Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-19

cotton men in this section and lii
opinion is worth something.
Just how long the market will re-
main around that price depends upoI
the size of the crop and how it Il
marketed" Mr.. Roddcy went on to say
But southern farmers need not cX
pcct to get rich out of this crop. Tht
farmers, you know. arc still as Eucf
slaves as were the black slaves duriEf
the War Between the States.
Each year the New York Cottor
exchange gamblers set aside so mucl
money for the purchase Of the south.
crn cotton crop. Figulativcly speak
ing they just put so much money aside
and they say, now we are going tt
give this money for the crop-cl
rather we are going to allow this
money for the crop. If the farmers
make 100000 bales they will get this
sum of money for it. If they make 13,
600, 900 bales they will get this sum OF
money for it.
$50 if the farmers make a big crop
they don't get as much per pound, OF
course Us they do when they mike d
small crop.
1T is the visible surplus that largely
controls the cotton market. In fact, in
my opinion that is what controls it ab-
solutcly. Suppose the farmers make
a big crop and warehouse it-kceps II
off the market The manufacturers
knowing that the cotton is there just
the same just simply sit back and wa:l
until the farmers have TO sell at The
manufacturers price.
Cotton has never been sold on ha
sis of real genuine supply and demand
cxcept during the World war.
But the farmers as Il whole haven't
learned that the only way to get falr
price for their product is to keep pro-
duction down. AS c'ass they arc
very, very foolish and nobody knows
that they arc fools any better than the
New York Cotton exchange.
az lived in New York and I've
been around the Cotton exchange quite
Il bit.
when man in New York wants to
call another Il fool he doesn't tell him
that he is fool. lie says, You arc Il
farmer
some of these days, though" Mr..
Roddcy went on to say, the farmers
of the south arc going to wake up to
the situation. THEY are going to rcail-
iZc that they can control the situation
if they will and they arc going TO 90
Just that. 1t my not be in my life
time, but it is coming.
Peppery Paragraphs.
Fiction is falschoud done in colors.
\ stitch in limc may save Il big s'lr-
gcon's fec later.
N',sc is the fool who knows enough
TO keep it to. himself.
Sometimes the hardest things tn
bear arc what the ncighbUrS say.
The shadow of suspicion often re-
suits from the casting Of reflections.
4 diplumat is Il man who gets what
he wants hy pretending not tn want IL.
conversation is Il dead art, says
Il philosopher. II WAS tn kcd to d"alh.
The girl who is chummy with her
father and brothers hasn't much To
fear from other men.
If Il man makes Il specially "l paint
in,. towns red he cannnt hope I" re-
main in the pink Of perfection.
When a woman ncglcct* to put her
hands To her back hair occasionally
she hasn't much left tn ike Tor.
If vnu recommend II man for posi-
finn il is dnugh,luts to fudge you viii
hc blamed all the rest Of your natural
life if he haplrcns To so wrong.
Two swcllrd heads arc worse than
one.
Truth isn't always Il thing nf beauty
but i, isa't the truths fHut.
S,.mc,i,ncs !, w0nan's hair is golden
and occasionally it is plated.
rhcrr is ALWAYS rGnIu III the top. hlil
rrw of us care for IN attic room.
Egntis;: Any person wiz; more
troubles than yourself.
M. Henrietta, the porter on Il "'ccp'
in. car isn't called II IlIartcrmaSt"r
yc; he is.
Sad weather often proves Il blessing
in disguise hy affnrdinS people SOME
thing To- talk about.
\ man occasionally intcrfcrcs VIII
the affairs nr Il woman without E"ttiis
the worst If tin lnOks.
NnthinE p"aScs SpinSlcr wilcll SIN
has occasion to stop at hotr' Ike "c'