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

mats on our heads, from undershirt
to overcoat, it Is cotton. There are
one hundred million people in the
United States to-day, and If they were
able 1t Is not eXtravagapt to say that
they VOID each use ten dollars
worth Q. otton every year This
would consume the entire crop of
the United States and leave nothing
for the balance of the world. The
farmers of the South hold the key to
the situation. Wall Street can sell
all the future cotton they please, but
the mills cannot spin the kind Of cot
ton that Wall Street sells. You cant
clothe people with paper contracts.
We have the actual cotton, and it is
spot cotton, not paper cotton, which
is king. All that the South has to
do is to put herself in situation
to hold the crop and demand fair
price for it. Sooner or later these
millions of future contracts that are
now being sold in the cotton eX-
change of New York will fail due,
and then spectators must come TO
us for the spot cotton.
South Carolina Always Leader,
The population Of the world is es-
timated at about 1,500,000,OO0 peo-
pie. About 5OO,0OO,OOO regularly
wear clothes; 75O,OOO,0OO are par
TALLY clad, and 25O,OO0.O0O go
naked, and it has been estimated that
to clothe the entire population of the
entire world at the present rate Of
pounds per capita would require So
100000 bales Of cotton of 500
pounds each. L, is. therefore, plain
that the production Of cotton will go
on extending until the inhabited
earth is clothed with the product Of
our helds, for cotton at % cents is
the cheapest clothing known to man.
1t is the mission Of the South to
clothe the world, but if she is to do
so there must be reasonable profit
for the land owner and the laborer.
South Carolina, true to her tradi-
tions in the past, is leading this
great industrial movement for stabil-
izing the price Of cotton. w. p. G..
Harding, of the Federal Reserve
Board, in an address last February
to the American Bankers Institute,
said that out of the agitation which
he had last fall "that the only thing
worth while was the excellent ware
house system in this State" Later
he gave me letters to the leading
fnanciers of New York City, in which
he stated that South Carolina was far
in advance Of anything which had
beeN attempted and her State ware
mouse system was model for the
other States to follow. l feel that I
can assure him that South Carolina
Will DO her full duty. Our little
State has a glorious history, and has
played her part we'll in every great
national crisis. In 1887 John Rut-
ledge delivered his ultimatum to the
convention which formed the consti
tuition, and from that time to the
day when her civilization was over
turned by war her voice has been DO
tent in the councils of this nation
God speed the day when, forgetting
petty jealousies and small politics.
her craftsmanship will again shape
national policies. She once led the
South not only politically, but indus
trially. In 1885 she had the longest
line OF railroad in the world, and
when the war came was preparing for
the Blue Ridge Railroad to the West.
In 1865, when the colonies were con-
slderlng what course to pursue, South
carolina led the way by declaring for
continental unity. This was the real
beginning OF the revolution and the
foundation Of the Federal Constitu-
ton under which we are TODAY liv
ing. She was the first to take this
Dold step, and the first Of the thir-
teen colonies to form constitution
al government. Bancroft, the great
historian, declares that South Caro-
lima formed the Union. The last
Dlood or the revolution was shed
upon South Carolina soil, and after
the British had captured Boston,
New York and Philadelphia, from
Camden to Cowpens and Kings
Mountain was the real bloody battle
ground that ended in the surrender
OF CORVALLIS at Yorktown. When
the war ended South Carolina was
the largest creditor State. because
she had furnished more actual money
to the cause of independence than