Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-15
REVOLUTION PREDICTED
Rannamaker Believes Movement Of
Farmers viii Sweep Country.
SPOKE AT Big TIRzAH PICNIC TODAY

Cotton Crop Should be Worth Billions
Instead of Millions-Lax System OF
Marketing Largely Responsible
President Says American Cotton
Association is Strongest Farm Or
eanization in America Despite the
Politicians.
Tirzah, August 15-"An agrarian
revolution Is being born that will
sweep the south, the west and the en-
tire nation" declared Hon. J. Skottowe
Wannamaker of st. Matthews address,
ing the farmers at the big agricultur-
al picnic held here today in Oates
Grove. 1--WE know that there is al
ready great discomfort throughout the
country and when discomfort is wide
spread, 1t is never without justifica-
ton. This movement will have the
alliance and support of the Great
Commercial divisions directly depend
ent upon agriculture and the close CO.
operation and support of leaders of
thought who realize the vital necessity
ut is not known" continued Mr..
Wannamaker, where he that invent
ed the plough was born nor where he
died; yet he has effected more for the
happiness of the world than the whole
race of heroes and of conquerors who
have drenched it with tears and
manured it with blood and whose
birth, parentage and education have
been handed down to us with a pre-
cision precisely proportionate to the
mischief they have DONE"
Mr.. Wannamaker spoke in part as
follows:
Southern Progress.
Notwithstanding the hardships,
trials and educational disadvantages
which have so severely handicapped
the cotton growers of this and other
Southern states from the extern
sive production of cotton and inef-
ficient marketing, the South has
nevertheless made an almost miracu-
lous growth in all lines of industrial
development. In 1870 there were only
100000 bales of raw cotton manu-
factured in the Southern textile in
dustry. At the present time the an
nual consumption of raw cotton In the
mills Of the South is larger than the
combined consumption of the cotton
textile industry of New England, the
Northern and Western states. South
ern mills now annually consume more
cotton than the entire textile indus
try of Great Britain. Wherever cot
ton Is grown it should be manufactur-
ed and the finished fabric shipped out
to the ultimate consumers. No coun-
try ever grew rich from the produc-
ton Of raw product and shipping it
to foreign consumers for manufac-
ture. Rea. wealth is IN the manu-
featuring industry and this fact has
been fully exemplified in the enormous
wealth of New England, made from
cheap raw cotton produced in the
South while the growers and their
families have foundered in poverty.
There must be no stoppage in South
ern cotton mill construction until the
smokestacks Of the factory can be
seen from every cotton field in the en-
tire belt and the aggregated value of
the crop multiplied half a dozen times
each year by our own spindles and
looms.
The South should each year convert
its cotton crop into billions of dollars
of value instead of few hundred mil
lion dollars. In 1920 the taxable val
ues of property in the South amount
E ed to $29OO0,O00,0O0. This was s12,-
900, 100000 more than the entire taxa
BILE values of all the property in the
United States in 1880. In 1920 the
Southern states expended for public
education s2O4.225,0OO as compared
with only s7S,OOO,O 900 expended for edu-
cational purposes throughout the
whole of the Union in 1880. In fact,
the whole of the United States was
not eXpending for public education a
total sum in 1900 hardly exceeding the
expenditures for the same purpose in
the South in 1920.
Rise in Manufacturing.
In 1919 the value of the manufactur-
ed products in the South amounted to
$9,SOO,O0O,O0O, and the value Of farm
products for the same year amounted
to s9,365,OOO,OOO. the aggregate value
of the two industries in one year
reaching the enormous total OF $19,-
65,0O0.000. In 1880 the total values of
, the farm products amounted to only
$2,212, 100000 and the value of the
manufactured products of the United
States for the same year amounted to
but $6,000,000,00O which shows that
, the values of farm products and manu-
, factured products in the South for
1919 were more than three times in
excess of the combined values of such
products of the whole nation in 1880.
[ might say in this connection that
, the South produces SO per cent. of the
sulphur in the United States, and that
without this sulphur and cotton, it
, would have been utterly impossible
for this nation IN hova aptarad int n