The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-11-07

/. ply to cotton acreage in the spring, an
the amount of fertilizers actually use
under the crop, showing the condltio
II OF the growing crop during the perio
II OF growth Ginncrs are expected {
aid us.
The Association being in p0SscsSlo
II OF these facts and knowing the amoun
: OF cotton to DC produced, based upo
a the most reliable statistics, will be i
= position to fix fair price for ia,
material delivered ut ports. Befor
hNlhG the price, however, we propOs
: TO lind out the true amount of Amcrl
G can cotton required for consumption
$ III Twelve months, and the price of tn,
finished fabric offered with correct in
formation OF amount of cotton to b,
harVcsted-the number of bales re
CURED Tor consumption by mills, til,
price of cotton goods, and it will be ar
easy matter to determine fair price
FOR raw material
TO get just price from the buyer @!
our cotton, it will be essential to fur.
nlsl the supply commensurate with the
demand. This can only be done by
marketing the crop through a longer
period of time and furnishing spinncrs
with stock rs needed. Here is where
we seek and are entitled to the aid of
the banker. Cotton properly ware.
housed and insured is as good security
us government bond. We now have
an opportunity of becoming complete
masters of the situation. There will
be no surplus carried over till next
year. The mills in all parts of the
world are short Of cotton. Never has
there existed a greater demand for cot
ton goods. The mills must have raw
cotton, which will be in our possession,
and if we know and demand its true
value it will be paid The world is now
lace TO lace with cotton famine, if de-
mands keep pace with the last twelve
months. The mills consumed | ,1OO,-
0OO bales during the past twelve
months, made up of 100000 bales
surplus carried over from crop of 1898
and the 5000 900 harvested in 1899.
The latest move has been for the
spinners to combine and shut down for
sixty days, so as to stagnate trade and
depress present prices of law cotton.
The question for you to dctcrmi ne is,
whether you, after knowing the situa-
tion, are prepared to stand and deliver
and be dictated to by organizations
miles away.
Fellow citizens, such is not your his
tory and should not be your policy, but
we should meet organization with or.
SanlZaliOn. For want Of organization
compactly formed you are beng lleeccd
to the great dctrimcnt of your homes
and families.
The cotton seed combination is an
other organization that should DC dealt
with, in the same measure, by united
action and with the same force they at
tempt to use against us. They meet
and agree to give certain price. Let
us agree that we will only sell for
certain price our cotton seed AS il is
now, the poitcncss of Rob Roy is not
even i'll vogue, when they take our
cotton seed.
The sccretarJ,J r.. Blake, then read
the minutes of the last meeting, which
were approved.
MIR. |. II. Mccall of Abbcvillc, was
first to address the char. He agreed
with the objects of the meeting, but
did not see how anything could be done
uelcss the Southern farmers agreed to
control the output of cotton.
Congressman A. G.. I.atimer said he
had never seen anything practical in
point and had heard nothing practical
tonight. Unless there was something
dcllntc in view it is useless to organ
Mr.. Il. M. Cross said there was no
good in an organization unless the lien
law was repealed. This did not create
any sensation.
Mr.. S. H. McGhec, Of Greenwood,
said the farmers could not control the
situation alone. They must nave the
cooperation of the business men and
bankers and he believed even the cot
ton mill men would join them. They
had done so in Georgia and in Green
wood mill president is ON the cxecu-
tive committee. The main object is to
take the crop out of the hands of spec.
ulatOls.
Congressman Latimcr said the mill
men could organize and leave the
farmers to hold the bag.
Mr.. j. "A. Peterkin, of Orangeburg,
wanted TO know what it was they want
cd to organize. He said if the world
wanted 10 100000 bales and The United
States raises only 100000 other coun.
tries would raise the balance aud TINS
country would be that much worse off.
We should raise all the cotton the
world wants, and then organize to buy
the crop. He had studied and studied
and didn't know what ought to be
done.
DIR. j. b. Stcppc, of Spartanburg,
said you could get few men in an or
ganization for personal reasons, for
| political motives, for little notoricty,
but you can't get the mass of the
farmers into 1t. Politics has killed
every organization the farmers have
started. If you can get the farmers to
raise their own supplies you Will solve
the problem. Then They won't have
to give liens and borrow money. They
won't need any bonded warehouses.
The farms of this State are being cut
up into small tracts and run by intclli-
gent farmers. We have an agricul-
tural college to teach the boys to farm.
The cotton mills of this State are con-
trollcd by South Carolinlans, but when
the capitalists up North crack the whip
the Southern mill men yclp. You may