Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-06-30

the fact and expect that any SYSTEM
as far-reaching as that would meet
with the most strenuous opposition.
because every middle-man who is
either directly or indirectly concern
ed would fight bitterly a change of
that sort. They don't realize that in
the long run it is best for the entire
public, themselves included, that we
have some uniform system of hand
ling and marketing our cotton crop.
Graders Must BE Licensed.
There is another thing: The Uni
ted States government has establish
ed standard grades for cotton, and
yet every year the cotton exporters
and buyers in every State in the
south take millions OF dollars out of
the pockets of the people by system.
atically under-grading cotton. | NV
self have shipped cotton from South
Carolina to New York to be delivered
on contract there, and in one instance
the grades given me by the New York
cotton exchange were 65 points above
that OF the local buyers in the town
OF Bennettsville. There must be
some law passed that will not only
adopt the definite and fixed stand
ards of the United States govern
ment, but the graders must be H.
censed and required to grade that
cotton accurately. Why, think Of the
c vet tn,,, ,>C
is bought and sold in the open mar
kets in the towns of South Carolina.
and the way it is practiced in the ex-
changes Of this country. If you buy
100 bales through the New Orleans
or New York exchange, and that cot
ton is rendered to you, the man who
tenders it is not permitted to grade
1t; you are not permitted to grade
it; but they have sw, >, disinter-
ested graders and the graders do not
know to whom that cotton belongs.
1t is carried to them on numbers. and
they grade it without the slightest
knowledge as to it's ownership. Now
you take it in South Carolina. and
every bit of the grading is done by
the purchaser of the cotton. You
nave either got to let him have your
cotton that way, or not sell it at all.
When he goes to tender 1T on con-
tract it Is done disinterestedly, and
| doubt exceedingly if there is one
bale of cotton out OF 1000 that is
bought in South Carolina in the open
market from the farm that when the
buyer comes to sell it to the mill he
doesn't make profit on The grading
over and above the price that he paws
you for the cotton.
The South has it in her power. by
utilizing the vast commercial credit
incident to handling this great mo-
nopoly crop, to make herself the dom
inant power in finance and civiliza-
ton. l have been called dreamer,
and l wish that | were worthy to
take my place among the great
dreamers of this world. But the gift
is not mine to pierce the veil of
doubt and look into the face OF un-
born time. l only stumble and fall
ter in darkness, see but dimly, and |
feel that, so far as | am Loncern.I.
| have done about all chat l can ever
DO in this great work, and that 9TH
ers must soon lake it up and carry
1t forward to auccess. Herbert Kauf-
man says, dreams are architects of
fact If that be true, then
What matters sneers and cyni-
csm?
This world is made up for the
most part Of those who take, but
never give, sharing in al, but spar
ing naught; who cheer a grudge, burt
grudge a cheer.
Wherefore the paths Of progress
have been sobs Of blood dropped from
the broken hearts of dreamers.
Makers of empires, they have
fought for higher things than en-
Dires, and higher seats than thrones.
Grief has only streaked their
heads with silver, but has never
greyed their hopes.
'Dreamers are argonauts, the
seekers or the priceless fleece Of
Truth
Through all The ages the voice of
destiny calls them from the unbroken
vasts.
They dare uncharted seas, be-
cause they are the makers Of tba
chart.