The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
EVERYBODY GETS RICH
But COTTON PLANTER.
Effect on South of Embargo on Cotton.
Remarks of Hon. John L. McLaurin Farmers Meeting
Orangeburg on July "a.

during the world war now in progress said:
1T remarkable how little the wisest comprehended
the far-reacinc effect worldwide The first impress
had in this country that our export trade would
absolutely destroyed all business be practically at stand
still until the end of the We had estimates from the great
lest cotton experts in the ard giving figures TO sho"
that consumption American cotton would be less than ten
million bales No realized the which the war would
consumption of cotton It is estimated that three
bales have been consumed the manufacture OF
explosives This seems to extravagan statement but if
YOU uniforms cotton it prooaoy tails
the figures According to estimate that have re
Gently seen there about twenty million men under
arms counting of the neutral powers winch are at
the order protect their neutral rights Inc WIN
number the productive walks OF lite mas DE
foreign factories and created enormous
constantly increasing demand for American goods OF every
kind.
If is perfev apparent now that the speed
M have ended the war last embargo the ship
ent of food and munitions This would have meant the speedy
triumph Germany for seem she was only
country prepared for war
At the present rate the trade of the United
States will amount half million dollars than
double the highest point which has reached before 1t
enena accepted idea that this large trade balance due TO
the munitions Of war; but the department OF commerce IN us
figures shows be the food stus occupy the
most prominent figure Unless the United States drawn
the war exhausg expenditure of and money she
will the end of another than all the nations now
This trade balance constitutes deo
Europe America either gold products OF some
kind Some by sale low price of securities
lin American corporations This to enrich Boston
and New and steel industries OF Pttsourg ana the
reang fabulous profits The western farmer growing
rich from stock grain Here in the South our people, VINO
the money crop the world have ad forced out
of their hands, middle have pocketed something
million dollars out of the cotton crop OF
South.
We are confronted by an almost complete embargo the
shnments of cotton Is the South again be the only sufferer
The sinking shocked this nation to It's depths
But after ALL loss of hundred and twenty naman V
raes usgnfcance when compared to the eedo OF e
which ancestors shed oceans OF oooo a
millions of treasure
have great the sagacty and the patriotism
President Wilson, and fully realize the tremendous problem
he facing for the past year IN ne neutral
ty of States with the whole world at war IL was as
for him as for any have foreseen the great
demand upon United States for food and ammunson
and how impossible England to have anagonzed tne
the United conducted this successfully as se
has So far as concerned sympathes are with ne6ner
side and with both regret mparay the boodshed carnage
and which has visited all of these natons but am 1o Am
erica first and the Southern end Of America primarily 40
not believe that England had right TO declare the whoe
Sea closed trade the exports to Germany oo"n
from opr hundred mins to fifty millions largely at the
expense of the South while sales France and to England
run up hundred millions to about one ana quarter
billion Much of this cotton forced out OF the
producer from five to seven cents pound NOR a
70 consent 10 the seouesaton another cotton crop by
similar believe that it, when England issued ns ofoe
the United States Navy had been assembled and heet %
ROtterda
gun would ever have fred the freedom OF the h
every nation There would have been no SINK
ing Lusantia by submarine Wacefare that mas soche
civilized While England securing from the united
States guns powder and other conaond of war; she denied
the right shipping food cotton and other
any of the countries whom she at 1t well Tor
people of United States get these facts clearly ana nr"
in their minds ia draw direct conclusions Most OF US IN
the South are of Scotch English descent speak the Eng
sh language heritage of lncncs US TO soe Win
England contest against any other nation But never
in the history world nation undertaken to prevent
trade bv neutral nation conaband of except where
such nation was able to maintain actual blockade
have read everything that can get haLds on with ret
erence to this war especially English papers At first was un
der the impression real Of this was the desire
on the part Of Germany for expansion doubt If this
strictly true that the great ambition OF Germany
to foreign her surplus products and the
ermany probably has had good deal more to do with
bringing than colonial ambitions When the Fran
co Prussan Germany manufacturing nation
and ready market in England for her surplus alu
ura products She did begin develop her manufacturing
$780, after the perfection Of the Bessemer
steel progress rapid in manufactures that
instead Of producing sufficient food for
her people, She like England became foodmpong
world the product Of her
factories and became competitor with England not only in sell
material and food