The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-09-12
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1905.
The Price Is Eleven Cents.


takes long puff from his corn pipe.
':The price is eleven cents per pound"
There is unmeasured force IN that
little word per" If he says "eleven
cents a pound" the buyer will scare
him into taking seven, but when ne
saws eli cts. per lb." and lets his
jaws snap down like shutting down
the lid of an ice box, it seems like
business and it makes the fellow
standing in the yard resting one loot
on the lower front step little ner-
vous. He tries to seem Indifferent,
though, as he observes I'm giving
seven cents for good middling today.
"Then you don't want mine, l reck-
on says the farmer. Here he press
es two fingers firmly against his lips
and spits between them at fly on
the steps about ten feet away. The
buyer moves off; the farmer puffs
again, only asking politely as If he
knew there was no answer, any
thing else?" The buyer comes back
the next day or the next week or the
next year and finds the farmer sit
ting still with his feet on the railing,
putting his pipe. His cotton is II
cents per lb. and the buyer pays it. .:...s
The world wants cotton. The
world has to have it. And it has to-
have more and more every year.
According to a noted authority
speaking at meeting Of the British
Cotton Growers association: last June
100000 bales more are necessary
every year to meet the requirements
OF the worlds increasing population.
The south has practical monopoly
in the cotton growing business. Try
ever SC hard, no one has been able
TO produce it elsewhere successfully.
We must make cotton. We cannot
curtail the production Of it either,
cannot afford to do it. Narrow it
down to its last analysis and it is
as foolnardy to reduce acreage as 1t
IS to burn cotton or. let the boil wee
vii destroy the growing crop. ,What
we want to do is to grow all the COT
Ton we possibly can, open the mar
kets to the world, encourage industry
in the remote corners Of the earth so
that all those who want to wear
clothes will have the money to buy
them as well as the goods ready at
hand, and an overproduction OF cot
ton will be as absurd to talk OF as
as an overproduction Of good sense.
This IS not new doctrine. 1t is not
hard to understand either-except to
the man who has his cotton crop uI-
der lien before it is made; and he
doesn't want to understand it, tor it
will make him blue It makes some
of them want to kick themselves,
TOO. But both these classes are pass
ing away, and the old farmer we re-
fer to above is fast coming in to
possess, first himself, then his own
cotton, then the earth.
This :Asheville cotton convention
seems to have hold OF the fundament-
al truths. and if they show throughout
the practical wisdom that seems now
to possess them, with the cooperation
Of the farmers-they already have the
cooperation OF the press-cotton
will yet be king in the south.-Char-
lotte Observer.
The above illustrates the situation
as we'll as anything we have seen on
ti,e subject The cotton association
which met at Asheville, n. c., last
week fixed the minimum price OF cot
ton at II cents and the effort will be
to keep the farmers from selling the
present crop for less than that price.
If all the farmers were in the posi-
ton of the gentleman described by
the Observer it would be easy but
unfortunately too many Of them are
NOT in position to hold their cotton.
They ought to be and could in this
section if they only would and the
Lo-