The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-30

An Editors Dream for Stock Rai<ers-Gov-
ernment Hog IecS and n Pig Tail
Circulating Medium.

we HOlS Win pleasure tllat system
! attic movement is on foot in Alabama
and Mississippi to call certain erring
brethren Squarely to law on the sub
treasury bill and to force them to sub
scribe to every line and letter Of the
Ocala platform or get out of our noble
order. The American, as sub organ
and assistant toiler of the alliance,
heartily approves of this heroic course
and demands that the same rigorous
measure be adopted in this State for
the purpose of roofing out heresy and
making treason odious. This great
and beneficent measure must not be
impeded by factions opposition and
stabbed to death by the hands of trait
ors, and the American, as sub-organ
and assistant toiler aforesaid, is determ-
ined that it shall not fail for such rea-
sons.
We deem it the proper time, now
that this sub-treasury battle is being
joined, TO disclose some further plans
which have been revolving in the
mind of our wise and worthy president.
One of the most insistent objections
which have been made to our sub
treasury scheme is that it is partial in
its beneficence, in that the stock raiser
is denied participation in its benefits.
Our worthy president has felt the force
of this objection and proposes to meet
it in practical way. We are author
lied to state that he is now preparing
bill to obviate this trouble, and that it
will be introduced at the next session
of Congress by Brother Rice Pierce.
This bill applies only to swine, but
other bills will be introduced as soon as
perfected to extend the operations Of
the law to other live stock. The bill
provides for great national hog-pen,
to be known as the "Swineyard Sub
treasury" and every farmer is to be al
lowed to deposit his swine in its vaults
and keep them there for a year and a
day. In order to provide means for
feeding them, the Picker bill is to be
amended so as to allow the government
to take small toll from each turn of
corn brought for deposit in the national
corn crib. In order to make the Ameri-
can hog the basis ola sound and health
full circulating medium, our worthy
president has conceived a plan as novel
and original as it is brilliant and inge-
| NOUS.
This federal hog pen is to have two
sub pens, one of which is to be known
as the pen Of weights and appraisement
and the other as the pen Of curtail-
ments and abbreviation. When the
farmer brings his hogs for deposit they
first pass through the pen of weights
and appraisement, where they are sep
arately weighed and valued and the
proper figures written upon card and
tied to the tail of each hog. Thence
they are driven to the pen of curtail-
ments and abbreviation, where their
caudal ornaments are neatly shipped
off and returned to the farmer, these
tails to be his receipts. Hogs having
no tails when offered for deposit are to
be thrown out as mutilated coin. After
passing through this pen they are next
taken to the pen Of final deposit, or
swine vault, as it is called, there to be
held for redemption. Is is provided
that each pigtail shall represent so
many dollars per inch and shall be cut
the proper length to represent the full
value of the hog with 10 per cent.
added. These tails, according to the
plan Of our most worthy president and
oil inspector, are to be legal tender for
all debts, including custom house dues;
though Brother Pierce is inclined to
think that it would be sufficient to
make them receivable for State and
county taxes. Whichever view pre-
walls there will be provided an abun-
dance of cheap and convenient cur
rency, and the hog raiser will he sup
Piled with a means for meeting his
most pressing necessities while holding
the bulk of his hogs for better price,
they being cared for and fattened in
the meantime without trouble or eX-
peuse to him. Whenever he thinks the
price justities it he may redeem his
hogs and throw them on the market.
To do this he simply appears and pre-
sents his tails to the proper officer, who
Identifies the hogs by fitting the tails
to their proper stumps. The office as
signed to this work is called the de-
partment Of tail fittings and adjust
ment. The hogs are then redeemed
and the tails taken up and cancelled
bv means of a bell punch, the punch
ing to he done with care and in the
presence Of the passenger. The tails
are then taken to the bureau OF leaf
lard and soap grease, where they under
oo.the proper process Of manufacture,
and from this is created 4 fund to be
called the tail grease fund, for the
pavment Of salaries.
incidentally it may be remarked
that there will he some important oth-
ces created for members Of our noble