Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-24

briefly, and then paid his respects to
the spectators. who In the past have
had free rein in fixing the price of
the south's chief product. He showed
that the people OF the South FARM
ters, merchants. bankers. in fact all
business and professional men---are
equally interested I'm fixing and main
tanning fair, remunerative price
for the particular crop OF which the
South enjoys a world monopoly. No
where else ON the face of the globe is
there found that peculiar condition
OF soil and climate adapted to the
growth of the cotton plant that we
have in the South. All other crops
Can be grown the wide world over,
but the home of the cotton plant is
in the eight Southern States. On a
visit to Boston some time ago he
spoke to numerous assemblages in
New England, and on more than one
occasion he suggested to his hearers
there that II the soil and climate Of
the South could be transported, and
the bleak and barren hills of New
England be devoted to the growth of
cotton, It would not be long until cot
ton sold at thirty cents per pound.
When presented in this light his
hearers had admitted that such would
be the case. The policy of the South
In selling its cotton heretofore has
been little less than suicid, /. Prior
to the days of the Southern Cotton
Association the price was fixed else
where, principally by the cotton ex-
changes and manufacturers of Eng
land and the North, but the process
is being changed. The South will say
hereafter at what price 1t will sell it's
cotton. For the last forty years we
have been feeding the COW with it's
head in the South and foreign parts
getting the milk. The COW is now
turning around, and the milk will be
ours while the other fellow does the
feeding. The pitiable spectacle will
no longer be presented of the farmer
going to town with his samples In
hand and asking or begging the spec
(ulator to buy. The buyer will seek
the producer, and the question will
no longer be, What will you give?"
but What will you take?" This is
the natural order. 1t is law of ma
ture that the producer should fix the
price of the product Of his hand or of
his field. Certainly he should be con-
suited, and such has not been the
case until within the last two years.
He believes that the intelligence and
patriotism OF the South will devise
and maintain proper and just busi-
ness method of handling and selling
its chief money crop. 1t matters not
that the problem is difficult and COM
plex-the brains of the South are
capable of its solution. 1t will be
business lines. and result in the well
fare Of the whole people Of the entire
South. The battle is on, and it will
be fought to finish. 1t behooves
every man to take his position on the
firing line. There should be no trail
tors In the ranks. The man who is
the traitor to-day is the farmer who
is now selling his cotton before it is
made, for delivery next fall. II
large amount of contract cotton can
be bought between now and Septem-
her 1st it will be used by the specu-
lators to depress the price of cotton.
BY many ant illustrations and anoc
dotes the speaker gave point and en-
phasis to his argument. 1t was a
speech that to be appreciated had to
be heard. He preached sound doc
trine, and had his subject well in
hand. 1t is well that the campaign
of education is now being conducted
in all the Southern States along the
lines so clearly defined by both the
speakers. They certainly gave the
people something to think about. 1t
begins to look as though the day of
deliverance is at hand. Speed. the
day!