The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-19
East Indian View of the Cotton situa
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 Macon Telegraph.
 The effort of the cottn growers of the Southern States to better their fortunes by withholding their product from the market in order to stimulate demand and by delimiting the acreage-being in 6 position to do so-has set the econ omists of Europe and Asia who have to do especially with cotton manufact- uring, to the outgiving Of strange enunciations predicated upon concep- tfons of their own. but which are re- kardless of facts in the ease.
 For example, The Calcutta Capital, ut terly wild in its views and evidently taking it's cue from the British spin ners who have been sending out much literature of late. has the following to say with regard to the attitude or the American producers
 "'rhe resolution of the United States cotton growers to hold their crop for a price of 1-2d. per pound and to re- strict the area put under cultivation Tn striking examples of the fruits of pro- tectionism. In any such step no con- sideration is shown for any interest eX- cept that of the particular group tnsti- tuting 1t. These cotton growers do not care a farthing for either the cotton spinner and weavers of New England and Georgia or for those of other coun- tries. Their sole object is plnuder, no other word can be found for. 1t. If they can prey upon their neighbOrS by axactinR an excessive price for the commodity they have to sell, they con- slider themselves moral fellows. exam7 p1ary citizens, worthy of commenda- tion
 ''That is precisely the spirit nurtured by protection everywhere, a spirit of United States is cursed by system of protection more ruthless in some re- spects than that of Russia. it Is nat ural and inevitable that one monopoly pnO+her This kind of savagery will go on until the United States falls back into the moral condition of the red Indian tribes that roamed over it before the advent of the white man, unless the moral sense of the nation arises in its wrath and puts an end to the whole abomInation.
 we hope for that uprising one Of these days, but there are few signs of 1t as yet. and in the meantime Lanca- shire will more and more endeavor to find it's supplies of raw material in other countries than the United States Probably the plot in this case will come to an ignominious end before many months are over. but the same device will be tried over again and again, just because the minds of all classes of pro ducers in the United states have be- come wrapped in devouring selfish ness which blinds them to their real in- terests and makes them the victim of every in1posture What beautiful H. lustration of the tariffite motto Pro lection gives more employment to the working man this action of the cotton growers gives. does it not?''
 This is about the most remarkable economic" view that we have ever known expressed. The Southern cot ton growers are all Democrats and i-protectionists They are having no protection" from the general gov ernment Their product Is not includ- ed in the Dingley bill The protect ion they are finding is due entirely to individual action. They have the right to limit acreage and to sell or withhold as they may choose. They are acting strictly within that right. They may or may not hold together. But they have not gone to Congress for help. They have nothing to do with tariff laws. They are subject u competition from all the rest of the world They are toting their partic- ular skillet and they are qnitc willing for the spinners of Lancashire or any where else in Europe or Asia or Africa to obtain cotton from any source they may choose. The Calcutta Capital has no true comprehension of the situa- ton