The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-01-28
sas-Tressury Scheme.


The Hon Frink Burkitt, State Lee
turer for the Alliance, was at Brook
haven last Tees end delivered one Of
his characte1stically strong speeches.
The topic Of most interest 10 US discuss
e1 at that time was tAs se5-Ireasury
scheme. According TO the Leader,
Mr.. Burkitt made a strong argument in
its favor:
"Ile said be wouldn't say that he
was in favor Of the bill introduced in
Congress, but lie IS elnphatically in IA
vor Of the scheme. lie argued that it
was both constitutional and Just, and
cited the extraordinary privileges ac-
corded by the government to the distill-
ers and national banks. A capitalist,
he said, could invest 100000 IN nom
taxable Government bonds, deposit
them in the national treasury, aaa Oh
these receive back s90,C)0 in national
bank notes endorsed by the government
and on which he operates AMI realizes
an interest Of Sf0O)O per annum. The
distiliers place their whisky IN bonded
warehouses, provided by the Govern
ment, without being required 10 pay the
lax, draw certificates Of deposit on
which they operate as so much capital
until the whisky (Which increases IN
value as it increases IN age) is drawn
out: and yet, when the farmers, who
are the bone end sinew Of the country
and the foundation on which rests all
commercial and financial prosperity,ask
for an equal showing, they are met by
the politicians and Spectators with the
cry that the relief measure they ask is
unconstitutional %
That is the position held by the Hon
orable State Lecturer. On the other
hand, Mr.. William S. McAllister, the
Honorable Assistant State Lecturer,
and well-known and much-praised for
his famous resolution denouncing the
force bill at the Ocala convention, has
been doing a little locturing in a diiier-
cnt strain. The AppeaL-Aralaacke
reports in full his speech before the
Alliance at Batesville. Panola county,
on last Thursday. We quote a portion
bearing on the topic under considera-
ton. lie said
let any fair intelh gence take our
creed and analyze it, and then tell me
if he has found augbt IN it at variance
with the Sermon On Tie Mount or the
Ten Commandments. The fact Is that
il twinkles with the gems Of the proph-
cts and sparsles with the sacred mix
lures Of the priests. Il teaches chari-
ty, not intolerance; justice, not wrong;
liberaiity, not dismal prejudice; truth,
not falschoJd; light, not darkness; hope,
not despair, wisdom, not folly; indus
sry, not Incidence; economy, not extray-
arance; virtue, not vice; the citizen,
no. the soldier, and, fraily peace on
Garth and good viii to mem"
lie nexG sead the 0cala platform and
said that the demands for the abolition
a tie national banks, she free efui un-
limited coinage Of silver. a tariff for
revenue only, Goyernment control over
railrosd aud telegraph limos, and grad
uated income tx, were reasonable gust
and inevitable, and would afford all the
relief that could be expected, aud Of
which the legeriemain Of legislation
was capable Of gi7nting.
He next discussed the sub-treasury
bill ot considerable length, taking the
ground that it would neither protect the
farmer in cost or price, and therefore
did not afford reEef-that it was la
mentally unconstitutional and utterly
impracticable. that 1t was paternalism
in the rankest form, that it was para.
lvt,c stroke at individual enterprise and
sclf.rohance, and grossly exaggerated
nationality. The speaker then group
ed and analyzed the causes Which i'm
medlately preceded the French, Eng
lish and American revolutions, and
showed that they had their origin in IN
Just and unbearabIe systems Of taxation