Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-07-25
: Charlotte Cotton Market.
Mr. 8. ,. Smith Appeals 10 Growers
To Hold.

Mr.: i: b. Smith; president of the
State branch Of the Southern Cotton
Association has issued the following
statement:
aUn iec5unt oE lay sitkhcss, / havS
been unable to keep in touch with
the people Of the State through the
press. 1 do not want anyone to i'm
.agine that the work of the associa-
tion has in anywisc lessened.
"I take thia Opportunity TO call The
attention Of all the associations 10
the fact that from every State in the
Union there comes teliiitls iliforma;
tion df material crop damage. There
Seems to he little prospect of crop
exceeding 11.OO0,0O0 bales. The
world consumed last year 12,5O0,00g
bales 1.-THE consumption this Year will
probably reach 12,750,OOO bales.
Therefore, not only for the remainder
of this year, there will be practically
no cotton i'll stock. If there ever was
q time when the Soillliern Cotton As
sociation, as an organization, could
demonstrate its power. that time has
A strenuous effort should
be made 10 keep the cotton from the.
thanksgiving the months of Septenl-
Der, October and Ncvembcr, for this
is the time when the mill men lay
in their supplies at the lowest posi-
blesprice. Because they recognize that
this is debt paving time. and that the
small farmer, the man who needs the
help and who needs every cent that
his cotton can be made to bring, that
this is the time he will be forced
to part with his crop.
"The Southern Cotton Association
should bend every effort tliis septchi-
Der as soon as thc eBtton begins to
.cotie 10 the market, 10 use its organ
lied authority to keep every bale pos
-sible off of the market.
"Year before last we began the
year with considerable stock carried
over from the enormous 14,O0O,OO0
crop. This year we will begin the
cotton year Of 1905 and 1907. with
practically no old cotton OH hand,
and with The world demanding more
Cotton than the new cotton cali sup
ply,
"Thereforc, / call every associa-
tion in the county, i'll the Slate. to
meet at once and devise ways and
means by which i'll every county and
township they can make arrangements
to.keep the cotton off the market dur
ing The first of the cotton season by
all means available.
"Thc prospect in South Carolina,
,as>l know from personal observation,
is the poorest for 10 years.
"The country is being flooded with
poor literature; every ingenuity
known to The opposition is being used
to. depress the price of cotton.
".Eternal vigilance is the price of
all success, and simply because we
have succeeded in gaining and main
tanning such fine price for cotton.
let no man imagine that the opposi-
tion has weakened it's force at all,
but fighting more vigilantly than ever
before.
"To show you the tremendous pow
er of the association, for the first
time in the history of cotton, cot
ton that is chalk and paper cotton
which heretofore has controlled the
price Of spot cotton was 100 points
lower'in New York than the spot cot
ton was i'll Columbia, S. C. Which
means that the gamblers and specula-
tors could run paper and chalk mp
and down to suit their fancy. But for
one time i'll the history of the cotton
grower he did not allow the spot cot
ton to be influenced by any such samb-
ling gymnastics.
1lMy health is steadily improving,
and | shall be glad TO address mass
meetings during the month of Au-
gust in South Carolina.
''Let every association be wide
awake, up and doing: for the greatest
part of our existence is now in our
hands. /"
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