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THE COTTON CROP QUESTION
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
The cotton crop of India is! re
ported to be 25 per cent less than
that of last year, while the military
disturbance* in Egypt and other
part* of Africa without doubt have
caused heavy decreases in cotton pro
duction on that continent. Any fur
ther dreservis of the allies in any
part of the world will tell heavily
against all agricultural productions
in India and Africa, for the popula
tions there are most restive, and it
is with great difficulty that order
can even now be maintained in those
regions.
Cotton from India will be very
Costly to land in Western Europe un
der existing conditions in ocean
transportation, and a short crop in
India will compel Japan to buy far
more cotton in the United States in
order to carry on the textile trade
and to keep up the manufacture of
explosive*.for.the allies, which is now
such an Important factor in Japanese
industry and commerce.
Japan will need thousands of
more cotton than ever before, and
it must come from the Southern
states of this Union.
Western Europe cannot depend
upon steady run of cotton from In
dia, the short crop there, the sub
rines and German raiders and the
scarcity of ocean vessels having cre
ated a situation that prevents con
stant supply. This makes far better
prices for cotton here during the
next few months, but if the adminis
tration had kept open the neutral
markets of the world for all our com
modities, provisions of every class,
and farm products of every kind, in
cluding cotton, the planters of the
South would have been getting 20
cent* a pound for their cotton ev
ery day since the first bale of the
1915 crop was placed on sale.
Itrusidoiit Wilson's convictions as
to our national rights grew more de
cided with every day’s meeting with
the people during his recent trip in
the West. By the time lie reached
lowa and Kansas lie was ready to
declare that grain and other farming
products must be allowed to reach
neutral markets, and The Enquirer
has no doubt that the two or three
speeches he made to the people of
PREPAREDNESS FOR PROFIT
Tlie great hu? and cry concerning
the necessity tor a great army and
navy is largely arcing from the
throats of American speculators
whose chief God is the Almighty dol
lar.
Why do we need a great army and
navy. To keep Germany and Japan
off. Germony is bleeding acid brok
en and ere the present war closes
will have her fill of war. Japan is
the only formidable enemy that we
could have. She would have to land
her troops here on ships, say 40,000
at a time. What would our navy be
doing. What about our coact de
ftnsea. What our army would be do
ing; while the ships were going back
to Japan for another batch.
The truth it', preparedness menus
millions to certain of our millionaires
The continuance of the European war
means millions to our speculators.
What does the laboring man get out
out of it after all aaid how are the
DID YOU HELP IN THIS?
Bight and a half billion cigars wore
smoked last year in the United State*
How 'many did you pessimistic talk
ers devour.
Bighty-eight million gallons of li
quor were made and consumed. How
imuiy boozy days did you p. ud out
of that amount.
Two and twenty million pounds of
smoking toba eo were burned up.
How' many pipesfull did you get off
with out of that amount.
Half a million packages of chew
ing gum were chewed up. How many
tunes did you work ycur jaur cn the
job, herculean.
Twenty-five million dollars spent
in, dime® at the movies in twelve
the West on that point had a great
er effect upon the Cabinets in Eu
rope, who have denied our people
these markets, than all the protests
he has written those Cabiaiets on this
subject during the last 12 months. If
the President makes his contemplat
ed trip through the South we hope
the planters will not fail to empha
size their desire that our neutral mar
kets of the world must be enforced.
Texas State Department of Agri
culture: The price of cotton will
go to the lowest figures ever known
next fall unless the acreage is kept
down and the yieiid held below nor
mal.
Yazoo City Herald: While we un
ders.and that there will be a consid
erable increase in cotton acreage in
this section this cotton acreage in
bhie section th/is year, yet it will! not
be at the expense of diversified far
ming. Some of our most progres
sive farmers will compel the labor on
their places to plant plenty of corn,
to have a garden and a pig or two,
so that they can kill their own meat
next fall. The prosperous farmer
of the future will he the one who
raises his own foodstuffs and,, as far
as possible, ail the food consumed by
his family and his stenants.
Memphis Commercial-Appeal: We
have few ships in which cotton can
now be sent abroad. Next year we
may not have so many.
Galveston News: Even if the war
should have ended, a normal crop of
cotten next season would probably
depress the price to an unremunera
tive level. There will be a heavy
surplus of this season’s crop carried
over into next season. It is not so
much the world’s need of cotton as
Its abiliyt to buy that will determine
its takings.
Charleston News: If the Southwes
wiiiere cotton can be grown without
fertilizer is so much afraid of a big
crop kn 191t5, what should be the atti
tude of the people of South Carolina,
where it is impossible to make cot
ton without fertilizer, wthich has so
advanced in price that the expense
of raising a bale of cotton this year
is bound to be considerably in excess
of what ie was in 1915.
masses of the women and children
helped. Fight for freedom and pro
tection and nothing else. Now wihy
spend miliixnc ar.d cripple cm selves
financially in order to support a
great standing army that would be in
great measure our absolute parasite.
The money powers have the masses
under their feet. We need to cAan
up and prepare here' at home to en
joy the fruits of peace.
We are bordering on trouble wb. u
w r e continue to perpetuate the milita
ristic spirit. The billions spent in
war like preparations should be spent
to preserve that which is worth pre
servation at home. Heroes are need
ed in "construction” as well as "de
struction." Preparedness in peace as
wtdl as preparedness in war. The
masses should speak with intelligence
at the palls and teach our rulers to
advocate and perpetuate peace pre
paredness.
months. How many of your nickels
we it into the stupenduous sum.
Ten billion copies of newspapers
w re printed, distributed and read.
Of this fabulous amount, how many
did you read.
Two hundred and twenty thousand
sermons were preached during the
last year to forty millions of hear
ers. How many of these* discourses
and and you go to sleep under.
Three hundred and sixty-five days
w re spent by millions in useful,
helpful service to others. How many
days did you give to aid a distress
ed, n edy brother and help carry for
ward the Kingdom of God among
men.
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