The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-03
RUIN OF This FAIR LAND.
OUR SPLENDID CLIMATE AND UNFXCELLED
ADVANTAGES.
Rui Des3it" Our Good Fortune the
Money il Withdrawn From Circu.
IafiOn. and Hard Times IL Ever
s..Il


Rut Desait" Our Good Fortune the
Money is Withdrawn From Circu.
lafiOu, and Hard Times ~ Ever
Presrnt VITA Us.
We have the most favored land In all this
country. Northerners come here to escape
their own severe winters. and in summer
they come 10 our mountains for pure water
and life-giving air.
Our lands produce profitable returns for the
labor bestowed in making our crops. The
cotton crop is the cleanest and easiest gath.
cred crop In the world.
Ii the seasons don't suit the weed it will
walt for the needed rain, aud there never has
been q failure to make q crop. Oats, corn,
wheat, and all other crops may fail In this or
other countries, but our cotton is a sure crop.
A man may plant IL In perfect certainty that
he will gather.
Oats. corn, wheat and other products Of the
field and shop may be glut on the market,
when tons Of IL would not command dollar,
but did any mnn ever see day when cotton
would not bring the ready cash?
II the Northern mllers want the staple,
they must send us their money before they
can buy pound Of cotton. No man Will
part with bale OF cotton before he has re.
How is it with the manufactures? He
must sell where he can find a buyer, and he
must accept the buyers terms.
credit OF three months, six months, twelve
months, possibly with conditions Of renewal
of note.
If the western farmer has grain or mules,
he must sell when the time comes, no matter
how the market may be. r he postpones his
sale, decay and weevils will attack his grain,
and expensive barns must be built in which
to store It., while the Southern farmer may
simply put his cotton under the drip Of the
wagon shed. or fine has no wagon shed he
can place 1t under the shade of tree.
II the Western stock raiser finds the MARKET
dull, he must sell his stock, or else feed his
grain, and run the risk Of cholera or other
disease in his stock.
1t the Southern farmer doesn't like the
price OF cotton he simply holds IL, and takes
little less for 1t next Spring.
Idle the greater portion OF the year he can do
so by buying western corn, western hay, ives.
tern bacon, western mules. AS relief and
relaxation from the wear and tear incident to
scrubbIng out the seat Of his breeches IN
chilly weather, he can, when the Spring
comes. "do about" right lively in April, May
and June, loDking after the cotton crop.
little oppressive, the cotton farmer may
then retire to the shade until the cotton be.
gins TO open. Hands can be hired to pick II
ont In September and October, and by the
middle Of November the cotton farmer ID
again ready to 60 into winter Qnarters.
All these advantages go to make this the
greatest country on the face OF the earth
Suppose the cotton farmer was forced to
that event, no time could be had BY Sleepy
Hollow Clubs to solve national problems. -,
B all hs va Of snd
superiority of our crops. there are, in every
county In the State, great numbers of cranks
who fool around over their farms all the
lures, that even In the dead OF Winter they
| will look after their cattle, their pasture
fences, their COW lots, their manure pens
even II the railroad station should be de
serted, and the country store starve for custo
mers.
Even In Summer and Fall some cranks viii
look after the grain crops, the clover and the
hay, and often the mule that has worked
double duty, and forced to haul TO the barr
tons OF hay, clover, and other long forage
on which TO feed the lmprovident and idlt
cattle In winter, which do nothing In summer
but help themselves to the choicest grass ir
the pasture, while the mule receives liberia
cuffs and scant food.
AS result OF the grasplng and selfish ma
ture OF such people, and rs result OF the i'm
mule, these same cranks VIII sell butter
beef and cattle In the Fall and Winter, and OF
ten show, with q selfish pride, the mules
which they have been enabled to raise by
] their over-bearing disposition In eNactlns
double duty from the work animals. These
selfish work ers, not being forced to buy corn
mules, bacon and hay, put the proceeds o
their cotton crop In their pocket, and, rs {
|
becomes OF the silver bill or the colossal ware
house. The selfish farmer, having no use fo
a warehouse, quietly sells his crops, saves hi,
money, and the first thing anybody knows
he has bought more land. or has taken 6
mortgage on some cotton farmers land.
| Such grasping people ought TO be looked
after. They gather up what little money
there Is, and In times of need their poo
neighbors, who have not hing to sell, can't ge
q dollar, and hence the demand for the print
| Ing OF more paper money, and the coinage o.
more silver. Mean citizens, who care moth
except TO make money, are generally iudifter'
ent TO the needs of their idle and thriitles
cotton-produclng neIghbors, hence all unset
| fish, public-spirited citizens shonld> have ar
| eye 10 the actlngs and doings Of those who
may be justly termed public enemies. {.
AS matter of fact. some OF the selfisl
cranks of whom We have been writing, tax,
are, read and enjoyed solely BY themselye
and their families.
They attend the club meetings seldom, o.
possibly never at all. They don't treat tn,
brethren 10 whiskey at either the "drI
towns" or the licensed bars. while the whole
| souled, clever fellows set up the crowd L
drinks, and thus furnish the world an exam
pie in unselfishness. They are so unset fst
that they will deny themselves and thei
families the refining and elevating influence
of newspapers, in order TO have q bottle along
the road to treat friends as they 60 home.
! The selfish cranks who gather hay, clover
oats, corn, and provide pastures Tor their cat
tie and mules, shonld be made odlous, and, i
| they do not mend their ways, the lieners an(
cotton farmers ought TO take hold OF them be
| fore they own the whole country. They
gather up every dollar possible, and immedi
Nothing short of combination agai
such mean withdrawing OF the currency from