The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-12
TUESDAY, OCTOBER IL. 1909.
Circulation Double That of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
WANT TO ROB THE SOUTH.

WANT ~ hO6 IHE SUI n.
The report comes from Boston that
. gigantic movement is in progress
throughout the leading cotton textile
districts of the world, looking towards
general curtailment of production
Of cotton goods, because the price of
raw cotton is too high. In other
words, the trusts, not content with
. robber tariff that protects them
from all competition with other coun-
tries and enables them to enrich
themselves from the pockets of the
consumer, are now in rebellion
against the cotton growers of the
south because they will not consent
for Wall street stock gamblers and
Boston bean eaters to make the price
on their raw material.
This is the way it stands. The
world is growing. and the demand for
all kinds of goods; dry goods, hard
ware. steel. iron, everything, is grow
ing. And while this demand is grow
ing the supply this year happens to
be trifle short; and because the de-
mand Is great and the supply shor1,
the price is high. But, in order to
teach these cotton pickers an object
lesson. that they may learn to know
that the law of supply and demand is
obsolete, the manufacturers have
inaugurated movement to bear down
the market by using just as little of
the raw cotton as possible.
! And the worst of it is, they will in
y large measure succeed. II they are
not organized they will organize.
They will understand each other and
work to a definite end with a def.
mite purpose. The cotton raisers will
not. The manufacturers will be as
quiet and patient as a cat waiting for
3 mouse. The cotton raiser will grow
restless. impatient, uneasy, and sell;
and the Wall street gamblers and the
Boston bean eaters, who wouldn't
know cotton stalk if they met one
in the road. will pocket some millions
of profit earned by the sweat and toll
of honest labor.
Maybe you think that is just one
man being smarter than another; but
that is where you are dead wrong.
Maybe you thing politics has nothing
to do with it. Perhaps you are one
Of the wise acres who has discovered
that there is little or no difference
between the democratic and the re-
publican parties. WNl, there is just
that much difference The demo-
cratic party, If it stood true to its
teachings. would not allow the Boston
bean eaters to combine to organize
a gigantic movement to curtail the
manufacture of cotton goods. That is
just as contrary, not only to the spirit
but to the letter of the law agains
trusts and combines, as any combina
tion could be made. And the dem
ocratic party is and has always been
antagonistic to just such concentration
of power. While the republican party
stands sponsor for that very thing,
and then some. If it were not for the
laws as administered by republican
rule, such combinations against the
general business of the country would
not be allowed; would not be attempt
ed; would not be tolerated.
But this gigantic combination
against the leading commodity of the
south will not only be attempted and
tolerated, but will in large measure
succeed. After faint resistance, the
South will hold up its hands and be
robbed. And the robbers will walk
~ to their Club, and smoke and
1rink and damn the Solid South.