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1 V I New York Cotton Exchange. As at Present Conducted, it Militates against the Interest of the Farmer. From the Atlanta Constitution. But fr?r t.h A TT% _ in ( OU the floor of tho New York Cotton Exchange the price ot cotton would already this year have gone above 15 cents, if, indeed, it had not reached 20 cents a pound. That a crowd of brokers a thousand rai'e9 from where the staple is grown, organized under the name of an exchange, have for years been arbitrarily fixing the price of the world's s'aplo is known to every intelligent farmer. How they have been able to do it he may not know. Is has been going on so long that many have come to regard it as an irremediable evil. The farmer knows that some one many miles ^ away has been fixing the price of his staple and until recently he has been accepting ti\e situation and making the' est of it. That scuh a condition of affairs is wrong economically and morally, no sensible man will question. That it shou'd not he permitted to continue cannot be doubted?at least by the sufferers. The cotton brokers on the New York exchange foil not, neither do they flpin. They are the lilies of the cotton world They never see the commodity in which they deal. The money that goes into their pockets is subtracted from the cotton farmer and the public. It is rot the fair profit of legitimate trading; it is not ihe proceeds of honest barter and sale. This money is the profits of gambling, and the cotton exchange is as much a gambling concern as was (he Louisiana lottery a quarter of a century ago, or as the Prince of Monaco's establishment is today. Worse still, it is not even an honestly conducted gambling house. The public is invited to play with a marked deck and with loaded dice. The odds are Jt overwhelming against the outsider, for if he buys and demands t^e delivery of his purchase, he is forced to take greenj goods. The cotton which may, under the rules of the exchange, bo tender ed to him is such a9 no buyer would want and no spinner could use. The odds in this gambling game are fixed by the classification committee. At present the committee lists sixteen grades below "middling," which is the basis, and only nine above. The discounts allowed on these low grades are also uutair. In the bucket shops the situation is worse still. There the gullible plunger is fleeced while he waits. In the city ot Washington recently a dozen or more "wire houses" charged with dishonest practices were closed within a week. A report of the committee on agriculture made to the fifty third congress characterized the . operations of cotton exchanges as "pure gambling," and said: ^ As gamblers, if disconnected , from commerce in cotton, they would be without the pale of fed- i | i eral jurisdiction and wholly THE LA amenable to the internal polii laws of tbe st ite. Cotton exchanges in whu c^miutiie Duyers and selle could ply a legitimate trade a probably necessary and desirabl But such exchanges should, all reason, be located in tl midsl of the cotton fields ai the cotton mill districts. As at, present conducted, tl cotton exchange in Now York diametrically opposed to tho be interests of the cotton farmer an ot all the vast class ot peop who are interested in and a fectod by cotton production. Tl exchange members reap the great est profit when they ci beat down the price of the et pie in the hands of the produce This is accomplished through > gambling devices and by a eeri' of manipulations which lead tl farmer into the belief that pric are goinglower and that lie hi better sell out before the botto drops out of the cotton mt ket. The only rerour^o of the cott farmer is to unite in oppositi to the attacks of the exchauj as he has already done. Orga ization, however, will amount nothing without cooperation. T chain is only as ^strong at i weakest link. Firmness is 1 quired of all, for if weak kne producers are thrown into a p nic when prices start downwai they break the chain and enab the enemies of their organizatii to wotk their will. The rest is that the very thing the f.irme most fear is made possible. There is no law to compel tl farmers to stand firm. But coi mon sense, the recognition of t great need of concerted actl and the promise of the glorio victory which steadfastness ai loyalty will insure should encoi age every southern cotton gro er to stand pat against the d vices and machinations of t manipulators. Having a compact organiz (ion, the advantage in a conte with the cotton exohauge gar biers are all on the side of tl furmer. He holds the stap and if he will only continue i hold it and demand a fair pric the world must come to h terms. The producer i8 the man \vl ought to have the privilege < saying what is a fair price, an not the New York Cotton E: change This is the principl on which the Farmers' Union working and this is the resu it hopes to achieve. Keep a Scrap-book. The Spartan. Every farmer should keep scrap book, cut out from pape; everthing that they may wish I refer to auain and paste in th book. Remedies for diseases < fowls, and animals, cooking r< ceipis, large yields of corn an cotton, and in fa<*t eyerythin that is worth reading a secon time should be tlm* preservec In a few ve ira il w/ili ha u J V ?- ? - - " *? t/u ?* * able book. The New Pure Food and Drug La We lire pleased to announce that F< ley's Honey and Tar for coughs, co <1 and iting troubles is not afteoted by tli National Pure Food and Drug law as contains no opiates or other harmful drug and we recommend it as a safe reined for children and adults. Funderbur Pharmacy. NCASTEK NEWS, SEPTEMBER 1 DO I Our Buyer re %7 o. i . Buying our Fall Will Shortly I ,le tion the Mos ^ of Goods ij ,d time W le Bargai re ir rner < in a tr. ts es ~ ie 08 id in irDon't fail 011 . on have several ? you prices t to i'u B *e ed a We hav Drills, ever ?.n chine on th< jit r? any small gi ie v in without o ^ attachment. on US 0(1 irw When yo he horses and our stalls, ai aist u;i 11 K /a nrl n ^ "?* i-'v- ^iau le ronage. le bo e, is 10 ; Lancaster 1 le lt Father and Son Struck by Lightning. Anderson Mail: Mr. Columbus Watts, an employe of the Anderson Cotton Mills, and his a son were struck by lightning rs yesterday afternoon and the lat- _ o ter received painful but not necle esearilv serious ininri?* ?. Hi - ----- 1 Df were knocked unconscious for a e- few moments and are confined to d their bed9. ? The two men were sifting in d tlieir back door and it seems t hat 1. the lightning struck the chimney a i- which is in the middle of the house and run down off of therool w to fhe edge of the house where if ui w went through the roof and coil- te ? ing and hit Mr. Watts and hi i ie son. The lightning tore a big hole in the roof and in the ceilV i n ir TI?a 1 k | ? *?o men were kiiocK ed to the floor. / 4. l'?07. is Sow h Line of Goods, a lave Ready for it Complete and i the City- In ) Ha.VP sinmh ? >W VUJ.V JUiXU' us to Offer you i] Soods, and Early NecessitiesBagging and Ties I to see us before yo ! grades; on hand and hat will get your busi uckeye Grain Drill e on hand two Rnr /body considers this t * market, if you intern rain you cannot afford >ne of these drills wit Come t>o See Us u come to town, mules at our well, fe< id come in our store to see you and have Yours very Mercantile Dr. J. E. WELSH, DENTIST. llice in Emmons Building opposite First National Bank. Phone No. 8. 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