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% ' THE PROPCSED SCHEME OF COTTON BANKS. A CLOSE AND LRiTlCAL ANALYSIS OF THE SIBJECT AND THE SEVERAL SIDES TOIL The fol'.veditorial ui Charleston .\hw.* A. Chniir is s : timelv am: n :?> |.... that wc reproduce it t\*.' t ,ir ri.tul ('t OUT * readers. mcs: cf *>n. are rested 1 hi thesunvet discussed: Merchants who buy c >tton and s f store it ate a positive ami Consider- * able factor ia fixing the prices of,' the staple, Thus. when the farmers!1 h.Ve sold a larjr pr ^portion of the |* crop to cotto:. merchants and it is in ;: *r.e:: hands, their holding or selling ! affects the price w hich the spinners, j t the ultimate bavers of raw cotton, ( i pa* for it. When two million bales I of CCtton are in the hands of iner-1 i chants. thev may be able, within jv I limitations, to dictate the prices I which rale in the market. j The scheme of the Southern Cot- r * ton association, which was outlined c in oar Columbia corresj?ondenoe 1 yesterday, contemplates organizing c rVm nrni)np?i'4 into Sllinll 0 ? IV VVfcWV*. corporations whose business will be I ^ that of cotton merchants, dealing je exclusively in "spots." The farm- ^ ors of a neighborhood are to sub- * scribe enough money to build a f "standard warehouse." That done, j they wiil deposit, which is to say j d lend, cotton to the company to be j I used as its mercantile capita'. T he ^ company will proceed to hypothecate' P the cotton it borrows for the money 11 of t:ic bunks and will then buy more 11 cotton, taking the cotton of the:r negrc farmer and the poorer farmers.,1 Heretofore, it has proved difficult s for the well-to-do farmers through j 0 their associations to control the crop! raised bv the tenant and one-horse! t \ farmer. Therr cotton, because they e cannot afford to hold, has passed i promptly into the hands of tli?-il spuiner or merchant, i his object; *of the new scheme is most excellent. a Presumably the farmers, organ iz-j11 ir.g the concerns projK?sed by Mr E i ^ D Smith, will always strive to sell I ^ their cotton for the highest possible ^ . prices. Thus they will constitute a ? body of "bulls. " The cotton mer-M chants that we now have may be! a bulls or bears. Having no special j motive to prop the prices of cotton. > cl call. I GUI*}" IHU} UISO UCiM ili liuuira, ecu- i ing or buving Hi judgment dictates,1 v and so their aggregate influence !e may be either to elevate or depress a prices. i We are not prepared to approve { nor yet entirely to condemn the new plan of th*.* Southern Cotton associa- r lion. Is it a reasonably safe busi- j rcsa, that of farmers or others forming companies to deal in spot cotton? r Ask yourself?do you want stock'in a company which can hope to earn dividends only by buying cotton and selling it at an advance? The man who deposits cotton with the com- ' pany becomes, virtually, a stock-1 holder to the extent of its value.1 ( When the cotton is pledged at the! bank, it will be subject tJ sale for i: the debt .of the company. If! prices slump, the company must'1 put up more margin or it will be sold, just as would shares of a lailroau or cotton mill company, pledged as security for a loan. Exemp-j j tion from storage fees and insurance; is, of course,only nominal remunera-1 ( tion tor capital contributed in the'] form of cotton. ( In short, the farmers who go into1 these proposed cotton companies will partake of ail the speculative dangeis ., which other cotton merchants invite,! ualess the companies all over the South are so numerous ami strong; a''bull" element, which can be re-j j lied upon to throw their strength as ( one man at al! times, that they will i control and not be dependent wholly I1 on the voluntary whim of a number j of independent organizations, which j is to say, corner the market at will. | ] Is that practicable? Otherwise, it is1 i merely co-operative speculation. , No one w ill dispute that if the J cotton producers can organize them- ] selves into cotton merchants by j forming corporations everywhere, i constituting a solid, powerful and j jiuinerous body of bull merchants, < \ ^ 6 al jl ft. JLXX A A Jl* f Cs I to;; \\>> ild soar, but who : . -! t\? ho utv also' v- > a... lard o:," i> the best' - : a tflM m , v of lr. the 4?t.S ather Cotton ass*eia-' ..v.- r..-.-:vly a*:\iso:\ 1: 1: is accompli-! * .5, :: :i:.:trly n:o:i' that: it u:,5 .4 r \t\! r>> i!v\ bv i:.f. rm:::2 the r? iucers and by intiucia^ thein t io! 1 cotton at the rialu time, and at *ttimes to re*!tuv acreage. but it :.is never had any ,-uv.ar l-> ?. fVr.v !s decrees. I'.ftav i: w;?> ucvei a : ust, having no actual control am; iejunucrt wholely on tile voluntary ;upport of its membership. If, how i _ . .. i \ , ver. uv ;uiv ue?ice i'K- .Ticii.ai.ii. ihonM olain actual control of so! iiUl'! cotton as that it might dictate! rices, it would become a trust ai.d he accusations of its enemies would j ake on substance. If the:. th- pro-j osed hanking scheme should prove racticable, how can it exist without Solatium the anti-trust laws? Standard warehouses should be! milt everywhere in the cotton egion, so that at the lowest possible ost the farmer could store his co*0:1 and obtain a receipt good as ollateral at his bank. Then he) ould do his own speculating andj he farmers will i.ever be independ-; !>?:> O V? 'AV1.1 i 1 Ill l( 11111 I1113 l^CUiC 13 ucu?wuu. ,\?tton in the farm gin house or in lie weather i< not a good security i or monev, but in the warehouse, it: ?. The cotton associations snould! evote themselves to the woik of >romoting the building of the ware- j louses, and when they have been ' ilace.l convenient to all producers J hroughout the cotton belt, the , producers will be in position to disribute the selling of the crop1 hroughout the veur a:iu avoid urreiidering the whole crop to mc-rhants and spmu-.rs during t tie I ;arvesting months, which had been | he great evil from which the farm-' rs have suffered. However, we have no objection to' he agitation in favor of the proposed j otton banks. The farmer who feels | ble to enter a concern to speculate ' u snut cotton has a DeifeCt right to! o so and, we opine, there is little j anger that the companies *ill ecorne either sufficiently numerous, r sufficiently unified in theii cornet as to'nieuace the world with uother great trust. Sunday-School. There was a Sunday-school teacher rho has three bovs in the class. To ach of tlieui he gave a paper bank ,nd told him to return the followng Sunday with all the pennies ie could procure. The following Sundav little rommy Jones had two cents in his >ank. "How did you earn the two cents, rommy?'' asked the teacher. "3y selling papers," answered rommy. The next one, Johnny, hau 6 cents. How did you earn your 6 cents, Johnny?" ' By doing chores," replied Johnny. The third one, Willie Smith, had J lb cents m his bank. Ami how did you get tin tents, I u'-ii- -i>'? .1?1 I Millie, aaaei. uic mii (iiisuu icaiuci. "By skidooing," promptly replied Millie. 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