Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-25
PROPOSED ALLIANCE MEASURES.

PROPOSED ALLIANCE MEASURES.
News comes from Washington that
the Alliance managers are already cut
ting out work for congress to waste
time on this winter. The sub-treasury
bill is to be introduced, but not in the
exact form in which it made its debut
last winter 1t will be altered in some
particulars, just what we are not told.
among the Alliance high priests. Any
premature exposure of their hand, such
as limiting at project OF law, as the
French call it, might undo the whole
business and spill the fat they have
fried from their dupes in the fire. 1t
will be time enough to show their hand
when their bill is introduced. They
would hide it from the public then if
they could, and consider it in execu-
tive session under the five-minute rule,
AZ they did at Ocala, If certain trouble
some rules and traditions governing
the public character and freedom Of
debate in legislative assemblies did
not forbid. The Picker bill was
laughed cut OF court as a veritable
monstrosity. An effort will be made
to get up the new bill in more pre-
sentable shape, so as to avoid all the
ridicule possible.
It is said also that they will have
nothing to 90 with Senator Stanford's
bill to lend money TO farmers on land.
The trouble with Stanford's bill is the
lack of a sub-treasury attachment.
Then, too. Stanfords bill is not in the
interest of a third party. as the sub
treasury bill is. Stanford is not using
his bill chiefly for the purpose OF weak
aning the Democratic party in the in
terest of the G. o. D., as Macune and his
rang are doing with their bill. Again,
only those who own land could borrow
money from Uncle Sam under his bill.
According to the sub-treasury plan,
he renter who will cart his cotton,
wheat or corn across the county in
wagons, may borrow so per cent of the
value of it from the government. The
difference between the two bills is the
Inference between a real estate and
chattel mortgage. That is all there
is to it.
The sub-treasury bill to be introduced
will provide, so they say, that person
owning and residing on tract of land
of not less than ten nor more than 800
acres. half of which is under cultiva-
lion, may borrow money from the gov
,rnment to the amount of half Of the
assessed value of the land and improve
nents, agreeing to pay p per cent in
crest for not less than five nor more
han ten years.
Now the privilege to borrowscheap
money from the government under
;uch law as that would do the aver
lge Texas farmer lots of good,
wouldn't it? How many OF our farm
rs have land outside of their home
steads that they could mortgage? Not
very many who would cucumber them
selves merely because they could. The
rreat mass of Texas farmers would no.
where come within the purview of
such law, and by experience would
know nothing about it, only as they
lelt the disastrous results OF it on trade
and commerce.
We are told also that the Alliance
managers will introduce free coinage
bill. one for the abolition of national
banks-we would be in nice fix in
Texas if the national banks should be
wiped out-and another giving the
government full control of railroads
and telegraphs. What else OF a radical
nature they may have in contemplation
is not known, but we fancy that those
already mentioned will be enough to
break Sockless Simpsons back before
the session is half ended.