The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-05-08
THE COST Of COTTON
TO THE SOUTH
AR. III s.. wANNAMAKEa GIVES
SURPRISING FACTS.
STATEMENTS Of FARMERS
South Realizes Its Future Is at
Stake and Must Act
Accordingly.

ton Association, upon the request OIL
n well known magazine that he fur-
aish them with statement showing
the cost OF cotton to the South. sent
them the following article:
Cost Of Cotton to the South.
First, as to the cost of cotton to
the South, have estimated the cost.
Of cotton to the South includes the
following:
/. The production Of cotton cost the
South slavery.
s It caused the War Between the
States, IS.
8. The production Of cotton has
brought slave labor. Regardless OF the
fact that cotton is a handmade prod
uct. price has been established on
cotton on the basis Of slaye-labor
from which price it has never been
removed
4. ii caused the South to become
cotton slaves.
s. II caused the South to merely ex-
ist. denying To the producers the ne
cessities and comforts Of life.
6 10 produce cotton and exist at
the nice paid for it by the manipu-
1ator necessitated the establishment
of starvation wages IN the South,
which exist even unto today.
4. 1t has caused the illiteracy OF
sks South, through the manipulations
of the cotton bears.
5. 1t has caused the impoyerishment
ard pauperism of the South.
g. The production Of cotton has
caused the bad roads of the South.
through the impoverishment OF the
producer by the manipulation.
10. It has driven from the rural
communities the white man, who Is
no longer contented to exc out an ex.
istence; to .'eny to himself and his
family the comforts and necessities Of
life: to work without fair retnunera-
tion.
4 IL. 1t is even driving the negro
away; he has received a new vision;
!; he Is no longer satisfied with his un,
comfortable sprfeundings; he Is insult
Gciently clothed
Has Made. Other Sections Prosperous
= IL. It has made other sections Of
fhe county prosperous; Il has fat
tened the bears and manipulators Of
the North. II has blessed mankind in
avery spot OF the glebe where the
sun shines except in the South, where
E hes proved . curse.
IS. The production o. cotton in the
South today has caused the descend
ants OF the people who fought to
break the chains OF physical slavery
from the black man to tight for the
purnose of forging the chains OF
slavery az poyerty. OF illiteracy on
the women and children working in
the cotton fields, both white and
black still tighter -
(, Ia n hsss fIled the graye.yards of
shs Smith with men. women and lit
tie children who existed and passed
away without necessities, comforts
and education.
!: IL II has created one Of the great
est gambling hells on this globe, the
New York Cotton Exchange, extend
ing its damnable and blighting ma
:ninulafions and schemes throughout
our nation: fattening and prospering
the gamblers and manipulators on the
1ife.blood OF the toiler.
Z 1s The nrodpctyon OF cotton in the
ssorth has caused the producer to be-
aor,a co,nrerc;aI cannibal this be.
49, ohso,rta1y necsas,rv to enable
him 70 srjst He has DESTROYED his
,o,astrv aaaced his soil ofn it's fer
.;,,tv. ax,stad on his natural assets:
sa,,',,a A. - himse,f and his family
raasoneh,a bonrs Of work and proper
,sorr5ng conditions. a decent home:
- , aneo-tur;tv 70 n,sv and to learn
~ - has caused child labor in the
ronth II bas cansed the women and
s,,h;Idran :, tba sonth both white and
hIack to nerform not only labor, re
gordless q. hours. but even to per-