The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-08-23

Enthusiastic Speeches by -Four
Trained Orators.

getting hold OF the right lines and following
them to the end. The Grange, the wheel. the
Alliance failed because they we're built or the
wrong lines and after all the best pass word,
the best grlp the best sign In the dollar !!
Money Ia not only means to success but II
Is the only means. He stated that some men
doubted the possibility OF an independent
said R That your % Sroher IL aHe viii
you II you don't keep him from 1t. He spoke
Of the New Yorker who said that price did
not speculate in Southern cotton but In
Sou .hern foolt! He said that when the farm
er sGlls his cotton TO the bu! or and the buyer
takes the profit, and the buyer sells to the
broker who takes out bis profit. and the
broker 10 the speculator who takes ont bis
profit and the speculator to the mill which
takes the rest of tee profit there is not enough
left the farmer TO pay the Interest on flop
ear ed IN ole.
Mr.. Smith said that he would rather be
convict with the stripes on than one who
fights the organization inaugurated to help
the farmer.
Mr.. Smith said that We need not worry
ourselves about immigration, that where
there is honey, bees will be found; Make
the country what IL ought to be and we
can't k eep immigration out!
Az for diveraificHtion Mr.. Smith says:
than you can buy and no others. He said
that he could glut the market with two good
loads Of pea vine hay: and should he bring
load OF corn to this market he would have
10 peddle IL on tne streets 10 get rld OF IL.
Not 80 With cotton.
The speaker said that the farmers had no
enemies and that their oppression was due to
organiZa ton on the parts OF every one elae
and no organization on the part of the far
mer.
He was thank full to Sully for breaking the
falacy of &c cotton and thought that noDu-
NJ ent ought TO be erected to him for that one
thing. He served notice on Southern mills
that they must pay the price II they want
the cotton they would no more get IL for
nothing He had no Ill will against the
help the farmer. He sail That the Assocla-
tion had the reips In hand and holding
tight grip at 1912 .epts cotton and II the
mills did not look out the farmers would
make a break and demand Is cents instead
OF 1912 cents.
The speaker said that some one ack nowl.
edged that the Association bad been sue
cessful ard told Mr. Smith that he should be
careful or he would kill the goose that laid
the golden egg. to whom he replied "tbe old
goose ia all right. It's the sun Of gun that
has been stealing the eggs that I'm af:er."
Mr.. Smith said that with cotton as the
basis OF all Southern wealth, the very curren
cy OF the South, and the predominent indus
try OF the world; and the monopoly that the
South has on the staple. the South stands
has everything her own way all she has to do
Is 10 grasp the reins.
During the afternoon Mr.. SIN ith and MIR.
Hyatt organized q branch OF the Southern
Cotton Association here. A large number
Joined and 1t ia expected that a 1ourlshing
Association will be the result OF Fridays
meeting.
The officers of the Association are:
]. Allen Smith. President,
Dave Gillian, Vice President
w. R. Bradley, Secretary,
R. E. Cox. Treasurer.