St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-28
Hold Your Cotton.


An important circular dated Natchez,
Miss, Sept. 90, has just conc to our no.
tice. We give it below, thinking that
if our farmers would adopt the sugges-
ton it contains, they might be greatly
benefited. Read it and tell your neigh
Dor about it:
To the Farmers of the South:
The price of cotton is In your own
hands.
England, France and tho Continent
have a fine trade and are largely under
contract for their goods.
The world was led to believe during
| the summer that the current crop would
| be 100000 bales and more than their
requirements.
Since then, estimates have been modi-
fed, but they still believe that the crop
is much larger than it is.
The Agricultural Bureaus report, if
| it means anything, indicates crop less
than last year, which if true would ma
| terially increase the price of your chief
| product
| You have been accused of holding
back your cotton. Whether it be true
| or false, it has had the effect of adyanc-
ing prices one and ono quarter cents
per pound.
AS the market is principally influenced
| by the movement of tho crop, the OBJ
ject of this letter is to suggest to all
those who have not urgent liabilities to
meet, that after Nov. 1st, you keep all
your cotton on your farms, for period
of two weeks, and then market slowly
and watch the effect on the market.
1t sent to the towns OF ports and held,
it has no influence, as it is counted.
Others combine, and why not Wet
This effort to advance the price of our
product no doubt will be criticised by
and all kinds of evil will be predicted,
but since we accomplish our object we
will be satisfied.
1t we succeed the iarmurs will then
know what to do in other years when
the price is below the cost Of production.
Five copies of this circular letter are
sent to the Sheriff OF every county in the
| Southern States, or total of six thou
sand copies, with the request that they
send them to parties in their respective
counties.
To accomplish our object it will DO ne
cessary for each one who receives copy
to read it to his neighhOrs, bring it be-
fore the Alliance, ii you have such an
organization, and in fact give it wide
publicity, so that on the day named, and
for two weeks thereafter, not bale be
moved from the farms.
| The market may not feel the influence
of the light movement until the second
week, but it surely will respond.
1t does not cost anything to make the
experiment.
Respectfully, A FARMER.
|
| Chicago has completely distanced all
rivals by getting together in the Worlds
Fair grounds more than 100000 people.
| The paid admissions on Monday were
reported to be 713,646. In 1876 Penn
sylvana Day called to the grounds
of the Centennial Exhibition great
throng, numbering 2H,919 people,
of whom 256,1G9 paid for admission.
| For many years that was regarded as
the greatest crowd ever collected at one
place but Chicago has bad not far from
that number on the grounds of the
Worlds Fair for several days in sue
cessiOn, and on Monday gathered nearly
three times as many within the gates
There were, OF course, many casualties.
Six persons were killed and scores were
injured; indeed it is marvellous that 40
many people conld he handled at all
| without more accidents. Certainly, the
Worlds Fair at Chicago will 20 down
into history as the greatest enterprise of
the kind that the world has seen. The
grandeur of the buildings, the beauty of
the statuary which adorns them, the
large attendance, the financial success
all these things distinguish the Fair at
Chicago beyond all others. The debts
have all been paid, and whatever may
be taken in hereafter beyond current
expenses will serve as dividends to
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.