The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-02-03

In 1904, you planted cotton to the
exclusion of all other crops, and you
raised 100000 bales of cotton.
BY so doing, you forced the price
down to cents per pound in the
country towns, and wound up the
year in debt, with no corn in your
corn cribs, no meat in your smoke
houses, and nothing raised at home
to live on. In fact, you saw ruin
staring you in the face, with the
spinner and his bear friends con-
stantly threatening you with cent
cotton. Thanks to the Southern Cot
ton Association, who came to your
rescue at the eleventh hour, asked
you to plant less cotton and raise
more corn and food crops, promising
you 10 cents per pound for the I'M
sold portion of the crop, if you would
hold your cotton and reduce your
cotton acreage. Every man of you
who acted on the advice of the AS
ISOLATION did, in July, 1905, receive
10 cents per pound or better for ev
cry pound Of cotton that you held
and the promise of the Southern Cot
ton Association was made good.
Now that we are about to plant
the cotton crop of 1906, the enemies
of the price are already telling US
that we are going to plant the fence
corners and even the back yard in
cotton this year: that we are again
going to make cotton to burn, as We
did in 1904. They say that we are
going to do this because the price is
now about double what it was this
time last year, and that the high
price now prevailing will be sure to
cause US to make fools OF ourselves
again. But l say that after the severe
furnishing that we receive for hav-
ing been so unfortunate as to have
made 100000 bales of cotton in
| 1904, that we cannot and will not
again ruin ourselves by producing
, cotton to burn.
As boys, we were taught to do our
| best at everything that we undertook,
1 and in 1904 we tried To carry out
/ this teaching We did our "durndeSt
/ best" and produced a crop so large
I that We were told that We would
/ probably have to destroy by some
means about 20 per cent of it 10 even
| be able TO sell the remainder at 3
3 ttIlS DtI pOuINl- NC oRihA'Ao e"N
/ their bear friends seemed determined
/ to crush US, they had no mercy and
cared not II the price went SC low
that 1t would actually put US TO starv-
/ ing They were the masters and
4 they used their power with an iron
/ hand. irrespective OF the suffering II
brought upon thousands Of people
who raised cotton in the South. All
| this because we had, as | before
/ stated been so unfortunate as 10
have produced a crop apparently lar
ger than the world would immediate
/ " consume God grant that We may
never be led into so grave an error
again We have had our lesson
| Have we not learned IL well. aud can
we afford To soon forget Il,
I The fact should never be lost
sight of that five bales OF cotton at
I IL cents per pound will bring $500
/ Ten bales OF cotton at cents per
pound brings oniy $500. Can Ne at
/ ford to give the spinner ten bales for
93eo when we have II in our power
to make him pay s300 for five bales ?
Take this reasoning home to your
self and think before you pitch your
crop FOR 1896. Diversity your crops,
my brother farmers. and your pros
perity and the prosperity of the whole
South j. positively assured You
cannot afford TO plant another large
I cotton crop 20 the exclusion of ali
food crops ~hen you kno~ h will
mean ruin to sou. You cannot af-
ford to let the profits that you should
receive on your cotton crop go TO bus
corn. hay, meat and meal for use OF
your livestock aud family I'm me