The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-31
Dots From Hamilton.

The fight wakes hot. The Jute ccm-
bine are about forming g trust to con.
troll the whole bagging interest for the
crop of 1880. The cotton exchanges, with
one noble exception, of the United States
have sided with the Jute trust ON the
question of tare, and against the farmers
Hence the Alliances have TO fight the enc
my at home as well as abroad. This
whole question of tare was q robbery
in Liverpool to- cheat the producer, of
which be was not even conscious till Che
fight developed the fact. AS Liverpool is
the great controlling market for cotton,
she has from time isnmemorial levied an
arbitrary tare on Jute of twenty-four
pounds per bale, and adjusts the Liver
pool price accordingly, without reference
to the fact that lighter material could be
used, as for instance cotton bagging,
bale Of cotton more in the light bale than
cent. Here then is the great battle-ground
between the opposing forces, the farmers
claiming, with perfect justice, that this
eight pounds of cotton shall be settled for
when the cotton passes out Of the pro.
ducers hands, and not be allowed to be
gobbled up by the Liverpool merchant.
And the strangest part of the fight Is that
the cotton exchanges Of our own country,
by their refusal to recognize the tare pro-
posed On cotton bagging, have sided with
the Jute trust. There is great deal more
in this fight than appears on the surface.
England, through her great money power,
is not only attempting to dictate the price
of the cotton product Of this country, but
also to indicate the financial policy which
is to control our own Government.
Hence, her attempt to demonetize silver
by corrupting our Congress and instigat-
ing our whole financial policy in the in
terest of ban kers and bondholders, rather
than the people. It is we'll that the cloyen
foot of English selfshness has been thus
developed in this fight between the far
mers and the ,nonopolists. In all the
ferns which this hydra-headed monster
of monopoly exhibits. there is none more
appalling or more injurious to the farmer
and all the business interests of the coun-
try, than the money monopoly. 1t is
England's policy in the United States
which causes her to demonetize silver
here and enthrone it as the equal of gold
and commercial country. rather than agri-
cultural, and holding in her possession
vast amounts of the bonded indebtedness
of the country, it is to her interest to re.
duce the volume of money in circulation
by demonetizing silver and retiring green.
backs, so as to reduce the prices of all
agricultural products, and thus enable
her to feed her dense population of arti-
zans and laborers as cheaply as possible,
and at the cost of the producers. It is
well, We say, that the farmers have been
thrown in the fore 'front.' of this fight
against English domination in the poll
tics of America, and if they are true to
themselves and their children, they ale
bound to win great victory. But to do
this successfully we must stick, stick stick.
J. e. Smith, Of Hamilton, has fine
stand of fall oats, which he sowed in the
summer, ploughing the seed in with a
double-foot plow. We have long thought
that the reason the oat crop SO frequently
failed, when sown in the fall, was because
of the shallow ploughing. T. 81. R.