The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-29
MORRISON SHOWS HYDE'S CONTRASTS
 TO BE MISLEADING
 AND VERY UNJUST
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labor makes up about AS per cent of the cost in producing cotton. If this is figuredo uti nd etail itw i'll also show how glaring1y misleading was the con traSt this writer made between the ad- vance in wheat and the advance in cot ton. The records referred to here are both private and public. They are abund- ant and can be easily verified, I have had occasion to keep in close touch with the steadily increasing cost of growing cotton for number of years, and have given it much attention, especially during the last four years. I have, as a conse- quence, reviewed these records many times, have them in my possession and will send them to anyone who may de- sire them
 MISLEADING AND UNJUST
 "The attempt to convey the impression that the cotton growers were now try ing to get the government to protect them against the recent decline in prices is grossly unjust as well as rlislead- ing The Associated Press dispatches. reporting the incident referred to in the article, said that some bankers and large planters were in Washington attempt ing to secure some such legislation. but that the small producers were opposed to any government interference. The fact is, the small growers sent a committee to Washington to fight the measure pro posed by this small coterie of bankers and planters. and they were supported in this by practically all of the southern representatives in Congress. On the in- itiative of these small growers, who pro- duced fully so per cent of the cotton Icrop. Representative Lever Of South Caro- lima, chairman of the House agricultural committee, advised against the measure and through his advice it was defeated.
 '"rhe way the importance of the 'Buy-a- bale movement is magnifed by the writ CT is absurd. Everyone at all informed about cotton affairs knows it's influence in stabilizing the market was absolutely negligible. Any claim that it was is ridiculous. The starring of this move ment was due to rothing more than the pernicious activity of politicians. from which cotton and the cotton growers have suffered more, perhaps, than any other comm odity or any other class of business men in this country. The politicians saw the opportunity and launched the move ment for purely political aggrandize- ment. Psychological conditions made it's promotion easy, and quite a number of really good people, both in the north and in the south, were drawn into support ing it.. It made a great noise, but that was all there was to it. It has absolutely no practical value.
 "BUY-A-BALE" MOVEMENT
 T haze been travelling this southern country for {. good many years, looking intimately into economic and industrial conditions, as they relate to the prodlc- tion and manufacture of cotton. know that the great bulk of the cotton farm. CTS, and many other people in the south besides. deeply resented the buy a bale movement This was so evident that !. as did other southern men, wrote an er~ ticle It the time denouncing the move ment as rutting the cotton farmer and
 E. sp n 2 T ss lght hrfore the coun- : try. This article was widely published. and was tho subject of more or less eni- torial comss' 'ent,
 The movement was an outrage. The cotton farmers constitute the largest sin gle body of typical Americans in ehis country today, They .are in no sense weddings. They have robust contemat alike for the molycoddle and the moll;. coddler. They have never stood arouru and humbly plead for a right to thei' pace in the sun. They have always taken it \by force if necessary. and they vi'l>always hold it. in force. Tn keeping wi,h the traditions of the spler did race to which they belong.
 "One 2 cts S very definite impression, in reading the article of this writer, taa. -+-- ..', .srsv the price of wheat and the price of cotton was only subtle suhter
 ..,., .nas lne real object sought was to destroy the confidence of a very consids ' erable 5dy ( f citizens in the government, and to array one very considerable ses- tion of the country aganst another. The fact that tEe German government has sEent many millions of dollars to aeon plish just this tl-ing suggests that the article was of dangerous and sinister origin.
 Tt is fasr." certain that the rugged 1 patriots who belong to the wheat fields of the west and the cotton fields of tic. south, sor.lr of whose sons have already made the supreme sacrifice on the blooJs fields of Trance. would sumnarily sn5- press any Individual who would como in their mi.'st ard indulge. as this man his
 s~n~. q inn e a'sd to destraif the unity of the citizens in this major crisis of the nations life.