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PAGE TWO COTTON AND COTTON PRICES IN RELATION TO WORLD AFFAIR! (Continued Kroui Page One.) the world's trade were willin to give better freight rates, but th railroads in the south, owned am controlled i" New York were no as reaily to help better baling of cot ton in the south as were the strain ship com" '" i's which wee owriei in England Moreover, this bank tag house - ti'ii!i;ihtv gnorint of th fact that < largo proportion of th biff cotton compresses in the soutl were owned or i '"trolled, d.recti op indireetiv by V >w York cotto firms who had such a power in th cotton trade that thev joined in th campaign against better haling, an through their financial strengtl were able to break nearly every ef fort made for improving the cotton handling system of the south. In spite of these facts, this flrn criticises the south a> having stuh hornly set its face against modert improvements in cotton handling. I should have known that every efTor to really modernize cotton handlini has almost died a-borninc hecans of the power of the vested interest in railroad and cotton eompresse lominated in the city of New York The same circular says: "All true friends of the south, am we claim a place among them, wtl question the wisdom of the move ment to bring about a redaction it acreage for the purpose of causing or maintaining high prices for cot ton." \Ve take it for granted tliat th< millions of people in the smith wlx were born in this section, of pa" rents who were horn here, and w he have been the backbone of southerr life during all the past, would ordl narily be counted as "true friend: of the south " Hut. according t< this oracle, none of these people art "true friends of the south" if thej eeek to nring about a reduction it cotton acreage for the purpose o maintaining higher prices for cot ton. Referring to this work, tlx circular-letter says: "It is short sighted policy, and i continued will threaten the supre macy of this country as the grea source of cotton supply We are en tering upon a new era in world de velopment. and the south is going tc liave competition which it never be fore had to face if prices are kep at a level that offers inducement for the opening up of. new fields." This argument is just about on hundred years old. and with age ha grown steadily weaker. It is hoar and gray-headed. It <1 id service ii the British parliament a hunden years ago and lias been doing ser vice ever since But there are a fev points which should he con- d"ted There is no divine command rest Jug upon the south to raise cotton either for the purpose of maintain tng the sunreniacv of this eouutrv ii cotton trade or for clothing th world. TIum'c is no divine commnm whIt'll savs th.it tin- western fanne who can make more mnnev in rah ing torn shall he compelled to rjiis wheat for the purpose of feeding th world. No moral rosponsibM't whatsoever rests upon the farmer t raise any crop except that vvhiel ])?IS ll .111 liest. If the sotllll I raise corn and other crops to {treat ?r pio'it than it can raise cotton ho would he a fool indeed v< h would ins'st that the south owed i to the world to raise cotton. Thor nay ho some people in the worh whose minds are thus flabby, but n intelligent man could for a ntnmtin take that ground. N There is no obligation upon th south to raise eottnn merely to in'in lain the'supremacy of this eountr in the cotton trade of the world I other onnlt'cs can raise c tt'.n. h ...n..r. ..1' ll... . Iir.ni. I ... it, |M,ln nnd India or Kpvnt. aI i 'o v. <?r crs than the south ran raise it. there i I'm earthly >-asoo which compel the sonth ' 1 irr dic it- po< -d. i orde: to |> i rot >" "t t'" a r YatW 1 w < \< hb*h are nrrd to ' rot'on c India and ct a -?d ' '!? ;na S . oi r .1; (Iip SfiTh f"i r i- ' 'ton !> 1J t:?' ' v to it sol a I t ' ! , | living 1 a'o 1 1; - i'vi rottnn la hot or. an aftot it \ i'. l.anhliel from the cot ton old o\0f\ woman who shou! ho at home and every rhild w h - 'inn I 1 o 1 ool. tv hot her thov 1 h'f (?' ' art tli ran profltabl ami v i !y 1<- o 1 prowinp rot tot I'nt if the nil ? of the sonth en t'nd mot " prof'1 M 01 plo\ ment i t! n:; sonio'li'ii:' than in raisin ( "(ton, t!. is i' 1 1 oir bounde duty to d ia >tl< wlii li pay.-- th la cost prof * d pivos them tii * be-d living i on lit ions if tlio w <11 I i cannot pot ft - eoMO pyront fi< tit Hi" .ill! tin-ii it 1 absolutely no > i> . t),o worl to pay a pr 1 rh v ill brinp pro? . pority to tli >tti I .i-owM and l i the rate of V tpcs n the south i the cotton tie'ds and from that o * w k . I to the factory and into every I avenue of work to a parity of wagl 1 .! in other sections. hs The statements quoted from this tanking Circular are indicative of | the density of ignorance which pie I vails in other sections about cotton K growing in the south For one bun- J tired years the south has been ntisreprensted l?v the cotton speculators ' and the cotton hand'es of the world. It has been misrepresented by official of the I'tiited States government and ' in former years by officials of the llritish government, and probab.y j liv t li a lOliniulvi lit' nvui'v ill linr ICii mi peaii government. The whole theorv of the cotton buyers of the world has been to hold the cotton grow-1 n ers in economic slavery, caring Tar Q less as to the povert>? and the i 1 lit p 1 eracy entailed upon the south by low-priced cotton than they cared ' 1 for the slavery of the black man' ' prior to 18fi0. | t \t that time the Abolitionists of t the north and Europe were bitterly assailing slavery in the south. The . ^ moral forces of the world were ( f against slavery, and very wisely, ( for the benetit of the world and fori ^ ? the south especially, slavery was de-1 ^ , stroyed so far as physical slavery to, ^ the black man was concerned: but I . s, it s the very same forces which then . broke the chains of physical slavery | ( have to a large extent ever sincev been forcing with all their power ? the chains of a more damning sla very of the negro and of the white ( ma'- in the effort to keep cotton at, a price which would hoid in desperate poverty in every sense the cotton laborers and the cotton grow- (i ers of the south. , I 1 | Holding a monopoly of this great j I staple, the south should have be- s I come enormously wealthy, and its r t cotton growers and workers should j have been the richest agricultural t people in the world, but low-priced > cotton has kept them under the pall a , of poverty. ^ r! The importance of cotton to the world is very clearly stated in an ^ f article by Mr. William Whittman,, formerly special agent in Great Itrit- , i? ain of the I'nited States department | of commerce and long intimately j t acquainted with the cotton trade. f published in the N'ew York T-ibune. ^ t In the course of his article dealing , . with the question of cotton and its relation to world affairs, and espe, elally as to whether Germany shall . be allowed to have cotton or not,| t Mr. Whittman said s "The world has now to face the task of getting back to normal p attain, and in that enterprise cotton H will he done of the raw materials of major importance. Few realize the r significance of cotton in the sphere! j of human activities It concerns every human being It meets man v at the cradle and goes with him to j the grave .The fibre a'so forms the scanty clothing of hundreds of m'l lions of the poorest people of the world. Gotten is vital to industry There is no substitute for it \*id it Americans should remember that the j l*nife<l States produces the larger part of the world's supply "With the single exception of o foodstuffs, no other product of the soil is so necessary to civilized ex. isfepce. Its use in the every day life of mankind rnav be measured 0 bv the fact that a vear or tv\o before h the war, taking into a?'-oun' tloit commodities handled in intonation al trade, exnorts and int|ioris from i, itll countries, eotton rankei. first n ^ with a value of $ 1.1 27.htiO.nort wheat routine second, with a valu* e 1 of $774.onn.nno The-o st itemov's of Mr. Whi'to I man as to the vn'tte of o,'on to *he i wot Id are tnte savings, fullv under ! vitiuiil i.v t?>.> ?noss moil of tlio 1 o world. Tli?y know tlint cotton is n proilo-t which oil"liot b- s'inn jioIimI ' l?v r> n v nt' o' fiber Thov know ' 111 I our ( 'nmroo ilonetl 1- u m ' on* tor. tb"t (!o"i' i: itn?"' -t miii u' ' lurii iiiio'-o . ire I'm * :v ' clonondo''"t roll ntln'i f r * e>i ??v ' s istonco T''oy know tlint tlio w .?'* of No- I* '/It ' wi's !:> o'\ < " (! il by I ''i- It' "I' ' ' ,1 - t Of ' If ' I rui " 1 it" ,t \v '' 1 ' ' f| t! o m oilrl 11 1 ! <"l or- i" il !o Ml* >t- not so re that .-.lit! Tho - it' (j li >! -n li ' 1' i , anil tlio drawer . wnt< i ' n tli (I : The First M Bottle of r? ,.-<#*.<5 ?... ,-zr i"i' '< _ Gave : hfAJ Relief i Writes Mr. >1. Vaallnrrn. Knplnfer, O. n | R & I. Ity., 17 lliKliiitn'l St., Grand Itaptils, Mich. V " LANCASTER N WATER WORKS MAN I GIVES IHE DETAILS lolly Declares He Fought Long Battles With Ailments. WRETCHED CONDITION. \ ; \fter Searching for Years Says He Found in Tanlac Remedy He Sought. \ ? /. . "1 have been trying for years to set something that would relieve ut! of my troubles, and haVe found t at last in Tanlae." said Alfred lolly, of :i2!?1 Quitman St., Denver, 'dorado, ami alt employ of the wa er works department of that city. "For a long time." he continued, 'my stomach watt in such an awful ondition that I could hardly eat a hing without bein)j in misery. Even he lightest foods would bloat me ip with gas and I was constantly >elching up s??ur, undigested food hat at times would almost choke ne. Often I would get so dizzy hat 1 would almost fall and I vould get so nervous it . would be ilmost impossible for me Vo rest at tight. 1 suffered agony from rheu natisin and was itl such a wVetched ondition that 1 was hardly \jt fot l thing. "After trying nearly everything i ould hear of 1 took Tanlao and it las made a different man of mi^ dy appetite is splendid, my nerves teady and I sleep like a log at light. 1 have gained eight pounds n weiglu and ant in better shape han I have been in years." Tanlao. the master medicine. 1 old exclusively by J. F. Markov ancaster; Peoples Drug & Grocerv o . Heath Springs; C. O. Floyd iershaw.?Adv. /v vorld's cotton trade. The world will require an ever-' ncreasing supply of cotton. Much if the world is almost bare of cotton roods, as it is of foodstuffs. Long >efore the war there had been a apid annual increase in the world's lemand for cotton. This will go tn at an accelerating rate just as ioimi as the world gets back to nornnl business conditions. At tha* inie the south should be able to >roduce at a profit to itself the immint iif rnltnn snfflpiont tr? moet ! he world's increasing needs. Hut I t cannot do this, it should not do it.j ind it will not do it. or oven try to 10 it. except on a basis of profit hich .will brine to the agricultural nterests of the south a prosperity' munl'v a- great as the prosper tv of i.0 rrM'-ero'vinc section of the ve<t. The south sbou'd not ntteuin* 0 produce th's increased sunplx of *ntt?>n pvcopt on a basis of pr'ce vhii-ti u 11 "omplet' !v ehnnae its p-oponi'c life n hi h will give to its arm laborers and to its tenant far iters a living wage or income with>111 the necessity of ek-ng out a seantv existence based on tile work if women and children in the cotton ields. 'fi'is is the ir'-eat economic and 11 oral is-ue before the south It is on' mie. because it means the ipiest ion of poverty or prosperity 'or a very large proportion of the eop'e of the south It is a trreaf eoral and odmat t ietta 1 issue, be ause it mean: the education or the o"tinned illiteracy of a verv large proportion of the poorer classes of 1 he south. Tbp lu-n who opposes the higher >i npo <>f i t > mu f? r tin t h?>rti <*iit f mi > lr< h won d r'oinpl?'?(>!\ (-liana" tho fonoiiiir and edtw. tinnnl li'e <?- 11 * (pctlon, is dr-libe ;?twniknr for Mini, (i slavery, i ??!*? a.ill lie, in -re rlccrn dina to 'he j> '<? < ?! white .''"1 black. < ' ">i' ?< i'b 1,1 , . : . !.ivry <>f nnto helium days. , \ ;iiit to place himself oil t 11 ' no . \ I |< 1 .|t 1 ' lit - 'II d I, i lot otton All othi< sill favor a profitalily hi Ii pi ice. Poi many v?m's tin* Man ' r IT- Keconl has taken f -round ? PERUNA Entirely Free from Cutarrh of the Stomach "I'prnna Wis poaltlve-ly done* for me nhnl (jinny dixiiir* Inlled to ilo. 1 tVjivfl b?i-n time and aK"ln oompcii^l to take to my be>d for daya. tK?| flrat bottle* of Feruna ir ive relidf arid while I alwnya W<-fp It 1i the houK< for emrrk? ricics, I roBHlde-r my He If rallrrly frre* from riitnrrh of the etiimnrh, tlm troiwile from which I atiff? r.-d for ho \prvff before taklntf thin remedy." * - * ? .... - ?? I.tepiid or "tVihlel Form Mold Fvetrwhere A?h Vino peeler | \ EWS. LANCASTER, S. C. ________ _ that the south would be infinitely better off It' it had never raised ajl bale of eotton. Under that eondi- \ M tion its agriculture would have been: diversified and it would be far richer II than it is today, and slavery would I i never have been tied so tightly j EJ around the neck of tlie south. To- ?/? day the south can discontinue rais UK I'unuu linn inrii in uifDrBiUWI agriculture with far 1< ss loss to it- Bv? self than would he the loss to the Kn rest of he wo'dd. If the world Jf'T.; wants the south to raise cotton. It Kvi must pay a prolltable living price. BV MOTHER VND CHH DREN ARE BURNED TO DEATH ff Mrs. (in How ay, of Itcldsvillc, anil tt|\ Three Children Perish in Itiit-n- H| ing Home. W Reldsville. N*. C., May 1.?In aj frantic effort to rescue their three' children from their burning msi-; dence Mrs. Alfred Scales Galloway! was burned to death and the chil-| dren. I,on. aged eiirlit years; Sallle, aged Ave years, and Alfred S., Jr., aged three years, also perished. The charred bodies were found in the bed loom when the tlremen had conquered the flames.* the children being in bed and Mrs. Galloway in ^ a kneeling attity^ie before the bed! ^ as if in prayer, or where she had A fallen suffocated in an effort to reach i" her children. | Mrs Galloway was awakened anout o ( men nv the crackling flam?>s and rushed downstairs and! railed the fire department. As she hurried hack up the stops the back "~ " door 'etl in and the flames swept in-' to file hallwav. cutting off her re treat. Jt is believed that she was so i suffocated hv the heat and smoke; that she fell unoonseious as she reached the room where the children were sleeping. Mrs It. M B. Kllinpton and J. P. C'layhrook. roomers in the Galloway home, narrowly escaped death. Mr.) riayhrook being painfully burned in carrying Mrs Kllinftton to safety. He was awakened when Mrs. Galloway pave the alarm and immediately tried to awaken Mrs PUinpton She thought he was a burplar and locked the door. heinp. forced to po aroiuid and enter the room through a window in order to carry her to safety. Hv this time it was impossible for him to re-enter the building and rescue Mrs. Galloway and children. Mr. Galloway was in Gre>nvillo, S. (' lii'imr ;? traveli'tR man with headquarters t here ; Mrs. Galloway was 33 years of aRe and was the dauRhtor of the latu, H. C Harris, and was prominent Inj the social life of the city. The city, is under a pall of sorrow over the^ Ira ie death, .as Mis. Galloway was w'de'v known and preatly beloved by all. The fire, w hi'b orbr'tcled In the kitchen v i"p of th?> resblonep h*id s?rei(l to the main nortton of the I hoi*i" when discove "d. and l>v t|i- 1^* t'tne the tiiemen reached the scene was raph|l\ ertinR its wj?v thrnueh the malt) structure It was only by hard work that the tt ronton saved any part of 11??? residence v lu'KP crowd gathered soon at'tei the alarnt was turned in. but by that time it was impossible lot anyone to enter the b* 'ninj^ buildinp. We are proud of the confidence doctors, drtippist*. and the piih'ir li.n\o in <14M> < bill and l'c\er Tonic. ?Adv. j Be a Joy-Walker, "Gets-It" for Corns 2 Drops, 2 Seconds ? Com Is Doomed I When ydu almost die with your shoes on any corns tnnko you almost walk sideways to get away from the pain, taky a vacation for a minute or two and apply 2 or 3 drops > "My t'orni I'rrl ( lr?n Off, W.ifc droll' "| ' of the wftrM's maple anil f\ily cr- ] uine rorn-|i' nkr, "Oris-It ? Then. . and then onlv. w ill you to fori- that your c orn will loner n from yVir toe 1 no that you r.iti pool it riAht off J ilnrlnualy t asy with your tkipers ^ Take no chnnres of conlimio^ pain 1 and soreness? w hy use preasy.i i rrltatlnp naive*, piasters that ?hlft anil press Into the "oiliek," r.feors arid "dippers" that make corns b\eod pnd nlso yrnv/ faster? I'm- painless. t easy, always sure "(lets-It " ThetV's only one like It In the world?that's ' "Gets-It " 4 Millions have tried atVl , O. K.'d it for years It never fat)& "Gets-It," the guaranteed, mon?y\ |j hark corn-remover, the only sur? I way. costs htit a trifle at any driur store.\ M'f'd by K. Iaiwreneo A Co..Chlcaito. 111. h do id ,u G. < .?.-it?. . .tod t < < 0111 mead < V the world's best corn remedy Im j J p Mackey Co.? Standard i>'u. 1 Company -Adv rRH)AY, MAY 2, 1919. 9 jMbfell Eat His Hood Off I jB if vou feed him <?n wliolo /train food, IhI for besides wasting, it /ill take a H larger quantity to satisfy U""- A large H R^/7 7y\ I percentage of whole grain feeds will 83 V^SmillWt\ K not he digested. For str/igth and agili- 9 y t\ even horse and mil/' demands that 9 yS Jf even part of his hod/ he equally* fed. * 9 var .j.|)0 >v|,?|,. gi*ain foo/ does not give a n bamneed ration. Some pyrt* of his hodv are 9 Wlf rffirK ov\ fed and others stan/. A well mixed sweet I lo/////ffivi fee?\eontaining fraek?/l Com. Crimped Oats, , J i\V111 ''/nAW \!| l|"a, ("oitdii >cc(i jvi?*;ii iiim .>i? in In Iff jjive iviercN l<> even f>?ii*l ol the hodv alike. |jjMH COKER-LA WTON ? jwfcr J Sweet Feeds )\j |k?i / make stronV. vigorous horses and nudes, and V'fiji I! at an astmiivh ytijf saving. Tliev are readily " . \t lill palatable an<\ easily digested, furnishing all / lu the elements iit a balanced ration; Protein. i, I HrUm Fat, and ('a/bnhVd rates. and developing a fat, I ^ UHjjf healthy, slick, sh\rt-hair-d animal. A few y n hai's will show its silvantage. Sell your corn iUl and use ('oker Iuiwthji Sweet Feeds. It will [Ml eost much less in the lop?; run. In stock at FERGUSON COMPANY > A / Lancaster, S. C. 7 / X -?~^m/en.i muthki irnnn iC.Mitfravttit o n r iHMHMBBMnai Real Estate FOR SALE Desirable Town Lots and Houses and Improved Farms 50 to 100 Acres =SEE ME= W. B. PLYLER Lancaster, S. C. The FIRST NATIONAL BANK LANCASTER SOITII CAROLINA Our Customers Receive all the advantages tfiven by the highest class bankers, and we invite you to open an accoijfnt; no matter how lar^e or small, we will jrive it the same careful attention. Liberal loans made on approved business paper and collateral. / | Your Surplus Funds \ I If deposited w'th this Link. will ea^n y?Ai LOUR per cent per annum, compounded evcrv thrde months. Have vmi tried to figure out what you are losing by not placing your money where it will he earning interest V We invite your hanking business ami will give you the most courteous treatment. i \ I \ I >. ?THE? * First National Bank , LANCASTER, S C. ( has. I). Jones, President, V I P. M. Croxton, Vice-President and La shier, \ Ira H. Jones, Jr., Assistant (Cashier. > ' ? ^' - ?