The log cabin Democrat., 1914-11-30
EUROPEAN WAR SHAT. TIERS KING sorrows
 THRONE
FLEECY STAPLE MUST PAY RANSOM INTO THE COZ
 FERS OF WAR.
Nation Rings With Cries of
 Stricken Industry.
By Peter Radford. Lecturer National Farmers Union.

from the European war than any other agricultural product on the American continent. The shells of the belligerents have bursted over his throne. frightening his subjects and shattering his mark cts, and, panic-stricken, the na- tion cries out God save the king"
 People from every walk of life have contributed their mite to- ward rescue work. Society has danced before the king; milady has decreed that the family ward robe shall contain only cotton goods; the press has plead with the public to ''buy a bale"; bank CTS have been formulating hold ing plans; congress and legisla- tive bodies have deliberated over relief measures; statesmen and writers have grown eloquent e<- pounding the inalienable rights of "His Majesty" and presenting schemes for preserving the fnan- cial integrity of the stricken staple, but the sword of Europe has proved mightier than the pe1 of America in fixing value upop this product of the sunny south. Prices have been bayoneted, val ues riddled and markets decimat- ed by the battling hosts of the eastern hemisphere until the American farmer has suffered a war loss of $4OO,OOO,OOO, and bale of cotton brave enough to enter an European port must pay ransom of half its value or go to prison until the war is over. Hope of the Future Lies in Co., operation.
 The Farmers Union, through the columns of the press, wants to thank the American people for the friendship, sympathy and as- sistance given the cotton farm CTS in the hour of distress and to direct attention to cooperative methods necessary to permanent jly assist the marketing of all farm products.
 The present emergency pre- sents as grave a situation as ever confronted the American farmer and from the viewpoint of the producer, would seem to justify extraordinary relief measures, even to the point of bending the constitution and Straining busi- ness rules in order to lift a DOT ton of the burden off the-backs of the farmer. for unless some thing is done to check the inva- sion of the war forces upon the cotton fields, the pathway of the European pc,tilcnce on this con- tinent will be strewn with mort gagged homes and famine and poverty will stalk over the south land, filling the highways of in- dustry with refugees and the bankruptcy court with prisoners.
 All calamities teach us lessons and the present crisis serves to illuminate the frailties of our marketing methods and the weak ness of our credit system. and out of the financial anguish and travail of the cotton farmer will come a volume of discussion and a mass of suggestions and finally a solution of this. the biggest problem in the economic life of America. if. indeed. we have not already laid the foundation for at least temporary relici.
 More Pharoahs Needed in
 Agriculture
 I'2rm products have no credit and perhaps can never have on a permanent and satisfactory basis unless we build warehouses. cold storage plants, elevators. etc, for without storage and credit facili- ties. the south is compelled to dump it's crop on the market at harvest time The Farmers Unions in the cotton producing states have for the past ten years consistently advocated the con struction of storage facilities. We have built during this period 1000 warehouses with a capacity