Show AN UNJUST DEMAND ON january 19 we published a condensed statement of the alms alma objects and demands of the farmers alliance some home of the measures they insist upon are glaringly inconsistent and manifestly unjust to grant them would bring ruin to the republic among then incongruities Is ie the sub treasury plan this means the i erection by the government in every county where demanded of war houst a in which the products of the farmers can be deposited such as cot ton wheat corn oats and tobacco when such deposits are made the depositor receives a treasury note tor for eighty per cent of the value of the products these notes are to be legal tender for the payment of debts and receivable cei cel vable for customs the objections to such a measure are so numerous and potential that it ii difficult to find an argument of any weight in its favor it would transform the government into a vast me mft chine for dealing in the products of the soil the multiplication of officiate officials to say nothing of the initial expenditures would increase the incubus that is in that respect already devouring the vitals of the nation and again why should the nation as a whole be compelled to take care of and ieli find nd markets for that which is produced by the labor and enterprise of but one class of the people granted that those who would be enormously bene fated fifed belong to those who constitute the found basis of prosperity this fact presents no argument in sup port of the utopian sub treasury system the alliance proclaims in the most denunciatory terms against class legislation which has hai done much toward injuring the coun 1 try and perhaps more particularly um the agricultural population the remedy they would apply as a curative is ietto lation bation of the same kind more lively of a class character than an any statutes on the books unless it be those barbarous mesa measures u res that that 1 have been enacted against the latter day saints aal which aim at robbing them of the their property it is certainly the acme of folly to seek to tio remedy an evil by in creaSi creasing Dg it the abuses possible under the suba sub treasury system are so enormous as to be incalculable for instance the I 1 products are to be deposited in the pub lie I 1 warehouses and to be taken at the market prices prevailing at the theotime time eighty per cent of the value of abd tbd th perishable goods to be issued to the de domitor Do this proposition is made by an organization sufficiently pow to precipitate within the brief space dc a few days a political revolution T places its potency beyond the regi ooT of doubt political power command almost if not quite every other kind ot influence it would therefore be baab surd to take the ground that such auch aft association could not also control the markets hence it would be to ta the i personal interest of the alliance A fc certain times to bull the produce market by withholding their products until the prices should be to them satisfactory when that point was reached the members could insist upon depositing at the warehouses and pocketing eighty per cent of the value in notes that would be as good for most purposes as ordin wy ty currency it would be wang on the tee part art of the government to hold the products after receiving them while the people were in distress they would be dumped upon the market and the depositors might readily be enabled to 40 repurchase their own wares at a much less lees price than the eighty per gent cent they had already obtained for them hence the government which bally means the people at large would sustain ruinous losses while but one elm would be benefited it t such measures were enacted in favor of the gr angers other classes would clamor for enactments to relieve them from the financial troubles encompassing them and chaos would be the result doubtless the farmers in different sections of the country are ground down under unde unbearable burdens and suffer much injustice but such conditi conditions of wrong cannot be remedied by increasing the bulk of that which constitutes the cause of complaint |