The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-10
COTTON MEN WARNED
An Address Tells Them of Big
Conspiracy.
"Bears" Will Wreck Market and
ImpoVerish Them.
TONGUE OF ANANIAS.
The Conspirators Are Most
Mercilessly Condemned.
Charged With Numbering Pros
perity and Making Paupers.

stirring address:
ITO the cotton growers of the South:
"As president of the American Cotton
Growers Protective association, cogniz-
ant of the great wrong that has been per-
petrated upon the masses of my fellow
farmers, the cotton growers of the south,
it becomes my duty as far as my limited
ability extends, to warn you of the dan
gers that environ you and of the devices
and plans that are being laid by cunning
and INSCRIPTIONS men to rob you
of your honest toll; to further
lmpOverish you and to en-
nance the discord and dissatisfaction that
is now dominant in the heart of the agri-
cultural classes in a knowledge of the
fact that there is something radically
wrong in our system.
mo longer is the product of honest
toll adequate to our subsistence, and no
longer is the cost of the production of an
article any standard of its valuation; and
the law of supply and demand has been
displaced and in its stead inter
venes the results attained by the
commercial mountebank. the most in
siduous and merciless of which is he, that
with tongue of Ananias and the heart
of the Malta is numbering the material
prosperity of our country and making
paupers of our people.
~ refer to that man that wears de-
servedly the british name of bear He
by false prophecies and wilful misrepre-
sentation robs US of our subsistence. i'm
perils our posterity, and leaves US moth
ing but poverty in our homes and hatred
in our hearts. The warning note has
been sounded. Let 'forewarned be fore
armed
"That there is a powerful aud system
atiZed movement to again depress the
value of our staple this season is patent
to all intelligent men, and it rests with
the planter of the south, individually,
as to whether he will submit to be shear
ed again as he was last season. The
time has arrived for heroic action. The
alternative is left to either renounce the
growing of cotton entirely as profit
able crop, or to take up arms against
sea of troubles, and by opposing, end
them.
False rumors of the immensity of the
coming crop have already been widely
and recklessly circulated to intimidate
the farmers into rushing their crops
upon the market, hoping to receive bet
ter prices before q decline. This action
upon the part of the farmers will accom-
! plish the intention of the manipulators
of the market, and it is deprecated as
suicidal to their interest
"The crop ought to bring fair values
should be judiciously distributed over
/ the selling season without allowing the
deliveries to be too great at any time.
And l would advise that all farmers that
can do so without violating a contract,
/ should market their crop as slowly as
they can, or, at ratio of one-third less
Ethan last season; the equilibrium of
/ prices will TINS be fairly maintained and
we will come much nearer receiving the
commercial value of our product"
sit will be remem bered by many that
/ previous to our civil war on account of
the lack of transportation facilities, it
required from seven to nine months to
market the cotton crop. We now sell
the bulk of it which is three or four
times the size in about three months, thus
| congesting the market, making compe-
titors of ourselves in the mad rush to
| get rid of our product while
/ upon the the other hand, a judi
| cious gradual distribution of the same
! over a greater period of months would be
| conducive to competition between the
manufacturers who are obliged to have
| our material and they would be running
| after US to buy our product instead of our
| having to run after them to sell it.
| 'tAnd I desire to impress upon the cot
ton growers the imperative necessity of
organization for the accomplishment of
| this purpose, and all instrumentalities
| should be engaged in the achievement of
! this contamination devoutly to be wis h.
ed. Doubtless this endeavor will meet
with strenuous opposition at the hands
of those that recklessly speculate upon
the labor OF the farmer of the south.
"He would be offered a little more
than the market price 10 bring in his
crop. The argument of risk of fire,
loss in weights would follow
with the usual denunciation of ad-
vices, but implore you for the
sake of your families rendered destitute
by these despoilers and for the love you
bear for our sunny south land for all
that is sacred to our hearts and to our
homes to resist this current that is insid-
uousIy, day by day, drawing US into a
vortex of poverty and shame, and de-
/ PRAYING our manhood and increasing
! crime.
There never was a more cruel and
relentless war waged upon the people
that upon the south by England and her
emissaries and Tory allies. reducing her
people from aff1uence to the pittance of
ten cents day for their labor, which cot
ton at five cents per pound means"