Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-06-26
THE WAY TO FIFTEEN CENTS COTTON
"Plain Talk In Plain Language to Plain People,"

The small land owner and tenant
farmer may think 1 am taking up too
much space in telling Of the big fell
lows success. I'm not; only pointing
to the successful ones because you
wish to become similarly successful.
If man falls heir to the largest and
finest plantation in the south he is H.
able to become bankrupt in a few
years If he does not manage his prop
erty on sound business principles.
I want to say to the smaller plant
ers and tenant farmers that their op-
portunities are better today for sue
cess than they ever were before, be-
cause of unions and associations
which enable hundred little fellows
to do all or more than the biggest Of
the big ones. They can combine their
forces and initiate the successful
methods Of the best and most sue
cessful. Performing their own labor
and directing their own efforts, they
can secure better result, proportion
ately, than the great planter who de-
pends on tenant and hired help.
Ey mutual dependence, co-opera-
ton and united action, under the guild
ance of capable and honorable lead
ers, they should have all the best Of
the argument.
1t is your own fault II you do not.
1t is not enough for you to solve the
problem Of cheap production, or even
the curtailment of acreage. These
will not avail if you do not use intel
ligent cooperation in marketing. If
all try to market their crop at one
time, the price being unsatisfactory,
down go the figures under the sense
organizations of the Farmers Union
and Southern Cotton association,
through county and local branches,
can show you whereby a market may
be maintained, simply by feeding the
actual demand, and apportioning the
supply to average requirements of the
worlds spindles.
Leave the broker and gambler out
Of your calculation.
Hold your cotton subject to mini
mum price conditions and wait for
the buyer with the cash In his hand.
He'll come.
u. If you don't seek him, he'll seek
you.
He's got to have the cotton.
Co-operation the Watchward.
There Is no man in the world, no
race Of men and no section Of the
earth wholly independent of the bal
ance Of creation. The strongest indi-
vidual is the one with the greatest
backing Of friends, the strongest ma
ton in the world Is the one which
has the most powerful allies and the
success of all depends upon the one
term, cooperation applied in some
way or other.
In nearly three score years of an
active life spent in many lands have
yet to learn that any man or set Of
men monopolize all the virtues or
have appropriated all the honesty.
There is good in all men, and the best
of each of them is brought out in
mutually of interests and brotherly
consideration of their fellows. All
forms of religion teach 1t; hundreds
Of orders, secret and fraternal
preach and practise the beauties Of
brotherly regard, and there is enough
good in the best to counterbalance
the evil in the worst Of mankind
else there would be no safety for any.
Farmers are not a migratory class,
as a rule. and If man can not fra
ternize and cooperate with a neigh
Dor there is something radically
wrong with one Of them. They have
been brought up in the same commu-
nifty, their families for generations.
They attend the same churches, a"e
members Of the same lodges and
know each other as members Of one
family. Their lands, homes, interests
are still affected by like conditions.
They would band together as one
man to defend their homes from in
vasion. They would leave fireside and
family in a body to fight for their
country or stand together on any
great issue.
They are the people above all others
to practice practical cooperation for
the common veal There should be no
cause so dear as the advancement OF
the welfare Of their own families.
Each day they are growing to see this
more and more clearly, and the day
is not far distant when it will be con-
sidered a reproach for any man to be
outside the pale Of some cooperative
association having it's local habitat in
his home community.
There may be unworthy ones, self
seekers and these who enter these as
sociations from despicable motives, but
the way to down those elements is not
to stand on the outside and scott, but
to enter the inner circle where your
voice, your vote and your example will
work for the best interests Of the in
stitution, and your good will as well.
The organizations are sound In
principle and based on honest pur-
pose. This being the case, few
black sheep can not dominate the
flock. Don't act the Pharisee and
pass them by on the other side. we
are all human and all have souls
worth saving. There is more good
than bad in any community, and II
you do your part, that is all that Is
asked of you.
Cooperation among cotton grow
ers means that you can have your
warehouse gin, grinding mill-per-
haps a cOmpress-your sawmill, cane
mill and all other power machinery
without the necessity of single indi-
vidual investment, and the cost OF
operation is reduced below that Of
any other method for like service.
You can purchase seed, fertilizer and
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