The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-29

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has been showed in by
those selfsame corn fed fires men
toned and has spent years in the
Sunny South where the Niger and
his mule pay homage to king cotton.
/ would like to ask why should
cotton be any more hlng Oh Ulte ru,.e-4
than the golden grain of the North
west prairies or the yellow corn from
the farms of the Middle West? Each
section is growing the product best
adapted to it's soil and climatic con-
ditions, and in all my peregrinations
about this country | have never seen
the fuss made about the farmer who
burned his corn for fuel because the
roads were SO bad that he couldn't
exchange it for coal, as is made each
fall because the cotton farmer can't
sell his cotton right now and get
rs money for it
The wheat and the corn farmer
have the same trouble in marketing
: is product as the cotton grower,
but in some respects he appears to
have learned a lesson from the rigor
Of the Northern winter, for while he
s just as anxious to get his money
out Of his crop, he is more canny
and the crop moves slower and is
harvested quicker, affording the
market more time to digest it. That
is the good word, digest. Because
the war scare makes it. impossible
to digest the whole Of the cotton
crop at one sitting, those who have
the handling of king cotton are get
ting frantic for national aid, for
i
demand must follow their cycle and
cotton will lose none of it's intrinsic
value because of the delay
This brings to mind still greater
question, greater because it affects
more millions of men than grow cot
ton and who would be glad to buy
the cotton for clothes to cover their
nakedness had they the means. 1t
is the man who labOrs for wages, it
matters little whether it be in the
field or in the MILL When his job
stops he has not even a bale Of cot
ton or a bushel Of corn that he can
put in as a guarantee that he and his
family will eat during the approach
ing winter, yet in all the discussions
that burden the paper, but little is
said in behalf of the wage Garner,
while the farmer has a roof over
his head and had his chance to grow
something on the side. The corn and
the wheat and the cotton should be
just as good a security for credit
as the piece of paper printed by the
Watered stock corporation, but be-
cause a warehouse voucher is not
recognized by this great and pater-
nal Government of ours, the broker
and the banker, be he ever so will
ling, dare not rick his credits to
help the man who IS Offering some
thing the world must eat or wear
sooner or later, and therefore has an
economic value that gold coin never
can have. Read back into history as
far as you care to go and the pro,
ducts Of the field have been garnered
into the warehouse and bills of lad
ing against them have been a me-
dunn Of exchange between millions
of people long before an overplus
of man made laws attempted to es-
tablish fictitious value for q highly
inflated currency system that ignores
the law Of supply and demand.
| believe in cotton. I believe in
providing the means for it to reach
the laborers instead of allow
ing it to rot in the field, or waste
away in storage and insurance fees.
/ believe in making it move for it's
in the moving that it acquires ITS
value, value a gold coin can never
acquire except it be traded. But in
DrOtactino cotton do NOT forgot Tho