The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-11-29

the Dig eQd or his crop at good
prices, has money in the bank and
can stand out as long as he pleases
on what is left We see the world
importing from America more cotton
this year despite the great advance
in prices, than it took last year at
the lower prices. This is due to an
tndiess demand for goods at prices
showing enormous profits to the spin
ner. Furthermore, the great armies
OF Europe, are chewing up all kinds
OF cotton goods on a ratio of four
hunared per cent increase per man,
as compared with go: demand in time
of peace. Many foreign, as well as
domestic spinners, can now make a
profit on the basis of 25c and higher
for raw material. This being true,
why should the farmer sell at zoe
what remains in his hands? Egyp-
pound and the mill buyers for that
grade of cotton can pay zoe and make
good money. Very many people fail
to realize that cotton is both peace
and war article and the world can
not get on without it. Should peace
now be declared cotton would jump
or Sc as all Europe is practically
bare of cotton and would have to Law
in big supply in order to reopen it's
textile industries for purely CONNER
| clal outlets. Should America enter
the great war, cotton would advance
l0c rapidly as our newly made army
would have to be equipped with uni
forms, overcoats, blankets, under
! clothes, tents, ETC., (ssucient wool for
this purpose cannot be had), reuuir-
ing enormous demand for our raw
cotton at time when it cannot be
| spared for that purpose. l do not,
Tor the lift of me, understand why
/ cotton should not assert itself and
seek its normal position in relation
! to other commodities, for cotton is
one OF the greatest world commodi-
ties of all raw materials. We find
the copper men getting nearly three
times the former price for their metal
and we all know about the sensational
advance in the price of paper
throughout the world. Wool has adj
! Vanced to unheard of levels; linen is
almost unobtainable; silk is a scarce
article; indigo is sky high; wheat
| IS virtually at two dollars and corn
at one dollar; beef, pork and mutton
have almost been eliminated from the
dlet OF the poor man; leather has
scared into the blue; steel and iron
steadily advance despite almost rec
ORD prices. Cotton is up scarcely SO
per cent, the others being up 200 to
400 per cent. The linen and wool
mills are running out of raw mate
rails and the cotton mill men are
growing uneasy for fear the same
will be their fate as to raw cotton. I
think prudent and farsightcd mill
men will Sc the Importance of the
situation sufficiently to protect them
selves. Why sshould noS the farmer
share in all this great prosperity as
well as other producers of raw mate
RAJ such as metals, grains and meats.
NO one can say what next years
crop Will be nor state the price it
VIII command. We DO know there
wlil be gap of nearly eleven months
between the present scarcity. There
mas been an exodus of negroes from
the plantations to the munitions
plants, mines, railroads, manufactur-
ing establishments, etc, fertilizers
will continue to be poor, mules viii
be scarce and high; the cost of fool
sstuffs is also sure to be way rIp in
the air; so that next years cron
: whether large or small, will be one
OF the most costly ever raised. Mr.,
Pcarsall, | never felt so confident as
, 10 the future of cotton for q period
or twelve months as / do right now
am, as l stated before, cotton seems
! 10 be slowly corncring ITSELF"