Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-01
CLASS LEGISLATION.
What the Ubiquitous Sub-TreaSury Bill
INSTRUMENTATION Against the
Poor Farmers, Miners, Etc.
SPRISGTowS, TEX, May as. 1921.


| their plan is wrong, because il is class leg
islation. paternaliStic, impracticable, etc -
In this article | will discuss the first OBJ
lection, class legislation.
The products 10 be stored in these pro
posed-to- be- built" sub-treasuries are cot
ton, wheat, corn. oats, tobacco. bill in II.
R. sl62.
The leading national pursuits of America
are; Farming, mining. stock raising and
manufacturing. This bill or theory pro-
vioes for the farming class only. Now let's
examine the theory jas explained by the
bili) with the farmers
Section l bill, II. r. 1922 provides that
the average gross amount per annum of
cotton. wheat, oats, corn and tobacco prod
ucts sold III comfy for the last preceding
Two wears must exceed the sum of 500. 900
before the farmers of such county can have
the benefit of a warehouse. Now examine
tins with Texas and note the result. OF
course other states would show greater
difference. In this state there are 205 or
gained counties. ll9 OF them produce less
than the requisite $500 600 worth Of prod
uctS per annum, and majority of them
produce less than 100000 worth yearly
so IL Is plain that the Door class of farmers
the persons mostly in need of equal rights
must spend MALT of their time in going 10
market or do without any .'sub-treasury
pie" The poorer class of farmers, such as
are compelled from their financial standing
10 be tenants, seek the newly settled coun-
ties, that even produce less in quality and
much less quantity and often make total
failures, IN order to obtain home of their
own. This class of farmers is Disseminated
against by the sub-treasury plan.
All plans that will not reach the poorest
man contain no reform principle al all
Nay, are they even characteristic of such
Now, as to mining. More than 1873 910. 600
900 pounds of coal, $500, 600 900 pounds of
steel and $500, 000, 600 pounds of PIC iron
are produced in the United States How
are those engaged In this important indus
try 10 get money advanced on their prod
uctS. The sub-treasury plan makes no
provision for it. How are they to pay the
oppressed labOrers who are forced 10
neglect their education, eudauger their
health and lives, live half clothed and
cast OF from society, more crampcd than
slaves to earn the plainest diet on which 10
live! The sub-treaSury plan does not make
the nrst provision OF assistance Cor this
class OF people. They can reply in but one
possible way, namely. That the miners
and mine laborerS can get their money
through the farmers. But this answers
nothing. The trouble to-day is that the
money must go through so many mediums
from the government to the laborers that
they uhe laborers) are kicked if they
claln2 the right to handle money at all.
In all the jumbo argument advanced by
the ''sub-tPeasury bosses" not once have |
ever heard of one of them asserting much
less showing, wherein the miners or mine
laborers were to be benefited cents worth
by this newly named Green hackers
scheme. = What can our laboring friends
Of the mining class say of this wildcat
theory, They can but answer: Away with
your class legislation.
The farming class is not the only class
that IS depressed. Next, we will examine
the bill or theory in regard to stock rliS-
ing. Does this new plan of relief make
any provisions for the woOl@rowers. who
furnish more than three hundred million
pounds Of wool annually TO clothe the
farmers as well as any other class of peo-
pie! VIII it furnish warehouses in which
to place this 800. 000. 600 worth of sheep, or
the annual wool crop when put on market
No. the sheep raisers is not The class the
sub-traasary leaders are footing" their
horns for.
The value of the hogs in the United
States amounts to more than 500, 000. coo
Is this reform plan" TO assist the hog
raiscrs by building warehouses through
which TO sell the hogs TO the factories!
No. the sub-treasurY partisans are not
botheriug their brains about this class.
Is this poppy" sub-treasury plan TO build
warehouses with plenty of stalls. self-wa-
tered and feeded in which to store beef
steers until the market is BETTER Not if
the sub-treasury fidGlers know themselves
Only think of it, there are more than
5000. 000, 005 worth of cattle in the United
StateS-more than the value of two cotton
crOps-yet the sub-treaSlry '.whoopers''
don know or don't heed, that they should
be included in leeislating for the masses.
Another dose for the Sub-treaSuryiteS. In
the name of equality, why should there not
have been Il mule and horse and jaCkass
provision in the egg before it was placed in
the incubator Did You not know that
81 200, 000.000 is much less than the horses
and mules in the United States, the cost of
more than three cotton crops, How is il,
anyway, that you are so inspired as to make
no warehouse provision for the sale OF
mules and horses, sheep, hogs, cattle, ETC.
Then when you made 4 hen-scratch and
rooster-cluck over your late discovery
from drean,' you could have come more
nearly saying that your scheme was for the
general welfare, and not been Growing,
The greatest good for the greatest num-
ber,'' correlative to Equal rights to the
greatest number, and special privileges TO
the same but with 4 clearer conscience
said: The greatest good to ALL har-
mony to Equal rights to all and special
privileges to none
Now TO the last part of the subject, man
ufacturing
This sub-treasury scheme provides for
the sale of textile cotton-but turns deaf
ear to textile wOo-to the manufactures
Now properly and very appropriately arises
the question, does this plan provide for
the sale of goods through the government
to the consumers?
Not in any one of the bills introduced il
congress, or stated in the so-called Ocala
platform, is any such provision made. Is
not manufacturing an authorized honest,
benefcial-yea! an OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. |
Are not those engaged in this industry de- !
serving legislative notice! Do not the |
million honest laborers engaged in this
pursuit who are by class legislation that
is so absorbing their financial vitality that |
they are compelled, against their most |
sacred desire, TO strike i'll order to obtain |
equal rights with those who have been
blessed with the cream of legislative pro
lection. deserve notice in legislation for !
the masses? l answer emphaticailY that |
they do, and any proposed plan that is |
gotten up for one class detrimental 10 an |
other, as is true of this sub-treasury |
plan should not occupy the time of reform |
/ say this sul,-treasury plan is discrim- |
mating in favor of one class and detri- |
mental 10 another, probably some one will |
ask, how is that, 1t is easy enough |
because the class for which this |
scheme is eoEcocted is 10 get money direct |
from the government while the other classes,
regardless of their depressed condition, |
must get their money through the favored |
class al any rate of per cent that might be |
charged
The Sub-treasury advocates who are IN |
able to meet the argument of the plan being .
class legislation, have Matched out new |