The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-09-30

an average price in New York as follows
me crop raised in 80. sold At t.22 per
The CROP raised in ,s9s sold at co. PEI
pound.
Average price for McKinley's first two
wears Of prosperity. Gil cents per pound.
or IN average Of IS points. nearly tVo
cents a pound less than under the dis
rressing days OF CleyClands adminlstra-
tion as Senator Pritchard sorrowfuliy
sand. In fact during tho eight years Of
Cleyelard's TWO administrations cotton
sold for a fair price during every sea
son but one. that was 1891 and that year.
the price averaged 81 cents in New forF.
: half cent higher than in 1898, during
McKinley's prosperity.
These figures are all taken from the
publications. OF Mesers. Latham. Aiexan-
der & Co. which are The standard.
don't belia~e the administration has
ANYTHING 10 do with the price Ct COZ
ion. believe il is governed BY the law
or supply and demand. But l may be
ong-Senato Pritchard may Be right
when he argues that the price q cotton
Is affected BY tariff laws. etc. II ne Il
right then The Mckinley administration
is n debt 10 the cotton farmers nearly
ter dollars a bale on all the bales raised
in - and -. for it is that much under
the Cleveland prices of - and IS
So Drotec1ion has done nothing COR the
| cotton grower, and il has done nothing
| for the cotton spinner. The cotton spin
| rcrs never had twentv-fOur as unprOft-
able mOaths as have been the twenty
four months ending with the last day OF
this month. A person may go over Cleye-
LANDS administration and select the worst
- -, ga EpYr-
| anything ike as bad as The past twenty
| four have been. L protection helps
| neither The cotton grower nor the cot
ton spinner. how vain must be Senator
PritchaTd's hope OF carrying this state on
| The protection issue, Protection may
| help bulls and mica. senator Pritchard
| claims that il does. and ! don't claim to
know. But I am confident that there IS
no benefit in protection TO the cotton
grower or to the cotton spinner Their
prosperity depends upon peaceful trade
/ expansion. ana 4 lively foreign demand
| We have seen how the prices o. cotton
ranged nearly two cents higher under
tarin reform, % and sc. than under pro-
lection and Mckinley prosperity in -
and IS. II We consider the purchasing
power Of money during those years GO
and go and the present time ne Will
see IN Il TINS was LlucH greater tl+I lIaH
row. u is probable that cotton would
buy al least 30 per cent more Of the ne
c~essities OF life in 1896, than the same
cotton would now and the price in 1885
was nearly a half cent higher than i is
now. Cotton Is lower and the necessi-
ties Of life, especially those controlled
by the trusts. are higher. Prosperity APP
pears 20 nave come TO the trusts IN
G~tounding measure. but il is 4 delusion
and 2 snare 20 the producers ana spin
ners OF cotton.
I think Senator Pritchard believes he
can make votes by attacking eX-President
Cleveland. Here ne makes a big mis-
take. The time for making votes by
~traducing Cleveland has passed.
Another thing about Senator PritchaTl's
speech struck me as sIrang Il was the
amount Of credit lie claimed for the pas
sag OF laws which he tried 10 defeat.
Two years ago he did his best 10 de-
feat the amendment. Now he reyerently
thanks God that il is the law.
He voted against Confederate pensions
in 1885, and now boasts that he favors
pensions TO needy Confederate veterans,
aud liberal pensions TO desertors.
He boasts of the solidity OF our cur
rency and the safety OF the gold stand
ard. But in 1894. when the gold stand
ard was in danger. he asked that his
friends would put him into the asylum
the first time they heard him advocate
it, etc.
He 3ef-n3ed his vote against Confed-
crate pensions in 1885 because, he said
be did not think the man who owned
500 assessed property ought TO be per
United TO share in the benefit.
He said that in 1891 he voted for the
pension act. I cant find 4 pension act
raised in ~. but if one passed it did not
remove the objection he had in 1885. Il
remained the law. But il was apparen1
hat pensions to needy Confederate sol
hers was a popular idea.
Then the Senator tried 10 wori
If thu idea that. because the
Democratic party had passed ths
amendment. ana made ii impossible
tor the Republican party TO do the
mischief Il has always formerly done
when in power in a Southern State. i
Was now the duty of white people TO quit
he Democratic PARTY and join The Re
II blican party. ! can't see the logic IT
his request.
Whenever the Senator seemed al q loss
or an argument Re went back TO the e
feet Of A protective tariff on bulls and
mica. As a French chef would say. these
seemed 10 b. ,he pieces lie resistance
# his argument"