Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-08-26
Cotton Opportunity
Americas, Ga, Aug. 25, 1914.

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once at every mans door, and if 1t
ever did at the door of the United
States, it is doing so now.
All the powers of the world prac-
tically are at war except this country,
and you will see that we are in a po-
sition to dictate prices and terms with
the trade of the world if we only reach
out after it.
NO matter which side wins the
victors and the vanquished will loose
so many men and the financial losses
from these terrible conflicts, as we'll
as the property destroyed will be so
great that it will leave all the con-
testants Frustrated. 1t will not take
philosopher to know what the re-
suit will be-the United States will
become the most powerful nation in
the world in every way. She will
henceforth carry the torch of progress.
! While the agricultural and manufac-
turing industries of Europe are paral-
! yzed, we will gain a supreme control
of the markets of the world and enter
upon period of prosperity which will
excel anything we have ever known
or dreamed of. This is to say, if we
as united country will help one an
other
Destiny has so fixed it that we have
the one thing required to go to the
markets of the world with, and that
is cotton. AS aSouthern man, can
say thank God we control such
product. New England will not want
us to succeed very much, but we have
the middle and western states with us
this time. New England, being a man
ufacturing section, is naturally selfish
and she had rather sell the finished
product by far than the raw material.
| But as growers we want to push the
raw cotton, and let any and every
country of the world who will make its
own finished goods. This is what we
want to look to and it will not interfere
so much after all with the mills. The
field is broad.
How can we bring about this great
movement which must come about is
now interesting every Southern man,
because he is either directly or indi-
rectly concerned 1t is best that our
government take it in charge, then we
advance as one people. Let New Eng
land as well as we get share of the
profits; we can afford to be liberal.
If France had the opportunity of our
cotton producing states and owned
them as her territory, she would
emerge from the brunt of this terri
BILE catastrophe in ten years with
every war claim placed on a firm f.
nancial basis.
Permit me to submit plan without
an argument, simply as one plan,
trusting that every one who has a
plan will do so, and that out of all
the plans proposed the best will be
adopted
We want this government to control
cotton gradually, and not at all in Z
compulsory way, and all those who do
not want their cotton thus controlled
need not comply. Handle it as best
they can.
The plan is: Wherever there is a
postal savings bank established in the
cotton belt, let the government estab-
fish a bonded warehouse, as follows.
1t will select one from any that are
! already established in business, and
no other business but government bus
mess can be transacted there. The
fees for the storing, sampling and
handling of the cotton can be easily
arranged. Then the government can
deposit from the regional banks at
stated times mot all at once) suffi-
cient funds in any bank that it may
select, upon the proper safeguards, to
meet the payments for the cotton as
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