The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-10-11

Nnen you nave Selectcu tne pest ulcn you
have; when you are thoroughly organized,
you can tell, through your representatives
to the National Alliance, when to sell your
cotton, and when to hold it. With this in
formation before them the National Alliance
can instruct the Secretary of each Sub-Alli-
ance when to sell, and by putting the right
amount of cotton on the market, at the
proper time, you can say what you will or
will not take for it. If you undertake to
sell as you have always done, il will be the
same old thing, so far as you are concerned.
Rushing your cotton upon the market with
out system, and without consideration,
causes the price to drop, and nine times out
of ten you sell it for less than it cost you to
produce it. The only hope we can have is
in organization, and every man must be true
to it. Don't twist over to sell your own
cotton at an advantage when you know you
are leaving your brother in the lurch.
While you are asking your brethren to be
| true to their obligations you must be true
to your own. Don't ask them to stand by
and hold down the balance while you take
the prize i'll selling your cotton. Never sell
your cotton i'll Septembcr-not bale of Ii
| before the first of October, or until you get
instructions from your County Secretary
and will be responsible for any loss you
| sustain by holding it until then. Some of
| you may be obliged to sell to pay your mer-
| chants. He must be paid but make arrange
ments with your Sub-Allianccs to hold your
cotton, and don't apply to individuals. i
ask no man TO do what he knows to be
wrong. l ask no man to do what his con-
| science doesn't approve of. l would quit the
organization before | would do what my con-
science didn't approve Of; but we must profit
| by our past experience. Now is the time
! to be firm There is n shortage in last year
crop, and England is getting out of cotton
and is now running her mills on half time.
| She is not doing this because she has no or
dcrs for her goods She has orders ahead
| and is anxious to fill them. 1t is because
she hasn't got the cotton. She is waiting for
| you farmers TO do rs you always have done
rush your cotton on the markct-so she
can buy it for less than it cost to produce it.
want now TO show you the power of or
ganization Suppose you agree to do what
the majority says, to do. Then you send
man to the County Alliance, and it becomes
| n unit; and to the State Alliance, and it be-
comes unit; and to the National Alliance,
and there whole of the cotton States becomes
n unit 1t takes all of us to do this duty.
Every State must be represented. Some Of the
County Alliances are talking of taking charge
of their cotton crop and managing 1t them
selves. Gentlemen, they can't do it. Your
State must be represented in the trade cx-
change. You must know how much of the
crop must he held before you can act
intclligently in the matter. You can only
find out how much of the cotton is on the
market by this concert of action: how much
is on your farms and what are the demands
of the factories before you can safely sell.
little county trying TO manage matter
like this reminds me of n gentleman COW
getting on the railroad and trying to butt
the engine off the track. The locomotive
struck him and Knocked him about 40 feet,
when fellow standing by watching him.
cried: "Wcll, old fellow, l admire your
pluck, but damn such Judgment"
| admire the pluck of the man who tries
to control the cotton crop of South Carolina
with one couny's product, but ''damn his
discretion It's just rs easy for you to get
your price for your cotton as it was for the
.Nkansaw girl to know her dad. \ traveller
rode up to n house one day in Arkansaw
and found half grown girl leaning against
the door post. lie asked, "Who lives here 2,
T "Rud, was Ire reply. "Who is dad?''
why, don't you know dad? No. "Why,"
she says, claws Il massy . / kno,cs ddd Jest
as c-0-z-Y.' Shouts and laughter. We
can accomplish our object 'JcSt as c-u-z-y."
Not bit of trouble, but to come up and
lnat form the great MISSISSIPPI wuuiu say,
streams would have struck the sandy prairie
and drIed up before they got fairly started.
SO ii is with the farmers who are not or
ganizcd. They have 10 power. What can
they do? Some who think they arc smarter
than the body of the combined Alliance put
me in the mind of the man on the Jury who,
when the Judge became indignant about
their failing to find Il verdict, excused
himself by saying: "Iour Honor, | have
been ready all the time to agree, but there
are etcccn Of the contraricst men on that
jury [ ever saw i'll all my life Laughter,
and cries of b"iW to, Mot, That man was
n dandy, wasn't he?
If you don't organize with resolution TO
obey the will of the majority it is no or
ganization AT all. With proper and de-
termmcd organization You have all the
power TO carry out your will. One farmer
by himself, is like the gnat spoken of in
Acsops Fables: Sitting Oh the horn of the
OK he finally grew remorseful and said :
an" "~ - .',,, ,r";~h. ~-,~.>.--- ---.. -: y,
fool, never knew that you were there
To the independent man who thinks be can
manage things by himself successfully, |
will say that you arc not known by the
commercial world. 1t has never heard of
you. Applause and laughter.