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The Price of Cotton
We are not strong on malting predn lions publicly or t
render advice promiscuously. However, such does uot
bur us Horn expressing an opinion.
The News lias contended all along that the much lalkcc.
of suurpli a cotton America has had on hand during tin
la t year or two is nothing unusual. As a matter of fro
it has been necessary for scores of years for us to keep
on hand a large amount of cotton. If we had one time
jbiltd to keep asupply of the fleecy 'Staple the product
-would have advanced in price to such an extent the whole
of Wall street would have gone completely wild, while
the rest of tile country would have lost its balance.
A surplus of cotton is no difference from a surplus of
any other commodity. When the United States entered
the great world war our store houses were packed and
jammed with meats, flour, cotton, grain and various other
commodities. 'Had such not been the case we would have
lead a poor chance to even commence what we undertook
to do and actually accomplish.
Quite soon after the big conflict was over the Bears
took thfc Bulls by the lorns and for a long time succeeded
in the skirmish that followed. The hold was no more
than the bluff that a time was reached when the country
had on hand more cotton than it knew what to do with and
a groat per c ent of the people were induced to believe that
fewer people, the lessened number being due to army en.
listments, had produced a decidoly overproduction of Un
popular staple, the argument coming about in face of the
fact that thn small numlicr left after the military eonscrip
tion had labored loss for such a period than they had at any
tinn* In thepast.
Cotton is a necessary comtnodity. The yield of the
staple lias decreased Tliiring the last three or four years,
w hile consumers are growing in number aa the months go
by. The production of American cotton is just about half
this year, while the past season ended with a decided
shortage. Under such circumstances, we would like to
?sk, in tho sense of reason, where is and how came about
our great surplus of cotton?
It is our prediction that the Bears are weakening and
that the y will give out completely beforo the end of many
more month”. It Is our opinion (hat the future offering;
Cor cotton will show a marked advance over present prices
Undoubtedly (he long talked of surplus cannot last in
definitely.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
law. At least this much can be recorded against those
mtmher3 of the Ku Klux Klan in iLorcna who took part in
the blood shed of last week. These men certainly were
serving no good purposes and for such reason they should
have halted when called upon by the high officer of the
county in which the performance was taking plate.
CHANNELING THE SAVANNAH RIVER
From The Augusta Chronitle.
The announcemnt In The Chronicle by Congressman
Carl Vinson that he will work zealously to the end tha.
there shall he a seven foot channel on the Savannah river,
thus enabling boats with heavier draught than ever before
to come up to Augusta, was received v;ith widespread in)
terest by Augusta, business men. We have talked for
a great many years about a seven.foct channel hut we
have never gotten anywhere near it. In fact, for the
past three years we have been going steadily away from
it because during that period we had no river transporta
tion at all.
It was only with tho greatest effort in tho
cast failures of steamboat companies and the
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA
Trouble For Nothing
The clash between a sheriffs poss;s and members of th
Ku Klux Klun at Lorena, Texas, Saturday night well ev
dencecs the fact that there is a great deal more truth than
poetry in the old saying that ‘‘ldleiv ss is the devil’s
workshop.”
To begin with, the members of the new order of the
Ku Klux Klun have evidenced the fact by joining the or
ganization that they spend very little time in thinking foi
themselves, and this fact further goes to show that men of
such typo could not well be accepted as safeguards of the
public. The only type of men we need to servo as strong
arms In advancing the interest of this country arc men
of tho thinking type, broad minded and reasonable. No
fair minded man or citizen of trust would be expected to
act under cot or at a time when his country needed him,
especially -under peaceful conditions such as it is our
privilege of enjoying at this time.
As a matter of fact, any man who is able to distinguish
the directions of the north and the south be able to arrive
at the definite conclusion that this organization of the
Ku Klux Klan was gotten up, to begin with, for no other
purpose than that of providing an easy and luxurious fu
turn for the professional schemers who founded the or
ganization. As another matter of fact,, it can quite safely
be said that these scheming organizers have quite success
fully accomplished what they went after, while other
boobies are still falling in line and swallowing the bait
that is set lc< them.
As to whether the wizard of the* Ku Klux Klan proposes
to practice sorcery or carry on the doings of tho wonder
worker we are not in a position to say. One definition of
a wizard is that of ‘‘one supposed to be in league with the
devil.” and so far as we have been able to detect tho direc
tor of the Ku' Klux Klan is filling stub a post quite suc
cessfully. We know of nothing other than the stirring up
of some strife yet credited to the membersr of the Ku Klux
Klan. • »-v!f IS
There is really no need for the founding of a so-called
patriotic organization acting upon secret principles. The
laws of our land are based upon wisdom, justice and mo
deration and tuo workings of our government alone should
serve to»shield us. As a matter of fact, good men arc
much inclined to make know n to the world their objects in
furthering the interests of our country.
What we cued mostly is gcod whole.ome open expres.
lion—a need that is going much wanting. Many of us
gave gone under cover too long already when we take into
c-onslderatii.i what we might have accomplished by
unanimous open assertion. Undoubtedly, there is just
about as niiicn going ou in the dark already as we can
well stand. Unquestionably thp buncoes are faring well
enough to ttu-nd for a little molestation
There is no need for a repetition of such an occurance
ns took place Saturday night in Lorena. No worthy citi
zens will impose themselves upon the public when they
know that they are placing in jeopardy the lives of women
ami children while at the same time defying officers of the
face o.
advert
easiness conditions, that the jobbing interests of Avgusta,
.vo,bins through tic lio.vd of Conun rco, raised a suffici
ent amount of money to purchase the steamer Altaiualia
ar.d put her on the Savannah. No one except those
immediately identified wlt’.i the work of the committee
uat raised thp money knows what a task it was. In
fact, there is a small amount of the money that still needs
to be raised, though enough was pledged with the pur.
I chase of the boat and to enter into an agreement with
i Messrs. E. J. Black and Macon Rouse, two practical river
steamboat men, to operate it. The boat aas b:en pui-
chased, has made trial runs and is a steamer adapted
pecially to the Savannah river and the success of the
company is a foregone conclusion if the business interests
of Augusta support it. The only thing wo would urge
that Augustaus not grow lukewarm in their support of
the boat line and after the first few times refuse to give
it freight. Of course, it is to bo assumed that good ser.
vice will be fnaintainfed'.-
The abnormally high freight rates on the railroad will
enable Augusta business to land freight here a great
deal cheaper by boat and the cotton mill interests can
use an all water route to New York and New England
by way of the boat line and save a great deal of money
Julcss the railroad reduce rates radically,—which, is not
likely,—there will bo need for two boats very soon
would seem, for the difference in cost between the boat
and the railroad represents a tremendous saving.
Congressman Vinson says that the failure to navigate
the river at all i ntil recently gave him absolutely nothing
to work on from the standpoint of a channel. However
with a boat running regularly, he will begin the work la
congress of convincing the rivers and harbors committee
that the Savannah is one of the most important theis
the country and that there should be a seven-foot chan-
_ 1 instead of a five-foot channel. With a channel two
feet deeper than at present boats of larger draught can
come up C e river and this city made a great distributing
point for the Southeast with infinitely better rates than
any other inland city in thi3 coctlon of the country. And
when we do get a seven-foot channel and the large boats
from Philadelphia. New York and Boston begin to tie up
at the Augusta wharf, there will be an impetus to business
in Augusta never seen before. Indeed, with the single
exception of the development of double the amount of
hydro.olectric. power that we have, this development of
the Savannah river is the greatest thing that could pos
sibly occur for Augusta’s advancement.
And Congressman Vinson, who has put over other big
Oiings for Augusta, can be depended upon to do ids utmost
for this project and we believe he will succeed. It may
take a couple of years or so, but he never knows when
to quit when he starts upon a project and we believe that
his success in this one will ho assured
WHY COTTON PRICES SHOULD BE GOOD THIS YEAR
From The Progressive Farmer
There- are many reasons why cotton should bring good
prices this fall. The present advances in price have not been
dilutive" but based on the solid rock of proved facts
and statistics.
Here are some of the clear reasons why 1921.22 pric°s
should bo good:
1 When it was published far and wide by the spinners, ^
and supported by offical estimates of the Federal Bureau |
of Markets, that there would be a carry over of 12,4.».,iaO
bales, anil when there was no certainty that there would
be a largo reduction in the 1921 acreage, cotton buyers and
spinners continued to pay 10 or 14 cents a pound for cot
ton.
2. Now tho New Orleans Cotton Exchange officially es
timates the carry-over of lint cotton is only 8,29.>.000 bales.
Others admit that the large estimates of the carry-over
during the winter were ‘ Inflates,” but wore not denied be
cause of the desire to secure a large reduction in the acre
age. It is also now admitted that the Bureau of Markets
made a mistake in overestimating the Indian and Egyptian
crops of 2,000,000 hales
3. in the last forty years, every time that there has been
a material reduction in the acreage there lias been a ma
terial advance in the price. Only seven times in forty.one
years has the acreage been reduced as much as 5 per cent
from the preceding year, and every time th: price has
made a sharp rise.. Here are the records, study them and
see if you can find a reason why a reduction in acreage of
28.4 per cent in 1921 should not also bring a remarkable
rise in prices: —
Year Decrease in Acreage Increase in Price
1892 16.5 per cent 15.3 per cent
1895 , 14.7 per cent 65.2 per cent
1905 13.1 per cent 20.0 per cent
1907 *>.4 per cent 8,3 per cent
1913 14.7 per cent 66.2 per cent
1919 7.4 per cent 29.3 per centj
1921 . 28.4 per cent ?
4. The carry-over July 31. 1921, of spinuable cotton is not
much ovi r the average for the last ten years and less than
some years. For instances, from the 1914 crop we carried
over 7. 700,000 bales of American cotton, and nearly 9,000,
000 bales in all. On top of this, we had a 13,000,000-bale
crop in 1915, and still the price went up Wo must, to koep
things going, carry over each year from 3,000,000 to 5.000,-
00 bales of cotton.
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