The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-03-20
MR. LANES ADDRESS.
An Important Communication to the Cot
ton Growers.


ATHENS, Ala. March 1s.-Hon
Hector ?. Lane, president. 8f tt the
American Cotton Growers association
has issued the. following address.
TO the Cotton Growers of the
South: I.W1sh to call the attention OF
the cottoa growers to the strategic
movement being made by cotton ma
nipulators to delude them into the
suicidal act of again planting large
acreage in cotton. That uneasiness
has been..felt in Liverpool for some
time in reference to a decreased sacre-
age goes without saying, and had these
conditions not have existed, cotton
values would have been lower than
they have been; and now, as the end
of the season is at hand and, the
staple is substantially out Of the hands
of the farmer, these gentlemen, who
have represented the bear element for
so many months, while cotton was
moving in large Volumes now resort
to this ruse Of running values up, SIM
ply as device to INDUCE the farmer to
plant more cotton than possibly he In
tended. 90, ~; :
It warn the farmers of the: South
that this rise in the last few days is
fictitious; lis the product Of c6nspirai
cy of the men to. Systematically rob
the producer of his legitimate gains.
1t is aAdelusiop and a. snare-to. catch
the unsuspecting farmer; to inHelgle
him into the tolls of another three
million surplus, so that they can bear
down values lower than last season
with an increased surplage on hand,
Let the people beware y It's a bait
ito catch those who will bite. There IS
no legitimate reason, shoWn for the
rise. in cotton values. The production
has exceeded the most, sangguine sang !! ex-
pectatiou. =
Therefore Whece is the legitimate
cause for this rise, ;f.eotton has. been
selling at legitimate fgures7.. Tt. is
simply the same dc. spider and fly
game, a recurrence af, the farmer and
lie 'bunco steerer,;' and I am: coH
strainedato oxc}aim: How long. Oh
] ord, how long Is it to.be ever thus:
TAT lat our people. are;to. be waylaid and
rSS5bed' of theiE meagre subsance91r:
= Vt deny the proposition and .deiX
Il the e man who:nade it-that any 'maHs
Can produce cotton SlegitimafelS fop \
cents With any reasonable pfofs. and
T stdte' advisedly .ana 1,emphsticaalS
that, today the Southern cotton: grow
er-I mean; literally, the man who
digs the'ground, the unfortunate who
pulls the llcord oyer the mortgaged
mule'-is NOT realizing II cents a day
for for his labor the year round. And,
what is to be the fate of this 1narI II
cotton goes down o. 14*cents this
Ill. which..is not atsal .mpron& bic
viren we recognize the conditions ttl:st
confront:us ana take ,into.. conslGera-
.tiep the fact that we'haa a: most phe:-
pomenal season for. picking our crop
this last season. aad its .&lasssidcati8a
was higher than SSnewqs hardly
any grading lower than5o 5ow, middlang g
.:,"Still, it averaged, under scents, and
though We may make a smal Ier ,crQg!
the ensuing seasen;of. 1893 96, If we
have a rainy OF 'onpr opiious i S5 gather
ing season; cotton in al probability
will grade lower,-apd mayhaP We Will
.Aave1a srecurrence OF the season Of
1881, when we had.a superabundance
of the poorer qualities. We could
then expect the same ,relatiEe., differ:
enee, which must of course result IN
considerably reduced ptarns from the
whole crop. :. ;.
II Invoke the most earnest attention
of cotton growers to. this Refarious
scheme, and address you this letter as
caveat, that you naynot be- delIded
by this wolf in. sleeps clothing, or
in other words this bear In Dull cloth
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