The Brinkley argus., 1912-03-22

is
 ington City to the office of the
 Secretary of. Agriculture, and he
 stands there and gets the fig
 ures from these reports as they
 come in from all the gins of America and wires them in to
 headquarters of the cotton spec
 ulators on Wall street, and be-
 fore the ink is hardly dry on the
 records of the gin reports in the
 office of the Secretary of Agri-
 culture it is known by the spec
 ulators and gamblers of, Wall
 Street exactly how many bales of cotton have been ginned in Amer ica upsto that minute. They al-
 ready know just how. much cot
 ton will be needed to run the cot
 ton factories of the world for the coming year and also exactly how
 much is stored in the warehouses of ' tffeSe cotton factories and when. theepeople are taxed to pay for these gins reports to be sent in to them they, are put in DO session of all, the information to enable them to dictate to the American farmers the price they are going to let7 them have for their cotton for ; the coming month. 4Aad the same thing is repeated every month of the cot. ton season: sss
 i It does'nt do much good for us 1 to hold our cotton for higher prices, for this gang on Wall street. know exactly how many
 bales we are holding-they have i the statement of every ginner in in America showing just how many bales have been ginned. They don t care whether we sell to them in December or Jan- uray or not. They know the tax paying time will come on in Feb
 ruary and March and we will
 have to sellit to them anyway. 1 They know it is in the country,
 and that they will; get it at their I Own figures by just waiting un- til we have to turn it loose. THIS GANG HAS GOT NO
 BUSINESS KNOWING THIS
 MUCH ABOUT THE FARM
 ERS BUSINESS. It takes from
 13 to IA million bales of cotton to supply the cotton factories of the
 world every year. If these fel- lows on Wall street did not know
 whether we had raised a 10 mil :, lion or 15 million bale crop, they would take nochances on wheth- CT there would be enough to sup lply the demand or not, and they
 would go to buying the crop as it came on the market in the fall at
 a good pric, and they would keep on buying it at a good price un- ]. til they had bolght enough to
 run the factories for the year.
 ], Then if we happened to have i raised a million or so bales more
 than the demand called for, we
 could afford to take a slump price for the remnant after getting g good price for 13 or A million
 bales. If am elected to Con.
 gress 1 WILL INTRODUCE A
 BILL TO ABOLISH THESE GOVERNMENT GIN REPORTS AND SMASH THEM INTO SMITHEREENS, AND MAKE THE GANG ON WALL STREET GUESS AT HOW MANY BALES !: OF COTTON THE FARMER RAISE INSTEAD OF TAXING THE FARMERS FOR THE FIX. PENSE OF FURNISHING THEM THE INFORMATION.
 :: My opponent was asked by the President of the Farmers Union in one of the counties of this Dis. trict to introduce a bill in Con. gress to abolish these Gin Re. ports, since he has been our Con- ] gressman, but MY OPPONENT :l REFUSED TO INTRODUCE SUCH A BILL AND SAYS THAT HE IS IN FAVOR OF THESE GIN REPORTS. He says that he is in favor of a law requiring the cotton factories te report monthly how many bales of cotton they have stored in their warehouses, and he con. tends that these reports would . t.< E<<.-