The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1903-08-28
butler Scores Wilson.

NENk4[F s1%DEGS NtiSOus
.l.a. rs Nr-g Orleans Picayuue.
New York. Aug. % General
NJ q Butler. for number of
+, ears United States Senator from
south Carolina, and major gen
-rai during the Spanish war by APP
pointmeut 81 President Mckinley, |
/. I'd the Waldorf Astoria
A reporter asked General But
lsr "a dav NJ ~ had seen state
nent from Secretary Wilson. of
the AYR uiturul Department. con-
corning the advance in. the price
ot cotton
Mes. have seen what was said
to have been the expression of
opinion of Secretary Wilson"
sand General Butler. and | must
think re spoke without correct in
formation Indeed. am bound to
,st that be seemed not 10 know
S hat he was talking about. The
Gentlemen 10 whom he refers as
-amhler=. Mr. Brown and Mr..
Havu-. are not only among the
lo=t reputa ole business men in
.he country. but are personally
E-utlem-uut the highest character
One uf them. Mr.. Hayne, is from
nv own State. aud | think he will
stand fair comparison. as will MI
Brown. from Mississippi, with Sec
--tary Wilson or anybody in Off
-.al I'D business life. | must say
Nus surprised 40 what appeared to
me t1 be very reckless charge,
one which was not justified by the
facts
Thc fact is Brown and Hayne
have done more Tor the producers
lt cotton the farmers in few
months THAN the Department of
Agriculture has done in ten years
Z Was somewhat surprised at Sec
urv Wilson. for be did not APP
\ rrnr to get into q frenzy Of indig-
urion when certain other gentle
m.u iu the West were making ii
corner ou wheat aud corn, which
uchunced the values of these two
commodities. and from which the
TURNER'S got the benefit
Secretary Wilson statements
unmarried br,etiy. | should say,
smmcuuted to an unwarranted
4ud ~ seems go me, rather wanton
zation Of reputable bus
iuea-men doing business in IA legi-
mate and honorable way as com
x,,,,,, ka~ a
oJ-les. apparently the emenation
f Secretary Wilson's rather vast
aCk of information ON what he war
ulkiug about. seems to me about
.il bis yr0uuuciamento comes to-
rs = Brown has long state
nrut in to day 5 Journal of Com
ucrce I'M reply 10 assertions of tn,
financiai Chronicle that the bull
'ique has hnd 10 take - 900 bales
jf European cotton. at l2c pei
round. 81 far, and their difficulties
ere Just beginning Mr.. Brown says
moug other things:
"I wiIi state that the cotton tina
va have received on contract il
New ori, WAS bought at various
lme- aad af various prices. 70
he sake uf illustration. | Will sa,
= HE basis OF g = cents, and i
la- made as difference To us wher
he cotton came from The bear
vid nifty could not get the cottol
this country and had 10 buy
Europe and ship IL back, and
an readily o. seen that the bear
lHvc paid out the difference be
wreu tile price at which they sol
y the cotton. and the price the
save had ID pay for it III Europ,
plus the cost OF shipping it bac
md delivering ~"
What DO you think of the re
renee 10 Mr. Eliison's statemer
rgarGiug Che European mil
stocks being greater than yea
lEor' ue WAS asked.
My opinion IS that the vi,ibl
supply of cotton in the world
the smallest IA proportion to tn
consumption since immediatel
after the Civil War II would /
ridiculous 10 suppose that tn
+ mills are carrying big stocks, {
even az large stocks "a last yea
when ID s claimed that at least
= per cent of the production is eiti
8 -r shut down or running on sho
Is time
The total visible supply {
4 American cotton TO day in roun
Is figures is about eighteen days COZ
/ sumption, and by the end of tn
- month the chances are that il wi
j.. oe considerably lower. We the
: - into September, and it lool
like "a famine. and right on in
October
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