The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-05-12

! progress says: Inc supremacy WHICH
| the-South possesses in the markets OF
the world as a cotton producing c0un-
try, there is reason to believe will new
er be forfeited. The natural facilities
OF the South for the production OF this
great cotton crop, aided and directed
by intelligence must assure for all time
tue supremacy OF the Southern States
aa the cotton producing region Of the
world" In the same line Of thought
| Secretary Mccullough in his fiscal re
ports refers to the active movement of
the crop OF 1865 and the good prices
commanded, drawing largely on the
! old country assaving the United States
| from q threatened financial wreck
Nc. Ed ward Atkinson, the statisticiap,
in a paper read before the Cotton Mau
utacturers' Association Of New England
says: The Appalachian Chain gath
| ering moisture from the Gulf Stream
and spreading it over the fertile fields
of the Southern States has fixed our
eupremecy IL cotton production"
Ii other authority is desired, I refer
! the Centennial sketch of the cotton
| trade of the United States by that dis
| tiuguished cotton statistician, Mr..
| Thomas Ellison, of Liverpool; to Bull
| letin No 9, U s Department of Asri
/ cuIture; to Production and Price Of
| Cotton for Oae Hundred Years, by
| James l. Watkins; tho Annual Cot
! ton Movements and Fiuctuati0n, BY
! Latham, Alexander & Co., of Wall
! s rect. N8w York; tue Encyclopaedia
! BRITANNICA, article Cotton, by Thomas
| Ellison. ant to any Standard c0nmer
cial geography. After reading these
authorities anyone will be convinced
shat any person, syndicate, corpora
ton OF Government owning the cotton
crop Of the Southern States could and
! would control the price of cotton.
! Under the plaa that I have suggested,
the Government can b c.m9 The owner
OF Southern crop with a handsome net
| revenue attached, and under condi
items that SUI round Us it is but patri
otic that we exercise this great c m
"a: rcial power to save the great indus
try and our cCuntry from wreck end
ruin. If the Belmont Morgan Roths
childs syndicate had the same lever
power they would crush US in twenty
four hours, and is it but right that we
use il as an instrument to buy what
gold may be necessary fer our pur.
poses, 30 enforce international bimatall-
ism, 10 extend and protect cotton man
ufacturiI & and to regulate and pro
tect cotton production. Every other
nation In the world has legis-
lated in the interest of cotton except
this government, they have done so
for the purpose Of making themselves
competitors with Us in the production
OF cotton; with ali their governmental
assistance they have signai!y failed
! and have finally resorted TO gold mono
/ meJailism so as TO purchase u cotton
at their price, and the time has come
when the Government soould come TO
the rescue o. the American cotton
crop whou IL is PLAIN that by doing so
tdey can make 1t TO the advantage Of
! she Government 0y making c)5Jou the
controlling factor of 1he worlds finance
and commerce and bless humanity by
restoring bimetallism anu thereby
! e~znancipate labor, production an1 com
! merce.
LIST the public may be mjelead IN
believing that regard an International
agreement necessary TO thu SUCCESS of
free and unlimited coinage Of silver ct
! TIC ratio of 16 to /, l will emphasize
! that / believe IN independent gction
| without delay, 01d the above plan car
! rjsd out in decail exempt ti9s our ability
| to 80 set. Ther8 are Other reforms on
! the otaer side IF free oliver that l be
liave in, and it is q useless waste Of
tine 70 discuss .h~m until we u~0shaoEie
! labor, production and commerce from
the dominating Influences Of gold. The
| patriotic il aIsnoes of Amorica need
| to be- ~marsbaIled ana focalized under
| .li3 available issae0i free silver is 20 l
| &c -ouGs' the comnan enemy Of human
| lJy ana civilization hsfore we can So
rIoisly contemplate the many other
! reforms needed II the f-c4I ard eco
| nome 1dus-ls ration II CIR Glveru
meu5.
And the Southern staple IS tho avail
able weapons wi5a wsica 51G0uo5 mono
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