The log cabin Democrat., 1907-06-27

fear will forget it, that last sea- son, based on the price of cotton seed products, cotton seed sold at Morrilton for an average of over S per ton less than in any season for ten years past.
 Now ask the question. How much did it cost Conway county on the price of her cotton seed for Buddy Woody to go into combi- nation and forget to notify the public about it? Answer-Io,o ,ooo tons seed sold from this county at $ per ton is only $500 out of the farmers pockets. That's easy
 Now that is only one of the in- cidentals. Charlie Burrow has stood supreme as a bull on the Morrilton cotton market for quarter of century. With his unlimited courage and his untir- ing energy he has been a friend to the people and tue business inter ests of this county such as few counties could boast, and before the Charlie Burrow of the past I stand with uncovered head and render unto him all the honor that is his just and merited due, and had this little combination only been for his benefit and built along lines that dissolve when the year is past, I should never lift my voice in opposition but listen During the past season where was Charlie Burrow? Did you find him on the streets, in the thick of the fight, overriding competition, the champion of the people as of old? Did your No, by the eter- nal, he was buried deep in the in- ternals of the Morrilton Cotton Warehouse, and it took a search warrant to pull him to the surface, and when you found him-what did you get offered for your cotton? Just the same price that was agreed upon by the trust, possibly little less, nothing more.
 Now, for fear that I will forget it, I will make the statement that the people of this county received an average of at least $4 per bale less for their cotton than they would have gotten under the old regime when warehouses were un- known and when the trust idea had not yet penetrated to these parts.
 How much did it cost the peo- pie of Conway county for these three concerns to accidentally hap pen to go into small combination and forget to tell the people? An swer-25, ,ooo bales of cotton at s. per bale is only $Ioo, GOO out of the farmers pockets.
 Now I dop't want 1t understood that I say these three concerns got the benefit of all this. They had, of course, to pay out either directly or indirectly large juicy nest egg to the nammies in Little Rock who fostered and brought 1t forth, and besides this there was the tit-pull- CTS that I referred to at the begin ming who had to have little, so it will readily be seen that a trust is worse than it looks like it is, for the reason that there are so many incidentals to maintain.
 will refer in this article to only one more of the certain and unmis- takable evidences of the trust that the outsiders had to meet during the past season. For instance, I had 100 bales of cotton to sell. I would call up any buyer I desired, either in Little Rock or Morrilton, and ask him to buy my cotton. He would offer me practically the same price offered by MT. Burrow here, or more often would offer me less, and at the same time and on the same market that buyer would pay from s to $6 per bale
 more for cotton in Russellville, Clarksville, Alma or even Boone vile than they would offer in Nor rilton. There isn't a farmer in Conway county that don't know that Conway county cotton aver ages at least A of a cent per pound more in value than in any other county west of Little Rock. sat in a cotton office in Little Rock and heard them buying cotton on the Fort Smith line. Faulkner county cotton was selling at S1o.4 per hundred, and we all know it is as short as pie crust and makes about as good pants. At the same time, on the same market, a Nor