Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-03-15

formed as TO the production of cotton.
They know but little or nothing about
the distribution of raw cotton among
the spindles of the world and the
consumption OF the finished fabrics
among the civilized nations of the
globe whose peoples buy and wear
cotton goods. The Southern people
are not informed as to the cost of
manufacturing raw cotton into cloth,
although the spinner is well Informed
as to the cost of both the production
of raw cotton by the grower and the
cost of manufacture. The South is
not informed as to the price at which
manufactured goods are sold or the
actual amount of American cotton
required for consumption ip 12
months by the spindles of the world,
while the manufacturers are always
posted as to the price of raw cotton
and the amount of the crop pro-
duced each year. Yet the South,
controlling complete and perma-
nent monopoly of the most valuable
and useful agricultural product
grown, has sa. supinely down and
seemed to be content in only making
the effort to produce, taking no inter.
est in the matter of controlling the
price of her cotton and not even
seeking the necessary information
which would enable Southern people
to even approximately reach an in
telligent idea of the true value of
this great raw material to the nations
of the world who are absolutely de-
pendent on it for clothing.
The efforts of the Southern Cotton
Association will be studiously di-
rected along these lines and in the
further endeavor to secure safe and
accurate statistics of the cotton crop,
from planting to final delivery to the
consumer each year, and distribute
ehio ihAoihoCiOu III tdUuldCeu 10TH
throughout each State, county and
civil subdivisions of it's members, so
that the entire people will have full
and thorough knowledge of every
thing pertaining to the production,
distribution, manufacture and sale of
this great and valuable agricultural
staple. The object of the associa-
tion will be to regulate the market
ing of cotton in such manner as to
maintain the price at the stable fig
ure of 10 cents per pound to the
grower and the united cooperation
of the entire people of the South is
to be enlisted in successfully putting
this feature into practice and perma-
nent operation.
COMPETITION SHUT OFF.
AT ten cents per pound to the |
growers of American cotton there is !
no fear of other materials used in
the production of cloth entering the
markets of the world IS competi-
ton. American cotton has but four
competitors, these are wool, flax, |
silk and foreign grown cotton, neither
of which can be used in the manu-.
facture of cloth and sold against our
cotton SO long as the price of our
cotton does not cost the manufac.
turer more than 10 to II cents per
pound.
The only competitors which ac-
lively enter into the depression of
the price Of American cotton below
10 cents per pound are the over pro-
duction of American cotton and the
bad system of marketing cotton by
the producers which has for so many
years allowed the price to be fixed
in foreign markets. These are the
real, true causes operating in the
markets against us to-day, either of
which can be easily overcome by in
telligent action and united effort in
production and marketing.
The Southern Cotton Association
stands for the immediate proper solu-
tion of these simple problems and
will bend its efforts to secure the
emancipation of the Southern farmer
and its people from the yoke of for
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