Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-01-29
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Farmer Sell His Cotton and Relieve
y! the situation !?

ksrheS above headlines are cesrtafraIy.
not edifyinr hmt havinp' haard fhasS
words uttered 10 .oftens sinca ff,a < an
IA. Nv nartiaa uhn a., IA 49, : ~. 5,
pound Of cotton, nor have ianv inSarI
eat In a bale of cotton = cannot ra-.
aise the temntattons ~ ~ riftnce a fays
words IN. fiefense of7 the = s1- aiIad
.tblankefy. faro,er wto wo,,sf cell u,
|,Tis n pity that every ono =, 10 S,xnnu,
all about the ,scnst ~ snrS,d csn o COT.
tor. and the ea,iaa es ti.s : :. ~. - -
|stringency. can't have q sfineer in tiaS
Die when fixinR the price nfS fha raw
material. or course fhesa sama nan.
ple always cali In the farmer xyben
they place a prica al, tha goods shev
have to offer. and it IA i,,s i,,st and And riahf.
Therefore that thew. shomid Ia allow.
ed tc AZ the price on cotton. 1mst
because tha, gs.hlankety ff,rmssr,s,, ynt
|together this wear and fired AZ thay,,s
selves. the whole Snniyersa Nhaa 1beans
stirred mn. and q sf,i,r 3nanie mas heens
created After this, yoo, "hIankefy
Efarmersn who HI on this par,tc.A \
when YOU raise your cotton and { Set
it ready for the markell. call in yonr
iawyer. your doctor 3 yo,,r Ynercfanf. /.
your banker, your druggist. your lit.
tie New York travelling salesman.
your hotel nroprietors. and YOUR cot-
ton buyers, and they will save YOU a 4
lot OF trouble and worry. by fixing
a price that win suit the SPINNER and
suit themselves. You are NOT need !
ed at all when it comes to puttfng
the price on the cotton you raise
your business is to get out in the
hot sun in July and sweat beads of
sweat as big as snowballs, making
the crop and then turnsit over to. the
world and let the pllbiic al. large mt
price on it that will suit them
price at which you can pay up all
your debts and break even. Then
the whole world will smile and slap
YOU on the back and will no longer
refer to you as the .'blankety far-
mer,p who is holding his cotton and
causing money panics. You don't
need any automobiles, nor rubber
tired buggies you can get along
Just as easy on an old mule, and that
will give the fellow who fixed your
price for you the automobile to ride
in. You don't need &c educate
children, you need them in the ,eid
to hoe eld pick your cotton, so the
price won't be so high when selling
time comes. Don't buy your wife a.
new rug to place BEFORE the bed to
step out on when there is ice in the
water bucket on the back porch, as
that would be extravaganza. II she
wants to go to church on Sunday
hitch mule to the wagon and put a
chair in for her to sit on. that Ia
plenty good enough for farmers
wife. That is as much an the FAR
mer should really expect. accortiina
to the people who are cursing him
to-day for putting 15 cents on his
cotton and then holding it for that
price.
Now let us look at this question In
another light. Suppose when the
panic came upon us the farmer had
followed the example of the panic
stricken public, wto immediately
threw Its securities, stocks and bonds
on the market, and watched them
go crashing to the bottom of the pit
dropping from par down to prac-
tically nothing In one day. Where
would the South be to-dayaif the
farmer had not listened to the adj
vice of the Cotton Journal and the
Southern CottonAssociation and Far
mers' Union? He, 100, would have
thrown upon the l. 1.-THE entire
collateral OF the So, ~, md part OF
the collateral of the North, and cot
ton would have dropped down to 6
cents, In no time, thereby sweeping
from our grasp the security that the
country is sitting on to-day. Mer-
chants would have been little better
than half paid, and would have been
forced to the wall. Southern banks
would have been forced to close their
doors and half of the farmers would
have been ruined to such an extent
that 1t would have taken years to
recover the losses. sustained In,
stead of this some of the merchants
and bankers have had to extend
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