Show THE SUB TREASURY FOLLY oja ojo of the strong cards of the southern Farmers 1 alliance the one on which the promoters of 0 the movement are depending moat largely lor for their success il 19 the visionary bat but to many minds attractive proposition known as the sub treasury echeme scheme in some ot of the southern elates states notably georgia alabama and misais sipp 1 it is taking a wonderful hold upon the agricultural mind which sees bees in the project a maans means of getting money easily and plenty of it and in come districts it haa has 8 bown each such pronounced strength that the question submitted to any candidate for election is one either of adherence to it or political defeat T the he worst feature of the case is that in L auch such sections few newspapers circulate 1 the people read them it they had them and the conversion of the masses from the billy silly heresy will necessarily be slow popular speakers will doubtless bathe be the greatest factor in the curing of the rank evil which took root EO readily and is so tenacious although its a spread read Is to believed to have boon been checked and while both the great p parties artles are too sound to be influenced by it and have little reason to tear fear it BO so far as national legislation is con corned each has interest enough in tho the local government of the stiles states and districts to antagonize it wherever where it shows itself influential men both republicans and democrats are therefore in the field with lanca lance in rest and visor closed and the overgrown but de fenceless thing ia is getting some pretty hard knocks senator george has dealt it some savage blows right where it thought it wag was strongest and now S sam am jones takes up the cudgels cud gela jonea is not a political orator of whom either side need be particularly proud but he be has a way ot of reaching the masses that is unique and bis his influence 1 i not incon sid eld erable of the trea aury scheme he mm mrs abil semi ble his but homely rin pla its care ears back and arse it and it in I 1 the easle ca ilet I 1 t thing in the world to swallow G resse it with your groan grease I 1 mean that makes things look right ilsan I 1 taw a fellow the other ly day talking about the wats key business busl DOU and be he hod had a card the also of an envelope on it be he had lu in big letter letters WRONG W R O NG N 0 ire held it up and vald you see te that you on ace wrong on it then be he put a five dollar bill over it and held it up now he hear me y a you u cant fee see tt it its it there ot but you can cant t tell it 1 that the war it Is with a heap of I 1 things put money on it and 0 it looks all right which is in fact the sum and substance of the whole vicious and ridiculous project |