The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-09-16
WHY SHOULD PIRATES FIX THE
PRICE or COTTON?

paper in Dixie in many years.
why should pirates fix the price OF
cotton?
Did you ever think of that and did
Fit ever occur to you that every man,
woman and child in all of the Southern
states has a deep and keen interest
in this situation and that it is deplor-
able and is costing the people of the
South millions of dollars annually?
Here is what the Georgian says on
the subject and it is a pity that every
farmer in Georgia could not read it.
"The price of middIing cotton deliv-
cred in. Atlanta on Wednesday was
1925 cents a pound.
On the next day the price was l
cent less-that is 1926 cents pound.
On Friday the price was back to
1925 cents a pound.
The prices throughout the United
States. from New York to Galveston,
showed parallel fluctuations.
In Short, the farmers of the South
who found it necessary to sell their
cotton on Thursday we're penalized /
cent pounds bale.
Why?
Why, merely because lot of gamb-
lers people buying cotton they didn't
want and selling cotton they didn't
have-had created technical condi-
tion,' and futures had dropped some
thing more than 200 points.
Why, in the name of decent, honest
|citizenship should the farmers of
Georgia and the rest Of the South be
swindled in any such manner as this
because of the lust for unearned
money by lot of professional gamb-
iiers and halfwitted suckers?
Why should cotton, an industry
which constitutes the very backbone
of existence in our great and beloved
section, be football about by bunch
I able but unprincipled manipulators
N one side and horde Of idiotic pix
srs on the other?
Isn't it time to call halt on this
sort of thing?
Isn't 1t time to put the producing
and selling OF cotton on business
basis?
Isn't 1t time for the farmer to de-
clare his independence of this gang
IL pirates and pikers and to organize
md sell cotton as Judge Gary sells
steel or Fuller Galloway sells cloth or
sam Jones sells stoves or J. X. Orr
sells shoes?
Imagine, IL you can, those gentle
men permitting lot Of toddle-top
Primers saying to them. Your steel
,illet or your bolt OF cloth or your
tove or your case OF shoes was worth
s95 Wednesday and is worth 500 to
ay, but was worth only 500 yestser-
lay!
Yet, that Is what the farmers OF the
South have been permitting the pi-
ates and the pikers gambling In Ora
vier street, New Orleans, and Broad
lreet, New York. to say to them for
% years!
Isn't 1t time To stop IL?
The Georgian and American Is not
O absurd as 10 say the New York and
lew orleans cotton exchanges should
20 closed by law. To legislate these
xehanges out of existence would leave
he Southern farmer In worse hx
han ever. We are not so witless as 70
ay speculation In cotton should be
,anned, because we know very well
can't be done.
But The Georgian and American
oes know that the cotton farmer can
amove his product from the zone Of
peeulation and put II In the realm
business where the petty gambler
nd the able manipulation can't touch
III.
How?
BY organizing under the Sapiro plan
nd by selling his cotton just as the
each growers OF Georgia sell their
lhcrtas, just as the watermelon grow
.rs OF Southwest Georgia this year sold
heir Tom watsons, Just as the orange
md lemon growers of Florida and
california sell their fruit
ON A BUSINESS BASIS, WHERE
SUPPLY AND DEMAND MEET
WITH CLEAN HANDS AND HON
EST PURPOSES AND TRANSIT
/ BUSINESS LIKE MERCHANTS AND
GENTLEMEN.
Sign up. farmers Of Georgia! seek
,ut the nearest member of the organ
sation committee OF the Georgia Cot
ON Growers Co-operatove Association
and sign MP.
Let's put Georgia over Just as they
lid in Texas and Oklahoma and Mis-
assinpi aud Arizona and North Caro-
lima.
Sign up: Let's abolish the pirate
end the pikers. Let's sell our co;to'
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