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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-04-06

In accordance with announce
ment previously made in The
News, mass meeting was held
here Thursday to hear an address
by President K. ID. Smith. of the
State Cotton Growers Associa-
ton. Agreeably to the surprise
of the audience, Mr.. Smith was
accompanied by President O. O..
Moore, of the North Carolina As
sociation Both gentlemen, who
are able and enthusiastic workers
in the farmers cause, made high
ly entertaining and instructive
addresses, their remarks being
replete with valuable information
for the members of the cotton as
sociation and the public general.
iy.
The meeting was held in the
court house, and although the
building was not full, the audi,
ence was a good and appreciative
one. Notwithstanding the fact
that this is a very busy time on
the farms. a good many farmers
were present, the various sections
of the county being we'll repre-
sented by intelligent and pro
gressive men.
Col. w. @. Hough presided and
introduced the speakers, Presi-
dent Moore, of North Carolina,
being the first. Mr.. Moore made
a plain, practical talk-full of
meat-and was given the closest
attention by his hearers. He
pointed out some of the edvan-
tages which have been derived
by the farmers of the South from
the cotton ssociation-how it has
been instrumental in raising the
price of cotton from a point
greatly below the cost of produc.
ton to something like remunera-
tive figures--how it has been in
fiuential in increasing the use of
cotton and cotton goods in other
countries, and he explained now
the association has made it posi-
BILE for the farmers to dictate the
price of the staple. He drew
graphic picture of the impover-
ished and distressed condition of
the country in the days when
the farmers were forced to sell
their cotton as low as 4.60 per
hundred pounds-days that will
never return if the farmers will
but stand Loyalty by their present
organization.
BY reason OF the admirable
manner in which the farmers of
North Carolina are organized,
Mr.. Moore said that in his coun-
fu Moob Ion bprc tI,o fornoo.n -
allied over 100000. more for
the cotton crop of 1905 than for
any crop ever raised in that
county. The various clubs work
ed together and kept the staple
off the market until the price
reached IL cents.
Mr.. Moore elaborated the plan
devised by the national associa-
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-04-06

Every grocery store should carry Aroo
Red Salmon. II the statesmen have no
yet called on you. drop card to the Alas
ka Packers Association, Atlanta, Ga, where
our temporary advertising offices are To-
Gated.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-04-06

tion Tor Ware-hOusing and hold
ing cotton, the details of which
have already been published in
full in The News. In brief, as
explained by Mr.. Moore, the
idea is to form stock company
in every county, capitalized upon
the basis of SIS for every tale
produced in the county. For in
stance, a county raising 10000
bales, the capital stock will be
100000. The money will not
be sent out of the county, but
will be placed by the company's
officers in banks, to be drawn
upon for erecting warehouses
and for buying up s'weak cotton,",
that is, cotton that. the owners
are obliged to sell regardless of
the price. All cotton so bought
will be held until the price
reaches the figures fixed by the
association; the profits realized
to be- divided among the stock
holders of the company. Farmers
able to hold their cotton and not
wanting to sell may at any time
store their cotton in the ware.
houses and, if they 80 desire,
have money advanced on same.
Mr.. Moore said that some peo-
pie were rather skeptical about
the farmers being able to sue
cessfully finance and manage u ,h
a company, but he hooted at the
idea of their not being fully com
Petent to do so. So far as Ian
caster is concerned he said he
knew that there are many farm.
ers in this county capable of man.
aging such an undertaking. He
said that much of Charlotte's
growth today is due to Lancas
trians who have moved there
since the war and have become
prominent in banking, CONNER
cial, industrial and other lines
He mentioned the Millers, the
Heaths, the Davidsons, II. M.
Mayer and others who have great
~ aided in the upbuilding of
Charlotte. He said that much of
The credit. of Mecklenburg's fine
roads is due to Mr..
Mayer, who has been a member
Of the board of supervisors for a
1umber of years.
PRESIDENT SMITHS SPEECH.
Mr.. Moore was followed by
Mr. Smith, who delivered one of
lis Enthusiastically able and
orceful speeches. His address
vas practically along the lines
If an interview given out by him
day or two ago as follows
Since the Birmingham Con-
1ention | have been engaged |
n organizing the work of the
Cotton association. I !
lave just completed tour
trough Alabama and Georgia.
The work has been the most sue. |
'essful of any yet accomplished i
committees have been appointed |
o solicit subscriptions, to organ
re warehouse and holding com. |
'anies for the purpose of locally |
the cotton crop and
N ~ ~ o. 4,
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-04-06

TEST to every business man that
cotton is the basis of our credit
and is wholly our circulating
medium.
ltis absurd to expect the ne
gro and the poor aud dependent
white producer to be able to
maintain the proper value for
this article upon which eyery
interest in the South is depen-
dent, when those who buy it
from them, up to now, have fix
ed the price, representing the
organized brain and capital of
the world and whose business it
is to get the article as cheaply
as possible.
The North, British America
and Europe consume about IS
per cent of our cotton crop.
Hence IS per cent of our buyers
represent foreign capital. Now
Is 1t not an absurd proposition to
leave to the poor debt ridden,
disorganized producer of cotton
to 60 up against the representa-
tives of Northern, Canadian and
European capitalists, with un
limited resources, perfect or
ganIzation and expect them, the
poor, disorganized, to win and
bring into the South in conflict
with the worlds richest and
shrewdest anything like the full
value of the cotton crop, upon
which we all are dependents
There is not a bank, mercantile
establishment or any business
vocation or avocation in the
South that is not dependent di.
rectly on the currency brought
into circulation by the sale of
the cotton crop.
Now it is manifestly the height
of folly: from a business stand
point, to leave to the poor and
disorganized producer to deter
mine in conflict with the shrewd.
est foreign buyer the amount of
money that shall be put into
circulation in the South, to de.
termine the deposits in our banks,
the amount of goods to be sold
by our merchants, the comforts
and conveniences of our homes,
the education of the boys and
girls of the South and the deye-
Iopment of Cur resources, the
Establishment of our manufac
turing plants to manufacture the
raw material in the South by the
capital of the South so as to OBJ
ain not only the profit on the
Jaw material, but the greater
profit on the finished article, to
develop our water power so as
20 light our cities, run our fator
es and connect our towns and
villages with trolleys, to macada-
nize our roads.
When all of these could fbe
easily within our reach If the ca
oitalists in every county in the
to join forces with
,he producers of our cotton. and
'n wise, conservative business
ines formulate simple, coop.
erative plan by which uniform
price could be fixed unon cot
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-04-06

Ph0ooioh VI VIC price OF COTTON Dy
demanding from the producers a
settlement of their accounts with
out regard to the price that cot
ton may be bringing at the time
that these accounts fall due,
while those who are making the
price are keenly alive to the fact
that these accounts are being
pressed, and that the holder or
owner of the cotton has no other
means of meeting these obliga-
tions save his cotton. Hence,
by depressing the price just at
the time that these accounts are
due, and by the holders of these
good accounts pressing fo- their
payment, the whole amount has
actually contributed to the de-
preston of the very article upon
which the commercial expansion
of the South is DEPENDENT
1t is to relieve this very situation
that the Southern Cotton asso.
citation was formed; and it is
fighting TO bring all the interest
in the South to realize the nec-
essity for mutual cooperation.
The demand for cotton products
have advanced in the last few
years far beyond the advance in
production.
The amount of cotton goods
consumed today is limited by
the spindle capacity of the world.
The spindles of the world run
ming full time are not able to
meet the demand for cotton
goods. The prices paid today for
manufactured cotton goods are
higher than they have been
since the war period. Mills could
easily pay a much higher price
for the raw material than is now
paid and still clear a greater
profit per bale than the producer
is now obtaining.
AS an evidence of the demand
for cotton goods and the profit
that is in its manufacture. i'm
Lancashire district, England
alone new mills representing new
companies aggregating 900, 900
spindles have been organized
and constructed in seven years.
or since 1900. A like increase is
indicated in other European mill
districts. In the Northern and
Southern districts of America
and in Canada, as one mill pres.
ident expressed it when asked
why the mills of the world in
view OF the unprecedented profit
being made by them, did not
pay more for the raw material.
replied, "We don't have to-" 1t
is up to the South to combine her
business interests to make them
''have to-"
The Southern Cotton associa-
ton does not propose-nor does
it desire-to become an element
of predatory power, but simply
to preserve the intrinsic and
competitive value OF cotton, her
practical monopoly of the worlds
necessity. The purchasing world
organizes its exchanges, sends
out its buyers into every market,
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-04-06
The Mass Meeting Thursday

Addresses by Pres
ident Smith, of the South
Carolina Cotton Growers
Association, and President
Moore, Of the North Caro-
lima Association--The Plan
Fully Outlined for the Far
mers to Realize Better Pri-
ces for their Cotton.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-04-06

Bishop James N. Fitzgerald, of
the Methodist church, died in
China this week.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-19

And you must let me gather some
wood and supply you with food" he
replied.
mo. sir. l can accept nothing from
your hands,"
But the chiloven. ma'am."
They must suffer with me, SIR"
The corporal came out to the post
and crammed a haversack full Of food
and returned and begged the woman
to accept 1t. but she was firm. She
even chided the children for the hun
cry look In their eyes. The woman
had softened a bit. however, at least
towards n Of us. and from that day
on little Susie was permitted to speak
and walk. with the corporal. and she
did not hide from the rest of us as be-
.ore. Kindness had converted her.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-19


dozen Of US, and all day long We m
dulged in the hope that the woman's
pride might give way on this one
occasion, at least. The day had dragged
along until an hour before dusk with
everything quiet on our front, when
a bushwhacker fired upon and wound
ed n of u pickets. This brought
out a fresh order for vigilance, and q
sergeant and his squad beat up the
forest and captured two Confederate
soldiers who were trying to enter our
lines to visit their families. It was
known that a third one had escaped,
and just after dark Corporal O'Toole
was ordered to picket the highway .
quarter OF q mile from u farm
house. When he had reached the spot
and posted his men he said.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-19


Never you mind" the corporal
would reply when we guyed him a bit
over his failure to soften the mothers
pride. Christmas is coming along,
and I'll play Santa Claus in q way to
melt her heart. Pride or no pride, she
can't stand up agin Christmas. I'LL I'LL
the stockings Of them kids II I'm
court-martialed and shot for 1t next
day.
Three days before Christmas we got
orders on the front to be unusually
vigilant, as 1t was known tina: q num-
Der Of Confederates whose families
lived within our lines had been fur
Laughed to pay a brief visit. Our pick
ct was doubled, and every post had
three men on 1t, and 1t was certain
that we turned back quite a number,
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-19

though u hearts were not In the
work. As Corporal O'Toole said one
night when he turned out to head the
midnight relief:
Its u duty to obey orders. and
we'l be shot II we don't, but this
turning back a poor soldier who hasn't
had sight Of his wife or kids for .
couple Of years. and who wants moth
ing now except to pass q Christmas
with 'em. Is no work for q soldier"
The day before Christmas the cor
poral made up a haversack Of food.
brought out a few simple toys and .
box Of candy he had sent up to Wash
ington for. and he put on q wig and
false whiskers and showed himself on
as a pretty good Santa Claus. He had
the help and encouragement Of q
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-19

IT'S all happened just right. Now
Ill rig up and play the Santa Claus
act, and you'll see me back here with
In half an hour. Keep your eyes
peeled. and II there's anything us
picious send Jones along to notify
me-"
With Ne long, gray hair of his wig
tossing in the wind. his venerable
whiskers lying on his breast, his fur
cap on his head, and q score Of bells
tinkling as he walked. the corporal
passed up the road amidst the whirl-
ing snow with his packages ON his
back. He entered the farm house
without knocking. The wife sat how
cred over the poor IRE, and the chill
dren sat on the door quarreling over
Q bit of food. Santa Claus swung
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-19

his package to the door, cut the string.
and the frightened children gasped
out ordinations Of joy. Then he
placed his haversack on the table and
was turning away without = word
when the woman rose up and said:
stop! I know you. You are tho
corporal. I'll thank You kindly.
put"
IT'S Christmas eve, ma'am," inter-
rupted the soldier, and children are
children the world over"
But this food" she said. II cannot
accept it."
you must. Confound 1t, woman
1 beg your pardon, ma'am, but dent
know that you haven't had = square
meal for weeks past? I'm 10 enemy
to you and the kids"
But you must take 1t away"
BIT Us. Christmas eve. woman
it's the ams to forget and forgive,
and
At that instant the door opened and
. stranger entered. No. not q strang-
or, but the husband and father-the
Confederate soldier on q furlough to
pass Christmas with his family. The
corporal spotted him for what he wal
In an instant, and before anyone had
moved or spoken he turned to the
woman and said:
IT'S Christmas eve and + present
you with your husband and my best
wishes!"
He strobe to the other door and
opened it and passed out to run into
the arms Of Jones, who had hurried up
to say:
Corporal. I've just tracked one OF
them Confeds to this house. and he's
now insidew
Jones!" exclaimed the corporal as
he laid his big fist against the others
cold nose. you're a confounded Mar!"
But tell you / saw"
And you are stone blind! You
haven't seen q Johnny for six months,
and II you or Williams or Finegan say
that you have I'll lam the three of We
within an inch Of yer lives! Do you
tumble to me or nor"
"Oh. well: IL old Santa Claus puts It
that way It's not for the likes Of me
to dispute him." replied Jones.
That's better-a heap better!"
chuckled O'Toole. land now by the
right flank-forward, march,"
And four days later little Susie
came out to the corporal and shyly
put her hand In his and whispered:
Pa thanks you. and ma thanks you.
and We all thank you. and pa went
away last night and ma says it was
the best Santa Claus she ever heard
Oft"
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-19

crsn. Then 1t was Corporal O'Toole,
big, good-natured and always wearing
. smile on his face, who broke down
the womanly reserve of the lite ten
year-old girl. He found her half a
mile from home one day and she was
so overcome with the cold th-t she
made no resistance when he picked
her up In his arms and carried her to
the house. When he kissed the frozen
tears from her cheeks and said he
had left q kid Of her age back In the
North who was motherless, the child
reached up and put her arms around
his neck. The corporal had conquered
the child, but not the mother.
1T is kind Of you. SIR" she said az
the soldier entered the house with his
burden.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-19

BY M. QUAD.

Just outside the lines of the Third
Army Corps as we went into camp
for the winter OF 1854 was a log
farm house inhabited by a and
three children-the wife and children
Of q Virginia farmer who had shout
dered his musket and marched away
with the C~onfederates two years be-
fore. There were other farm houses
further away-other farm houses in
front Of other corps-hundreds of 9TH
er Confederate war-wJdows and help
less children ON that neutral ground,
and We Of the blue used to pity them
~ the nights came down dark and
lonely and the north winds made
shiver and chill. We were not var
ring against women and children. and
Jet war had laid a heavy hand on
them. Their scant crops had been
trampled into the earth-their live
stock driven oR-their fences and
barns burned-little left to satisfy
their hunger or cover their nakedness.
Many q soldiers rations were divided
with gaunt-faced women and wolfsh-
looking children. and II it was aiding
and comforting" the enemy we were
willing to take the chances.
The farm house I have especially
referred to raj not different from
many others. but the woman and chill
dren were different. W. offered again
and again. but they would accept no
food at ou- hands. Now and then
the men on picket near the house saw
the children searching in the frozen
ground for potatoes. or the
digging roots and wandering afar for
stray ears of corn. but when coffee,
bacon. sugar and bareback were Of
fered them In kindness they turned
away their heads. Even II left on the
doorstep the food was not taken in.
We were their enemies. They were
hungry and cold and ragged, but they
could not co~nscientiousiy accept aid at
our hands. 1t was only when Com
pany "B" of the Tenth took its TURF
on outpost duty neal the house that
we got Z word from woman or chill
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-19

The festival of the twelfth month
il not. as the name would indicate. en-
clusively q Christmas holiday. 1t was
celebrated In much the same fashion
as 1t is now centuries before the Chris
tian era. BY the early Romans 1t was
celebrated as the saturnalia. or festi-
val to Saturn. and was married by the
prevalence of merry-making among
all classes, rich. poor. old and young.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-19


There's q Fourth o. July 18th its fireworks
An crackers, an rockets that hiss;
It's q glorious day In it's noisy old way.
a q that IL fne-all but this:
xouve got to watch out fer burnt I'm
That sort of cuts into the fun.
30. though it's . day to be longed fer. I
say
know of a dandier n e
Thankssivin' 18th spareribs an turkey.
.-lth. pies Of about ever kind:
'1th IL apples to eat an its cider 20
IL a bully old day. to my mind.
But about all there's to II IL dinner,
An when you're filled up hats q bore.
But you get q big dinner at Chris mas,
An my! such a lot Of things more!
There's presents of toys that are pretty:
OF books most delightful to read;
OF skates fer to slide. an bicycles to
Cleared up to a wonderful speed.
An then there are bags full of candy,
An sugar plums long 18th the resti
30. OF all holidays that o long fer an
I'm thlnkin' that Chris mas is best.
Arthur ]. Burdick.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-02
DEATHS.

EDWARDS--In this city Aug. S1. 1907, Mildred Josephine, infant daughter of Mir. and Mrs. George E. Edwards, aged s months. 11 days. Funeral services will be held at the residence of her parents, POT Win throp avenue, Monday afternoon, Sept 2. at 2.30. ELD-In New Hawen Aug. 31, 1907 Ed ward Eld, In his S4th year. Funeral services at the chapel, Grove Street cemetery, Monday, Sept. 2, 3:Sa vited to attend without further mo- tice.
 FORD--Tn this city, Aug. S1, Ellsworth Ford, aged 66 years. Funeral services will be held from his late residence. 609 Quinnipiao avenue on Tuesday, September 3, at 2:S0 o'clock.
 BRooKn-suddenly, in West Haven, Conn, September 1, 1907, George Francis Brooke. aged 7s years. Notice of funeral thereafter. ETROHTTLE---iIn this city, August S1 1907. Joseph Stroehle, in the 64tF year of his age.
 Funeral services will be held at the George and Bfoad streets, on Monday afternoon at o'clock. Friends are invited to attend. THOMPsoN-In West Haven, Conn.,, August 30, 1907. Maria. youngest daughter of Harriet Bryant and the late Howard w, Thompson, in the fifth year of her age, Funeral services will be held at No 22S Elm street, West Haven. on Mon- day afternoon at 2;90 o'clock. Friends are invited to attend.