The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-01-18

Tuesday, January is, 1916
food. 1t is too late now for any
thing like national sction The weeviI
! is in Florida and southwest Georgia,
and at the presen: rate of progress
should strike South Carolina, unless
something is done about 1918. It's
approach will be from the south. There
is a line across the cotton bet north
of which, on account OF the severity
of the linters, the weevll can not
spread. The movement north is slow.
Georgia is fighting to keep it south, anu
we can take advantage of this. From
Augusta to Savannah there is ma
tural barrier, a poor sandy ridge on
the Georgia side until you strike the
flats, where the swamp is from II to
20 miles wide. 1t is not cotton coun-
try on our side, except about Ellenton.
where cotton runs in close to the river.
North of Augusta We have the noun
tains of Oconee, which the WeeYn can
never cross. A non-cotton zone west
of the railroad from HardeeTlle to
Allendale, from there to WarrenVlHe,
| Aiken county, thence straiht through
Abbeville and across Anderson, via
Pendleton, to Walhalla, with strict
quarantine on hay, cotton seed ana
other products liable to carry the wee
vii, would probably stay its marca for
some years, and in the meantime
remedy may be found. This is not
natural cotton section, and it would
pay to compensate those affected rath-
er than to imperil the prosperity OF the
entire state At the present rate OF
progress, our time limit is not over
two years. The weevil is now in Sum
ter county, Georgia, following rapidly
the coast line, and moving slowly
north.
FESnlEQS CHS DySlOus
I have referred several times In tnls
report to the persistent fight which has
been waged against the state system {
It's business success IS now grudging-
ly admitted, but the fight will never
stop until the people take a hand.
Hated by politicians, secuted by selfish
interests, without adequate finances
that it mas succeeded at all demon
strates the soundness of its principle
and the need Of its existence; 1t was
to be expected that in protecting the
cotton grower the system would be
fought by those against whom he IS
protected, and for that reason / have
not been surprised or taken uhawares
by the relentless warfare which has
been made, sometimes taking the form
of personal attacks upon me. Tias
world ever seeks to prevent reform, by
destroying the reformer. The raeh,
stake and the cross through all the
ages. stand as mute signals of human
progress. On the other hand, the true
reformer never fights individuals; ne
attacks systems. It is foolish to blame
individuals. l have no fight on them,
except as cogs in the wheel. They are
merely symptoms of disease in the
body polite whicn only the surgeons
knife can eradicate. -
The spread of the idea into Other
states has been viewed with alarm,
and the corporate interests which have
fattened at the expense of those who
grow the cotton nave Waged a battle.
throughout the South such as could
have been waged only by combined
millions. There is a tremendous COM
bine in Georgia, Oklahomas, Mississ-
ipu and Alabama, seeking not only to
concentrate the cotton in atlanta, but
to parcel out the territory and fix the
price. They are now iDTading the
State of South Carolina to take the
Standard warehouse into the combine
When l appeared before the Georgia
legislature the statement was freely
made to me that this was an effort to
head off the recognition of the storage
of cotton through state warehouses
The success Of this corporation move
ment will parcel out the cotton terri
tory and concentrate the money power,
with the federal reserve system at its
back, just where 1t has been since 1855.
while the success Of the plan upon
which South Carolina is proceeding
means the liberation. of the people.
quote the following from recent call
issued by Philip NJ Shaw Of Is William
street, New York, under date OF Octo-
Der /, 1915, to the shareholders Of