The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-03-12
Alliance Members Should Follow Their
Lenders and Fear No Evil.


Mr. Marion Mcdaniel, in the Augusta
Chronicle, says the outlook for the farmer is
certainly encouraging. The cotton crop OF
last year was a good average one, and has
sold and is being sold for over an average
price. The grain crop thanks to Alliance
teaching) was unusually large; the country
is full OF it. Double the quantity Of meat
was raised and slaughtered, with shotes left
to kill and eat through the summer. 1t is
refreshing to hear the hogs squeal; it is 4
reminder of the good old times. Stock Of
all kinds is in fine condition. The people,
white and black, ere in better spirits than
for years past. The winter has been a con-
tinued Indian summer. Spring flowers
bloomed in December and January-not in
hot houses, but out in God Almighty's sun
shine. Thanks be to His great name the
combines can't corner that may he par
doncd for telling little anecdote. In a
city by the SEA merchant found a young,
stout negro man at his ease, nodding, and
asked, What is your name?"
Simon"
"Well, Simon, why are you not at work
trying to make some money"
why, boss, there is no money in work.
Come up to the store and I will try to fix
you up job that will pay you"
The negro went. The merchant bought
a wheel-barrow, turned it over to Simon with
the injunction, Nov, you feed and clothe
yourself; roll ont oyster shells, and I will
give you half you make
'Yes, sir" and Simon rolled on for a
week. At the end of the week he settled
with the merchant and made some money.
He continued to roll and settle up weekly
until he had rolled two months when he
said, BOSS, wants final settlement"
why, haven't you made money!"
Eyes, some; but can buy this wheel bar
row and carry on this business myself"
One more good crop and fair prices, and
the farmers will be able to buy the wheel
barrow and carry on the business them
selves. Like Simon, they have to do all
the work, feed and clothe, and in the future
of the Alliance to advance the prico of cot
ton has been wonderful success, consid-
ering the fearful odds against them The
few farmers who had no hope, and saw, or
thought they saw, that it was an unequal
fight, and nothing but disastrous defeat
awaited them, must now acknowledge the
success of the movement. Fall into line,
farmers-one and all. Stand shoulder to
shoulder and you will see greater things
grow out of the farmers organization in
1890 than YOU saw in 1899. They will con-
vince the money power-the big Ikes-that
the farmers are somebody too. Ask COM
mission men, cotton buyers, boards of
trade-what has kept up the price of cotton
They will give various reasons, but all miss
the trne one. The Alliance kept up the
price by controlling, to some extent, the
marketing of the crop. The farmers sue
cess in this effort to prevent the crop of
1889 being sold atseven or eight cents-nine
at most twas the price figured out and be-
fore the seed was pnt in the grGund) will
not soon be forgotten. The cost to the farm
ers of production was not taken into this
count at ALL They are in debt and are
obliged to sell at our figures, say the factors.
The farmers know bow to make cotton. We
know how to price it. but they have learned
that it is not always safe to count chickens
before they hatch If the farmers were
half as well organized as the jute combine
they could dictate terms Many are begin
ming to see and feel this, and the ship is
now cleared ready for action. To be still is
death The negro has been set free. Now
the white man must be set free, and that
man or set of men are always best helped
who help themselves. The farmers Of the
cotton belt united they will act together as
one man. Cotton is selling to-day for fifty
dollars per bale. One year ago it sold for
forty. This would make difference in q
1000, 000-bale crop of $1,000, 900 lost to the
cotton growers of 1888. This large amount
fell into the hands of spectators, to fill
their pletho-ic purses to enable them to give
the thumb-screw another turn. Say the
spectators who are sporting on the sweat
and toll Of the laboring world: ave bare
got them poor, let US keep them So" With
the farmers divided, they are an easy prey.
United-welded together in common cause
10 right these Trongs--they can look for
ward with confidence. Spectators, conf
bines, and syndicatcs know this, and will
not be slow to throw every obstacle in the
path that leads to unity. When farmers
want advice as to the best thing to do, never
90 to the enemies Of their own organization,
but seek it among friends in common
cause, who are pledged TO help and stand by
each other. Then follow your leaders and
tear no evil. A few farmers have expressed
the opinion that to hold cotton and thereby
control the price might stimulate its pro-
duction in other countries. Fear not Dur
ing the war between the States the cotton
belt was blockaded ard but little cotton
found its way out for four years. England
pushed with energy, brains and money the
cultivation of cotton in India, and at the
close of the war American cotton was worth
81 per pound, anil to-day America furnishes
about three -fourths of the worlds supply Of
cotton. Nowhere else on the globe does
cotton reach such perfection as in this coun-
trv, and it is safe to assume that the de-
mand for American cotton Will always be
equal to the supply. The farmers have had
strong faith in cotton as Il money crop ever
since the invention Of the cotton gin. They
took after it and many of them were as
blind as stump to provision crops. They
have now learned in the school of expert
ence better sense and if they are guided by
wise counsels the period of struggling for
mere existence may be numbered with
things of the past
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