The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-06-19

Ihe following editorial IN the Charles
ton World, of June 7, shows to Alliance
men the'importance of the crop reports
that the Alliance is getting up now.
Coming from the source it does it should
be stimulus to Alliance officials to help
them preserve and make the reports as
complete and accurate as possible:
Although the cultivation of cotton on
an extended scale in Central Asia was
for n long time regarded as impracticable,
and the attention given 10 the same
regarded as mere freak of the Russian
governmeht,yet the area under cultivation
and the yield of the same is distinctly on
the increase, and while the crop this year
will be considerably below the Egyptian
crop, yet, with the completion of the
railroad which connects the cotton lands
of Central Asia with the Caspian sea, and
thereby enables the Russia., railways to
draw the cotton TO the Rus*isl factories,
we must note falling off in li:r purchase
of American cotton for these factories.
Such being the case, it would be we'll
for the members of the Farmers Alliance
in the Southern States to arrive at q
thorough understanding with regard to
what their action will be with regard to
cotton this fall.
It will be remembered, by all those who
were deeply interested, that Mr. Charles
Crosland last year called attention through
the columns of the Cotton Plant to the
fact that itappeared last year, as if, while
in South Carolina, cotton had been held
back, in Texas it had been rushed to port
and that had it not been for the strong
position of cotton the South Carolina
farmers might have suffered.
AS he said in his letter, if the command
to hold is given again this year it should
be seen to that all toe the line.
Some months back and more, the
| World advised that an effort should be
made to discover the ares under cultiya-
ton and the estimated crop which will be
in position to be held by the Alliance
in the cotton States for, as we have sta.
ted, the publication and dissemination of
statistics, indicating that certain pro-
portion of the cotton crop amounting to
some millions of haleswill be held or sent
to market in accordance with prices,
would prevent speculators from cornering
the crop, and the prices for cotton would
represent what the cotton was worth to
the cotton mills,
The Farmers Alliance in the Southern
States is in position to secure those sta.
tistics, and the officials should see to it,
that they are prepared and held in read.
iuess for publication.
When they are published, together
with the announcement of the determine.
ton to hold, the price of cotton will open
and continue with very little fuctuation
at the Ggure which the mills can afford
to pay, and, with proper management,
the crop could be eased off at what it is
actually worth.
By no other possible way could cotton
spectators be as effectively blocked, and
as far as the Southern farmers are con-
cerned, it is matter of considerable i'm
portance.
With the same arrangement concerning
Western farm products speculation in
those articles would be checked to great
extent and the farming class would soon
| be enabled to find out just about what
their produce fairly is worth.
WlIn Iega[o 10 cottou, Luls piau eau
certainly be carried out now, but if these
preparatory statistics are not prepared, it
will not be reasonable to expect cotton to
be held back in one section while accounts
indicate that it is being rushed forward
in another.
We say, therefore, that this is an i'm
portant matter and should therefore en-
gage the attention of the officers OF the
Alliance in the South. =