The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-10-26
To BE ResOrted to by In
Cendiaries
IF ANY MORE COTTON IS GINNED
Before 1t Reaches Ten Cents Per
Pound. An Outrageous
Proceeding.

THE ginners about Acworth and in
neighboriLg counties have been notified to
stop ginning until cotton reaches 10 cents
pound. Here is copy OF the notices
posted on the gins:
To all the Ginners Throughout Barlow,
Pauldlng, Cobb and Cherokee Counties
We must have 10 cents pound for our
cotton, and If you gin any more cotton
until it reaches 10 cents your gin and
dwelling and everything will be turned
into ashes, and If any farmer hauls any
cotton to the gin you will be treated the
same way. Now if you think you can go
on against our orders just try it. We
mean business first and last warning. We
don't want any trouble, but we must be
obeyed. SHOTGUN AND CLIPPERS.
Reports from the western portion of
Cherokee county, say the ginners in that
locality have been notified by the white
caps under penalty of death not to move a
wheel until cotton goes up to IL cents.
The notice further reads that if any farmer
attempts to have his cotton ginned he will
suffer the same fate as the owners of the
gin, consequently the gins shut down.
Such state OF affairs is the result of a
diabolical spirit as mercenary and wicked
as it can possibly be. 1t is violative of
individual ownership of property and an
unwarrantable interference with mans
private business. Ignorance and stupidity,
greed and hate, rule or ruin, seems to be
back of it. If this thing is to continue un
punished, then our laws, which guarantee
protection to life, property and liberty,
would become farce. Men who have
debts to meet, and only cotton to pay those
debts with. have no time to be domineered
by unseen foes who prowl at night and who
post honest aud industrious mems houses
with threats Of the midnight torch, if they
do not run their business to suit their ideas
These fellows, who think they can effect
the cotton market by burning dwelling,
and gins, are sadly mistaken. But they
are dangerous public enemies and tn,
penitentiary is the place Tor them.
Pickens county had band of house
burners, called the Honest Mans Friend,
who went around burning the houses O.
those who they susplcioned as not being
in sympathy with their defiance of the
revenue law. Some of them were arrested
tried, convicted, and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
The Governor. we are glad to see, has
offered reward OF $3.50 each for the arrest
with proof to convict these gin house post,
ers, who threaten to commit arson. &.
For men to terroize neighborhoods this
way cannot be tolerated in this country o!
civil Liberty and property rights. The
sooner that these fellows are made to re-
spect the rights OF others, the more whole>
some for the general welfare.
Let honest law abiding citizens tell
these ginners to. go ahead and they
will stand by them with shot gun and rife.
Everybody has the right to hold his own
cotton but he has no right to force anyS
body else to do so. As nobody is being
sued or oppressed, there is no excuse for
such malicious conduct. Ifall the cotton
in Cobb, Cherokee, Barlow and Paulding
were burned up, it would not effect the
price OF cotton in Liverpool and New
York one bit 1t is foolish to think that
the stopping of ginning of cotton in four
counties would control the price of cotton
when the ginning and marketing of cotton
is going on all over the Southern States.
The only thing il can DO is to result in
harm to our home farmers.
We have no doubt that where parties are
IN debt and not wanting to sell their cotton
at present prices if they will bring their
cotton and put in warehouses where it can
be insured against fire and money drawn
on it they can hold it as long as they wish