The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-27
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL--TUEsDAY, JULY 27, 1885.


goods in price; laborerl, to increase
wages Of every kind. Even the North
west farmers, from whom we buy our
meat aud bread, eaten while we make
the cotton, combine with those who
spin our fiber and thoie who wear it
to keep up the tariff duties and,
consequently, ircteass our taxes
and their profits and our losses.
We are powerltss to control other
combinat ons and unable to equal the
solid vo es OF protectiopi'ts' MAORI
ties. Bat we are omnip tent in the
cotton field. Let US besr the evils we
cannot avoid; but, at the same time,
let us shield ourselves with the srms
that God has given US. We can make
meat, corn, goods OF sny kind, as well
rs they; but they caunot make cotton.
Nature has tuled them out. They
started The combination Gust m; now
let them ed on their own offspring.
With the weapon in our hand we can
briDg the spinnefs who mill our cot
ton, the Northwest farmers who sell
Us our provisi )rs, and the people who
wear our product to their knees, and
can make them cry: Gree trade, mil
lers' rights, and no mbinaiioD." The
effect OF such combination would be
felt at once, even before the supply
had decreased in the market: and, as
the amount be reduced from yesr to
year, as experiences should dictate, the
rice would Increase TO ~, IA, 10 or l6
cents, and would bs held there.
Or u might even be in
creased TO 20 csnts in few
yeare. Thus, a hand who now
raises four bales on ten acres and gets
$40 for 1t won d get $l40 IF OF five
acGee, and make with less work food
supply equal to that amount off Of the
other five. Thus he would have the $40
clear, whereas he now hiss othing clear
(but the debt he o tes). Such results,
generally obtaining, would revolution
ize the South. She would rise, PhG ak
like. from the a hAs, end Richard
would be himself agsin. Money
which has besn flowing out would be-
gin 10 return with ilt rest. Long lost
prosperity would again appear, pow
erty and SOU llor would vanish, capital
would abound, manuiaCtu ing would
enlarge, lsnd and evel ything else
would iiss in value, long oct political
power would be repained, and tie new
South would hail the old South across
the chasm OF quarter OF a century
sc rched with adversely and poverty
with the sa'utation: See, here IS the
Soul agair ~ The grand results of
such decrease in quantity have only
been hinted at, not described, and
thst, too, upon the theory that no sue
cessiul cultivating and picking ma
chimes should ever be made. But, ii
success should here be had, and if the
continuous increase Of quantity should
go on, the benefits Wonld bs compare
lively small; but, should they sue
coed, and the decrease proposed De adj
hered to, the South would go up to
ouch heights that if | we've to attempt
to describe it, it W uld be said: Too
much cotton bath made thes mad"
How far c,n the reduction of acreage
be carried, and, conse quen.ly, the ia
crease of p'ice, without having seIiouI
composition from abroad? This, and
this alone, ia the limit to which we
can carry it. There is much OF the
earth's surface that can produce it ;
but little of it does. That which is
produced in Asia, OUTSIDE Of India,
does not enter into commerce, and,
therefore, need not be considered.
Egypt "a ses some, but has no Iain,
and depends entirely on a SINCE an.
nual overflow for moisture, and can
not, therefore, make a succe ssful cot
ton county. She fed the Israelites
afterwards, the Roman legions; still
later, the Saracens; and was once
called the graDary of the world; but
she cannot cloths The world, 40 VIC are
doing.