The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, June 12, 1890, Image 1
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ESTABLISIIED 1805. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1890. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR
Letter fromt Loui.iana.
[Correspondence Hl-r:ld and Ncwms.]
aloMAN CrrY. LA., M1ay:l. e
morning last month as I walked down
from Fedk-ral Avenue to First Street,
everybody I chanced to miet was inl
the best of spirits. All were confident
of security notwithstantding the un
usual tides, of the previous week, which
had flooded the lower portion of the
town, surrounded the hotels and the
United States Custom House. There
was nothing alarming in tide water.
On the following day when the train
pulled up at the depot, before I had
time to get off the train, I saw the
fallen countenances, hopeless; the light
of security which beamed out so
brightly the day before was gone. The
loss of father and mother, brother and
sister would have induced no greater
expression. Sad! sad! I know what
made them so cheerless. The great
Iorgauza was a ruin, and an unmueas
ured volume of water was rushing
through the gap, and was hurrying
down upon the -Teche country. On
the heels of this information came the
news of a crevasse N)4 feet wide at
Labdelt's Landing, from which the
water would reach us in forty-eight
hours. And immediately after, it was
announced that the whole Point ('onper
front was gone. In the year 1St there
were fewer open erevasses than here
reported, and in that year there was
not a dry spot for miles. No wonder
the inhabitants of the Brazierine island
were cheerless.
As soon as the news settled upon us
a's a reality, we began making prepa
rations to meet the flood. The town
authorities anchored the bridges, foot
planks and wooden banquets. The
Southern Pacifc men secured their
platforms and low switch tracks.
Workmen not employed in this man
ner were busily engaged in building
water crafts. Men on every hand were
supplying themselves with lumber to
be ready to insert raised floors. Indeed
the town presented a very lively ap
pearance. Merchants were busy but
trade was dull.
On the sugar plantations every avail
able person was hurried to the levees.
Shovels, spades, wheel and hand bar
rows worked day and night. New
drainers were ordered, the old ones
repaired, so that the inside canals
might be cleared of water as fast as it
came in. And well might the sugar
planters marshal all their forces upon
their private levees, for a fair estimate
shows that between forty and fifty mil
lion dollars worth of property lay in
immediate track of the flood issuing
fro:n the Mississippi River on Point
Couper front. It is of equal importance
to the poor people that the sugar erop
succeed, for upon it all ultimately de
pend. Even the lumbermen who find
the flood their harvest time, also find
isugar planters some of their best
customers.
The approaclhing water produces a
peculiar sensation upon one unusedl to
it, almost u nnoticed, slowly, noiselessly
it creeps 'up, gaining each day a few
inches. Thie wharves little by little are
submerged, the canals and ditches are
filled. Then across the common, ereep
ing stealthily through the grass, mug
ging the ground as if to avoid notice
comes the waters, nearer and nearer
each day. No resistar"e avails, no
threat drives it back, no demonstration
causes it, so much as delay its move
mnent. From the fens and bogs, from
the woods and swamps, unbidden, uin
welcome, comes this monster, wither
ing the fresh grass, fading the tinis
from the roses, and1 replacing the per
fume with strange filthy odors. Help
less we stand and behold the approach
ing despoiler ; in vain we bid him stop,:
- in vain we attempt to stop him.
Fortunately the head wvater soon
began to decline, and the water here
has been on a standI fur about a week,
wvith the promise of an early decline,
in fact the recession has already comn
menced. The damage has been-large
but not so great as at first anticipated.
Our streets are tilled wvith water
crafts of every kind, varying~ from a
floating bridge with a drygoods box
upon01 it, to the finest finished skif'ini
the market ; including some of the
a i lightest and prettiest parogues I have
a -ever seen. Everybody rides in water
oCing vessels, no need of hacks, busses,
yor any thing like that, just take a boat,
I use a boat to go to my meals. I just
walk dlown to the corner of First Steet,
and Railroad Avenue. Then I take a
boat and ro .v to the hotel, pass in the
front (door, make miy boat fast to the
stair case, and land on thle stairs three
or four feet above the first floor. I
haven't seen the first floor in thr eeI
weeks.
Whien I camie to Louisiana 1last year,!
I was told tha:t this was the richest
counitry in the world, that it was uni
surpassed by any State in the I'ioni inl
culture enlighitennimnt andI charity.
Ju tst now~ I finid that no0 spot on eart h,
not even thle red hills of South ( ar< -
linia is halfW so poor, and that noipopl
ini the worild nieed edutcaitionial anid
charitable institutionis half so badi' as
the peole of Louisiana. Theli t wo leado -
ing dailies of the State are miaking the
poorest mouth~s I ever heard of. They
have recent ly discovered that all the
w orldl is po it inig the tinge&r of sc(orni at
the emiipty treasuiry of thle St ate t lie
negle:ted asyluums anmd worthlek
t::ols. J umt ly t hey h ermo an thec de
radat ion of thle State. I .ask whv
uchjel s.tartlinmg discoveries? Why such
udden reverses ? The LoAtteryv'o
prpssto buy for itself an other leaise
of life, and the mlajotrity Cof the 1Cpeol
are CJpposetd to the iniquiitous instilu
tion while the papers are in the paiyo
he I.ottery ( o. I have niot read a
untainted to"luiii of water news si ice ti
the 11oodi began; nor a good wliolcsomeri w-s
edito,ri:d in :nioniths-. All seemI en- jSt
cba itel by tlie glittering sheckels of bi
tiis nioister ionopoly. It o.lers a t
million dollars a year for a new lease se
oiif . This accounts for the suddlen it
transition from fabulous wealth. t> ex- pi
tremie poverty ; from unequi1aled intel- sI
lectual at tainients to actual public st
igioranct : suddenly a sense of shame a.
has taken huld upon miany of the lead- tt
ing newspaper men. A million from m
the lottery, they say, would wipe out fi
all these sources of sl'ame. A million d
from the people directly would be less
desirable, for it would seriously iu- tc
poverisli our people, and yet from the y
data I have gathered from those in ni
favor of the lot tery, I conclude that the di
people pay an average of not less than h
$2.50 per capita to the lottery company ;
that this amount conies not propor
ionately from the wealthy, but almost
exclusively from the poorer classes; that
these poorer classes are the enthusias
tic supporters of the lottery. The argu
ment used by these classes is, "we
want that third of a million which is
offered to our schools to educate our
ehildren with, for without it, it will be c
impossible to educate them." Ycu tl
readily see the economy of the plan ai
when you remember that the popula- T.
tion of the State in round numbers is p(
one million. To the casual reader of in
our leadingdailies it may appear that it S
is all one way, that but a handful of cc
fanatie_, and preachers were opposing iu
a united people calling upon the legis- fu
lators to give thei the money offered
by the lottery, while in reality the fuss hi
and fury of those dailes in a large S
measure represents the united "boodle" a
of the lottery people instead of the r
united demand of the peiple. There is el
a real contest, and nice work will have s:
to be done to remove this foul blot from r
the fair name of this State. It seems to
strange that a million a year should be a
any temptation to the noble born, s.
high-winded, heroic sons of this dear r
old South land to take up and wai'iii to fr
life again the child of alieu parents, at
born to our disgrace, nursed by our et:e- i
lmies, in its infancy, and trained 1y e
innate selfishness to despise our vir- w
tue, asking with flattering lips th:e of
bread of our children, and instead of ai
thanks it repays with mockings and
curses. Yet for a million a year many
are willing to own this child of in- pc
famv. Yours ..
h
J. M. HENRY.
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A LETTER: TO LATIMEI. p:
ful
Co,. John J. 1)argan and Capt. l'En Till- C0
man. sr
The following -correspondenee will fu
be read with great interest just now er
BELToN, S. C., May 22, 1S90. ui
Col. J. J. Dargan, Sumter, S. C.-- pc
Dear Sir: I see fromi the News and er
Courier you prop)ose to be in Anderson oh
on tihe 1kth, and props to ask the he
people to hear you in vindication of c~
your courisc iin this camp)aign anld to r
hear what yon shlall have to say of MIr. A
Tillinan to his face. Now. I write to
say to you in behalf of the good peo- st
ple of Anderson, that if you are a can- ti
didate for any -office in the gift of this ta
people, then wve wvould be glad to hear at
yout; btut, if iiot, then tile press is open al
for you to explaini your position, anId if a
thtere is a difference between yourself
and1( Mr. Tillmanl, you know where to W
findl himi. The course yon propose can- th
not result in any good to youirself or to be
the D)emocracy of this county, and 0l1
might be the mxeaus of a row and blood
shed in our miidst. I therefore insist fu
that youl desist fromi the course pro- h:
posed, aiid notify you now that I shall if
do umy utmost to t,revenit aniythin~g re
that shall lbe calculated to produce
discord aillong us. f
Yours respectfully, id
A. C. IaATriMER. In1
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SrTirEnna, S. C., MIay 24, 19(0. at
MIr. A. C. Latinmer. Belton, S. C.- A<
Dear Sir : Your favor of 22d inst. is at fu
hand. I must adnmit its conitenlts a b
surp)rise to mec. I had not suspecte'd vt
that plain, honest speech in refutation 18
of slanderous charges, made in my ab- fe
sence before a p)eople to whiom I am
little know without the least pertinen- p'
ev to the issues under discussion, would foi
sa offend "good people'' as to bring on fu
a "row"' which might result in ''blood- to
shed.'' I :am unwvilling to believe the on
good people of Anderson so backward TI
in civilization, so devoid of the in
sticts and :principles of justice, so out I1)
of the way of thme ends of true Demiocre- tr
cy. as to refuse to hear hothI sides of all 27
poliescal controversies with calmI dig~
nity, and( to accord a grossly and gra
tuitously reviled citizenl a word in his To
ownl defeciie. Btut 1 confess, frankly,
that your declarationl, couphled with
he iniarvellous display of gravity with
which the assembly at your recent
metinig, witnessed the miannlishn me
Onl the stage whien a grown-up person'
was calling for somie one to look hiim
in thle eve and asserting himisel f iiot
afraid of'this, that $nd the other, like
li-year old on a base ball ground, is
not reassurinlg. Stirely there was
broad smiile on the faces of '"the good"'
while all this was passim:,. whtich tihe
rep orter failed to write- t
Hiowever, until the conitrary fully tu
:ppears by sub sequtenlt occurrIenes JA
will nlot be persua~dedl that von repre
ent any large body of your peop)le in
Adersoni whlen y'ou bespeak rowdlyisniT
for them. I shall hatve to risk myiself~
t your miass mieeting on June 18
ttihi I feel that I lust p)rise yon
undler the circuimstances that, if your
fears and imisgivinigs arie generally en
tertin.id, I sha:ll niot venture anl ad
dress to the crowd, lest tkbeomfe in co
sonic measure responisible for blood-let-. an
ng am1ong a people so excitable and
tlh so little s.lf-control. If I find
clh to be the situation, I can patiently
de mv tine until Mr. Tilliman comes
uiter. Here my friends and my
If and all the good people will see to
that he is fully and fairly heard in
?esenting his charge: against me. I
iall, of course, he granted an unre
rained reply. This is all I have
ked or wish. We, of Sumter, unfor
tiatelv have a few rowdies in our
idst, but I trust an efficient police
ree will keep down any disturbing
monstrations on their part.
I extend to you a cordial invitat ion
attend the Sumter meeting that
)u may witness the conspicuous fair
?ss with which your "utanied" can
date for Governor will be treated by
is determined opponents.
Respectfully,
JOHN J. I)ARAN.
THE TREASURY RESERVE FUND.
r. Sam paon Pope, of Newberry, Thinks
he ha% Foand Honey in the Lion's
Carcass.
To the editor of the News and!
aurier:-The General Assembly of
tis State at the session of 1S6 passed
h Act creating what is known as "The i
reasury Reserve Fund," to be coni
sed as followed: "Funds of thi .;ink
g fund corn mission, S46,647.18; United
bates dlirect tax, $39,244.3~9; school and
unty taxes paid under protest, S229.76;
terest appropriated for bonds not yet
nded, $186,000.
"SEcrION 2. That said fund shall be
d by the Treasurer of the State of
>uth Carolina, to be used in payment
all interest due upon ,the bonded
bt of the State, and appropriations
ade by the General Assembly, in
uding salaries of all oflices vhose
lanes are payable from the State
reasury. Provided, there be no other
uds in the treasury applicable there
. And when the taxes are collected
id paid into the treasury the treasurer
iall at once, from said collections,
place the amount of said reserve fund
hich has been used, after first paying
am said collection all other claims due
id payable by the State, and lie shall
each annual report inform the Gen
al Assembly whether such reserve
nd has been sufficient, :md if not,
hat is the deficiency; or if in excess
requrirements he shall report the
nount of such excess. Said fund to
used and replaced as herein before
rectel in each succeeding year.
"SECTIoN 3. If at any time any ex
mditures on account of any of the ob
ets for which the sums aforesaid have
retofore been appropriated become
?cessary, the Treasurer is hereby
ithorized to apply to such objects any
irt of the reserve funds, or any other
nds, in his hands, or which may{
me ipto his. hands, not otherwise
ecifically appropriated."
Thus it will be seeu that here is a
id amounting, at the time of its
eation, to $272,121.:3 with no power
ider the Act for its increase, but with
wer to decrease it ifat "any time any
:penditures on account of any of the
>jects for which the sums aforesaid
tre heretofore been appropriated be
me necessary." But, as I take it, a
p)ort should be made to each General
ssembly showing.
First. Whether the reserve fund was
fficient, without borrowing, to carry
e Governments through until the
xes wvere paid, and, if so, what
nount of the reserve fund was used;
id if all Was used and there wvas still
deficienicy, thien what amioun t.
Second. What amiount of the fund
is paid out on the "objects for which
.e sums aforesaid have heretofore
en appropriated," specifying each
ject and each payment thereon.
Third. The amount retuirned to the
nid from the taxes and which is on
12d( on 81st October of each year, and
not yet returned, the amount to be
turned.
It was attemipted ini ]985 to use this 1
lid which was lyinig in the treasury.
le, but not so large as in 1880, to assist
redlucing the tax levy for 1886, but
ose in favor of doing so failed in the
templt, and( the next, year, 1S80, the
at above set forth wvas passed- It is a
1n( which before 18S6 benefited the I
,nks alone as it was deposited in their(
ults, and wvas used by them. Since
S3 it only remains with themi for a
'v mon this ini each year.
1 have searched the Treasurer's re
*rts of 1887, 1388 and 1880) and find the
[lowing reports wvith regard to this
nd. which amounited when created(1
$272,121.3:;, atnd which had decreased
31st October, 1889, to $170,531.4S.
[EASURER'5 REPORT, oCTOBiER, I8S7.
Tile balances to the credit of the fol
wmi1g accounts, which constitute "the
>asuiry reserve fund" under Act No.
I of last session, are as follows:
nking fund comimission.. 2';,7:o ;4
iited States direct tax
proceeds-.-.---------...... 27,3 08
ixes paid under protest
(school and county)...... 41 00
terest appropriated for
bonds not yet funded,
(st imIatedi at-------.-.... 135, 00 00
Total...............974 72
noun it of reserve fund ex..
pendecd during past year
to be replaced out of
Xo. 4. A\ceolint treasury ,srv fn
T'he noin(lhal bialanrces to the cr (lit of
e followi.r accounts, which conisti
te tihe treasury reserve fuind, undi(er
-t N o. 271, of Issi;, are as; followvs:
ited States dlire(t tax
.s paid undi(er protest
~s,chool and( county ......29g 7
tere-t appropriakted f<.r
boluls not vet tunded, eu
iuated :tt................. 120,512 00
Total...............70,119 47
Thei whole of this amount miight be
usidered ais practicaly exhausted,
d to be repilaced (out of taxes to bet1
4r
collected, for 31i t,1511 las been bor
rowed on loan and $1,621.0 deposit in
flank of Sumrter is not now within our
reach, and our liahince on hand is but
$77,120.63.
As a fact, however, the :miounit to
the credit of the .sinking fund conrnis
eion is actually on deposit at t he b:niks
to the credit of the sail fund as a por
tion of our "ca: lh balance on hand"
reported.
T'1-:EAsUr:l-:n's 1{.:I'at .
No. 4. A(count "treasury reserve
fund" created under Act 271 of 1886, on
October 31, 188):
('redits.
Sinking fund con miission...$ :;2,12 G!
Iiiited States direct tax
proceeds........................ 22,722
Taxes paid under protest...... 229 71i
Interest appropriated for
bonds notyet funded, es
tim ated at...................... 115,454 0i
Total.............. 170,531 48
The amount to credit of the sinking
lug fund commission is t lie only actual
credit, the others being actual only
when there are funds in hand to meet
these appropriations, which is not now
the case.
Thus it will be seen that this fund
bas decreased about $102,000 since its
creation in 1S86. SAtPSo PoP:.
Ew13ERRY, S. ('., M1ay :30, 1800.
'Mi. POPE FIND.s A MARi's NEsT.
[Editorial in News and Courier.]
The letter of Mr Sanipson Pope, of
Newberry, calls attention to the de
crease of the "treasury reserve fVd"
ii such a way as to make it appear
that there is something wrong, or at
teat mysterious or unaccounted for, in
the manner in which the fund has been
disposed of.
Now Mr. Pope knows, or at least he
uglt to know, that the original
itreasury reserve fund" was created in
3uch a manner that its decrease was
naturally to be expected. The origin
of the reserve fund was this: Owing
to the abolition of the spring collection
)f taxes the State was obliged to bor
row money to carry on the Govern
inent until the taxes were collected in
the fall, while at the sane time there
was in the treasury a large amount of
mnoney appropriated to specific pur
[)oses, and therefore not available for
current expenses. Accordingly the
Legislature of 1SSt;, in order to avoid
ither a resort. to spring collections or
orrowing money, created out of the
'unds ying in the treasury a special
und called the "treasury reserve fund,"
rom which money could be drawn for
urrent expenses, said money to be re
,urned to the "treasury reserve fund"
when the taxes were collected in the
all. The funds composing the original
'treasury reserve fund" were as follows:
sinking fund comnission...$ 46,547 18
Direct tax proceeds.............. 30,244 39
1'axes paid under protest...... 229 76
interest on bonds not yet
funded, estimated.. 186,000 00
Total ..................$272,121 .33
The 3d section of the Act creating
~he treasury reserve fund provided that
'if at any time any expenditure on ac
~ountof any of tire objects for which
he sums aforesaid have heretofore
een appropriated become necessary,
:he Treasurer is hereby authorized to
ipply to such objects any part of the
'eserve fund or any other funds ini his
rands, or which miay comre into his
ands, not otherwise specifically ap
>ropriated."
Thus it will seenm that when any
>art of the reserve fund was used for
~urrent expenses the amrount was after
,vards to be returned out of the tax col
ections, but wvhen it w'as used for the
>urposes for which thre original funds
vere specifically appnlropriated, such
ise caused a permanent reduction of
he fund. That such reduction would
>e made was to be expected, and that
t has been made is shown by tIre
jompltr'oller's reports as qjuoted ty Mr.1
lope.
Thre reduction and its causes, how
ver, will probably be more readlily un
erstod by the average readler from the
ollowving detailed statoment:
)riginal anmount of reserve1
fund........................$272,121 :3 I
'ash paid or payab)le Onl de
mand for bonds funuded
si nee 186: 1S87, $12,411.29;i
1s88, $3,400.10; 1889, $7,029,
interest on same, January
1588), to July, 1886, inchi- -
si ve, 39 per cent.............. ,907 75~
:as actually paid for inter
est out of "Interest on
bonds not yet funded,"
under Acet No. 308, Decem
ber 24, 188li. (This wvas
formerly called fundable
consolidated interest andl
was for 1874, .January to
July, 1878, inclusive)...14,1::: ::;
niterest which has ceased to
exist, inicludled in the
ab ove, $18i;,000. "I nterest
on bonds not yet funded"
was 5 years' interest on
$11 0,5.54.81. Fun dable con
solidated interest when it
wvas fundable, becomuing(
payable, tis in terest, July5
1578, to July, LSS3, at 48
per ('ent on 8110i,554.81, t
shoulid lbe deducted from
tone $1S6,K0................2,00G 30
otal interest to tie elimrinated$7;,107 41
'ash actually paid from thre
sinking fund conhnnissiont
-balanceel)eember, 1SS80,t
wholly exhausted.......$ 46,047 18
'ash actually paid ouit of
dlirect tax fund, expeCnd(i
thures 1S87, 15S8 and h1889...$ 16,522 3';
1
The treasury reserve funi"''
balance (Ocitober ::1, 15s9. . .$1:2,844 3N I
This statement is comipiled fromi the
'reasurer's reports, wvhich include alli
hat is required bty the Reserve Fund !
tet, "'which menrely directs that the C
'reasurer shall ini each annual report I
aiformr the General Assenibly whether
uch reserve fund has heen suflicient:
r if in excess of requirements, he shall
eport the amount of such aeess.
If, however, Mr. l'ope really thinks,
is he says, that such accounting is not
utlicient, and the the Treasurer's re
-hould contaii each individual item of
'xpeiditure of the reserve fund, it
:eeimns to us that his complaint is both
late and out of place. Mir. Pope was a
miiember of the Legislature's reports it
was his duty to call attention thereto
from his place in the House, and to
u:Yr a resolution calling on the Treas
urer for a detailed report. The report
having been accepted by the Legis
lature, the people have the right to be
lieve that it is correct, and it is not the
proper thing for Mr. Pope to try
through the press to cast discredit on
the State Treasurer for the report
which he failed to criticize in his place
in the House.
ADVICE TO THE ALLIANCE.
Senator Carlisle Gives His Views on the
Sub-Treasury Plan.
WAsHINGToN, May 31.-To B. F.
Howard, of Tuskeegee, Ala., Senator
Carlisle has written a lengthy letter in
response to Howard's request for the
Senator's views upon the agricultural
sub-treasury proposition, as contained
in the bill; before Congress to provide
for a system of warehouAes for farm
produce throughout the country, to be
,,riginated Iby the government, which
is to issue its notes upon the products
torel therein.
Senator Carlisle said that Howard's
statement that he and those associated
with him were "in favor of equal jus
tice to all and especial favors to none"
mibodies the Democratic doctrine and
f it had been strictly adhered to in
'ongress in the past twenty-five years,
he evils of which the farmer and
>thers justly complaia would have
een averted ':d the vhole country
would now be prosper>us and eon
ented. "But," says the Senator, "the
armers have been taxed so iong for the
,enefit of other classes and have seen
o nueb legislation for the aggrandize
lient. of corporations and syndicates
:hat their patience is exhausted, and
inding it impossible for the time being
it least to abolish a systemt which has
)ppressed and despoikd the greatest
ndustrial interest of the country, they
ire now demanding that that policy
which they have heretofore denounced
is unjust and ruinous shall be applied
:o theni or rather a part of them for no
;chenie has yet been submitted that
vould operate alike upon the farmers.
"But no evil can be corrected, no
wrong can be righted by increasing its
nagnitude and extending the scope of
ts operations. There is but one effect
nal remedy for the evil which undoubt
Adly exists and that is to reverse the
?olicy which produced it."
The Senator, after rehearsing the
eatures of the sub-treasury plan and
'.oting the facts that the farmers them
;elves will pay more than their fair
bhare of the cost relating to tihe ware
)ouses and that the officers connected
with them will be p)artisans of the ad
ninlistration in power, says:
"There are more than 2,400) counties
a the United States, but not miore than
mec-third of thenm, if that many, pro
luce and sell annually miore than
~500,000O wvorth of corn, oats, cotton and
obacco and, therefore, not mor-e than
>ne-third of thenm could possibly avail
hiemselves of this plan, if it were
Idopted. It will be Scenl, therefore,
Lt the v-ery outset, that it is a plan to
:omipel tile government to issue and
listribiute mnoney for the benefit of the
eople- living in r-ich and productive
:ounties at the expense of the people
iving in poorer and less producti' e
mtes. Moreover, it is a -plan to enable
mnscrupulous speculators to take ad
~antage of the farmers' pecuniary nie
essi ties and extort exorbi taint prices
or food fromn the people who reside in
lie cities, towns and villages and from
lie p)eople who reside in the countr-y
ut do not own these particular agri
Lltural products.
"No farmer will subject himself to
he labor and expense of transporting
uis piroducts to the public ware houses
mnd to all the other charges which lhe
nust pay for storage, for handling and
or taking care of themi while there
vben lie has barns and granleries at
tome unless he is in debt and needs
lie moniey which the government is to
dvance and if he is in that un1 fortu
tate condition firm what source is he
>ffered to redeem the produ--ts b)y re
urnting the money andl payinlg the
varehouse chariges-? In the majority
f eases lie will never be able to recdeemu
hem but will be forced to lose the re
uiaining twenty per cent. of the value
f his product, oir sell his war-ehiouse re
eipts for whatever he can get for it,
vlhich will be very little, for it must
>e remembered that after he gets his
rops ware hioused he has remaining all
nterest of only twventy per cent. less
lhe storage, and this is all lie (-an dis
lose of. IIe will find the timec rapidly
caching when he must hav-e nmoney to
edeem his 1)1oducts or sell his small
cemaining interests in thiem or allow
hiem to be sold at pubiic auction by
he government and methiinks this
v-ill be ai goldeni opportunuitv for those
encits who will swarm all ov-er the
ountlry readly to take ware house re
ei pts fromt embal:trrassedl owners for
icrely nominal sums. The receip)t is
iimply. a p)rivilege of reemptioni like a
awnbroke-r's ticket and the farmer
ecing himself I unale to redeem wilIlibe
irced ultiumately to dlispolse o,f it at any
rice offecredl. I don't think that any
onsiderable numiiber of inrtelligent peo>
lec in this country- will uiiite in asking
lie grovernimnt to establish a systemn
iehl will compel them, in a large
unmber of cases, to sac-riuice the piro
Senator Carlisle argues at some
length to show that the annual expan
sion and contraction of the currency
provided for in tl'e bill would result in
absolutely destroying the market upon
which a farmer must depend for the
sale of his crop, and Lhat the cotton
farmer would be an especial suflerer.
"No such facilities as this scheme
will aflord for controlling the n'arket
for purely speculative purposes have
ever existed in this or any other coun
try and no more perfect system for the
oppression of the people could be de
vised. The exact quantities of products
on dep.it in the several public ware
houses will be known in every commu
nity. That there will be combinations
to purchase and hold the receipt, it
may be accepted, especially when they
can be procured by the payment of a
small per cent. of the value of the de
posit."
In conclusion, Senator Carlisle says:
"I have thus given you as briefly as
the nature of the subject would permit,
some reasons why I think the proposed
plan for the relief of the farmers would
be injurious instead of beneficial not
only to them but to all the other peo
ple jointly. But it would be uncandid
not to say distinctly before closing this
communication, that even if it could
be conclusively shown that this or any
other similar scheme would be purely
beneficiary to any class of our people,
I will still be unalterably opposed to
its adoption, because, in my opinion,
it would be another wide and danger
out departure from the principles upon
which our political institutions are
founded. It would be, in fact, the
longest step yet taken in time of peace
towards the consolidation of power in
the har.ds of the Federal Government
and the subjection of the private af
fairs of the people to the supervision
and control of irresponsible authority.
You and I are Democrats and as such
we believe that the government should
scrupulously abstain from all unneces
sary interference with the personal and
domestic concerns of its citizens and
confine itself strictly to the admiuistra
tion of purely public affairs.
It is a cardinal principle of our politi
cal faith that the people are best gov
erned when they are the least governed,
and that they are most prosperous and
contented when left to the free exer
cise and inanagement of their own busi
ness, subject only to such occasional
interference as may be necessary to
preserve the peace and good order of
the community. These propositions
are fundamental, and we cannot aban
don4heu.withoat-rejecting-h-tradi
tions between constitutional govern
ment and paternal despotism.
The Farmers Misled.
[Augusta Chronicle.]
It is a source of wonder to thinking
men, who have the courage of their
convictions andl are not afraid to say
what they think, how the farmers of
the South can so blindly and fanati
cally advocate the sub-treasury bill.
Apart from the considerations that
the bill is unconstitutional, undemo
cratic, visionary and impracticable,
which seems to have iio weight with
the infatuated farmers who are clanm
oring for it; apart from the fact that it
would entail an army of offce-holders,
andI almost endless expenses on the
government; apart from the fact that
the tendency of the bill is to encourage
and build up adebtor class and make
farmers more dependent than ever
apart from all these considerations it
does seem that the simple law of self
preservation would teach Southern
farmers that they have no interest in
this bill.
In no efTbrt to be censorians and
with no desire to offend, hut guided by
our sense of duty to the farmers of
Georgia and the South, to say things
which we know it is not popular to say,
and which we realIze ai'e not appreci
ated by those for whose good they are
intended. The Chronicle with all def
erence must believe that many farmers
are being carried away by popular
clamior to endorse a bill whose terms
they have not digested, and whose ef
fect upon themiselves, if passed by Con
gress, they have not properly con
sidered.
What is the feature ot the bill which
so strongly commends it to the farm
ers? Unquestionably the one which
will enable thenm to store their crop in
the government warehouse, receive 80
per cent. of its value and hold it theme
for higher prices. But what crop would
the Southern farmers have to store?
Cotton, and only cotton. They don't
imake enough corn, wheat and oats for
their own use, and certainly have none
t> store for sale. This is true of South
ern farmers as a class: there are, of
course, individual exception. But
Southern farmers dIont need to pass
the sub-treasury bill to secure this wheni
they can get exactly the same accomo
dlation on their cotton crop from the
cotton factors in any oftthe leading
cotton mna;kets. The factor is secured
by the cotton, and will not hesitate to
advance 75 per cent. of its value and
hold it subject to the farmer's pleasure.
The growers of the cotton cr01p already
have all that the sub-treasury bill
could give them,'and can hold their
cotton for higher pirices and buy cheap
food from the Western grain markets.
Why thenm advocate a bill that will p)ut
the grain growers on the same financial
platfoirm with themselves, and thbus
enable Western farmers to run up the
price of foud so that it will beggar
Southierni farmers to b,uy it?
Trhis is very sinmple b,u-iness propo
-ition wh ich mxust -trike hiome to every
farnmer wvho eaihnly con-i lers the bill
and its results.
But this is not thme only view of the
aewh ich should control the Southern I
farnier. Congressman Mills, in his
letter to the Texas Alliance does not
mince matters, but says:
If the agricultural products are
housed for advance the mining and
manufacturing products, in periods of
depression, will ask for similiar favors,
and all the intricacies and dangers of a
paternal government will be invoked
to save the planter and miner from
bankruptcy. *
The price of farm products themselves
will rise and fall with this waving sys
ten, and the farmer will share in this
diastrous vacillation. The currency of
this country, in fact, will be subject to
the perils of speculation, and the food
and fabric products of th-, country,
capable of being cornered, will cause
untold suflering among the people.
0
Mr. Mills is justly surprised that the
Southern farmer should be caught by
such a scheme. The Western man who
hoards his wheat and bacon will have
at his mercy the southern farmer, who
is more or less dependent for his food
supplies. But the cotton factories at
home and abroad can afford to shut
their mills and wait a year or so on
their raw material. In this game of
freeze out the Southern planter must
in the end be worsted.
Senator Carlisle speaks with equal
eiphasik in condemning the bill, and
says:
There are more than 2400 counties in
the United States, but not more than
one-third of them, if that many, pro
duce and sell sell annually more than
$500,000 worth of wheat, corn, oats,
cotton, and tobacco, and therefore not
more than one-third of them could
possibly avail themselves of this plan,
if it were adopted. It will be seen,
therefore, at the very outset that it is a
plan to compel the government to issue
and distribute money for the benefit
of the people living in the rich and
productive counties at the expense of
the people living in the poorer and
less productive ones.
*c x * as
It is evident that no farmer will sub
ject himself to the labor and expense
of transporting his products to the
public ware-houses and to all the other
charges which he must pay for storage,
for taking care of them while there,
when he has barns and granaries at
home, unless he is in debt and abso;
lutely needs the money which the
government is to advance ; and if he is
in that unfortunate condition, from l
what source is he afteward to acquire
the means to redeem the products by
returning the iioney arid interest arih
paying the warehouse charges? In a
a great majority of cases he will never
be able to redeem them, but will be
forced to lose the remaining 20 per
cent. of the value of his products or
sell his warehouse receipt for whatever
he can get for it. * *
The annual expansion and contrac
tion of the currency provided for in the
bill would result in absolutely destroy
ing the market upon which the farmer
must depend for the sale of his crops,
and that the cotton farmers who are
supporting the "sub treasury'" plan
in the writer's estimate would
close every cotton factory in the
country.. . ... ... But it would be
uncandid not to say distinctly before]
closing this communication, that even
if it could be conclusively shown that
this or any other similar scheme would
be peculiarly beneficial to any particu
lar class of our people, I would still be
unalterably opposed'to its adoption, be
cause in mty opinion it would be ano
thter wvide and dangerous departure
fromi the prlinciples upon which our
polhtical institutions are founded. It
would be, in fact, the longest step yet
takeii in time of pcace toward the con
solidation of power in the hands of the
Federal governmient, and the subjec
tion of the private affairs of the people
to the control of a central and irrespon-1
siule authority.
With the emphatic opin ions of these
leading Democrats so earnestly and
forcibly argued why will Southern
farmiers continue to advocate this bill?
A FLAG INCIDENT.
startling Rtesults from aC. 0. D. Express
P'ackage from Richmond -The Ne~w .
York Mail and Express Office Mag
inificently Decorated and its
Columns Rhetorically Ailu
min ated.
(Greenville News.]
While in Richmond recently the
editor of the Greenville D)aily News
shipped to Col. Elliott F. Shepard, of
the New York M1ail and Express, per
sonally, a Confederate battle flag. The
article was sent C. 0. D. for the pur
pose of giving the doughty warrior a
temporary pang of anguish, but half a
dollar wvas enclosed within the package
to act as a salve and consolation. The
M1ail and Express of the .'1st, prints the
the followi'ng:
There is in one of the front windows
of the ofliee of this newspaper the
rebel cross Ilag alluded to in the follow
ing polHe letter of the editor of the
(;reenville S. C.) News, who sends it:
"RICH MOND, VA., Mlay :29.
"To the editor of the MIail and Express:
"Dear Sir-I send you herewith a(
(on federate battle flag, such as is being e
swunig by the thousands over all the
thoroughfares of Richmond to-day and
being cheered fronm tens df thousands ~
of ex-rebel throats. i
"You wear the title of 'Colonel,' and g,
are', I believe, of full age: yet, accord
inig to the information we have here,
this will be your tirst view of the much 1
hated 'rebel' battle fla,g. I sincerely b
itust that the fact that yo can con
temiplate it free fronm all risk of the
'rebelI' bullets andl bayonets that once
accomnpaniied it will be a source of deep I
gratification to you. No doubt, sir, i
the reverse of a well-known couplet is
true and
'The runny-est are the bitterest,
The hating are the fearing.' I
"The package is sent 'collect' for the
purpose of taking all the revene-iust
11 alf a dollar's worth-the Soutern
petople desire for your recent editorial
anhes. T> prevent disaster, however
the salve is inclosed to q.ickly heal the'
wound.
"You-can never appreciate, 'Colonel,'
that love and loyalty to a dead and
beaten cause are entirely consistent
with love and loyalty for a triumphant
and living country. You are not built
that way. In your philosophy defeat
and disgrace ar s% "!onym>ous en
deavors to insulte the dead constitute
highest elements of statesmanship and
desertion from and denunciation of a
lost cause are the best developments of
courage and honor. We of the South,
and, thank Heaven, the manly men of
the orth, are not yet, however, pre
pared to accept your views and stand
ards.
"Accept my assurances of profound
contempt. "A. B. WILLIAMS.
"Editor of the Greenville(S.C.),News."
Our correspondent is mistaken in one
of his positions.
About the twentieth rebel flag which
we saw was the one captured by the
"Shepard Rifles," Fifty-first regiment
New York voluntre:"-, under Colonel
(now Major-General) i'errero, when it
took Roanoke Island from the rebels
February S, 1S62.
The writer is also mistaken in think
ing that he accomplishes revenge in the
name of the Revived Cause, by send
ing us the new rebel flag marked C. 0.
I)., for he unrevenges his revenge in
sending us as the salve the munificent
ium of fifty cents, whereas the express
age was only twenty-five cents.
So we are twenty five cents in.
What shall we ao with this twenty
five cents?
It is silver. It bears the name of our
country. It bears the American eagle.
It bears the beautiful shield of our
whole country, with the glorious name
:f "Liberty" athwart all its points. It
bears the graceful figure of America,
with the Phrygian liberty cap on a rod
-liberty for black men to rule as well
as to be ruled, like their white fellow
ritizens throughout the country.
Shall we return it to Mr. Williams?
That would be ungracious, since he
sent it to us.
Well, we will put it into the fund for
the Grant National monument at
Riverside Park, in this city.
This will immortalize that quarter of
i dollar.
But our gentlemanly correspondent is
wrong again.
Loyalty is a living principle impelling
to action. It is therefore utterly im
possible "that love and loyalty to a
lead and beaten cause are entirely con
3istent with love and loyalty for a tri
umphant and living country," for the
loyalty to the beaten cause would slay
the living country. And that is still
the pith of the rebel organitation. It.
is just as it was in 1860-the rebels wish
to take possessicn of this country, and
then flaunt out that this is the same
triumphant and living country to which
they have been loyal all along, for
which they fought~for four years, and
which at last becomes worthy of bear
ing the proud, and holy, and war
sanctified, and immortal Southern
Cross and Stars.
The stars and stripes would then
f~orthwith be consigned to the grave of
Lincoln ; laws would be passed forbid
ling the manufacture, use, display or
possession of the heavenly banner, and
leclaring every one a traitor who
should even pronounce the names of
Liberty, Freedom of Union.
The leopard does not change its
spots.
The cancerous spot of secession will
Dot out.
The Congress of the United States of
America should forthwith act in de
rence of the stars and stripes.
It gives us a certain amount of pleas
are to accept the highest assurances of
ifr. Wiliiams' profoundest c<ntemipt.
Yesterday the following additional
response-evidently from' one of Colonel
Shiepard's enlighteaed and patriotic
eaders, was received here, addressed to
"Air. A. B. Williams,.
" Editor S. C. Greenville Press.
" Grecnville,
"South Carolina.
"New York,
"June 2, 1s90.
"Dear sir i was looking over some of
your remarks i am a Southerner i will
;hough protect the American colors
where ever i am do you thin k of 1890
ted 1861 ! again i am tired of hearing
tour rebel yell down with the stars and
ars up with the star spangled banner
we can get an army of one million men
n one one days time dont you forget it
eeder i never expected to hear from
~his letter to live among you rebels
~gain you will see my address as many
imies as you write to me i will presen
he blow i wished to God President
harrison w' uld call for a million of
nen to go ini those otlous Southern
~tates i have got one old war relic in
ne now i am getting putty well over it
am ready for another attack.
"J. J. NEwTON.
"!93 west 3d st
"Newv York City."
THE CoLONEL As AN ADVERTIsER.
New York letter to Richmond Times.j
For the past two days curious crowds
iave gathered in front of the oflice of
he Mfail and Express opposite the post
ffice.
In the window is displayed the little
on federate flag wheih A. B. Williams,
ditor of the Greenville, S. C., News,
ent to Elliot F. Shepard with his "as
urance of profound contempt." There
a printed sign tacked under it in
>rming the public that all such "rebel
aianifestations" are to be suppresse
y act of Congress. It will, of course,
e allowed to "pollute the air" of the
ious Colonel's sanctum, until its
rawing powers as a enriosity cease.
le thinks it a first class ad. at present,
2 spite of its polluting presence. The
olonel has a mind that- would double
iscount the lamented Mrs. Gilpin in
-ngality.