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JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1890.
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ESTABLISHED 1880.
JOHN LEIPER,
DEALER IN
PIANOS, ORGANS,
AND
Sewing Machines.
<ft Sew!n? Machines a specialty. Puli
GOODS
Line of Sewing Machine
Supplies on hand.
SOLD ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN.
Estey anil Cam & Co.'s
PIANOS.
Estey, Camp&Co. ^Dyer&Hfl£bss
ORGANS.
Domestic, nils and Net Home
SEWING MACHINES.
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Southwest Comer Square, WEATHERFORD, TEXAS,
M. g^MERON & CO.,
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[BER, SHINGLES, SASH, DOORS, AND BLINDS,
CEMENT, PLASTER AND PAINTS
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Furnished Free of Charge and Best Quality
^^MMpranteed at Prices that Defy Competition.
arey-Lombard Lumber Co.
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p have just received our bright
,0081 new stock of ,
Shingles
.d Doors,
SUB-TREASURY SCHEME.
Senator Reagan Tells the Alli-
ance Why He Cannot
Support the Measure.
Such An Aot Would Make the Go v-
ernment of the United States a
Great Merchant and Mon-
ey Lender.
Senator Reagan has written the
following letter in answer to the
many resolutions and letters he
has received on the subject, and .renc5r*
cise the power of issuing money
for circulation. On a memorable
occasion in the year 1878 they
demonstrated the danger of allow-
ing them to control the volume of
the currency by suddenly con-
tracting its volume to a danger-
ous extent, in order to keep con-
gress from passing a law to re-
store silver coinage. This should
have caused congress to take
from them the power to increase
or diminish the volume of the cur-
which he finds it impossible to
answer individually:
Sash
AND HAVE
RANH
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Mew and Lover System of
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get your bills figured.
reatherford, Texas.
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specialties For cata-
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Up Stairs in Court
Texas.
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jERS in
and Fancy
•CERIES.
Square at the Phipps
Old Stand. < ■ -
None Other Like Unto Ben
Butler. : ^
Fort Worth Gazette
When the New York Sun is not
prodding Cleveland, it is sticking
pins in Elder Harrison, who, it
says has disgraced himself and
his office by accepting the gift of
that cottage. Wilt Dana ever find
a man as great in his estimation as
Ben Butler f
Icraey to Loan,
i'prepared to make loauson
l .real estate in amounts
' V over. All loauB nego-
out the delay so gom
st agencies. Rates of
reasonable. Will also
fVepdprs’LeiuSotes.
»• Robinson.
When, by reason of a cold or
from other cause, the stomach,
liver, and kidneys become disor-
dered, no time should be lost in
stimulating them to action. Ayer’s
Pills act quickly, safely, and sure-
ly. Sold by druggists and deal-
ers in medicines.
“ Preston’s Hed-Ake.”
Judge J. H. McLeary, ex-Att’y
Geu’I of Texas and Past Grand
Master of Masons, says: “ It (Hed-
Ake) is the best medicine for
headache.” For sale all druggists,
50c.
Insure Your Property
With the North British and Mer-
cantile Insurance Company, one
of the oldest and strongest.
J.N. Rogers, Agent.
United States Sen ate. I
Washington, D. C., May 20, 1890. $
T. McTlae, Esq., Secretary of Bexar County
Alliance, San Antonio, Tex.:
Deab Sir—Your letter of the
5th inst. was duly received, en-
closing to me the resolutions of
the Bexar county Alliance, ex-
pressing approval of what is call-
ed the bonded warehouse or sub-
treasury system, by which I
understand is meant that your al-
liance approves the provisions of
senate bill No. 2875, introduced
by Senator Yance, by request, and
the provisions of a similar bill in-
troduced in the house of, repre-
sentatives.
In your letter enclosing to me a
copy of these resolutions you:
kindly say: “ It is with great pleas-
ure that I have an opportunity to
communicate our desires to one
whom we all know is with the peo-
ple in their struggle for their
rights. You have always been
with us.”
I thank both yourself and the
Bexar county Farmers’ Alliance
for their recognition of my devo-.
tion to the interests of the people.
And it will be most gratifying to
me if I can continue to command
their confidence. And it- is with
sincere regret that I find myself
unable to support a measure which
meets their approval.
We all subscribe to the doc-
trine that the Federal government
is one of limited and delegated
powers, and that, in the language
of the constitution, “ The powers
not delegated to the United States
by the constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the states, are reserved to
the states respectively or to the
people.” One of the powers con-
ferred on the United States by
this constitution is that “ congress
shall have power to borrow mon-
ey on the credit of the United
States.” But it contains no grant
of power to the United States to
loan money, either by its express
terms or by implication necessa-
rily arising from some other grant
of power.
I do not, therefore, see how
congress can pass a law to enable
the United States to loan the peo-
ple 80 per centum of the value of
their erops and take their produce
in pledge for the repayment of the
money so to be loaned.
I am aware that the argument
is used that the government loans
money to the national banks on
the security of United States in-
terest-bearing bonds; and that on
this assumption it is urged that it
may loan to the farmers on the se-
curity of their produce. But I
deny the right of the government
to loan money. And if it should
be held that the notes furnished
the national banks for circulation
are a loan, my answer would be
that any violation of the constitu-
tion will not excuse or justify jut
The organization of the system
of national banks was at first pro-
posed as a temporary expedient
to sustain the finances of the gov-
ernment during the war : the banks
being employed as fiscal agents.
I express no opinion as to wheth-
er the notes furnished them for
circulation would be held to be a
loan. However, that may be, the
government does not undertake
to build banking houses, and to
provide officers at the public ex-
pense to conduct their business,
as is provided for in the bills un-
der consideration.
which I suppose cbuld not have j vajue of his produce to be used
been considered by your Alliance,; for other purposes. And when that
and by other Alliances in Texas 1 is spent he will be unable to re-
and in the Southern States. Our
people cannot have forgotten the
reign of despotism, plunder and
robbery which prevailed during
the horrors of what was called re-
construction. The minds of the
people of the Northern states re-
volted at this, and the result was
a large majority of Democrats in
the representative branch of the
Forty-fourth congress. The Re-
publican party inaugurated and
has sustained the class legislation
which has caused the sacrifice of
the interests of agriculture of
which the Alliances and others
now complain, and from which
they now suffer. The Republicans
know as well as we do that there
are only two chances for their re-
tention of political power. One
is by the influence and money of
the class interests, corporations
and trusts which have grown up
under their policy. The other is
by engendering and keeping up
sectional and war prejudices.
deem his produce by paying his
debt with one per cent, interest
and the charges for warehousing,
etc., and will be compelled to sell
for whatever he can get; or, if he
cannot sell within the eleven
months, the government is then
to put his produce on the market
and sell it. And in either event
the chances will be that he will
lose the -twenty per cent, of the
value of his produce: that is, that
in the end he will be twenty dol-
lars in the hundred poorer than he
would have been if he bad sold
his produce in the open market,
beside all his extra trouble in go-
ing through the forms prescribed
by these bills.
It will be observed that under
the provisions of these bills if the
produce should be overvalued, or,
if after it is valued, the prices
should fall, so that it would not
sell for as much as has been paid
We shall not lose sight of the i They have never been satisfied
fact that the government of the I with their former effort at recon-
United States was organized and j struction. They are now eontem-
other Violation of it. I have for
years combated the policy of al-
lowing the national banks to exer-
adopted by the states and people
as a political government of limit-
ed powers, and not as a great mer-
cantile establishment to deal in
property and loan money. And
the provisions of the constitution
conclusively show that it was in-
tended that the United States
should exercise its powers for the
special purposes of its creation,
and that the government should
not undertake the paternal care
and supervision of the personal
interests of the people. One of
the great political evils of our
times, and one of the most menac-
ing dangers to the perpetuity of
our present system of government
and to popular liberty in this coun-
try, is tRe violation in recent times,
by the practices of the govern-
ment, of this principle, and the
dangerous extent to which it has
gone in paternalism.
The bills under consideration
would require the expenditure of
many million dollars for the con-
struction of offices and warehouses
and the fm-nishing of elevators
and cleaning appliances. It would
also require an army of officers
and employes to carry out its pro-
visions. And these buildings and
the salaries of these officers and
employes would have to be paid
for by taxes to be levied on the
people, thus increasing on them
the very burdens which they now
suffer.
Tins bill only provides for one
manager for efich county, to he
elected by the vote of people
whose property he is to value,
without defining what particular
people are to elect him. This
shows that the draftsmen of these
bills had no just conception of
what force would be necessary to
execute the proposed law. The
selection of these managers by
tLe vote of the people whose
property they are to value, and
bind the government by that val-
uation, would be a dangerous ex-
periment. It is proposed to make
the term of office of these mana-
gers two years. &nd they, like
other offices, woultl undoubtedly
become political, and the candi-
dates from whom the people would
expect the largest favors would
general!-^get their votes. There
is another aspect of this question
plating and preparing for a renewal
of that policy through laws which
they propose to pass to regulate
congressional elections. Under
the proposed laws they intend to
establish an army of Federal offi-
cers throughout the South, whose
chief merit in obtaining and re-
taining offices will consist of the
extent to which they can misrep-
resent and persecute the Southern
The organization of farmers and
laborers to resist and secure the
repeal of existing class legislation
I has my unqualified approval; but '
I cannot approve efforts by them
to secure additional class legisla-
tion. ' . ' '
The members of your Alliance
are doubtless aware that the prod-
uct of corn in the United States
\ last year was 2,112,892,000 bush-
els: that of the wheat crop 490,
500,000 bushels ; that of the oats
crop and other products which
could bo stored in warehouse
and about 8300,000,000 worth of,
cotton. But only the marketabl
surplus of these products coul
be stored under these bills,
not informed what that would
have been last year. But about
8530,000,000 worth of farm prod-
ucts were last year exported to
foreign countries. And the amounts
consumed in our own cities and
towns, and by manufacturers,
miners, merchants, professional
people and otj^er non-producers
of farm products, would probably
be at least four or five times as
nrach. This would probably put
more than 82,500,000 worth of
farm products into the market in
one year. If the half of this amount
should be placed in the govern-
ment warehouses and elevators
to secure loans, it would
that the people would be
ly involved in debt in a
gregating over 81,000,000,000, i
their crops pledged for its pay-
ment; and that a like sum of
money would be thrown into cir-
culation in addition to the current
volume of circulating money. This
would certainly greatly inflate
prices of all commodities and
for it, with interest and charges j cause great fluctuations in values,
added, the government would have
no remedy, and would have to sell
the produce for what it would
bring and pocket the loss.
And it is reasonably certain that
if such a law were enacted it
would throw on the government a
considerable, probably the greater,
amount of the produce so pledged,
and would pi^t the government in-
to the market as a’ great seller of
farm produce in competition with
the farmers of the country who
had not been under the necessity
of so warehousing and pledging
and it would disturb all business
and commercial calculations and
produce calamitous evils. Hie
interests of the agricultural class,
like all other interests, requires a
steady volume of currency and
steady prices. Nothing is more
W j*
people. The policy of these billB ■ their produce to obtain a part of
would, if enacted, give them anoth- its value on it.
er very large force of Republican
offices and employes to aid in fas-
tening the chains of despotism on
our people. This would not be
done by the one manager, which
it is proposed to elect in each
county, but by the corps of officers
and employes which wonld cer-
tainly be provided for if any such
bill should become a law.
On the deposit in the warehouses
by the farmers of their “ cotton,
wheat, corn, oats, seeds and other
farm products suitable for stor-
age,” they are to obtain receipts
44 showing the quantity, grade and
quality of Buch farm products,
and their value at current rates at
such locality at the date of depos-
it, and ex pressly stating the amount
of the insurance, weighing, clean-
ing, warehousing and other charges
that will run against such farm
products while on deposit.” In
these quotations I copy from one
of the hills. These receipts are
to be negotiable by indorsement.
The holders of such receipts
‘•shall be entitled to receive from
the treasury of the United States,
in treasury notes, eighty per cent-
um of the full value of such re-
ceipts.” And these bills provide
that ‘‘the payment to him of said
The passage of such an act
would be the longest step ever
taken by this government in pa-
ternalism and class legislation,
and would make the government
of the United States a great mer-
chant and money lender, in defiance
of all our past notions as to its
character and the reasons for its
adoption by the people.
providing that the
government shall loan money on.
land mortgages should be passed,
as well as the sub-treasury bills,
Some of our Texas Alliances ) aq values woulll become uuseTOeJ,
have also requested me to support j mouey WOuld become cheaper
a bill introduced by Represent-1 t]iau anything else, industry would
tive Featherstone providing tor be paralyzed and all great enter-
prises would be arrested. v ; ^
1 recognize and regret the fact
that we have not now a sufficient
volume of. circulating money to
meet the necessities of the conn-
j try, but you are doubtless aware
injurious to all classes of people
than an unstable volume of cur-
rency and fluctuating prices. We
all remember the effect, caused *
by necessity, of the excessive is-
sues of Confederate money. And
the Federal government during
the war experienced the same evil
in a less degree. And many of
the people now living remember t
the days of. wild-cat banks and ofy
shin plasters, and the calamities
they entailed on the people. Sure-
ly no wise or good man can desire
a renewed infliction of such mis-
fortunes.
If the bill
'li-
the government to loan money to
the people at 2 per cent, interest,
taking mortgage on their land to
secure its, payment. 1 cannot
lengthen this letter by criticising
this absurd bill further than to say
that if it were made a law I think j t]iat ] iiave been doing all I Could
it would bankrupt most of those
who would avail themselves of its
provisions, and that it would make
the government a great holder of
real estate. One of the great
troubles of the people now is that
they are too much in debt. And
it is incomprehensible to me that
they should he seeking legislation
to enable them to get deeper in
debt.
Agriculture was once regarded
as among the most honorable, in- j
to remedy this evil. If we can
get the free and unlimited coin-
age of silver, to increase the vol-
ume of the currency, reasonable
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notes shall constitute a loan by the j dependent and remunerative oc-
government of the United States,! cupations. But it has for years
for which said products deposited , past been taxed for the benefit of
shall be security.” The farmer is | railroad corporations, manufact-
to make the deposit of his produce, j urers, bondholders and othci
obtain his certificate and receive j large money holders and. pluto-
eighty per cent, of the value of it1 crats generally until it is no long-
in money, lie will not obtain this1 er remunerative, and the young
mouey for the purpose of keeping • men of llie country as they grow
it eleven months or less, and then j up seek other and more profitable
add one per cent, interest and the employment. What farmers
charges on his produce for the | should think and work and vote
purpose of redeeming it and taking j for is the repeal of existing class
his produce out of the warehouse, j legislation, and not for the adop-
His necessities will require him to tion of more class legislation, such
get the eighty per cent, of the as is contemplated by these bills.
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Rogers, J. N. & Rogers, Alice M. Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 17, 1890, newspaper, July 17, 1890; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth730909/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.