Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-04-05

determined Wnetner the wave OF
prosperity that has passed over the
country shall continue or whether the
South will be facing financial disaster
inside Of eight months
SHOULD CONTROL PRICES.
UP to the present time every at,
tempt to produce cotton anywhere
else has been failure We have the
only country that will produce it, and
there Is no reason why we should not
control 1t and fix the prices.
But you can't handle the cotton
crop as 1t is being handled in the
South now You should not turn it
over to the street buyers-that Is not
business. You are paying the sala-
ries of these men yourself This sys-
tenn is costing you millions of dollars
every year that ought to go lin your
pockets. Every cent that it costs to
get your cotton o marke is charged
against your cotton and you pay the
freight.
Why, the cotton mill people are in
this movement They want to see
cotton at staple price. They are
mot only talking, but they have put
money in 1t. Not only the cotton
mills, but the Bankers and the cities
land the cotton factors and the mer-
chants and all classes of business. men
lin the South are getting interested in
the proposition. ntF rr.gF
The Southern Cotton Association
is not class proposition. 1t is big
enough to take every man in who
wants to help us win this fight There
L. nn no., ftfct haf.raan ,to II, opu limo
of business in the South and there
never will be. f,...,..
The cotton company is the result
of the New Orleans convention. We
REALIZED that we had this surplus Of
100000 bales and that the Southern
people should take care of it, and
that to do so 1t would have to be
held Our plan is to get up stock
company of S10,OQ0,0O0 But we are
going to watt until May before ~
begin this. We can't tell until then
whether the acreage is going to be
4 reduced and unless 1t is reduced we
won't ask you to hold bale five
minutes.
Another solution of the cotton
problem is to get broader markets for
our cotton There are 500,000,00O
people in Asia who ought to be wear
ling our cotton on their backs Get
the world to consuming 25000,000 in
stead Of 10000.0o0 bales
The farmer who doesn't reduce
ibis acreage is an enemy to his coun
try as wen as to himself think that
Ithis is one time the American farmer
lis going to live up to what he says.
They are going to- reduce their acre
age, They have held their. cotton
since December 8. and the value OF the
surplus they have held has increased
25,000,000 This fact has not only
4urprised the buyers and spectators,
but It has received their commenda.
ton.
HOW TO GET 1Oo.
re we make but 100000 bales OF
tcotton this year we can sell it for &C
lIf we make another 13,00000-bale
crop we can not get more than Sc for
lit 1t ought to be higher than &c,
Consul Smyth in England writes that
1.-THE Lancashire spinners are organic
hing to keep American cotton Within
l12c per pound. They are afraid it
will go to f5c.
Ihere never nus peen t9hri q uS
|mand for cotton goods. Hold your
cotton, reduce your acreage and
learn how to market your product
When you do learn how to market 1t
you will make net profit of $780,
100000,
Morgan spurns Art Treasures
New YORK; In lot OF Abandoned
goods to 70 sold on April a AT the
public stores is painting OF COW
consigned to sPlerpont Morgan, the
Trust King Of America" but Which
I was never claimed by the banker The
\ government appraisers have Waited
/ 4hi ,,,o,lr ~ art or e5