The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-07-07
COTTON SEED AT So A TON AND
TuE yICKsBURG. CONVENTION.

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THE yICKSBURG CONVENTION lp
Free aud independent as farmer a
is an old adage that we have heafa q
ever since we were born; yet export G
ence has taught us that. though
plausibly true, nothing was more false.
Instead of being Independent, The
farmer is on the contrary dependent
on and at the mercy of every BODY. !,
First, he must interview number OF
.bilious old nabods," do great deal
of bowling and cringing, before he can
fiud one among them who will condo
scend 10 furnish him advances, aud
from that time on to the end OF the
year, he is at the mercy Of that new
Shvlock, who furnishes him advances
at Is or 90 per cent, charges him
commission on what be buys for him,
and finally gives him what he pleases
for his cotton. Some very rough |
tales havo we heard on that class Of
men called commission merchants"
i Bad enough surely was Che condition
] of the farmer before, but here comes in
Mr.. Cotton Seed Man, who says to him
that. bv order of his Worshipful, the
Grand Sachem, president OF all the
cotton seed mills in the South, CHE
, independent mills, of course, are not
| in in cotton seed shall be worth only
1 Sc a ton. Aud the poor farmer
. signs deeply, looks up to heaven ana
e saws: "Amen, so mote it be, since II
is the will of the Grand Sachem."
: Patience sometimes ceases to be
: virtue. and then comes the reaction I;
J. the farmer, crushed beyond endurance,
). cudeels his brains, seeks his fellow
?, sufferers counsels, and, in their exas-
h peration. their manhood asserts itself
l. This is what happened when lately
the cotton seed Sovereign Sachem and
T. Illustrious Pasha promulgated his
edict that seed would be worth only
> So a ton this year, and Immediately
- numerous planters, men keen ano
wide awake to their own aud thu
lie planting interest at large, men wht
e. control immense quantities of seed
- banded themselves together, aud calico
convention of the planters OF TIT
re valley to take place at Vicksburg oil
Oh July the 18th lust.
What will they do?
ne They themselves will do a grea
IS deal. and with the cooperation an'
us support of the all the planters ..of tn
~ valley, they can and will force Ml
~ Cotton Seed High Pasha to revok
ed his orders or stop his mills for In
of best season of the year, and he canno
ed very well afford to do that.
;, They will devise means of sellin
he the seed by shipping it TO st. Loui
of Memphis, Atlanta, to mills whic
OF are not in the trust, and, if necessar.
paying the freight on it. LISA thou
~ and times better for the planter to sc
rill his seed at So net to mills which al
not in the trust, than to sell it
ace mills at home who desire to crush hi
!, If as they do his seed.
1ds They will devise plans By viii
aud planters can have their own mills, al
PM operate them at profit, and thus G
ose good prices for their seed; for if
odd mill men can pay S23 a ton for ii
the cost of seed, pay the freight on 1t, a
nor vet at the end of the year declare
oe dividend of 20 per cent, as they did
!, !, Port Gibson two years ago, cam
!, of the planters operate their mill al
/ to immense profit when, fthey sold tn
NOT seed, they would get only So I
- There will be enough OF planters
nek- the Vicksburg convention to buh'
the mill of their own without asking
eth cent from any body, aud why sho
'ie it not aud can it not be done! W
for burg is good place, with railr
and and river communications reaching
and down, far and wide in the h
great of the cotton belt, why cannot
for for planters put up mill of their
they there aud con'roi 'heir sceu !,
cannot small mill BIZ put ul
,me." Providence to crush the seed of
were and neighboring parishes a TO
- in ton mill would cost $4,000, and
ad know of one man who would col
rs of butte $4,000, cannot the other SIC
ghts, be subscribed in cash and seed by
w 70 people aud have mill here by
! IN year? II MIR. Cotton Seed Sachel
willing to give US a good price fol-
nbers seed, we can afford to shut up our
Il the If IL do not nav TO crush aud il