Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-07-25
A Batch Of Live Paragraphs Cover
ing Wide Range-What is Going
On Ill Our State.
General Cotton Market:

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go Charlotte Cotton Market.
These prices represent the prices
paid to wagons;
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Strict middling.... $1,000. lilo
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Mr. &. ,. 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:
'aon ticcvunt oE .lay siskhcss, / havt
been unable to keep in touch with
the people of the State through the
press. I do not want anyone to i'm
.agine that the work of the associa-
tion has in anywisc lessened.
"I take this Opportunity 10 call tie
attention Of all the associations to
-the fact that from every State in the
Union there comes teli;itlt iliformR-
tion t,f material crop damage. There
Seems to be little prospect Of crop
exceeding 11.OO0,0OO bales. The
world consumed last year 12,5O0,OQYg
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
a time when the soiitiierh Cotton AS
sociation, as an organization, could
demonstrate its power, that time has
arrived. "a strenuous effort should
be made 10 keep the cotton from the
Misunderstanding the months of Septenl-
Der, October and November, for this
is the time when the mill men lay
in their supplies at the lowest possi-
bic. price. 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 Associates
should bend every effort His Scpteni-
Der as soon as tho eBtton begins to
.cohie 10 the market, 10 use its organ
lied authority to keep every bale pos
-sible off of the market.
"Year before last VIC began the
year with considerable stock carried
over from the enormous 100000
crop. This year we will begin the
cotton year Of 1905 and 1907, with
practically no old cotton OIL hand,
and with The world demanding more
cotton than The new. cotton cilll sup
ply.
"Thereforc, / call every associa-
Ition 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>I know from personal observation,
I. is the poorest for 10 years.
"Thc 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 its 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 up
and down to suit their fancy. But for
one time in the history of the cotton
grower he did rot allow the spot cot
ton to be influenced by any such eamb-
ling gymnastics.
"My health is steadily improving,
and shall be glad to address mass
meetings during the month of Au-
gust i'll South Carolina.
1SLet every association be wide
awake, up and doing: for the greatest
part Of our existence is now in our
hands. -