The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-07
What Is Before the Cotton Planters.

What is Before the Cotton Planters. i
Ex-senator Butler had only uttered the fol-
lowing lain and universally acknowledged |
truth, in the Butler-Stokes d d'scussion at
Prosperity last week. he therein gave the
Southern Farmer more solid truth and
sounder advice than they will ever nnd in the
sub.trcasury or any other scheme now pre-
iAaR AS sAsis iug Rs1;'ss1 asssSs leader: and
fslief measures. ~ ssss'-'s
"Auothsr step would take to the settle
meut Of the 'unevenness' is this: Put ten
acres of cotton to the mule for three years.
Let Farmers do this and they will have the
world at their feet. They would then be the
most prosperous people on the globe As
to not being able to put their products on
the market at any time is all stuff. There is
not an acre Of ground in Newberry that can
not make something to sell every month Of
the year"
The Senator might have said, moreover,
that 40 acres of cotton to the mule" meant
an abundance of supplies for the farmers to
keep and sell, every mouth or week in the
year, making them Independent of the mar
ket and of the time Of selling their cotton;
more oats rs cash crop to cell in July and
august; more corn, moro potatoes, more
hogs, more poultry, more eggs, more pasture,
more cows, moro buttsr,-for all of which
there is market every day in the year-and
more manure to improve the land, instead of
the heavy expense of buying fertilizers that
the soil. ------7r-----------.ar anrich
Our Southern Farmers may MOI see it,
but it is. nevertheless, fact, the whole
financial and specializing influence of the
world, outside the present area of the
cotton States of America, is fighting their
Interest in the cotton crop.
Encouraged and fostersd by the capital of
manufacturers and speculators in this
country and Europe, with increasing expert
ence III its cultivation, the cotton crop of
Egypt is largely increasing every year.
while the same influences and means are
succes'foliy ompl Dyed in extending the cot
ton growing area into other countries of
cheap labor aud cheap living. With these
powerful home and foreign elements pitted
aga nst the cotton planters Of this country.
the time cannot be far off when oue.balf
the present crop of American cotton will
so gut tho markets Of the wcrld and reduce
the price that our farmers will be dripen TO
a""-sN'asssi,y-. of. oul.iyaaiug other and, moro
profitable crops to obtain money, food supple,
and the other necessaries their farms cannc.
produce. No sub-tressury or any other
political scheme or measure can prevent
the increase Of The cotton crop in ether
countries, aud the Farmers of this cotton
belt m'y as we'll prepare for one or two
inevitable results: either starvation
prices f'r large crops of cotton. or
prosperity and independence under small
crops of cet'on and good prices, with full
cribs of corn, smokehouses we'll supplied
with homc-raised meat, and some farm rro.
ducts bringing in money every week or month
in The year
as one Of The best Farmers and strongest
A''lancemen in this county said to us the
other day; "the sub-treasury must be in
every mans farm, to give permanent reli Of
and make farmers prosperous and iudepcu-
dent 80.