The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-02-29
rHr SOUTH AND 1Es COTTON.
To the Editor Of the Telegraph:


To the Editor Of the Telegraph:
Since the cotton market has been i
existence, there has been constan
and growing demand for clean, syste
matized market AS yet it has ont beer
effected, and for the lack of it the cot
ton sections have lost billions Of money
and endured hardships whose depriva
tions are almost beyond an estimate
/ And at this late critical hour it is with
out question that the Southern States
Cotton Corporation is one Of the great
est blessings that ever came to q popu.
lace under the yoke of oppression, Ab.
solutely without any necessary cause
the cotton sections are time and again
thrown into at Of panic on account
Of the cotton market. There is no JUS
tice in it. Look what strain the cot.
ton states endure today How many
times has this been the state Of af-
fairs during the last ten yearss Is there
any hope of the old set to change things
for the next ten years. Southern free.
dom has been turned to sort Of bond
age. The fair South has been slapped in
the face. The deprived cottage ecoes
the Bob White s note. The greatest Of
the South s modern colleges are still
clay. On account Of the drained treas
ury, the common school, a potent fac
tor, is very inferior. Men have earned
their living by the sweat Of the brow,
but they haven't drank the milk nor
tasted the honey.
In the powerful as well as available
organization Of late is rendered the.
bands Of bondage broken, the fair South
her revenge, to the deprived cottage ..
modern dwelling, to the South her
greatest cottages that now are not, to-
the drained treasury one filed, shaken
down and OVERLOOKING; to the very in
ferior common school the effective one;
to the brow-sweating men their earned
liyings.
Former organizations have not met
the demands of the cotton belt and
spinner. But compare them with the
later. The former said, Mr.. Farmer,
hold to it. The later said, sMr. Farm
er, we II hold to it, distribute it evenly,
and knock up the graft.'' To put the
the cotton on the market regularly and
stop the swindle in the present cotton
market are two demands that must be
met. Any man Of intelligence can look
at the Southern States Cotton Corpora
tion and see in it a plan that meets
these two demands, plan that estab-
fishes cotton market free from graft,
and systematized market that gives
Justice to all that need be concerned.
This organization is practical and re-
sembles those other organizations that
are successfully covering large terrific
ries. It may be called an insurance
company of great volume. The corpora
ton covers the entire cotton belt and
it is being rapidly completed, and an or
ganization that viii have stockholders
n every county in the Southern states,
an Organization that is absolutely nee
essary, that is sound and practical, that
has no other principles except those that
have led other companies to success is
attracting no little attention in the
business world.
The question Of graft that is now be-
ing practiced, take for instance the ex-
pertinent made by the Marsh committee
at one Of the largest New England mills
to determine the spinnable differences
in grades Of cotton. The real spinnable
difference between middling cotton and
low middling was found to be % points,
a graft Of So points. The real spinnable
To the Democratic Voters ofthe Bic
Congressional District:
/ hereby formally announce my
candidacy for the Office Of congress-
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