The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-11-20
Common Sense.

The honorable ambition oil every
man should go to develop his family
by the pursuit OF some honest avoca-
tion. There are q thousand. One man
follows mining, another losses wood or
shOvels coal for a railway engine. AT
the South hundreds Of thousands adopt
farming and largely plant cotton. 1t
is now estimated that The Southern
crop will reach eleven million bales.
In our own country less than three mil
lion bales are manufactured and the
other eight million bales must find
manufacturers abroad. Up to this mo-
ment this surplus has gone mostly to
Liverpool, whence it finds its way to
the large spinners and thence up and
shape of cloth. In the same way our
friends in Minnesota and Iowa have Of
wheat q surplus of three hundred mil
lion bushels, and of corn generally
largely in excess OF this amount and
the people of Germany, France and
England are necessitated to buy them.
They must have bread and they must
have meat. What we have stated are
simply facts. In the meanwhile the ques-
tion is constantly raised and argued
who and where is the price OF cotton
fixed? And the question may with
equal propriety be asked who and
where is the price OF the o,ner great
staples fixed? We think that the great
centres of consumption fix the price,
and the dullness or sharpness of the
demand largely has to do with it.
A thousand years agolsws were pass
ed to prevent what is called "engross-
ing" or buying up provisions and hold
ing them for q high price. In com
mon with the million cotton ~raisers,
some rich, but mostly poor, we would
hn hpnnGttph and rnininp to cao ON or+aof
staple sell at a remunerative price.
But We still believe the supply does and
will largely regulate the price. Corn
to-day constantly advances because it is
gone abroad hat the only source Of
supply, (the great middle West) is
short. Mote that the South is the
only present source of our great supply
of cotton.)
What is TO be done? Now England
with thirty millions people, must buy
every mouthful of her bread, and she
will rot try to feed them at home, but
will continue to run her machinery and
sell her goods and buy her wheat and
beef.
On the Continent, in Germany, Rus
STA, and France. they will double their
cereal and food crops, because they
have the land and they can make them
cheaper than they can buy. Common
Sense.) Then the people of France
and Italy who grow the mulberry and
raise the silks and spin the ribbons will
find that the people of the West and
maud for their gimcracks is not sharp
aud they will grow corn, potatoes,
wheat and turnips where the mulberry
trees stood. They adapt themselves to
circumstances by the laws of ''common
s%cnse," and make themselves indepen-
dent. And in the meanwhile, every
individual is largely dependent upon
himself, his w judgment and discre-
ton. And thus we reach the conclusion
that, the Southern people as q whole,
and as composed of individuals, must
decide what is best under conditions
and take the chances Every man is
called upon, to get all the Information
and advice he can and at last fall back
upon his own good common sense"
And when he gets his cotton ready and
needs the money he must sell. And so
the French woman must sell her rib
bons and her bon-bons. the work of her
hands.
~
The lien merchants are getting i'm
daily poor stock, etc, for returns of
what they advanced to the farmers.
AS no crops were made i'm this section
this year there will be idle land for the
want OF ~cultiVators next year. Many
farmers are arranging to move to
town and cities where there are cotton
mills and other employment.-Cheraw
cor. News and Courier.
This is a twice told tale-infact it is
SO old as to have IN ancient liishlike
SMELL" The remedy, too, is plain and
has a thousand times been blaZoned.
Every farmer in the State should have
gathered enough wheat in June to fur
nish bread for his family until next
June. While this has been an unfa-
vorable corn year, enough grass and
peavine hay, if saved, have been grown,
to carry the stock till the Spring crops
are ready for the blade. The farmers
OF Chesterfield are to blame, we fear,
and n third of n crop of cotton would
have paid for everything bought-al-
lowing that they had their bread and
meat.
George McDuhie, a great Statesman,
a great farmer, q great lawyer and the
greatest orator, when Governor, sew
enty years hgo, In a message to the
Legislature, delivered a great Agricul-
tural address, and urged the farmers
OF this State to raise at home what
they needed for consumption and not
buy from abroad. The policy was pur-
sued up to 1861. If we can't raise
enough to live on, the hy-up-the-creek
whatever that may bel Politicians
in their apt speeches next Summer
should hush up about "Our Grand Old
State"
The merchant, every crack, would
rather deal with the farmer who can
buy without a lien.
Xxx
On His Good Behavior.
Like a good school boy, for examina-
tiOn Uny tho ppaSidapt hoe ,yool1l ri.