The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-10-25
SOME PLAIN FACTS.

HVAN = IA AIN y ~ 2hs
Why Cotton Should bs Eeld fer
Higher Pcic5S.
An Official Address to the Farmers
From President E. D. Smith
Ueslity Will Bring success.
The Southern Cotton association IS
an organization OF, by and Tor the
people. It is not fer tie few but fer
ahe many, not for the farmer alone
but for the merchant, professional
man, mechanic and laboIer, for every
cne who makes living where cotton
grows.
TIE objects sought are manifold
and Ear reaching; among them is the
establishment CT system beth in pro,
duction and marketing, thereby Great
;rg condition conducive o. fair and
renumerative prices. u promote
manufacturing where cotton grows,
to the extent Ct ouc own ps2p.e sell
ing the finished p-odCcs instead OF
sending two thirds cf our raw mareT-
ial out OF the country. But the ined-
iste anxiety OF the S c. :. Is thai
cotton this year should oTi 6 the far
II cents per pound, the price set by
the association.
That the farmers are not getting
this price is 40 proof that the aSso
ciaticn and other organizations made
mistake in estimating the value OF
cotton, but it does prove that tie as
sociation is timely sDd tbs wcrk is
was created to DO is an Imperative
necessity.
It's weakness is apparent rather
than real; its success under ths cir
cumStacces is phenomenal. Without
it's powerful iDhuance cJtton today
would be selling at as low e price as
at any tine last year. Never liz the
history OF cotton has ten psr cent sur
p:us blended with a succeeding crop
without the price running lew TIL tie
farmer had sold out. We are weak il
proper tion as business men and far.
nerS are unenliSted in our clmmcn
cause, and we will grow "a s5rergrh
in proportion IS the people in corton
growing communities unite with US in
defense Of cur own rights and interests.
We have allowed conditions to on-
tain that robbed Sl2 cotton c-uluies
annually OF 5000, 600, 900 that rightly
belonged to them, and the loss OF two
cents pound this year means 800,
0c0, 900 gone forever, leaving empty
store buildings AID paraly Esd business
tc that extent.
There are reasons Why The farmers
are not gattiEg II cents.
The farmers always distinctly re.
nenber the experiences CT the yea:
before.
Now two years tas ia1nler sold on a
raisicg MARKET and as:eI sach sale &c
regretted that ae did cot hold his cot.
ton q little 'oGgsc, and resolved not tc
be caught that way again. So last
year to profit by his late experience
re was disposed to st Us cotton gin
ned and then net be Il hurry TO s:,ll,
Then when the statistical conGlticE
showed an Emanse surplus be was
caught in the aWtu; avalanche Of fall
ing prices; and be don't Jet rea;:z
shat last year prices were good for 81
long a time, sinp;y because he was
conservative instead Of q pteCiIitst'
seller. Remembering tee good price!
during the eariy weeks last yea: anc
The trap 5nat crippled hin, Re resol
YES TO be the early bIo, With tie re
suit that at this year 8 greater PSI
cent. OF tbs crop is already marketed
than i any season CT the past, anl
ahis b?scdsd with tie shrunken Skele
y5n Ct last years surplus, in SO short
4 tire folHs con:oica@ion tha'
would break down any market, Whs'
sver TIE coaconlr.nt c-nditicnl
might be.
Relplrg aais condition tie nsr
chant nsl,.s .4s norey and the far
mer wants TO psy aS soon as pcssioit
and while cur bankers are willing t.
:xserd good papers and TO grant fur
5ner accommodations, yet merchant
and farmer alike have had 50 many
| bitter lessons that they hesitate t
drop moderate certainty for a promi
sing uncertainty.
AS things have always been, this
position Of merchant and fa-ner i:
not unreasonable.
Heretofore no concerted effort h2:
obtained to make the owners a party
to the trade when our farm products
are to be priced.
Heretofore no thoroughly organizsc
work has bsen done to get the .statis
5icsl situation for the farmers use il
time to benefit the farming com
munity.
Heretofore no interested organiza
5ion has been strong enough TO in'
huence market conditions to favor the
farmers in time to benefit him.
Heretofore all has been uncertain
guess work, but this year the status
tical situation is well in hand.
When the first bale this season lock.
ed back over the past year, it saw
that IL, 100000 Of its brothers f:ad
been laid upon the shelf by the fats
hand CT consumption, i. looked to the
future and saw the dieass spreading
in new and wider fields, through
Japan, China, Russia and the world
including the survivors fewer thai
1000, 900 would be thrown out te
fall before tie dread destroyer ~ho is
eager and anxious to consume ,, 000,-
600 more.
Farmer, is not 80 bale WORTH
looking after?
Merchant, is not so per celt in.
crease Of business worth looking after: