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

When you have selected the best men you
have; when you are thoroughly organized,
yoasan tell, thropgh your representative
e the National. Alliance, when to sell yotrs
cotton, and when 10 hold it. With this M
formation before them, the National Alliance
can instruct tie Seorstary Of each Sub-Alli-
ance when to sell, and by putting the right
amount of soottonson the market, at the
proper time, you can say what you viii or
will not take for it. If you undertake to
sell as you have always done, 1t viii 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 1t cost you to
produce it. The only hope " can have is
in organization, anu 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 in selling your cotton. Never sell
your cotton in September-not bale of it
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 Alliances to hold your
cotton, and don't apply to individuals. i
ask no man to do what he knows to be
wrong. ask no man to do what his con-
science doesn't approve of. I 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 shortage in last years
crop, and England is getting out Of cotton
md is now running her mills on half time.
She is not doing this because she has no or
ders 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 as you always have done
rush your cotton ON the market-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
q unit; and to the State Alliance, and it be-
comes q unit; and to the National Alliance,
and there whole of the cotton States becomes
q 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 it them
selves. Gentlemen, they can't do it. Your
State must be represented in the trade 'ex-
change. You must know how much of the
crop must be held before you can act
intelligently 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.
A tn
like this reminds me of q 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: "Well, old fellow, 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 county's product, but "damn his
discretion" It's just as easy for you to get
your price for your cotton as it was for the
Arkansaw girl to know her dad. A traveller
rode up to house one day in Arkansaw
and found a half grown girl leaning against
tho door post, He asked, "Who lives here ?"
Dad" was the reply. "Who is dad?"
why, don't you know dad? No. "Why,"
she says, claws a MASSEY ! kno,cs dad jest
as e-a-z-y." Shouts and laughter We
Not bit of trouble, but to come up and
Unit rur1n inc great MIssIss1ppr wUufu suy;
We wont mix our waters. The selfis!; little
streams would have struck the sandy prairie
and dried up before they got fairly started
So it is with the farmers who are not or
ganized. They have no power. What can
they do? Some who think they are 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 a5ou;
their failing to find q verdict, excused
himself by saying: "Your Honor, have
been ready all the time to agree, but there
are eleuen of the contrariest men on that
Jury ever saw in all my life'' Laughter,
and cries of bully for Mdt,1 That man was
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-
termined organization you have oil the
power to carry out your will. One farmer
by himself, is like the gnat spoken of in
Aesop's Fables: Sitting on the horn of the
OK he finally grew remorseful and said:
fool, never knew that you were there"
To the independent man who thinks he con
manage things by himself successfully,
will say that you ore not known by the
commercial world. 1t has never heard of
you. Applause and laughter.