will have to bear
the expense of boarding the products of
the farm and keeping them out of the
price for them. The people will merely
pay the farmer 80 per cent of the pres
emit value of his crop and hoard it for
him at minimum expense until the
farmers have run the price up as high as
they think the nation can stand, and
then they pocket the difference, whether
the retention of the crop from the mar
ket has doubled or trebled it in value.
No other producer IN this country,
however, is to be allowed to go into q
like combine for the raising of the
, value of his product. The laws are to be
made so stringent that it will be a penal
= offense for the laborer who manu-
= features iron or stoneware or furniture
or shoes or clothing, to enter into an ar
: rangement to control the market by
! holding by q part of the supply until
) prices rise. The only legal combine will
, be that made on an immense scale by the
honest farmers with the United States
, treasury TO furnish the capital necessary
to maintain and support the trust.
Z In addition to the sssub-treasury'
5 scheme is the plan of drawing on the
: treasury of the country to the extent o.
r so per cent of the appraised value o.
T the farms for loans to farmers, at thu
same rate per cent that is to be paid fol
& advances on crops. This is touched OF
8 very gingerly, also, in the open meeting'
8 and in the promulgated platforms Of thu
4 POLITICAL managers of the alliance, but
rs is well known is one Of the bats helt
I out OF the secret meetings Of the lodges
Q These were the brides held out to thu
0 farmers by the alliance leaders durini
I the late campaign to get them to ''stick'
! to the ticket put up by the independents
i With these utopian schemes in view b.
n which vista of boundless afiluence ant
: big profits were held up to the gaze o
/. the Rgriculturist, suffering greatly from
]. the low prices produced by the to-
& abundant crops 6f last year and tn
. almost total failure OF the crop Of tn
q season OF 1880, it is no wonder that TIL
3 tariff was forgotten, that the old part,
q issues seemed paltry and threadbare
4 and that an enthusiasm such as has bee
|. awakened for years attended the meet
4 Ing addressed by the anarchical orators
,-I Compared 10 the dazzling programin
of getting every farmers hand into th
United States treasury, all other plan
N nf Onvnrnrnnnt lnnl NOR indeed. Yh