Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-01-31

into the pocket of the 'scalaWaS
who bears the market and robs cot
ton growers.
would commend to the Gotten
grower the following admirable
article from the current numper
of the Cotton Journal:
1.-The above headlines are certainly
not edifying, but having heard ohese
words uttered so often since the
panic, by parties who do not raise
a pound of cotton, nor have any III
teaest in q, bale of cotton, | cannot
resist the temptation Of writing a
few words i'm defense OF the so
called "blankety farmer who won't
sen.' IT'S a pity everyone VINO
knows all about the cost OF prooQc-
ing cotton, ard the cause OF the
money stringency, can't have q mn
ger in the pie when fixing the pflce
ON the raw material. OF course
these same people always call in the
farmer when they place a price on
the goods they have to offer, and IL
is lust and rigEt, therefore, mat
they should be cllowod TO Tx the
price en- cotton. Just because the
"blankety farmers got togothcf
this year and fixed it themselves
tthe whole universe has been stirred
I'D. and big panic has been ere
ated. After this, you "blankety
farmers who brought ON this
panic, when you raise your cotton
and get it ready for the market, cali
in your lawyer, your doctor, your
merchant, your banker, your drug
gist, your little New York travelling
salesman, your hotel propr:etors,
and your cotton buyers and thew
will save you lot of trouble an6
worry. by fixing a price that will
suit the spinner and suit themselves.
You are not needed at all when it
comes to putting the price on the
cotton you raise; your bus ness Is
to get out in the hot sun in July
| and sweat beads as big as a snow
ball, making the crop and then turn
it over to the world and let the pub
lie at large put the price on It that
will suit them-a price at which you
can pay up all your debts and break
| even. Then the whole v-or'd will
smile and slap yol on the back and
| will no longer refer to you as the
"blankety farmer" who is holding
his cotton and causing money pan
! les. You don't need any automo-
les, nor rubber tired buSgies; yo"
can get along just as easy on an
Old mule. and that with give the FL
low who fixed your price for you tho
automobile to ride in. You don't
need to educate your children, you
need chem On the field to hoe and
pick your cotton, SO The price wort
be so high when selling time comes.
Don't buy your wife 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 If she
wants to go to church on Sunday
hitch a mule to the wagon and put
a chair in for her to sit on, that s
plenty good enough for farm or's
wife. That IS rs much as tho farmer
should really expect, according to
the people who are cursil = him
today for putting s 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 taa farmer
had followed tho example ce tho
panGr-etr'"ken public, who i-n~c.
diatelv threw itc securities. sto~'s
and bonds ca tho market, and
w"t"bod them go craeh'nr TO tho
Bottom of the r't-drnrp're fro~,
par down tn prartica''v ro.h,-e IN
one day. Who~c vonld tho cou+A
be today II tho f.rmcr Tad not Ms