The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-11-08

. / = i''' .'1 Aiae b'fH gwen tB Tia
men y ho uli tne soil.
! In Norway and Sseeelen the "a,
ernment Land Banks lend then
money on long time at iow rate ot
| interest
IN France and In Russia Natiora
loans are made upon produce.
In Germany the government aauA
lends upon land security.
/ Ia Greece. National loans ar
made L. tine farmers.
EErn IA England. arisfneratlc
England, II is remembered that til,
man who feeds and clothes IN, la-
ple Is entitled to some consideration
At the hands Of those vino eat and
wear v hat he makes.
Time and again Mr.. Gladstone
and other liberal leaders have PRO.
posed that the government lend
money to the tenants 10 enable them
to buy homes.
| Lord Rosebcrry has lust brought
forward a bill IN Parliament which
provides that the government shall
lend the IRISH tenant money to buy
his holding from his English lapd-
lord In some shape or other this
proposition will certainly become a
law,
1hus we find every nation in the
civilized world doing something for
| ,he farmer.
In this country he is petted during
political campaign, and kicked all
he balance Of the year. 1t is only
N this country that smile of de-
fIslon comes to the political lips
whenever you mention the suggestion
that the government ought to do
something for the farmer.
The Whiskey Trust gets bonded
warehouse in which to store up its
water; gets government officers
20 guard 1t; gets warehouse receipt
rom the government upon which IL
san borrow money from the banks;
gets eight years credit on paving 90
cents per gallon tax due on the
"hiskey, and thus has the sub
treasury system at work all the time.
Let no one think it strange that
he Whiskey Trust should enjoy such
avors. Nobody seems to think that
such a warehouse arrangement oe-
ween d whiokey dealer and the gov
ernment is at all unnatural.
But the moment you suggest ii
warehouse for cotton, and ware
house receipt upon which the owner
II the cotton can borrow from Uncle
Sam rs great a per cent. of the value
Of cotton as Uncle Sam lends to the
shiskey dealer by deferring his tax,
very one-horse office holder, editor
md dema9ogue in the country yclls
IN angry amlzement. The national
oondholder carries his property, his
Bonds, and deposits them with the
government III building provided
~ law. Uncle Sam takes charge of
che deposit and issues a receipt there
tor. Then he issues loan on these
Bonds. For every 500 of Bonds
le lends the owner gets $50 in paper
money guaranteed by himself. lie
,hargsS one per cent. for the loan
leaving the Bomdholder to lend it
again at whatever rate of interest he
can get.
TINS Is the sub-treasury plan of
be boldho derS, ahd nobody thinks
It unnatural. 1t is accepted as
matter Of course because the bond
loIder is considered such high and
mighty character in the republic that
It almost amounts to sacrllege to
question anything the government
does for him.
But the farmer?
When the poor tax-ridden crea-
ture comes up and with trembling
lips ventures to discuss a plan of
national loans on his property simi-
lar to that enjoyed by the bond
h rlder and the whiskey dealer he is
so bull ragged ard brow beaten by
his rulers that he cOllapSes into hel p
less submission. He has no nerve t.
resist even when the government
tells the National Banker, AS it does
10, that under no circumstances
must any of the money he gets from
Uncle Sam be loaned on land.
Thus the farmer is completely
fenced out, by special law.
When Texas laDguished and agon-
ized under great drouth which des-
troyed all her planting seeds and
Congress had come to her relief and
voted ner $4,000 to buy seeds to
plant her crops again, did not that
Inflated fraud, Cleveland, find him
self too virtuous and too strict a
constitu ZIONIST of the Constitution to
sign the bill: Certainly he did. He
vetoed it with the same pen which
signed up the acts by which Con-
gress robbed the people Of more
han five times that paltry sum Of
money in running the illegal bar
rooms, barber shops, restaurants,
Congressional funerals, extra pay
for employees, and the full $4,000
extra pay allowed the widows of dead
congressman.
Pity the farmer. 9catches it all
around.
| Under our internal system of in.
direct federal taxes he pays morf
than three fourths of the entire ex
penses of the government, AMI th
only consolation he gets when h
growls is the advice of the office
holders Work harder and tall
! less"
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