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E. R. AJLL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New Mrrv. S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, December 6, 1907. It seems to us that the cotton planter has about won the fight he has been making for better prices for his cotton. What he needs to do is to sit steady in the boat. Arrange his obligations but sit on the lid which holds his cotton off the market at present pri ces. In the last few days the price has advanced about a cent a pound and yesterday was at 11 1-4 cents and in some markets it has probably been a little above that figure. The crop is short. The demand is great er than it has ever been. The manu facturer has sold cloth on the basis of 15 cents cotton. What is there to keep the price from going up. Those who have been forced to sell to meet their obligations have all about sold and the farmer who has held up to this time is in position in most eases to hold on a while longer. With the start which was given the movement for a hospital in New - berry at the meeting of the cham ber of commerce to consider the pro .position, 4t should be very easy, with the proper effort, properly directed to raise the necessary funds for the building of a hospital in Newberry. We trust that the ladies of Newberry will consider the suggestion which was made in The Herald and N4ews of Tuesday, which is here repeated, that they get together and take hold of the movement, and that if they do so there can be no doubt of . their success. The hospital at Anderson is the result of the labor of the women of that town. If we- are not mistak 2n the Columbia hospital was origi nated and built by the hard efforts of the good women of that city. The movement in Newberry made a ime start and had a substantial subscription at the beginning, and we are satisfied that if the good wo men of this community take hold of the movement that they ~ean very soon 'assure he building of the hos pital. in Newberry. We hope that some of them at least may start the movement and we will be glad to give them any assistance in our power. We notice that probably' Hon. Robert Aldrich ,will be a candidate be Sore the3 approaching legislature for judge of the second circuit to .sue ceed Hon. James Aldri.eh, resigned. There is no more able lawyer or scholarly gentleman in the state than the Hon. Robert Aldrich. We should be glad to see him elected to this position and it would be a handsome tribute to him to be made the successor to nis cousin and his. father. both of whom were judges of this circuit. Apart from this, how ever, his fine intellect and extensive kn~owledge of the law eminently fit him for this position and his elec tioni would add strength to the bench of this state. STINGING REBUKE. Congressman Aiken Replies in Open' Letter to Malici' . Attack on oto Pr' qn.is by Satur. day Evening Post. A bbeville, S. C., Nov. 30,190j7. Edi:tor of the Snotrdiay Evening Pj. Tn an: editoria: that has been ex teniv -!y quot.ed at d commented on by the papers of the Congressional District that I have the honor to rep)resen.t, you said: "W must dle pend pirincipally upon cotton, which Euirope will buy in great quantities, arnd .which runs into money very fast, to .overturn this menace and turn the tide our way. That, in view of such public need, planters should hold cotton for mere personal gain in tru ly reprehensible. We read that the banks <renerally will keep them in the path of duty by refusing to extend loans on .stored cotton.''" It would be a waste of time to re *ply to such an absurd statement, if absurdity was its greatest objection. Tfhe editorial is gratuitously imper tinent as it is maliciously false. 'Living as I do, in the midst of the cotton belt, and being conversant with the ills that the cotton farmer has suffered, by reason of the mani pulation of his product by Wall Street gamblers aided and abetted by certain subsidized newspapers. I am prel)ared to say. God sneed the day. wh~1ien the initri<.rue and l.Ia ized thr/i dispose of it. An you say "the banks greneral IY wi'i ke &p t len (h e fa r1n rs) 11 thie p1.th to1 (luly Uy refuslig to ex telld loans on stored cotton. I.et me i1lform VoU. and your I jnild. that. as a rule. the class of men who now have cotton stored, do business on the other side of the ledger, and if it were believed that the "banks gen erally" had enlisted in a dastardly attempt to bully the farming class, the banks, and not the farmers would be the sufferers. The cotton of the dependent class has generally been put on the market, and if some are weak, they will find ready help in their own ranks, if local banks should be fooled into such a short-sighted, suicidal policy. Now, what are some of the facts about this product of the farm the Saturday Evening Post alleges has so demoralized American finances? The probabiltiy is, that the crop will not far exceed twelve millions bales. In an interview in Atlanta, some months ago, the' president of the Internation al Spinners Association, who was al so president of the largest mill in terest in England, admitted that Eng lish mills had sold their output of cotton cloth on an average of nine months or more, on a basis of fifteen. cents per pound for cotton. This be ing the case. and there is no reason to doubt the "-tatement, who is en titled to the extra margin of five cents per pound, between recent prices, and the price at which mills have sold their output at a profit? The cotton farmer can pay the ad vanced price for ootton cloth, manu facttired on a basis of fifteen cents per pound, but if he dares refuse to dump his cotton on the market, at a loss of five cents per pound of its acknowledged value, you brand his conduct as "reprehensible." And this you think has brought American finance to the brink of ruin? A glance at the' figures will show the absurdity of your statement. A private crop estimate circulated on N. Y. Exchange, November 29, placed the yield, this year, at 10, 388.000 bales. On the same date the Liverpool Cotton Exchange estimat ed the crop at 11.935,000 bales. If this is near the mark,- and it is safe to say that it is full, this crop is short of last year's crop by more than-1.500,000 bales. Cotton brought into sight up to Nov. 30, this year amounted to 4,300,000 bales against 5,700.000 same time' last year. Al lowinje for the shortness of this x.ar's crop, has not cotton been marketed at about its normal rate? The one true thing that you did' say, by inference, was that exported Buy Your Chr The~ Si Grocery They are Hea Christm a WIE CAN FILL YOUR OHRIST-1 AS WANTS THIS YEAR BET LER THAN EVER. IF YOU MAKE TOUR BILL WITH US WE WILL SELL YOU LONDON LAYER RAI INiS TEN CENTS POUND. WE EIAVE A NICE LINE OF CAKE FRIT SEEDED EAISINS FIF TEEN CENTS POUND, TWO LBS. FOR TWENTY-FIVE CENTS, CIT RON TWENTY CE'TS LB, CUR RANTS FIFT'EEN CENTS, TWO POUNDS FOR TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. FLAVQRING OF ALL KINDS. NUTS! NUTS!! BRAZIL NUTS, ENGLISH WAL NUTS, AND NUTS OF ALL KINDS. APPLES BY THE CARLOAD. BANANAS BY THE BUNCH, LEM ONS, ORANGES AND FRUIT OF ALL KINDS. e w ber' eIr eIIC.:. ("ollol sold andc consuim ed in this eou:trv simply takes the mnwev tU of one man's pvcket and puts it into the poeket of the other. Now let os see how the exports stand. The total exports from September lst. to Nov. 30th this year, amounted to 2,377,000 bales, against 2,873,000 bales same period last year. There is an approximate difference of half a million bales or say $25,000,000. Does anybody believe that the fin ancial base of this country could be shaken by a balance of trade of $25, 000,000 for or against us when our export trade runs up into the bil lions? You have no word of censure for the money sharks who withdrew their money from circulation, but the farmer who will not sacrifice his edtton. at less than value, to coax this money from its hiding. is guilty of "reprehensible" conduct. If the planter, unlike other free American citizens, as you say, must eliminate "merely personal gain,'' in disposing of his product, may he not at least look to the greatest public good? Since his interests must be secondary would it nQt be. better for the public good for the farmer .to hold the two-thirds of the crop until foreign trade pays an -additional two or three cents per pound, that is its real value. This would really add .to the volume of currency. not to men tion the incidental advantage to far mers. Is it not just possible, Mr. Editor, that instead of depressed finances be ing due to concerted action by the -farmers, in holding back their cot ton, depressed prices for eotton may be due to concerted action by finan ciers, in holding back their money? -Is it not possible that this panic, coming just at this time. was started with this purpose, and that it has got ten beyond the control of its promo ters? But we will not be drawn further into justifying the conduct of our people in a matter that neither you nor your Wall Streek friends have the slightest right to dictate or even suggest; a matter that as free Amer ican citizens we can dispose of in our owz way, at our own good pleasure. Like Frederick, the Great, by our reverses we have learned the' arts of war, and neither the bullying nor flattering of Wall Street gapblers and their satelities will wrest 'from us the triumph of right. We''are ea pable of attending to our own affairs and we have heard of many who have gotten rich 'by this simple pro cess. Wyatt Aiken. ist nas Goods 1th o. Store. ~dquarters for is Goods DOLLS! DOLLS! DOLLS! OF ALL KINDS, CHliA, KID), WAX. AN'D RAG DOL1IS RANGE IN PRICES FROM FIVE CENTS TO TWO DOLLARS. TOYS OF EyERY DESORIP TION. HORNuS,' WAGONS, TOY MONKEYS, ALBUMS, BIRDS, BA BY RAT TLERS AND A WORLD OF OTHERS. FIR E .WORKS WHICH WE WILL SELL WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. ROMAN CANDLES, FOUR BALLS TO TWENTY-FIVE BALLS, FIRE OR4AIKE'RS, SA LUTES, FIVE AND TEN CENT PAKAGES, JAP TORPEDOES OF ALL KINDS. DO NOT FOR ET TO BUY YOUR FIREWORKS FROM THE SMITH CO. CANDY OF ALL KINDS. WE HAVE A LARGE LINE OF POP STIKS AN]) CAPS TO POP IN THEM. 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