The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-01
iven her a double standard of

given her a double standard of
value IN the cotton plant, cotton
anu coLtOn Seeu, she s,;v1,s oil bo,.
time to cotton alone and refuses
to monetize the cotton seed.
South Carolina needs far more
today the unlimited coinage of
cotton seed into the very best
and highest priced products it
will make than she ever needed
the unlimited coinage of silver.
She has no silver. She has twice
as much cotton seed as she has
cotton.
WHY NOT TEN CENTS COTTON OIL
AS WELL AS COTTON?
The south has fought long,
hard and we'll against tremendous
odds for ten cent cotton. She
has got it. Nearly every man,
woman and child in the south has
been benefited by it, and by the
grace of God she ought to be
able to keep it there till she can
bring her cotton seed up to pay
her one cent a pound more for
every cent pound she takes less
than this for her cotton. If those
powerful interests who want cot
ton cheaper will turn in and help
to make cotton seed worth more
they will be more likely to get it
and with less objection from the
south.
If the south will fight as long,
as hard and as we'll for ten cent
cotton oil and five cent beef cat
tie she will get both, will get two
cents pound, 60 cents a bushel.
$40 a ton for her cotton seed,
equal to four cents a pound of
cotton on her entire crop. Will
not South Carolina lead in this
as she has so often led the south
before?
STATE REVENUE FROM COTTON
SEED.
In order that South Carolina
may effectively guide the cotton
seed industry into more profit
able channels, make it bring the
wealth it should into the State
and herself derive the large
revenue she would get for this
work, something radically differ
ent from both the dispensary
system and the State fertilizer
control will no doubt be neces-
sary, though valuable points will
doubtless be had from the large
fund of experience gained in
both these quarters. The first
step should be a State cotton
seed commission to investigate
the whole situation most thor
oughly and then with all the in
formation at hand, recommend
to the legislature some simple,
practical working plan, which
may be developed little by little
as experience and experienced
workers are gained in this field.
There are both abuses to be rem
edied and public favor to be won,
there is a campaign of education
to be conducted a dotorn,inod
and earnest effort made to induce
or compel the diverse interests
in this cotton seed industry to
work in harmony, at least as far
as the quality of the products is
concerned, with the single end
in view of making ultimately one
of the States leading agricultural
products, or crops, bring a
fair and full price in the markets
of the world without injury or
injustice to any individual or
corporate interest.
4would prefer MOTTO foreshad-
ow the work of such a cotton
seed commission, but as addition
al revenue for the State would
doubtless be the actuating motive
in undertaking this work, it is
perhaps well to state that if this
commission could accomplish nc
more than grade cotton seed &C.
cording to quality, arrange ar
equitable basis for purchase OF
seed by the mills, based upon g
percentage of the value of the
products of a ton of seed, provide
for the pro rating of the SEED
among the existing mills and
forbid the unnecessary duplica.