Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-04-27

Provided exports continue at the
same ratio as last year.
The market has been sold down to
the red in the last month on antici-
patton of perfect conditions, large
acreage and a heavy crop for 1911
which is very much in the nature of
counting chickens before they are
Matched. There will be no increase
over last year, because the boil
weevil is forcing diversificatton in
Arkansas. Louisiana and. the territory
east of the river. If we have perfect
crop conditions in Texas and Okla
homa this year it is certainty that
the boil weevil will be much more
aggressive in those States, because
he cannot stand hot, dry weather
and two years of drouth in which a
railroad rail could hardly live in July
and August in Texas for the past
two years has kept the weevil down
in that State Moreover the drouth
in Texas at present is claimed by a
great many to he even more serious
than before the general rains of the
first week in February.
Therefore get busy and smash the
big acreage dream by planting every
thing in the world that you can raise
at home and ON which the boil weevil
will not feed and make yourself more
independent of the mills which usual
ly get "out of the market" when we
need to sell cotton most.
Texas is one State that will show
no increased acreage this ear, If it
even comes up with that eff last year.
for the reason that cotton planters
have quit west Texas in droves, fear
ing to risk another year of disap-
pointing drouth.
Gotten mills may shut down, but
the human race will mill never shut
down, and the first and last thing a
human being needs in this life is cot
ton goods.
Somebody's cotton mill ran when
cotton sold at $1.S2 per pound in
1S64-5. Do we understand they can
close on 15c or 16c cotton with the
worlds supply, according to demand,
no greater now than then, or have
We several billions of people more
prone to 60 naked now?
We hear repeated reports of agree
ments between the cotton mills to
close down for whichever very
long you may be sure No time is
specified, but we have yet to hear of
the first man agreeing to go naked
economic in the use Of cotton goods
Cotton is the raiment of the poor
and in the very nature of things its
use Is itself economy. II we were en-
deavoring to bull the prices of wool.
silk Or flax it would be uphill bust
ness, because if either or these COM
modities reached a price considered
excessive it would be easy to sub
stitute cotton goods.
Three years ago this paper refused
to follow those who SAID hold for 15c
without advancing any reason that
might assure the planners that it
would reach that price. We pleaded
with the planters to sell freely at q
and lac because we felt that the
world was not prepared to pay the
price. From the above reasons and
many more We realized early last
autumn that cotton was worth 15c
and urged our readers to hold for
that price. Now that we know that
the remnant OF the crop is so much
smaller than we anticipated and the
needs of American mills so urgent
(event if Europe has large supply !,
that we think 16 cents for the re-
mainder of this crop Is both reason
able and certain, and the way to
clinch that rricA and to also insure
good prices for the 1911 crop, to hold
your spots and curb any increase of
acreage by liberal and careful diver
sificat.on.