The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-12-14
BY j. G. sTRlBLlNo.
Some of Our Objects and Principles

Our objects in combining our forces
Is not to squeeze out of Others an un-
Just tribute of their wealth 20 our cof-
fters, but after feeling the pressure
brought to bear against our unprotect-
ed interest by the unanimous OrganiZa-
tion of all other important tradesmen,
the law of self protection forces us to
abandon our traditional principles of
opposition to all combinations OF capi-
tai and take hold of the God given
forces OF this progressive age in order
to protect that which already belongs
to us, viz: "The full value of our cotton
crop. The staple product of the hon
est labor and industry of the cotton
growers of the South"
The rural mail, the rural telephone
and the rural trolley are effecting the
most remarkable trend of the times
and will soon Ooliterate space and iso-
iation to the farmer which has hereto
lore been the prime obstacle in the way
OF effecting n satisfactory organization
among the farmers.
The farmer of today, who may avail
himself o. the blessings of this electri-
cal age has but to touch the button in
his rural home and drink in from the
fountains the knowledge from all the
bureaus of information of the world
rs quickly as any business man in our
larger cities.
In tho New England and Middle
Western States where the Southern
agricultural retrOgrade commercial
ellen laws" do not exist and the yeo-
manry have better control of their
farms and farming the new era of the
electrical pulse have been felt; the
flow of the country men to the towns
has been reduced from sixty four per
cent in the decade from 1890 to 1890, to
about thirty-two per cent. in 1900.
We solicit friendly business relations
with the cotton manufacturing inter
est We need the cotton mills in our
business near our cotton fields, and we
in South Carolina have fOstered this
enterprise since the insipiency of the
new era, in this business by enacting
favorable laws that released the earlier
mills from taxation for ten years and
many cotton growers are also stock
holders in the mills, but we deplore the
actions OF some of our local mills who
have combined with the speculative
cotton operators in bearing down the
cotton market 10 the direct injury Of
the cotton growers and legitimate man
uf9cturer, and given material aid in de-
m0ralizing and discredit the whole
American cotton interest and trade in
all it's phases.
In the American cotton manufactur-
ing interest with it's four hundred and
thirtytwO million dollars and the
American cotton growers with their
seven hundred million of encumbered
property besides their yearly crop of
! seed and lint cotton worth eight hun
dred million more would come togeth-
er upon q just business understanding
as to an equitable division of reason
able profits to both interests, their
combined wealth Of nearly two billion
dollars, would be sufficient weight to
anchor the whole cotton interest down
to solid foundation, sufficient to
Withstand the tempest and onslaught
of all the "bears and bulls" in the cot
ton market OF the world, who are as
unnecessary in our business as para
sito is upon the back of living ami
NAL
This vast and costly army of demor-
alizing producers between the
producer and manufacturer can be cut
out by the bonded warehouse system
which will make it possible for the
manufacturer to get his raw material
direct from the producer. whose repu-
tation for conservative business fore
bodies violent fluctuations of prices
and puts the whole cotton interest up
on steady and firm foundation,
which insures confidence and benefit to
all the producers, manufacturers and
consumers.
ANY inquiry concerning farmers or
ganizations, stock raising or farming
cheerfully answered through the farm
ers column.