The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-10-24

Now, if in 1916 the four years average
crop should have been 2,592, 79j bales, but .
was cut short by the caterpillar GAIA
bales, how much viii the crop-tha5 is, the /
average crop for 1868, to wit, that Of the /
year previous, lS67-S, to wit, 2,43O,69
bales-be cut short from ike Causes2
Why, it Is perfectly clear; it Is a mere
matter Of the Single Rule of Three" This
year crop will be cut short G23, 800 bales.
STATEMENT
Average crop for Is based the crop Of SOB
Less y caterpillar damage. 62-z2
i1esul5- ..---l 81
Now, it is respectfully submitted that
these facts, fgures and logic cannot be con
trover5ed, and my only object in placing
them before the planters and the cotton IN
terest Is because 1 love my native South,
and do not wish to see them Numbered Of
what little they have to live on in this mil
Itary despotism. Last year the planters,
blind to truth deceived by false estimates
from the North and England, sold 8, 43O, 1913
bales, at an average Of l5c. on the outside
which, in the hands of Spectators and
manufacturers, averaged, say 2jc. or $50per
bale profit to them--a grand total Of loss to
the Southern planters on The crop Of last
year of 1921, 544,650.
SECoNDLV-REMUNERATIv PRICE, 30c
What VIII the American crop Of only
100000 bales command? I say, legiti-
mately, 30c per pound, and viii proceed to
prove 1t:
Last year Europe consumed of American 100000
100000
They require as much more this year, and
will pay SOC. for it before they will do with
out it.
England had last year and must have...., J. 200 600
France Germany and Northern Europe 100000
100000
This is nearly all the crop Of 1858. To
take that much, and they must have it, will
| leave only 200, 600 bales to the United States
| Europe demands and will have this amount
to mix with her short staple Asiatic inferior
| cottons, and she will pay SOC. for it.
! Now the Southern and Northern mills or
| factories demand for home consumption
! this year fully 100000.
| Is 1t not clear that, if the United States
retains-keeps back-that amount England
and Europe can get only 500 600 bales, in
the face Of their demand for 100000
/ Now, the contest has been heretofore be
! tween the North and Europe combined, as
! spectators and manufacturers, representing
! capital, against the South, as producer, rep
! resenting labor Their identity Of pursuits
united them, as against the producer. Can
/ the cotton interest maintain itself and de-
| mand and command and get 80 cents per
I pound for the present crop Nothing Is
clearer, if planters would act wisely
HOW CAN IT BE DONE.
Refuse to sell bale of cotton-get ad-
vances on your crops, thereby pay your
debts and ship to Europe directly through
| SaCaHHab and other Southern ports. We
| have a supply Of only 1900, goo bales Of it,
Europe demands 100000 bales and the
United States 100000 this year Both
10
bales short of the demand. Let them fight
over it-make the ntest between the capt.
talists and manufacturers Of Europe and
the same class In America. Get advances,
refuse to sell, and hold your cotton in Liver
pool This Is easily done. In all towns and
cities in the South liberal advances are
made on shipments direct to Europe
We nave used some repetition to make
this matter Of demand, supply and price
clear to planters. If they choose to give
away their crops, as they did last year, they
can do so; but, if they prefer thirty cents
for 1t, they can get it. Let Georgia, Ala
! bama, portions of South Carolina Tennes
see and the far off Mississippi forward then
cotton to Savannah, Georgia to be forwarded
directly to Europe, and this result can as
: suredly be accomplished. The false North
y ern and European estimate Of 100000
[ bales fixes a false-a too low, price for cot
,
these errors, if cotton Is shipped and held
and when a true aud fair estimate shall b,
? made fair prices will follow.
In the interest of the oppressed planting
=, interest of the South, these views are respect
fully submitted, before this crop is sacrificed
at prices not remunerative, in the condition
and relation they bear to all other interests
Respectfully, W. ToNEY
Eufaula, Ala, Oct. 10, 1868
p. Sarge RECEIPTS in October and No
vember, of a caterpillar year, in excess O
> other years, is no evidence cf large crop
i but the reverse, for the caterpillar sJrippin,
, the stalks Of all leaves III August and Sep
= TENDER, burning sun soon opens ali th
= bolls to the top. That is so now. The GRO
a viii be gathered by November st. Man
) have already gathered all A short CROP
and all open, is soon in the ports.
w. TONEY
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