Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-03-11

~ long time at low rate Of interest
Iry( In France and Russia national loans
81 are made upon produce.
In Germany the government bank lends upon land se-
curty
Even in England aristocrac England it is remembered
that the who feeds and clothes the people is entitled
to some consideration the hands Of those who and
what he makes.
Time and again Mr. Gladstone and other liberal leaders
have proposed that the government lend money the
ants to enable them to buy homes.
Lord Roseberry brought forward bill in Parliament
which provided that the government shall lend the Irish
tenant money to buy his holding from his English landlord
Thus we find every nation in the civilized world doing
something for the farmer.
In this country he petted during political campaign
and kicked all the balance Of the year. 1t is only in this
country that smile Of derision the political lips
whenever the suggestion that the government
ought to do something for the farmer.
The Whiskey Trust gets bonded warehouse in which
TO store up its rewaer gets officers guard
it, gets warehouse receipt from the government upon
which it borrow money from the banks; gets eight
years credit paying 80 per gallon tax due the
whiskey and thus has the subeasury system at work all
the time.
Let think strange that the Wnskey Trust should
enjoy such favors. Nobody seems think that such
warehouse arrangement between whskey dealer and the
government is at all unnatural.
but the moment you suggest warehouse Tor cotton and
warehouse receipt upon which the OF the cotton
can borrow from Uncle Sam great per cent. OF the
value Of cotton Uncle Sam lends to the hiskey dealer
by deerring his every onehorse oce-hoder editor
and demaGogue in the country yes in angry amazement
he national bondhoder carries his property his bonds
and deposits them with the government building
vided by +aw Uncle Sam takes charge OF the deposit
and issues receipt therefore. Then he issues loan
these bonds For every 500 Of bonds he lends the owner
$1OO paper money guaranteed by himself He charges
one per cent for the oan-leaving the bondholder to
lend it again at whatever rate Of interest he can get
This the Sub-treaSury plan OF the bondholderS and
nobody thinks it unnatural 1t is accepted matter OF
course because the bondhoder is considered such high
and mighty character in the republic that almost
to sacrege question anything the does for
him.
But the farmer?
When the poor tax-ridden creature up and with
trembling lips to discuss plan OF national loans
his property similar that enjoyed by the bondhoder
and whskey dealer he is buragged and brow-beaten
by his rulers that he eollapses into helpless submission
He has resist when the government tells
the national banker as does do that under no crcu
distances 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 languished and aGonized under great
drought which destroyed all her planting seeds and con-
Cress had come to her relief and voted her $4,000
buy seeds plant her again, did not that inflated
fraud Cleveland find himself too vruous and too strict
consttuionist Of the Constitution to sign the bill? Certain
" he did, He vetoed with the pen which signed
up the acts by which Congress robbed the people OF
more than FIVE times that patry money in running
illegal barrooms barber shops, restaurants congressional
funerals extra pay for employees and the full $1,000 extra
pay allowed the widows Of dead congressman
Pity the farmer. He catches it all around.
Under our internal system Of indirect federal taxes he
pays more than hreeourhs OF the entire expenses OF the
government and the only consolation he gets when he
grows is the advice Of the olce-holders-Wor harder
and talk less.