The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1906-09-26

; cotton gambling clement, no doubt
| Farmers Union men could then
claim kin with them and Join in
with them with some degree of
confidence in maintaining pro-
fitable prices for cotton.
If it Is true that the cotton
farmer has made fine crop this
season this good fortune belong to
the farmer who dug it out of the
earth, and tho farmer can keep
this good fortune for tho use of
himself if he will only join in q
}concert Of action among cotton
producers to take his cotton back
| home from off tho streets overy
tlmo that the price drops below lie
If you owo bills don't dodge your
creditor but go right up to him
like q man and, if you cannot
arrange matters with him to help
you keep your cotton off of
glutted and depressed market, then
your last chance is to store your
cotton III warehouse and give
your creditor the benefit Of all that
you can get On your cotton. BE
sure to act honest aud square with
your creditors every time and then
you can't help from feeling com.
Portable about 1T.
When we come down to earnest
business consideration Of the pres.
eut cotton market, it is much easier
now 10 raise the price from lOc. to
lie. than it was to raise it from
&c, to 10c. for our OF. crop. In
O4 our Farmers Union MEN,
Dershlp was less than 400 thousand
members; nov our membership goes
over 600 thousand and cotton
farmers now ow loss money and
nave more food crops, too.
| When we take into consideration
these facts that as our membors
produce from a few bales each up
to 100. and now and then some
reach 500 to 1000 bales, it would
appear to be reasonable calcula-
tlon to put the Union at al average
of say Is bales. Now, if the Union
Will retire from the market an
average Of only five bales each ,
this would tako in hand three
million bales and make it easy for
the Union to demand and get pro-
htnblc prices lor their cotton.
!
The Farmer in tho South who
has made a good crop Of cotton
and sells it at q profit, has added
Just the amount Of his profits to
tho wealth Of the South. lie has
gained just the amont of this pro-
lit to his own wealth without max.
ing anybody poorer. These profits
thus derivcd-that can only be
had by profitable prices for cotton
enables the farmer to pay Off all
hls bills. Tho merchant and supply
mon get their profits, the banker
gets Ills interest, the fertilizer mon
get their profit and the mule.man
exchanges his white paper money
for legal tender and is Tremendous
~ happy. Best Of all, there is still
money left to pay the proacher the
doctor and the school teachers.
Look at tho difference. Suppose
we all get alarmed at our own sue.
cess in making a fine crop-tbe
very thing that we started out to
do in the beginning of tho year
and this being tho very thing
too, that all those creditors of ours
wished for, and then tho farmers
get to rushing and racing with each
other to SOC who can get their cot
ton off first before it falls in price,
then a regular stampede ensuos
and the price runs down avs ay bo-
low cost.
Then all our creditors become
alarmed, too, and a regular panic
takes place, leaving the whole OF
our interest the losers where for.
tune should have smiled upon
every interest III the South.
The wealth created by tho
farmers Of tho South have boen
q ~ IL i