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THE sandersville herald
SIT STEADY IN
THE BOAT.
jhe Cotton Journal Advises Far
mers to Hold for Ten Cents.
Fanners, merchants, bankers and
business men of the South, sit steady in
t he bout and don’t allow yonr selves to
weak-kneed or panic stricken because
* g ont Ii at this time is being flooded
with circulars of “Beat dope” by spec
ulative manipulators who are trying to
11 down the cotton market by indue
8 geutimout detrimental to good
'rices. In Europe, statisticians, 3,000
Biles from the scene of action are
freely predicting a crop of American
cotton this yoar of 10,000,000 bales,
while many of the so-called knowing
ones on this side are sending out litera
ture forecasting a crop of 14,000,000
bales. These jieople are figuring on
buying up the crop on a basis of 8 cents
for middling cotton. Under the in
fluence of these "bearish” arguments
the wholesale jobbers in the cotton
trade are demanding concessions from
the manufacturers in the price of goods,
while the spinners are holding back as
long as possible in order to bo able to
lay in their supplies of raw cotton on
abasis of 8 cents if it bo possible. Not
before in many years have so many
Interests combined to hammer down the
price of spot cotton as the time draws
near for the movement of the crop. At
no time in the history of production
will the growers be called upon to exer
cise the full limit of their strength in
resisting the efforts to depress prices as
at the present time. No timo in the
past 1ms elToctive co-operation, among
the people in the South been more im
peratively needed at the opeuiug of the
selliug season of the crop than now.
Surrender to the artificial manipulation
of prices for speculative purposes by
those who own the spot cotton will
pave the way to ultimate disaster and
ruin to the cotton growing and busiuess
Interests of the South. The Cottou
Journal has not entered into any con
certed holding movements for any fixed
price for the crop of 1008. We have not
yet been informed just what position
will be taken by the farmers’ organiza
tions in the South regarding a minimum
price this season. Whether the matter
of price is to bo left to the individual
judgement of each grower, or whether
the growers will be urged to staud to
gether this season as in the past, and
fight for a certain price, wo are not yet
in position to say.
We take no hesitency in asserting,
however, with all the emphasis at our
command, that even iu large^crop years
farmers can make no profit on cotton
at prices lower than ten cents per pound.
We are equally emphatic in saying that
the mills of the world can absorb the
cotton crops of the South at good profits
to themselves at prices between 10 and
12 celits per pound. We are not pre
pared to endorse the prediction of a
very large crop this year. On the con
trary, if the huudreds of letters which
come to hh from practical farmers all
over the South are reliable, the crop for
1908 can in no wise be an abnormal one
iu yield. One year ago, at this time,
predictions of a 13 or 14-million bale
crop were freely made by the specula
tive elonieiit, and yet the crop finally
turned out to be under 11 million bales.
The stock of American cottou now iu
Liverpool is less than a qurarter of a
million bales, while largo cottou mills
iu this country are shutting down be-
cause of their inability to secure sup
plies of raw cottou. There is practically
uo cottou on baud from the old crop to
disturb the demand for new cotton from
the present crop. The fact is known of
all men, and especially the cotton spin-
ners and manufacturers.
Our advice to cottou growers at the
present time is to turn their backs
promptly on auy offer for cottou from
the new crop at prices under 10 cents.
The mills are compelled to have it and
cannot work their prosout bluff much
longer. There can fie but one way to
maintain prices that aro satisfactory to
the growers at tho opeuiug of this sea
son, and that is to market the crop
slowly and resist the efforts to depress
prices down to 8 cents, as now attempt
ed by the "bearish” element. The future
level of spot prices will be largely re
gulated by growers, no matter whethor
the yield of this crop be large or small.
—Cotton Journal.
HOW NEAR-BEER
TAX COLLECTED.
Of Interest to Merchants.
The Marietta Journal offers sug
gestions that should he of special
interest to the merchants now, as
the busy season is beginning to
open up and each one will want
to get his sliaro of trade. The
Journal says:
“Thrice armed is he who hath
his advertising displayed just;
right.
“Advertising will change a full
stock and an empty purse into an
empty stock and a full purse.
“To sit down and wait for busi
ness to come to you without ad
vertising is as silly as to expect
your garden to grow vegetables
without planting any seed.
“If you are in the race for busi-
Law Provides That It Be Paid To
The Ordinary.
Atlanta, Sept. 11--Some of the Geor
gia tax collectors iu whose counties
"near” bear resorts flourish thought
they had a good tliiug in the collection
of the new tax which the General As
sembly lias just imposed upon that
product. With a tax of $200 on eacli
dealer and $600 ou each manufacturer
the commission of 3 per cent., which is
about the average the tax collector re
ceives, would iu some counties have
amounted to a real good thing. They
began to write the controller general
about tho collection of this tax and
wanted to know when to begin.
It turns out that the tax collectors
have nothing to do with it and their
visions of fat commissions have vanish
ed. The law specifically provides that
the tax shall be collected by the ordin
ary in each connty and by him turned
directly into the state treasury. Nor
does tho ordinary get anything out of
it except the $1 registration fee which
each near beer dealer and manufacturer
must pay annually. Whatever there is
coming from the near beer tax the
state lias arranged to get it. There will
be no "divvy” with any state official.
Dont Faii to Read The
Advertisement in this issue of
Jacksons new 5 and 10c racket
store. It is written by an honest
man from an honest heart. Very
few minutes in any day of the
year hut that some one is there
buying. He says he built his bus
iness on honesty, bargains and
printers ink.
IT We have old newspapers for
sale at Tiik Hkrai.o office at 25 cents
per hundred.
H£ss put on your wings of news
paper publicity and get there first.
“Advertising is the best medi
cine for a sick business. It works
while you sleep.
“DonT wait until your busi
ness has gone to the dogs and
then say you wished you had ad
vertised. Do it now.”
This paper can help you out of
the whole by doing o little adver
tising. The rates are reasonable.
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---ATTEND---
Sandersville High School
One of the Best High
Shools in the State.
Students are thoroughly prepared for College.
‘, the teachers the very
Tuition fees
$ 4.00
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The equipment is thorough
best, and the location unexcelled,
reasonable.
First and Second Grades for Fall Term
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Seventh and Eight Grades for Fall Term
Ninth Grade for Fall Term -
Tenth Grades lor Fall Term -
Music for all Grades. $3 per month.
School opens Wednesday, September 2, 1908,
and continues for nine scholastic months.
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Tuition fees are payable on entrance or on the first day of
each month ii^ four equal installments. We earnestly solicit
your patronage and co-operation. We invite correspondence
from all who desire to attend a good High School.
For information apply to
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H. M. FRANKLIN,
TENNILLE, GEORGIA
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