The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-08-07
fH 0RK oF THE SOUTHERN
|sS$ OlS ASSOCIATION.

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!, N yIgss8 lsS8 Sthe Southern Cotton
~; s0Statl0 %the cotton planters of
y. =. Oilti apparent from the follow
sln years ending September
Slst3ssl Horops Of cotton, aggre-
eating ideally 25,000,O00 bales,
,$lllsahaXA cen marketed at an aver
geapris se Southern producers of
: :"SSTly SlS AZ ssscents per pound.
Msthes years ending September
lSg8s 5500,000 bales of cotton
fssgsfe dnGed and marketed at an
IaFeTag price Of 6 1-8 cents.
EgIbi increase in price is an aggre-
gat8 about $3.50, 100000, and is
Wery argelythe work Of the Southern
otton association. In comparison
1thFsnch hSAn achievement the cost of
aintaihingits organization is but
nfinitesimaI and it enters upon the
Yrning cotton season with the greatest
onfidenceSin the ultimate realization
SfYits purpose, namely: fair prices
> fors the sproduct of Southern labor;
khe$aYoidance Of over-production Of
@c9ttonSS and the protection of the
assSenth% in its God-given privilege Of
furnishing the world with the cheap
gSsS est clothing ever known at prices
which will repay the Southern far
M NJ mers for their arduous toll and the
intelligence employed in pro-
|Ssducing it.
ssad8 The Southern Cotton association
% has made it's mistakes and has had
M its enemies to fight. The mistakes
# have not, however, been important, as
NJ shown by the result, and it's enemies
Il have for the most part admitted it's
# power and have been forced ultimate
81 ly to align themselves with it's pur-
s poses.
n The 1st of September, 1906 will find
Il the world absolutely bare Of cotton.
81 The visible supply will be the smallest
ii on record. The 25,000,000 bales Of
~ cotton with which the South has sup
ID piled civilization during the past two
u years are all consumed The United
IN States Department of Agriculture es-
81 Inmates that it will require 100000
Sd bales of cotton to adequately clothe
:$ the worlds population, and the pro-
s gress Of civilization is rapidly advanc-
a ing the worlds population to a point
S at which it will require to be ade-
$$ quately clothed.
83 Whatever the size of the coming
& cotton crop, there is no reason why it
g should be sold at anything Jess than
M the average price obtained for the last
crop, through the efforts of the South
ss ern Cotton association, namely: II Sd
SS8S8 cents and IL cents a pound. Interest
8&ed and self-constituted authorities
s have of late been endeavoring to stam-
s8 pede Southern holders and producers
ss Of cotton into the belief that the COM
S8 ing crop was likely to be an abnor-
# mally large one, produced from an ac-
Ss reage very much in excess Of any pre-
8 viously planted. This disposition
S% seems to have penetrated even into
SIS the Crop Estimating Board of the
@ United States government, who ap-
ssM parently have not as yet emancipated
S@ themselves from the maladroit influ-
s ences which resulted in the scandal
Ss, which the efforts Of the Southern Cot
$S ton association last year disclosed.
S8 That the cotton crop for the season
8S# of l9O6-7 is likely to be superabun-
& dant, or even large one, the South
S ern Cotton association does not be-
M lieve. It's reports from its thousands
SM Of members and correspondents
sS$S throughout the entire cotton belt in
S#s dictate that the increase in acreage ov-
81 er last year is only 2.52 per cent, and
3# the scarcity of labor, the lateness of
B development; the excessive rains in
many sections and drought in the re-
gion west of the Mississippi valley
foreshadow anything but a full yield
for the season commencing Septem-
ber LIST next.
The published opinion Of $50 men,
bers Of the New York, Liverpool and
Southern Cotton exchanges is that a
crop Of about 100000 bales will be
worth during the coming season 1887
cents per pound, and those producers
who part with their product for less
than this figure are needlessly curtail-
ing the hard-earned profits Of their
toll and depreciating the value of
their fellow-producers' crop.