The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-04-09
lauren s. G.. April .. 1895.
KING COTTON.

KING COTTON.
The Charleston News and Courier
looks well aftep every material inter-
,~osttnT the State. With commendable
enterprise that paper publishes q re-
port from It's special correspondents on
"Wednesday last, from almost every
county I'm the State touching the proba-
BILE acreage I'm cotton for this year,
Summing up, its conclusions are, that
the reduction in acreage will not be
large, while the falling of in the use
of Fertilizers will be great. This is not
encouraging. 1t simply means no large
increase In food crops and q diminished
crop OF cotton. This is not the desid-
eratum. What we want in South
Carolina is not so much a reduction of
h cotton crop as an increase Of the
FOOD ~crops-for man and beast. We
must buy less. 1t Is conceded that, we
here In South Carolina, are preemen-
emily an agricultural people. We may
be unable to compel the outside world
to give us big prices for our products,
but n thing is certain; we dan pro-
: duce u bread and meatsand thus be-
come entirely independent, and snap
u fingers at the foreigner. 1t is all
very beautiful to produce cotton at ten
m per pound, and have broad acres,
n I'LL our pockets with silver and
greenbacks, bat when the crop goes up
TO ten million bales, then down goes
the price to five cents. We are aware
3that a large per cent OF the farmers are
poor people; many of them tenants
p making their crops upon credit OBJ
tanned from the merchants and banks
upon q basis OF cotton planted; these,
per force, must largely plant cotton to
obtain credit. But there are thousands
OF farmers in Laurens county out of
9seBt and fsdependent.' OF four thou
sand farmers In the county half of
them are independent of bankers and
merchants and masters OF themselves
n conditions. They should be more
30. Let their food crops be doubly in
creased in the future. Now is the time.
Seize the day. A market will be found
at home. If not at home create n at
home. AT the present it is humiliating
to have to depend upon India, China,
Japan and South America for q a
ket. When our OWL cotton is spun
here and made ready into fashionable
cut gowns; when cattle, sheep and
goats are grown here, their flesh con-
sumed here and their skins tanned and
converted here, population will be at
tracted, towns and country will TEEN
with hundreds of thousands of people
and the cry Of poverty and hard times
Will cease. Raise your own bread and
meat. AS we have said, thousands of
well-to-do car do 80. 1t will make them
o hundred fold richer and more indie
pendent. A wise man has said; "neither
lender nor a borrower bel" the inspired
book reads: ''owe no lar anything."-
Raise more corr and meat than you
need and all the cotton you can. Set
your house in order not to die but to
live. Let the other fellow plant from
Dan to Beersheba in cotton but do
you have fat cribs and smoke houses.
Governor Evans disported last week
among the barbarians of Georgia. He
visited Atlanta, taking notes of the
prospect for the Great Exposition this
fall. He was looking out for wide
space for the great display our State is
TO make. Governor Evans wac enter.
tanned bv the Gridiron Club. orr some
thing Of hat sort. II ia enconrao;no tn
have our great men CIRCULATING aronnd
and ,nnoculatino the conntrv viii
wholesome and healthy vieus ~ sooio1
ohetaily pure
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