The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-31

Senator Vest is in danger of making
himself the laughing stock of the country.
The speech he made in the Senate yester-
day when introducing dispatches he had
received from the Merchants Exchange
Of st. Louis. urging legislation in har-
mony with the Presidents views. is cal
culated to. give the impression that he
is not fit man TO represent the great
state of Missouri in the Senate. He de-
clared that the members of the St. Louis
Merchants Exchange were ignorant of
the subject of finance and that he would
never vote to issue bonds in time of
peace in order that the country might
remain on a single gold basis standard.
How does Senator Vest know that the
members of the Merchants Exchange
of St. Louis are ignorant of the subject
of finance? Certainly nobody would ever
think of accusing him OF having suffi-
cient knowledge of the subject to sit in
judgment on the merchants of st. Louis
on that matter. If the Senator has any ac-
quaintance with that subject he has
succeeded admirably in keeping the fact
from the knowledge of the public.
If he knows so much about finance
why doesn't he suggest plan for relev-
ing the treasury of it's difficulties? In
stead of doing that he sits like little owl
with his head we'll down between his
shoulders and does nothing but pretend
to know it all. If the country had no bet
ter financiers than he is it would be in
very bad way.
AS for his silver views. his own state
virtually repudiated them at the Novem-
Der elections Silver Dollar Bland was
defeated, and the expression of sentiment
throughout the state was pretty strongly
against the financial views that he holds.
There is no doubt that the country would
much rather trust the merchants of st.
Louis in the matter of finance than
Senator Vest.
The movement to restrict the cotton
acreage next year appears to be gain
ing some Roadway. The prospect of cot
ton at or cents a pound, in the event
of another 100000 hale crop is discour-
aging, and planters are disposed to
plant less. Still, what would be the
view to reducing the crop. if planters were
to go into intensive cotton farming. like
the Lancaster. S. G.. man whose achiev-
ments were reported in our dispatches
of yesterday? He raised 123 bales of 45o
pounds each with eight plows on 81
acres, and used only $3.50 worth of fer
filters, besides raising with the same
eight plows) 1,Oo9 bushels of corn, 500
bushels of oats, leo bushels of wheat, 500
gallons of syrup, a quantity of peas. po-
tatoes and fodder. and 1000 pounds of
pork We have also heard of another
! somewhat similar instance, in which a
farmer near Yazoo City. Miss, last year
worked nine mules and raised 800 bales
of cotton, an average of 3Sls bales to the
mule After disposing of his cotton at
5 cents a pound and paying his expenses,
his net profit was s.. $50 And another in
stance, noted in these columns a few days
ago, is a case in point. A North Caro-
lima cotton planter cut down his acreage
one half, and by intensive farming made
the production twice what it was before
reducing the acreage. These three men
can all very well afford to raise cotton at
cents a pound. But suppose the other
farmers were to reduce their acreage
! % per cent. and adopt the same system
of intensive farming, where would go the
size of the crop, and consequently the
price?