Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-01

Paying the Bills.
[Of late Texas papers have been ex-
erting themselves to educate their peo-
pie as to the true facts as to the cotton
situation. The following from the pen
of State Senator E. G. Senter, in Tex
as Farm and Ranch, is one Of the most
enlightening articles that has appear
ed.l
e. G.. Senter had the following arti-
Gle in Farm and Ranch.
The time has come for plain speak
ing. The big question now hanging
in the balance which affects directl!
every man, woman and child in the
cotton states is not whether the in
habitants of Bessarabia shall be free
but whether the citizen of Texas shall
be free.
There is no freedom where the prin-
cipal industry of one section Is SUB
jected to the absolute control OF Vul-
lures somewhere else which feed ano
fatten upon it, and fix the terms upor
which it may live.
There is a battle royal on today
and every artifice that money, power
and diplomacy can employ is being
used to deceive and mislead those
whose vital interests are at stake tc
fight against themselves.
The English spinner wants cotton
but he wants it dirt cheap.
The American spinner wants cotton
and he wants it dirt cheap.
The financial power of Europe is
hitched by an inseparable cord of the
spinners of Europe.
The dominant financial powers OF
New York city and the Atlantic slope
are tied by wisps of invisible steel tc
the American cotton manufacturers.
Every great financial influence out
side the cotton states is arrayed upon
the bear side of the cotton market.
Every European state has thrown
the full weight of it's financial and po-
litical powers into the scale to helI
the cotton pears.
This is a condition known to every
man who has access to the facts.
The world is being regaled with
ornate stories which tell Of plans to
establish perpetual peace. But it hears
nothina about the plans to contro
trade and commerce. These things
are kept behind the screen. In the
meantime the bear fight goes on
against cotton.
And where does your government
stand?
Ask Mr.. Barnard Baruch. AS faI
as cotton is concerned, he is the gov
ernment There have been many
powers since time began, but no pow
er ever existed before which eXer-
c.zed as complete mastery over all the
business affairs of the universe as has
been concentrated in this one person
age. Let me introduce him to the
readers of Farm and Ranch.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mr.
Barnard Baruch, one of the most sue
ccssful cotton and stock opera
tors who ever hit the street.; also one
of the most urbane. A man who never
lost his head, his temper, or a bet
He is a wizard and a wonder, l car
find no record in history of any Other
man who could say to the waves
of commerce, "be still" and they were
still, or "be alive" and they awoke te
action. His headquarters at present
are in Washington. He Is the law
giver for the war trade board, the
war industries board, and all othel
governmental boards which have mucf
to do with making the wheels g1
round. When he is at home he is a.
New York, and he sometimes shake:
things up on "the street" Also, M
shakes things down-for B. B. and hi:
friends. When he gets real busy-th'
small fry becomes mere pikers
Among the things for which he is notet
is generosity Common repute say'
that after the election of 1916 there
was quite a deficit in the treasury o
the Democratic campaign fund, ant
Mr.. Baruch wiped it out with his per
sonal check. This is gossip. MI
Baruch knows, of course, whether /
is true. And if it is not correct, th'
rumor ought to De silenced.
When cotton was headed for A
cents per pound last year, the manu-
facturers and bankers of the east
plus all the powers of Europe-greV
indignant. True it was that MI
Baruch's board had fixed a govern
ment price upon cotton products tina
would have justified a price of g.
cents per pound for raw cotton. 9th
er government boards had fixed wages
for labor of various kinds which call
ed for a price upon cotton OF 81 pc
pound in order to give the women an'
children of the south who work in tn
cotton patch wages equivalent TO thos
paid under the government scale u
the immigrants from Europe who com
prise the principal part of the laoorer
in the mines and factories OF the At
lantic slope. But this was differen
story. The powers that be in the IN
dustrial world said that cotton mus
go down, not up, and to Mr.. Baruci
they went with their complaint.
Then began the agitation for a gov
ernment price upon cotton. The slat
was made for price of 25 cents, an'
the public was artfully prepared 10
the program. The editorial pages OF TN
metropolitan press principally con
trolled, as shown by the Kointa letter
with London than with America) ran'
with attacks upon the cotton produc
ers. who were classed with the "profi
teers." Every other staple product ha'
been harnessed with a fixed govern
ment price-why not cotton? Ihu
shouted the factories and their hire
lings. Announcements said to be OF
fetal were given out to the effect tina
49, ,oyarprent was Manning to f1X