The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-03-04
COTTON rs KING.
30 Mo25 Low COTTON SAYS aE
Gathered.

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Gathered.
The following letter which we ciiE
from the Augusta Chronicle on t'l'
cotton outlook will be read "i0il i!''
tereSt by the farmers anc otheES ~
the South: =, .,,,,.
have been only three men, 50 hlSto'
rians tell US. that have combined the
soldier. statesman and tinancier in
one-Julius Caesar, born 100 years be,
fore Christ: George Washington, born
in 1882: Napoleon Bonaparte, born IN
1869. And all Of these men left an
impression upon their times that can
never be efaced. They Cid more for
human rights and constitutions!
liberty than the balance of great men,
and vet none was king. 1t is said
Of Caesar before he was aSsaSSlnateo
al the foot Of the statue Of Pompey'
that while the crown was offered him
three times and the last time pushed
gently aside, l remember him only y as
Caesar who paused on the brink of the
Rubicon and uttered these immorta!
words: ''veni. vidi vici," and today,
while neither Of these illustriGus men
was ever crowned king. there is a
king today in the south who rules tne
world. and he has said ''venl vlal Wei
and NV name is King Cotton.
S~NH~ -
Marius sitting on the RUNS o. CaE-
thage is not more pitiable sight tran
an old Bear sitting on bale OF cottcn
and a sheriff selling him out. Ana
now let me tell you, North, South,
East and West, England, France
Russia, Germany and the balance OF
mankind, you will never get the cot
ton we make again at what you nave
been paying. Your Bustons, your
Beers and your NeilS' days are over.
The south is coming forth IN her
grandeur and her glory with prosperity
laundering from every mountain top.
from every vale and dell and the Slorl
Gus re- frain Cotton is King. is
heard o'er the land.
England may talk If planting cot
ton in Africa. South Africa is the on
" part OF Africa's vast domain OF
l1,36O,000 statute square miles tnat
is worth continental for cotton
The Egyptian cotton raised along the
Nile is confined to a small territory,
and the cotton raised in Russia IS
short in fibre and can't be spun un-
less mixed with other cotton OF long
sssSse- The cotton talked OF IN CUBA
by Clark Howell is farce. NO coun-
try growing a stalk as large as a tree
can make cotton. the climatic conol-
tions are too tropical. The cotton
planted in South America, IN Mexico.
doesn't nateriallZe.
The United State with over three
million statute square miles has about
sone her limits aad you will never see
over eleven million bales OF cotton
raised again in the south.
Suppose, then, over eleven million
bales were raised (say twelve million),
it could not be gathered. The south
vii, never again gather twelve mil
lion bale crop. simply because tne
labor is not there 70 gather It. Inc
old time negro is dying out, and the
Young buck coming forward educated
amt worth q. cu>s as farm hand
totally unavailable as laborer. Ihe
statistics show that whenever you
educate a negro. you spoil a gooo
farm hand. He no longer desires &C
pull the bell cord over mule. He
wants to teach school or preach, anc
besides, there are hundreds of avoca-
tions opening up 10 the daily toller N
our country-turponuine farming
saw mills, factories, railroads. Our
Southland has made more progress IN
the last ten years, than IN two de-
cades past, and these institutions are
paying good wages and ready cash.
With the boil weevil in Texas,
thousands of acres OF land devoted tc
peach culture in the south, the popula-
tion of the country by far outgrowlne
the production Of the country, and the
conquest of the Philippines, ana Eng
lands inroads into Africa, is bringing
into the folds of civilization vast
horde of people who went about cloth
ed With a simple fig leaf until lately,
who now wear clothes. | was told
while in Augusta during my last visit
that while Augusta was quoted al
holding about forty thousand bales OF
cotton, there in reality were only
about fifteen thousand bales cotton
for market, the balance is lnmans
and others, not for sale, but to deliver
on contracts.
Now there is one thing clearly
dem, nstrated to my mind-thaJ the
south never will make twelve million
bales-if she did the labor is not here
to gather it, and what is not picked by
January lst, will never be picked. And
again the top crop will never be again
factor. AS my friend Josh Doughty
told me, Dan Bowles had 26 acres OF
the prettiest and forwardest second
crop ever seen.- 1t was the pride OF
the mill men around Augusta, and
the cotton ractorS gazed long and
lovingly upon the large unopen bolls
that were destined to die unborn.
The beautiful soft, silky-white locks
were never to be kissed by a southern
sun, and 1 am told that while the
boys were dwelling in rapture over
Bowles's crop, Dan, who is sharp as
he is clever, and being very democra-
tic in his ideas, offered the crop for
one bale, and the truth is, it made
but one.
The price Of ten cents cotton has
made a wonderful difference in the
situation. There were at least 5000
bales sold in the last few days il
Augusta and with what is now to sci
viii put in circulation in Augusta
nearly quarter OF million dollars
more, as this cotton vas bought al
about cents. I want to pay d compll