Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-03

shield ourselves WIKI tnc aihb ehaV wv
has given us. We can make meat, corn,
goods OF any kind, as well as they but
they cannot make cotton. Nature mas
ruled them out. They started the COM
bineiion custom; now let them feed on
their own of pring. With the weapon In
our hand we can bring the spinners who
mill our cotton, the Northwest farmers
who sell us our provisions, aud the people
who wear our product to their knees, and
can make them cry "Free trade,
mlllers' rights and no combinations.
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 year To year, as
experience should die ate, the price
would increase to IL, IL, 10 or " cents,
and would be held there. Or 1t might
even be incielsed to 20 cents in few
years. Thus, hand who now raises
four bales on ten acres and gets Sl4O for
IL would get $40 of i've acres, and
make with less work food supply equal
TO that amount of the other five. Thus
no would have the $40 clear, whereas
he now has nothing clear (but the debt
he owes). such results, generally OBJ
tanning, would tevolutlonlzs the South
She would rise, PhUniX like, from
the ashes, aud Orchard would be
himself again Money which has
been flowing out would begin TO
return with interest. Long lost
prosperity would again appear, poverty
and squalor would vanish, capital would
abound, manufacturing would enlarge,
land aud everything else would rise in
value, long-lost political power would be
regained, and the new South would hail
the old South across the chasm of d
quarter Of q century, scorched with adj
versity and poverty, with the salutation
"See, here Is the South again!" The
grand results of such decrease in quantity
have only been hinted at, not described,
and that, too, upon the theory that no
successful cultlyatIng and picking ma.
chimes should ever be made. But, If sue
cess should here be had, and If the
continuous increase OF quantity should go
on, the benefits would be comparatively
small; but, should they succeed, and
the decrease proposed be adj
hered to, the South would 20 up to
such heights that If were to attempt TO
describe 1t, it would be said; "To much
cotton hath made thee mad" How far
can the reduction of acreage be carried,
and, consequently, the increase of price
without having serious competition from
abroadP This, and this alone, is the
limit to which we can carry 1t. There Is
much Of the earth's surface that can pro-
duce 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
raises some, but has no rain, aud de-
ponds entirely on single annual over
now for moisture, and cannot, therefore,
make successful cotton country She
fed the lsraelites; afterwards, the Roman
legions; still later, the S4racens; and was
once called the granary of the world; but
she cannot clothe the world as we are
doing.
INDIA
has warm climate, fertile soil, abundant
rain, and cheap labor, but her crowded
millions need every acre for bread, and
cotton would have to 90 mountain high
before they could sell cotton and ship
corn from Iowa, half around the globe.
The barbarous realm of Africa is out of
the world, and need not be considered
The West Indies, South America and
MeXl ohave much soil adapted to cotton;
but they have not the steady, toiling, pa
tlent labor necessary TO cultivate cotton,
nor will they have 10 our generation
Thus, competition Is not at all formidable
from abroad. This fact was well tested
during the late war. 1t was well known
in Europe that the war would be long,
and, perhaps, as they dreamed, end in
total anarchy. Therefore every nation in
Europe that had tropical col
onies (and most OF them
had put forth extraordinary
efforts to raise cotton. England, having
India and many other such colonies, and
having Egypt for a dependency, aud de-
pending greatly on her looms, put forth
tremendous efforts TO raise il. Wool
and other cloth fiber were inordinatelv
developed everywhere, Attempts were
even made to raise cotton north of the
Ohio. Soon much cotton territory was
recovered by the federal army and plant
ed In cotton. Yet it went up TO ST.
per pound in greenback and so cents per
pound IN gold, and remained at so cents
In greenbacK for year after the war
ended, and at 20 or 80 cents after two
crops, raised with the stimulus OF high
prices. These facts argue with a force
Irresistible the greatness and grandeur
Of our monopoly properly handled,
WIN we profit by 1t, and rise to afiluence
and power, or shriycl aud shrink into
utter contempt?
These thoughts are thrown out to enlist
consideration and criticism, to invite the
expression of the views of those interest
ed and to solicit better plan, If 1t can
be proposed. II these views meet with
favor, the organization Will be under
tsken' further suggest that if the order
be established 1t be not secret, and that
the fees be insignificant, If not entirely
left off
These views may be utopian, but no
cotton planter will now say that the cot
ton South is Utopia. The stake is huge
millions. The effort is easy. The loss
Is trifllog If a failure. The result is mag
nihcently grand II successful Who
viii undertake It? A million han
py homes Will call him blessed il
he succeeds; none will curse
MIN II he fail. Better fail in so grand an
undertaking than to succeed in a driyeI-
ing pittance. See how easy Changers.
Wheelers or Farmers alliances sre or.
ganiZrd Is there not one man who ie