Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-01-25

[Anderson Mail, january 90. /

Anderson Mail, January 20.
The following is a copy of letter
sent to Theo. III. Price, the great Wall
street cotton bear of New York, in
answer to his circulars now being sent to
the farmers all over the cotton belt. A
number of bis circulars have been re-
ceived by Anderson county farmers:
Theodore III. Price, II Wall street,
New York City-Sir: Your great scare
crow in the shape of circular, giving
your estimate of a 13,50O. 600 bale cotton
crop, together with photographs of large
fields of open cotton, as they were sup
posed to have appeared the 9Th of De-
cember, are now being received by our
farmers. And now, when you remember
that we Southern farmers arc accus-
toned to placing the image of the devil
in our watermelon patches to keep away
the negroes and crows, we trust you will
not be surprised to find your effort to
scare the Southern farmer into selling
his cotton below the cost of production,
that you Wall street gamblers and money
sharks may gobble up millions of dollars
of his honest toll and labor, is abso-
lutely a dismal failure. However, we
hope you will continue to send out your
circulars; this we term missionary work.
But allow us to suggest that you be
more careful and be sure that you send
them to real live men, as the one we got
hold of was addressed to man who
passed to the great beyond more than
! five years ago.
Still, if you should desire to continue
sending your great budget of cotton in
formation to the dead, address few of
them to your Bear friends in purgatory;
perhaps they would be glad to hear from
you. Yes, old fellow, in sending out
your circulars it clinches the fact with
us that we are getting you old "grizzlys"
into devil of a close place; in other
words, we've got you between us and
the powder house, and rest assured that
we are never going to hold up till we get
you close enough to ignite that fur of
yours and blow you into an eternal
froth.
The farmers of the South have risen
in their might aud are standing shoulder
annihilate the power of you Wall street
spectators, who have made your millions
by squeezing the very life out of the
great money crop of our fair Southland
For years and years have you non-pro-
duccrs of the necessaries of life set your
trap to catch the unwary farmer, but
rest assured that your days are num-
bored. Education has put us on to your
damnabl" schemes and concert of action
has placed us III a position to fight you,
and in this fight we'll win or die.
And now, old gobbler of the products
Of honest toll, as to your estimation of a
13,5O0,O00 bale crop, that is only guess
the size of this crop than we do, and a
II onkey knows as much about it as either
of us.
And now, as we Southern farmers
believe in giving the devil his dues, we
are forced to admit that you uttered one
truth in your circular, viz: That there is
something over six million bales of cot
ton still in the farmers hands, and that
this cotton was made to sell and will be
put on the market.
Yes, sir, Theodore, this cotton is in
the farmers hands, and is for sale; but
when you and the other Wall street
gamblers get it for less than remunera-
tive prices, the State of Florida will be
covered in fifteen inch snow on the 18th
day of August, and there will be "nigger'
wool growing in the palm of your hand.
This section of the South is able to
carry every bale of her cotton into the
next crop, and we believe this is true of
all other sections, and should we have
this to do, when we get through cutting
the acreage for this year, if you are so
unfortunate as to be on the "bear' side
of the market at the end of 1905, you will
be d-n glad to get our two million
bale surplus at any old price.
In conclusion, allow us to again thank
you for yonr missionary work just
send on your circulars; we'l distribute
them among some of the cotton mill
men here, who are borrowing cotton
from other mills in order to keep run
ming till some is offered for sale. They
perhaps might serve as narcotic that
! would give them restful nights.
w. l.. Casey,
Secretary Five Forks Union, No. /, of
the f. T.. G. U. of A., Anderson, S. c.,
r. +. ID. No. 2.