The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-09-01
MARKET THE CROP SLOWLY.
Farmers Are Urged to Sell Only
When Necessity Demands,

We have been subscribers to the
Journal since it was first issued, and
we take the liberty of sending you
this communication. We have never
been so impressed in business ex-
perience of thirtyfive years of the
Importance of holding back the COM
ing crop, and it is our earnest wish
that you fill your columns with the
following plan:
Pick the crop as fast as possible
sell only when necessity demands;
instead of ginning, pack the cotton
away In seed houses, cover it with in
surance and hold 1t back at all haz-
ards. SO we will not be forced by
law to report the number of bales
ginned in each month. The crop will
be above 100000, and the condi-
association and the Farmers Union
and all business interests of this
southland work to common end.
| We can hold cotton back and secure
as much as 10 cents, basis midling;
but if cotton is thrown on the mar
ket for September, October and No
vember, as it was last year and the
year before, you will see cotton go
below eight cents. The factories are
| running on short time, large num-
bers of them, and many are loaded
to the guards with high priced goods
| with no demand, comparatively
speaking. The results of the future
| to this manufacturing interests are
indeed gloomy, and unless condi-
tiOns change in a very short time
there will be complete stop to
many large manufacturing concerns.
Many are borrowing all the mon
ey they can get now in order to
carry forward their work, hoping for
a reaction and better prices, but If
cotton is forced on the buyer what
will become of the poor seller?
Spinners always run when 1t is to
their interest and they see profits,
! ohSad, put PiCoCAt COuultlOAo
it will be impossible to spin cotton
at anything above 8 cents, even If
the price of goods remain at the
price they are today
The Cotton Association saved this
country from ruin two years ago,
and unless 1t and the farming inter-
ests, which embraces all business of
this Southland come together as one
man and one interest we are going
to see some more cheap cotton.
The Farmers Union cannot con-
troll the situation, but with the aid
Of the Cotton Association and the
business men of the South we can
do great things. 1t Ia ~foolishness and
ignorance for one element to say
that they can get along without the
support and aid of the business
world. We are divided into COM
panies, regiments, divisions and
corps, and unless we are all patriots
and fight the great battle as an al
lied force we will come out beaten,
demoralized with our colors trailing
in the dust, and our warning Is let
every Southern man who loves the
South be patriot in this great is
sue.
! The rule is that merchants, bank
ers, doctors and all avocations are
interested In farming. The banker
advances his money, the merchant
his goods, the doctor his pills, the
dentist his plugs, and unless the
crop turns out sufficient means to
meet these demands, what will be
the result? Nothing but failures,
and this idea of arraying the country
against the town and the town
against the country is one of the
greatest errors that has ever filed
the heart and mind OF man.
The south has to run on its cred
1t from the greatest banker to the
smallest farmer, and how can we
get along without the aid and sup
port OF each other? Hundreds and
thousands OF bales OF cotton are
made by the black man, who has
secured his advances from the BAN
ker and merchant, and ia thousand
of instances these bankers and mer-
chants own this land, and how can
1t be possible to reach the great end
desired without the cooperation OF
all interested parties. This cannot be
; done. The Grange and Alliance fail
ed In their great efforts to accom-
plish anything, simply because it
divided the great army and the
great interests Of our country,
Therefore. we believe that the Cot.
ton Association, headed by Harvie
Jordan, Is the greatest institution
that has ever been made, but even
this great institution cannot do any.
thing under present conditions with.
out the aid OF all other interests.
So as one great family and one
l great intaraSt lat us emma toOotho,