Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-12-01
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| Il II Cotton Plant. Is
Idesiro to address the farmer and to
urge upon him tho Importance OF sowing
small grain, HE that pr0yideth not for
his household is worse than ali ;infidel.u
Every Allianoeman can sow enough
wheat to feed his family aud those around
mmN Do not say YOU are too poor, or
that You w. cannot e get money for your
all over this State and they, oan, by their
roller procesg. make MS fine -four as car,
b0 bought from tho mills of st. Paul,
Detroit or any other far away point and
Will be pure. u You can easily obtain a
"miliing rate 10 transit' by which you
oan ship your wliea' to the mills and re-
turn y IN Hour, at o figure that no one
will complain Of being high. rs 81
Your merchant, in almost any town in
this State, will DO willing to advance you
enough money to buy seed wheat and
fertilizers to 60 under 1t. II you arc
compelled to give lion, say it is bad
policy, but II you must do SO, divide
your lien, and put some of 1t on your
wheat Drop and give your merchant some
good, pure -four to sell to those who buy.
The Alliancemen of this State oan and
should be able to sell every pound Of
Hour that Is sold In this State. I hope
! tho day is not far dietant when this will
be done. Arrange to SOW every aore of
small grain In peas, arrange to cut your
pea vines, have hogs, horses and COWS
TO cat them. There will always DO q
market for good beef cattle and fat hogs
and good horses. Be sure to, sow your
own wheat and oats on land that will
"sprout peas" The oat crop in South
Carolina has never boen known to be an
entire failure. They can always DO re-
lied upon to bring you money.
What shall say about cottonP To
the cottontot, will say nothing. But
to the Alliapceman who has children to
educate wish to urge upon them tho
folly of trying to raise 4-cont cotton as q
money crop. Evory farmer should re-
solve to out his cotton crop one-hak and
stick to it. If Mr.. Cottontot will plant
moro just let him alone. Ephraim will
finally break his backer (merchant or
6anker) or else his idol will orumble into
dust,
I recently mot ono of the most intolli-
gent cotton manufacturers in the South,
and he can SOC as far into a brick wall
as you or can. He 1885, tod that ttiis51 NO
would novor be ablo to got tho cotton
farmer to reduce his acreage in cotton !;
that we would not stick to an organiza-
ton, and that in tho noar future we
would be selling cotton for two and q
half and three cents pound. Ho also
remarked that If any men had predicted
tifteen years ago that cotton would soil
Tor four and half conts in 1893, he
would have boon called crank, but
alas, alas such is sad fact.
My reply was that our people could
not raise cotton for 3 cents, and if such
thing should como about, cotton would
bo banished from or fields as completely
as indigo has boon.
l wish to emphasize this fact. Our
hlliancemon are not as faithful to their
| h. llianpa n q tbnU p1,n,,1l 1,o
they must be, before we can obtain
needed relief--and the respect that our
efforts should be entitled to. If the cot
ton farmers were organized and united
and firmly bound by the strong ties of
self-protection, it would not be long be-
fore the manipulation and spoculator
would fall at our foot and call us masters
of tho situation.
l want to sec this situation discussed.
/ wish to urge our sub-Alliances to meot
together, discuss tho subject and pub
lish the result of thoir deliberations in
tho Cotton Plant. We arc too slow
about this matter. Let us DO up and
doing.
Mr.. Editor, desire to call meeting
in Columbia at an carly day of tho exe-
cutivo committee of tho Cotton Growers
Union, whic'' is composed of tho prcsi-
don't of each county union. l desire tho
address of these, and in the counties
where there is no president, 1 hopo some
ono may DO doputizcd to como to said
meeting. In the namo of our fair land
and her prosperity let every community
DO up and doing, and lot us act before
it Is ovorlastingly too lato. Alliancemen,
got back into your subs, and help us
push this mattor to a successful termina-
ton.
The Alliance shouli DO the great right
arm to wield the hammer that is to weld
nj iron every cotton grower into n union
for self-protection. 1t is well-known
that thoro arc thousands of cotton plant
ors who cannot join tho Alliance under
our constitution, but they should meet
us on middle ground in tho Cotton Grow
ers' Union, and all should labor to up
bnild and protect this great industry,
upon tho success of which the happiness
oi millions of homes depend.
Fratornally,
j. G. WnLBoRN,