Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-10-23
TEN P AG E S
Our Cotton Letter.

piers and cotton exchanges are about
&C necessary fer the protection OF the
producers Of cotton as the owls,
hawks and minks are protection to
your chicken roosts.
In order to get rid Of the specula-
Tor prices, 1t Is absolutely necessary
to stop selling cotton until the mills
call for 1t.
Prices have now taken a turn up-
ward, but don't begin to turn loose
your cotton until the minimum price
has been reached, then If prices fall
stop selling right theresa
IN private conversation between
one OF those foreign cotton spinners
at Atlanta, the manufacturer said to
the union men that in order to deal
direct with the mills that the grow
ers OF cotton must put up a better
and safer system of delivering cotton
than they now have through the
spectators. He mentioned the fact
that he had lost fifteen thousand dol
lars at one time with New York
cotton man by trusting too far. So
1T seems these cotton men in New
York skin the mill men now and
then as we'll as the cotton grower.
This Is a sample Of common,
everyday cotton lie. An ex-tele-
graph operator made this statement
to one Of our men that he knows it
10 be fact that farmers stored 3O6
DaleS or cotton in a South Carolina
cotton mill warehouse in one day, to
be removed or sold by said farmers
at will, and that this same lot of cot
ton was wired to New York that
night as cotton received by that mill.
Such news Of cotton received It mills
when 1t was only stored in their
warehouses, he said was common
occurrence, which goes good pace
to swell the amount of cotton sold to
mills by South Carolina farmers.
This Is done to swell the amount
sold to the mills.
Farmers Union.
The Farmers Union Is growing
like gourd vine in August, and no
doubt Is sinking in the nostrils of
the spectators equally as strong as
the trodden gourd vine smells to the
intruder.
When writing this Office for any
information don't forget to enclose a
stamped and addressed envelope for
reply, as no appropriation has been
made by the union for stationery for
this purpose. We take pleasure in
passing along any information I'm our
possession for the benefit Of farmers,
Out if the answer to their questions
Is not worth a tWo-cent envelope to
them, 1t is not worth while to ask for
1t.
Get up fifteen good farmers ready
to form union, and If you don't
know of any organizer in your sec
ton we can tell you where to find
one that can put you in the swim,
and tell you all about the union.
Compliment to South Carolina Divis-
ion OF the Farmers Union.
Through the Kindness Of Bro. R.H.
McColloch, the National Secretary
Treasurer, the following copy OF a
resolution offered by the Committee
on the Good of the Order at the
National meeting at Little Rock, was
passed:
Resolved, 1--WE feel the need of
Bureau Of Information for our Ma
tional Union that our people may
keep posted as to the progress of our
order in all localities. 1t is true we
have many excellent papers that
keep their respective States and
counties informed, but we need a
digest Of news for our brethren as
well as for all papers friendly to our
order We commend the efforts of
Bro. j. G.. Stribling in this and rec
ommend his plan Of distributing such
news. This we refer to our National
Board of Directors.
1t Is well to state here that our
National President, Bro. G. s. Bar
rett, stated at the South Carolina
State meeting at Greenwood that he
had seen our South Carolina Union
Bureau columns published in papers
all over the South and on the Pacific
coast, Chicago and in Canada, and
that South Carolina had a reputation
in this Union Bureau business that
she should be proud of.
1t Is estimated by newspaper men
that at least one and a half million
copies Of these letters are published
each week by papers in aid Of the
Farmers Union work.
This column will be mailed out
once a week to any newspaper one
year for two dollars, to cover cost.
Many County Unions that have no
regular Farmers Union papers
among their members have sent in
the names Of their county papers
with 81 and are now in the circle Of
a regular Farmers Union Bureau
news, giving each week a digest Of
the trend Of the times of union work.
Boys, get in line, and keep up by
telling each other about what Is
going on.
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