The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-07-27


It Is said that the price of our cotton
Isareduced to cover all the expense Of
shipping, and that tare of 80 pounds
Isl taken from every bale to cover loss
on baRging and ties. If 1t is just for
the consumers to pay for the boxing
aud shipping OF goods, we certainly
should have a price sufficient for our
cotton to cover all ex pense of shipping,
selling and bagging and ties, for the
boxes and barrels are as worthless to
US as the baeging and ties are to them.
We are losing enough on our cotton in
two years to build factories enough In
the South to manufacture every bale
of cotton raised in it.
TO prove the assertion, submit the
following figures: Tare of 80 pounds
per bale on :, 600, 900 bales at $50 per
bale is SIS, 900. Expense OF ship
ping cotton from home to the factory
at So per bale is 500, 800, 900.
| The South consumes the goods Oh
not less than ,OOO, 900 bales; the height
on the goods from tho factory to the
country store is not less than 81 per
bale, which Is - 100000.
You see we are losing on one COTTON
4 crop the amount Of $S3 800, 900 on bag
giug, ties aud shipping, SO in two
years, by manufacturing our cotton at
home we will save the amount OF
$167 GOO, 900. Now Is this all we are
losing? Count the profits on these
goods made from this 1000 900 bales
cotton, and you will see loss OF
$36, OO0, 600; in two years $4,000, 600;
} total loss IN two years 39,6OO. QUO,
} which is low estimate of our loss, and
more money than there is invested In
all the cotton factories of the world
At present there is about 756 cotton
factories supplying COZ 900 hspds with
capital Of $2Os, 900 900.
Can any one DO surprised at iht
, southern farmer being so poor ano
, getting poorer every year? Shall WI
always submit to such outrages at this
: say NO! How are we to remedy thi
: evil? By the Farmers Union and Al
. lance uniting: with capitalists that vii
/, unite with US, and borrowing suffi
cient amount of money to build costol
factories enough In the South TO man
= ufacture every bale raised In it. L.
y doing this we can control the price G
Il cotton and goods, and instead of real
, izlpg only $4,000 per bale for cotton "
> can get what We please. say MANI
facture our cotton at home, II we hav
It to mortgage every foot of land we ow
a for money to build factories witt
This and this alone will lead us
= prosperity, and In few years you wi
see the South the most prOsperou
country on earth.
J. So let US commence building 6
e once, at the most convenient poin,
!, for the expense of shipping and sellin
Is an item to be taken into conside
alton, Let US have one at Monre
and one at Alexandria first, as tn
capitalists Of those places are shown
!" by their actions, that they are in syn
pathy with the Farmers Union, ar
are willing to assist them.
Bro. Whited, can't your Union {
If 81. so better? Our Union went $lO.'
a. per member. We have in the sta
5000 members. At ten dollars p
member will give us $230, 900. Monr'
L. $50, 900 and lot, Alexandria 3d. 900 ar
Of lot, will give us $500, 900 which wi
IN start three cotton factories. Brothe
lets have them, this is our only roe
!, to success. Don't say we can't hui
III them, we can il we will only tr
~ Some say our constitution prohibits
We from uniting with outside capita
at Then let us 50 amend our constitute
r . that it will not, for we need all Il
help we can get. BIRD.
's' Friendship Union No. 76, Uaion Pu
%. ish, Louisiana.
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