The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-03-03
HELP THE CAUSE.
In Sixty lays More the South Will
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III the Merchants Continue tho Ad-
| vances TO Farmers Upon Insur-
ance Receipts All Will DO Well.
The affairs Of the cotton farmers OF
the south are in q critical condition
just ncw. Mr.. e. D. Smith, president
Of the South Carolina Cotton assocla.
tion, said Friday that IL the next 60
days can be tided over the fight will
be won. The farmers are organized
and will stick. The thing now neces-
sary Is for the merchants to stand by
the farmers
This Is not a movement CT the
farmers alone, he says, but of the
whole southern people. 1t will bring
into the south millions of dollars
which will be distributed and will
benefit all the people. Therefore it
Is to the interests Of the southern
mercha Mt to advance to the farmer,
even II the latter has not sold his last
years crop and is bo.d:ng for an ad-
vance. 10 force this cotton on the
market would be suicidal to the in
terests of the people of the south.
lie therefore begS the merchants to
make advances from their stores ts
the farmers who are still holding .azS|
ton. The merchant MAJ. Secue9Sin-
demnity by having the cotton in.
sured and placed in warehouse In
such way that he will get out of it
all that the farmer owes him when
the o)tton Is eventually put up for
sale.
Another matter to which Mr.. Smith
called atten ion Fridy is the misun.
derstanding which prevails In regard
to the reduction In the use Of fertil-
zers. He declared that it would be
an unusal mode OF procedure to agree
arbitrarily to reduce the amount Of
fertilizer used and then to ask the
fertilizer people for contribution
with which to cripple their own in
terests temporarily. The spirit Of
that clause In the constitution is that
the amount OF fertilizers to be usel
In the production Of cotton will b.
the same per acre as 1t was last year,
and reduction OF 25 per cent. In the
acreage OF cotton would thus mean g.
Reduction OF 25 per cent in the amount
or fertilizer used to produce cotton.
1t Is again't the policy Of the asso.
citation to use on rs per cent. of
ground the same am 1unt OF fertilizer
as was distributed over 100 per cent
OF ground last year, for this would
mean In the end no reduction in the
yield IF cotton.
RIit uitl,
not used for the cultivation, the
farmer might raise corn, wheat, for
age grasses and other diversified pro.
duc-s which would require even more
fertilization than cotton. Move the
III oke h. uses from st. Louis TO South
Carolina" is Mr.. Smiths maxim.
Use the forage plants to fatten hogs
and cattle and raise poultry and eggs.
Just recently he saw farmer In his
section, who is holding so bales OF cot.
Ton, drive up to the RAILROAD station
md buy corn from the storekeepcr at
80 cents a buShel. That is what
is the ~ ltter with the Sou h
today, lie said. The farmers do no,
raise their own provisions and with
cotton which they sell for 6 cents try
to buy corr which they could raise
for half what they pay for it--aDd
tatttn hogs for which they pay 10 cts a
pound | I the form OF bacon.
MIR. S smith Friday issued the follow
ing address.
TO the People Of the State who are
Interested in the Southern Cotton
Asset ltiou:
In V ew OF the numerous ipqui-i S
that have come to me by those who
are hol oldirg spot COTTON as 10 what
mcthud they can secure loan on their
cotton TO meet their pressi x necessi
ties, | call on the several county or
ganlza ions to appoint com mitteee
co.'s Sin Of their chairman and three
other N 1mbelS to see their local bank
ers at olice and arrange plar by which
those needing the money can secure a
loan on their cotton. 1t is needles S
for me to emphasize the urgent i'm
portance OF this step. The three car.
dinAl principles In our fight are as fol-
lows: The reduction OF acreage, reduc-
tion Of fertilizer and holding spot cot.
ton. Already the prize of cotton has
advanc $3.50 per bale, since the New
| Va AiSaiia SOuHcliOlOu. hdu III UOU DtcTl
for this organic ltion and the hope that
1t inspired, cotton would have hoode d
the maaket at the dis; Strously los
prices prevail ing month ago and the
South would have lost between $50.
600, 600 and 500, 100000.
II the local tanks and the farmers
who are able to aud the merchants In
their local organizations " i'll pool their
interests and stand together at this
acute crisis, the fight IS won. am in
a position to know, but cannot give
the names OF the partit furnishing
me the informal i IN, that the world
nee" lg cotton more then we are need.
lrS to sell; that L'verpD Dol has not re.
ceived one-lifth or the cotton that has
been exported. Eighty per cent. OF
that exported in January and Feblu.
airy has gone TO Ru. sia; very little
to manchlS er. The stocks in all for.
sign centres are lort, II all foreign
AM domestic mills they are short, and
1t Is only question OF holding to.
gethef to secure good price for our
cotton.
Il would like to state further that
II no arrangements can be made local.
ly, that the banks and warehouses Of
Columbia take care OF every bale OF
cotton sent them and advadce 80 pei
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