The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-12-21
The BOIL WEEvIL.
Action OF the Cotton Growers
Convention Last Week.
SEVERAL GOOD TALKS.

Thorough Organization Of All Cot
ten Growers to Cooperate
With the Government in
sighting the Weevil.
Last week the National Cotton Con
vention met at Shreveport, La, with
ever one hundred delegates present
REPRESENTING the cotton producing
States and others. Many able speeches
have been made by the delegates anc
visitors. Gov. Blanchard, in welcon'
ing the delega tes, said:
WOULD BE a CALAMITY.
''The question that has brought
you here to hold this convention is
not one affecting merely the cotton
growing region OF the South. It at.
feets intimately and directly the
whole country. II the cotton crop OF
the South is to be destroyed by this
pest-if the growth OF cotton as g
commercial product il the South is to
csase as the result Of the invasion OF
this insect-it will prove world.
wide calamity. 1t viii affect ruin
ously lSrge commercial interests; 1t
will affect disastrousiy every conner
eial interest and every line OF traue
the world over. More, perhaps than
any othey sirgle product OF the soil,
cotton permeates and adjusts anG r. 6
ulates the balance Of tie worlds
trade.
s'Its culture and harvesting, its
preservation for the market, its trans
portation to market, its MARKETING,
its manufacture and the sale CT It's
fabrics give employment to millions
OF people in our own country. Its
Transportation abroad gives employ
uent to many Thousands OF ship
building and seafaring men, and It's
manufacture Into cloth in foreign
lands, and the sale OF such manufac-
lures, give employment to millions OF
men and women there.
'As merchanssbie product, it is
well-nigh indispensable to the worlds
trade. But more than this. The
continued growth Of coteen in these
Southern States SET ms ABSOLUTELY IN
dispensable C the convenience and
comfort, aye! even almost to tie ex-
istence itself, OF tie people OF the
world. In tie far greater part the
people OF the world depend on cotton
fabrics with which to clcthe them
selves.
OUR COTTON NEEDED.
Their reliance is cn the Southern
States Of the great American Rspoo-
lie for that which clothes thtn, for
here in the South we have the practi
cal monopoly Of the growth OF the
cotton plant. Great effort and vast
expenditures Of treasure have been
made to develope its growth In othe!
regions OF the worlds surface, but
without success.
"The cotton in the world grown
outside the United States has scarcely
an appreciable effect on the cottor
market. The eyes Of all are on the
South's cotton. What is the Ameri-
csn crop going to be? What the
price it viii likely bring? These are
the questions men ask OF one another
the world over.
''The South, gentlemen OF the con.
vention, Is the clothier OF tie world.
Let its crop OF cotton fail for three
years consecutively and the people OF
the world will go in rags and naked
ness. Suppose, now as threatened by
this pest Of the boil Weeyil, it falls
permanently: and what will the peo-
Die do for clothing? Wool and silk
and ranie fabrics will not go round,
as staple articles OF clothing, to more
shan a third OF the worlds population.
Are the people to 60 naked?
''Thst is not too broad a question
the truth and say this: we tried for
many years to live in Mississippi and
share sovereignty, and contnion With
the negro, and wesaw our Institutions
crunbling, We saw the civilization
that our iorefsthers had fought f'r,
passing away, and the law Of self
preservation being the hast law, We
observed it. We rose in the majesty
highest type Of Auelo-Ssxcn man,
hood, and took the reins OF govern
ment cus OF the hands Ct the carpet
bsgger and negro. aud, SO help U;
God, from now on we will never share
any sovereignty or comiLion will
him again"