The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-01-15

ttt1Lo dtN VAVtl}AlOllh WHO utNlN lli
II "breakers," but they are TOO few
1 But SO we are with five cent G
4 ton. We domake it and will con
b tinue TO do so, The question is
how to do it proftably. Their
T. are many ways Of making it pro
l titable to the grower, even a
t that price, which if suggested
! might be charged as chimerical
3 and they might be, at particular
r juncture.
The times, the trend Of indus
trial thought, the necessary meani
are not in tune for the change OF
role which we will soon have tc
play.
One of the wisest men of Mis-
sissippi, splendid economist and
q successful business man, has of
ten insisted to me that five cent
cotton would be boon to the
South if it stayed at that figure
long enough. 1t would send the
producer to his own crib and
smokehouse for his supplies, and
largely to his own fold for work
stock. This done, the millions of
dollars employed in advances of
money at high rates of interest,
and for supplies ON crops, would
perforce seek other channels for
investment, thus leading to manu-
featuring industries in our midst,
40 home consumers of our raw
staple.
| am not sure but that he is
right, though it looks hard. Seven
dollars per bale can be saved to
'cile producer at present prices if
the South were dotted with even
spinning mills near the cotton
fields as compared with a foreign
export in the raw state.
Thus ten million bales means
seventy million dollars saved. The
expense to the grower is not IN.
CURED IN putting his cotton into
bales. We foot the bills of GET
ting it to the New and Old Eng
land spinner, independent Of the
tare of six per cent, for bagging
and ties,
The road from seeding" to the
spinner is strewn VII along with
leakagos at the expense of the
grower.
Circumstances will soon compel
the grower, in his wild rush to get |
rich in a season, with buoyant |
hope and generous credit stEmulat
ing him, to stop and reflect, to
calculate costs and see what hurts.
Why should there not he a more
generous thoughtfulness Of the
common veal among the cotton
groweTss Why not get nearer
together and take hold of the busi- |
ness end of the matter in consulta-
ton and discussions
This is the object and aim of the
Cotton Growers Protective Asso-
citation. 1t has struggled for years
for existence and recognition, only
to receive ridicule and excite the
of those who should be
devoted to its interests.
No; we are not quite ready for
a change yet. Five cents or
less for cotton fora series of years,
will produce realization of the
true situation, then necessity will
work the changes needed.
The effort at deliberate mechani-
cal reduction of acreage, just for
its own sake, will not prevail.
Cotton growers are not true enough
10 their neighbors or themselves,
It must come with a loss of credit
and from eompulsion; the all
powerful force of NECESSITY. We
must first put to other uses the
reduced as a matter of
vital necessity, then plant the bal
lnce in cotton.
Reduction of acreage must be
not from "dictum.
am aware that this article is
1t treats of no particu-
ar subject in great field of mat
er. / have only attempted to
ouch upon a number of points,
which if properly and competent
y treated, would require volume
o elucidate. w. w. STONE.
Greenville, Miss, Dec, Is, 1897.
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