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

| y
In truth, all thoughtful mel
realized ten months ago that
might bear that price. We ha,
no right TO expect otherwise will
the lights of statistics before us.
We planted an acreage and fer
tilted and cultivated for ii, anC
have made crop which will no
justify better prices. There is
relationship between the business
affairs of the world. The producer
depends upon the manufactures
for his market--the manufactured
upon the consumer, and the con
sumer upon his necessities or abil-
ity to wear out or consume.
This is automatic, an every day
fact. There is an lnterdependence
which must be recognized,
We may complain of the ag-
gressions of the money power
complain of a want of cheap money,
want of sufficient circulating
medium, of under consumption.
We may cry for IS to and for
Legislative remedies. These com
plants will not bring relief.
The means of relief are within
ourselves alone. Theories come
from the speculative mind-condi-
tions appear to the individual.
Economics is a general term.
The theorist may treat it broadly.
Economy can be made personal
and utilized in all callings by the
individual.
Five cent cotton is here to stay
in my Judgment. We can trim
our sails accordingly. With the
free use Of fertilizers Ia Ia 'ttine 'tne hills,
impro ed farming implements,
and an influx of labor to the South,
force the conviction that twenty
acres Of land will hence
forth produce ten million bales of
cott65fti annually. This is three
acres less than we have
this year,
Now II Is stated that it cannot
be done, but it will be done whether
or no. How can it be done, some
)ne else can answer. might, but
lot at this writing,
We choke our nelghbor, uncon
,cious of his grip upon our own
,hroats, in a wild scramble for Ia !
)or of a kind and on terms which
i'll results. The laborer
S made to feel by the hungry en-
oloyer that his name on The roll is
III that is or consequence, without
'egard to quality or quantity OF
he service to be performed, and
t is rarely, if at all, commensurate
With the compensation paid him.
Che planter becomes, Or makes
himself, the dependent this
It the beginning of the season.
4ater the error manifests itself,
nut it is too late, AS we begin SO
We must proceed,
If hy some good fortune fair
rop is made, the idea and effort
# saving it overwhelms us, Each
'oll, as 1t opens, must be saved at
nee. Then it is the elf-destroy-
ng scramble for extra piokers"
,egins. We forget, as it were,
hose who made it, or regard them
S secondary and not to be relied
Ipon. AS fields begin to witen,
he possible loss upon the ground
J appalling. The extra picker is
Waiting for the highest bidder.
4aving done naught but 'odd
obs about town" up to now, he
enders his services in o competi-
i've market and finds ready takers
his own figures, which of course,
ear no relation to the value of the
rop he is to gather.
The grower yields, and gives
hirty per cent. of the result of a
ears labor for the mere PICKING
nd PILING OF IT ON THE "TURN
ow." In fact, nine dollars is paid
nus for what nets us less than ;
twenty-five dollars in the markets.
The cropper who makes the cot i
IN is lost sight Of and does half |
-ork, for the extra picker will al t
-ays double the weight of the +
egular hand, even in his own
patch" Result; The non-pro- |
ucer gets the profit that should {
e. The regular hand and land
,rd wonder why they have made
o money. As to this one item.