The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-12-20
COTTON FARMERS HOLD KEY TO SITUATION
80 Says Senator E. ID. Smith and If They Will Oruanze
for Fight Against the Splnners and Use InteIaent
Methods of Marketing they can Command Prices

oohih6 lhe ueudHu. L must CONFESS
that 1 do not quite agree with his
statement. From the last board of
trade returns l notice that during the
month of March last we shipped more
cotton goods than before, both in
weight and value, and If there are
any two countries where the price will
make the most material difference. it
is India and China, and it is in those
two countries where an increase in
shipment has taken place
In reply to this President Macara
said:
Exports Smaller.
There has been tremendous re-
duction in exports all round, and we
must remember that the markets of
the world are absolutely denuded of
goods. AS Mr.. Travis knows. / am as
much against the undue extension of
machinery as any man, but we must
and will exist, no matter what han
pens
S. Wrigley (England), in referring
to the remarks by President Macara
said:
The one reason why we have not
had such heavy shipments is because
during the last three years there has
been very considerable amount of
undergraduates on the part of the
looms, and as Sir Charles said. the
markets of the world have been de-
nuded of cotton goods
These quotations | have made to
show that the effort of the congress
was to encourage increased produc-
tion, running short time, when the
amount of raw cotton available was
scarce and the prices high and ad-
mitting that in consequence of their
reduction in manufacturing and spin
ming had at this time, May, 1911, re-
suited in the denuding of the trade of
cotton goods. Hence, at the begin
ming of the cotton year 1911-'12, the
conditions as set forth are: a scarcity
of cotton goods throughout the world,
an enormous increase in the number
OF active spindles-a condition which
the raw material.
Increase i'm SpindIcS.
II shall now give some figures as
TO the increase in spindles, according
to their report. which is practically
the same as that of our government:
The total estimated number of spin
dies of the world, according to this
report, was 13727S,752. The United
States government report was 1877
$4,000 for 1911. The government
report also gives the number for 1900
at lO5,6Sl 900. making an increase of
32,l 900 spndles.
/ The total consumption of cotton of
the worlds production. according to
the report of the congress, was H.
$1,000 bales. The estimated con
sumption by the United States gov
ernment of the same was 1903 900
bales.
In view of these figures of the
number of spindles and of the num-
Der of bales consumed, it would be in
structive to the cotton growers of the
South as to what would have been the
consumption of cotton had there been
an adequate supply and the mills run
full time
Taking for granted that the aver
age short time of the spinners and
manufacturers was 25 per cent, the
consumption of American cotton last
year would have approXimatcd H.
100000 bales, which would have CON
sumed the entire production and sur
plus stock and left no cotton avail
able at all
1T is clearly shown that the man
ufacturing and spinning world is or
ganized, comprising practically every
civilized nation on the globe. and this
vast industry dependent upon the few
cotton growing States of the South.
Surely, with this knowledge before us
farmers and business men of the
South-should and can demand. with
anything like a practical organization.
a reasonable profit on all the cotton
America can grow."-The State
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