The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-10-04
COTTON.

4 Early in the beginning of this seasol
when cotton was selling for the loves
price it had ever reached in the histpr.
OF its production in America, we tool
the position that it was and would con
time to be the main reliable money
and profit crop OF our section. M
matter what it's price or how the yielt
may vary from year to year this asser
ton must remain true. The old say
ing chat the world is bound tc have
our cotton" is and ever will remain ar
undisputed fact. The cotton belt IN
the temperate zone, although 1t ex
tends around the entire globe, is toe
densely populate d in its eastern half te
have extensive areas devoted To cotton
production, just as it is impossible to
raise stock by grazing. The lands
must be given to food stuffs to sustain
the teeming millions of human life. In
the torrid zone, where extensive prim-
eval forests and abundance OF lands
exist, the fibre of cotton, like all other
vegetable growths of that region, are
prone TO rankness CT growth, produc-
| ing coarseness of lint not SO well
suited to the finest manufacturing puf-
poses as our temperate zone product.
Hence we must for many generations
to come have the advantage of loca-
ton, and the area for expansion which
will be a boon to us and our posterity.
The only nproblem for us to solve.
which we are doing, is to produce the
crop as surplus, so that it will be a
matter of clear revenue, no matter at
what price it sells. The fact that we
produced about 100000 bale crop
last year which seemed TO appall the
commercial and planting world and
yet the present crop is bringing double
the past seasons is refutation of
over production. All the Dations of
the earth can raise food stuffs of var
ious kinds to feed their population,
but the production Of clothing is re-
stricted to limited area by nature,
which no art or device of man can sub
vert. When we look at a map of the
world and see China and japan with
their untold millions, Russia, CONT
mental Europe, Great Britain and the
north half of our own great country, |
all literally alive with humanity, to
say nothing of the rest of the world, |
ami realize that they must all be clad |
with garments of many kinds, and that
not stalk of cotton will grow where a /
great bulk of these people live, we may
feel assured we have cinch on them.
for they will all have clothes. God
has certainly given us the Eden of the
earth. We have badly abused this
and benifieent gift. Fresh
from his hands, our lands were rich,
and profitable. We laid
our vandal hands upon it, robbed it of
its essence in growing one crop and
its lint, seed and oil to other
lands. We neither fed the land or
ourselves, but unlike the dumb land,
when our hungry vitals made demands
,pon us we called valiantly for food
rom abroad. We spent our time 10
luxurious ease and our substance in
'iotous living, until outraged nature at
asst, as she ever does, called halt.
cotton held MS up in our erroneous
course all these years and it must be
,ur redeemer now, under the new re-
.ime. Let not the bitter experiences
If the past go unheeded and unprofit-
bile. nor let the present golden har-
est and damaging prosperity ''dczzle
'ur heads" nor warp our judgment or
ction. Let us now and forever, come
veal or woe. resolve To feed our fami-
les and stock from our farms, never
ell another cotton seed, nor cultivate
'oor land. and make every pound of
otton we can, ana the world will
tand amazed at our prosperity. Let
is now utilize our profits from the
resent wind fall of prices in liquidat-
ng our Indebtedness and once being
n an ascending grade never permit in
offence or debt to SHIFT our course in a
outrary direction. Burnt children
ught to dread the fire."
liz some high ATTITUDES successful
arming is carried on whore the earth
) frozen solid for depth of hundreds