The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-13
His Majestic Sway Settles
Destiny of That Great Portion
OF RepubIic"-DanieIs
QUOTES HENRY w. GRADY
Secretary of the Navy Says
Country Is vitality Interested
and Should Come to the Res
cue in This Emergency
Brought On by the War in
Europe

Josephus Daniels in WASHINGTON
ID: O. Herald October s:
cotton IS king In the South
Whether We will it or not. his ma iestir
sway settles the destiny of that yreat
portion Of the republic.
In Henry Grady's exquisite orosa
poem, he says of it:
what a royal plant it is, The
world waits in attendance en- its
growth. The showers that fall wbis-
peTlnS on It's leaves are heard around
me earth. The sun hat shines upon
- tenhpereo by the prayers of all
tle people. The frostS hat chill if
ana n dews that descend from the
stars are noted, and the trespass of
q ltlle worm upon it's green lea
means more to England and English
homes thar the advance of a Russia n
army upon her Asian frontier. 1t is
sou from the time it puts forth it's
tlnlest shoot.
Its foliage decks the somber earth
IN emerald sheen. It's blossom retacts
tne brilliant hueS of sunset skies in
Soutnern chimes, and puts to shame the
ioVeileSt rose, INC when lOOsinc is
snowy fieeces to the sun it floats a
banner that glOrifies the field of the
hurnple farmer, hat man is marshall
eu under a flag that will compel the
arrogance of the world and wiring a
tribute from every nation of the earth
us hDer is current in every bank in
all the world.
Its oil adds luxury to lordly ban
quets in noble halls and brings com
tort to lOWly homes in every cline.
ltS hour gives mana food richer in
value than any the
earth has ever known, and a curative
agent long SOlOht md fn,n1 IN ro+L
ing else. Its meal is feed for every
BEAST That bows to do mans labor
from NOrWay's frozen peaks to Afri-
cas- parched plains.
1T is a heritage hat God gave to
this people when He arched the skies.
estaDllShed our mountains. girded US
about With oceans, tempered the sun
Shlne and measured the rain. Ours
n our children's forever and forever
and no princelier talent ever came
from His OmnipOtent hand to mortal
stewardship"
Would Depend Unon the South.
The world IS dependent upon the
South to raise the fieecy stable. If
the world were we'll clothed, it could
easily buy all the cotton South
raises or can raise.
In times Of peace there is a de-
mand for the South's product, which
AiOl III ~ HlOl1cS lulO tne south.
but which inSureS the balance tf
trade in favor of America. Nearly Ga
per cent OF the cotton grown in the
United states is exported to EurODe.
The horrible war has made it i'm
possible to Export to those countries
consuming it a very large portion Of
this 80 per cent; and in those coun-
tries where the ports are closed the
call for men to leave the mills and
&c to the front has greatly reduced
the demand for cotton. Moreover.
the general impOverishment which al
ways follows in the wake of war. will
lessen the capacity for some time of
Europeans to buy even the common
necessities of life. Everything
good market. Napoleon said an
army travels On its belly The SOL
dIers must be fed. but old clothes can
be utilized. While, therefore, the
farmers of the West and North have
immediate market for their products
at good prices, the South is hard hit
because people can get along without
cotton goods for 81 yea or two with
out suffering.
Interests Every Part of County.
In this emergency, it is not onlv the
South that should come to the rescue
in buying cotton n cotton goods and
in making it easy for Southern farm
ers to finance the cotton they cannot
sell at q fair price. but every par of
the country is vitality interested. The
South is a big purchaser of everything
manufactured in America. If it can
not get money for its cotton, it cannot
buy manufactured goods. If it can
be helped to tide owe the present en-
barrassment, the South will be able
to buy them from other sections, pay
its bills, and help the wheels of COM
merce go around.
In this crisis of the Southern far
mer, the whole country is interested
cotton sales ar being conducted and
cotton displays 1g made, and many
women are W >g cotton dresses
who formerly Ce silk. and.
by the way, If women of the