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WHO IS GETTING THE BENEFIT OF HIGH PRICES FOR COTTON? (Manufacturers Record. Baltimore. Md. > Mr. Daniel Willard. president of t>:e Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, apparently has in his office some one who is supposed to interpret and comment upon editorials, we presume for Mr. Willard's enlightenment, for we have received from him or his office two copies of a memorandum of this kind in which Mr. M. B. Wild, in his report to Mr. Willard, informs him tfcat the Manufacturers Record seems to be very well balanced on all things except cotton. In the course of this memorandum he says: "The insinuation that the Federal Keserve Board brought about the recent virtual panic in New York, from which few rich men suffered and few professionals, is just the kind of ammunition the Bolsheviks use in their endeavor to overthrow social order.*' The trouble with Mr. Wild, and apparently with Mr. Willard, since in sending this to the Manufacturers Record without comment he seems virtually to have accepted that view, is that they shut their eyes to facts. No one has to be very familiar with tl*e conditions in New York to know that the stock market is the football of many Wall Street gamblers who use one thing and another to advance or depress the price of stocks according to whether they are buyers or sellers of stocks. These speculators 4,;nilk the public" or "shear the lambs," as you may care to put it. Money is loaned freely until stocks are boosted and the insiders sell out; then some plan is devised to tighten the money market or to advance call loans, and the public rushes to sell.1 The speculators buy in at a low price + fVi?nr of o V?itrVi fiornw liiC CIU\. I\C* OVIU v U Ui^ii Then money again becomes easy, stocks are boosted, the public rushes to buy and the insiders unload. Soon : the money market becomes tight, stocks tumble and the public sells at a low price to the insiders, and so ad infinitum. We have never found it wise to suppress information, and Mr. Wild's suggestion that the publi- j cation of such statements is Bolshe-' vistic in its tendency is indicative of the narrowness of his vision. In a fur-! ther discussion of the views of the , Manufacturers Record he said: "The views of this paper on cotton ' and cotton prices and the action of the Federal Reserve Board in relation to them would be much sounder if it could show that the genuine cot* 1 1 ^ ton growers ootn neea ana are getting prices for their product that are from 200 to 300 per cent higher than prewar prices. The fact is. however, that the genuine cotton grower is securing but a small share of these gigantic price increases and the recent action of the Federal Reserve i Board both as to cotton and all other commodities had r.o other purpose than to check the speculators who are reaping the main benefit from the in- J creased prices." In this statement Mr. Wild displays a depth of ignorance which cannot be reached by any plumb line. We hope Mr. Willard knows a little more. The cotton growers are getting the present high prices, and they do need them. The bear speculators who have gambled for years and leached the. life-blood of the Southern growers ?au: Knnn innrVit i r> AUfn 1 nr. v ^ x*\~w uvii in utvu v ?' it trap, and they are trying to move Heaven?no. not Heaven, but earth 1 and hell?to wriggle out of the steel trap which is finally closing around ; them. They are in a vise, which ' daily closes in on thc-m, ar.d that vise . is tho ornnnroir law of sunolv and ' demand which, despite the effort of 1 the cotton bears to b'.eak down, is fix- j incr the price of cotton. The cotton growers for 50 years! virtually starved, especially the small! growers and the tenant farmers, j white and black. The average yield , of cotton on Southern farms was i about six bales per farm. At 10! cents a pound, this meant $300 a { year as the gross income of a farmer and his wife and children because he' was only able to raise cotton at these ! prices by having his wife and chil-! dren work in the cotton field. The j wife should have been at home, the children should have been in school. The curse of illiteracy has been upon the South because of the curse of j cotton fastened upon this section by the economic slavery which chained it to low-priced cotton after the war. With a grower's income of $300 a year plus a small amount received from seed, one-third to one-half of *-LKo nniH -for rent tfliS ulllUUia i iau VV WV of the land, and out of the pittance left these tenant farmers by the hundreds of thousands had to support their families. j The "curse of God" might well rest upon every man who, in view of such a situation, has sought to hold down the price of cotton for every effort, made to keep down the price of cotton has been an effort made to keep the women and children in the cotton fields, to develop illiteracy, and to bring upon this section and upon the nation all of the curses which follow desperate enforced pov crty, duo to the power of those who ] controlled the situation as against the helpfulness of the growers. i : At the present time all of the inline nee:*. which can possibly be luuuu'ht to bear by the gamblers who have finally been caught in the." own trap are beinj;- put forth to seek to break down the cotton prices of the present that they may be saved from tremendous losses, if not from com-/ plete bankruptcy. The financial destruction of this bear element to the !=??* flftllar nf its nower would be an unmixed blessing to the world and to ^ the South. We trust that Mr. Willard is wise ' enough and broad enough to recog- * ; nize that the people who for 50 years ^ have been held in economic slavery, ; and who have seen their product made 1' the basis of the enormous profits ' which the cotton manufacturers of j the world have of recent years been. reaping, will recognize that justice is ' on the side of the growers. We published last week a dispatch from London showing that even a ! ^ cotton manufacturer took the ground : 1 that the profits of English mills are ' entirely too great, even ''sinfully ' great," and certainly there is no in-ij dication that the mills in this country.. have not been earning amazingly big,1 rVvnfitc far Vspvnnrl nrnfits which the * growers have been able to secure for j 1 themselves. Here and there a large 1 landowner has always been able, ex- * cept in a few years of extreme de- 1 pression, to make some profit out of;4 renting his land to tenants. Even " at a low price for cotton, he could ;c still get a fair return out of his in-;* vestment in land, and occasionally j some large planters have made good i profits over a long period of years, j but these are exceptional cases. They j * do not represent the actual cotton- j J growing interests as a whole. They i do not represent the hundreds of thousands of tenant and small far- J mers who raise a very large proper- j .... j tior. of the cotton crop. .j In closing his memorandum to Mr. j WilJard, Mr. Wild said: j "Does the Manufacturers Record I wish to include and make a part of its I moral code the old aphorism?consistency is the virtue of fools." We are lacking in that degree of j intelligence which would permit us to j understand the meaning of Mr. Wild's j sentence or its relation to the work j - w * ^ 3 "D?f ! Ot tne IVianuiaciurera xvctuiu. i?ui< i since he seems to be informed as to j the matter of fools, we suggest that: for his own benefit, and as relating to j himself, he turn to the 27th chapter j and to the 22d verse of Proverbs, which reads as follows: "Though thou shouldest bray a fool j in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness de- ^ part from him.' i BOMB PLOT NIPPED j IN BUD, IS BELIEF ( i I Eighteen Extremists Rounded Up in New York Raids?300 Arrested < In Seattle. j ; if New York, Jan. 20.?A plot for " l__. 4.1. ? ,i;? wholesale assassinations vy uic u:o- j tvibution of bombs next May day or ^ Fourth of July is believed by the j police to have been frustrated by the arrest in two raids yesterday of ^ eighteen extremists, said to be members of the Union of Russian Work- li ers. The polite think the bombs were fc to have been sent by express or hur- ? cl led by fanatics. This information was forthcoming. today following preliminary investi-.a gation of papers seized in the raids.: v Material for use in rlie manufacture 0 of bombs, including those of the pipe i variety, was found. \ Russian Workers Exists. The Union of Russian Workers still i v ovists ile?nite the deportation of Peter Bianki, its head here for years, 1j and continues its conferences, it was p stated, but since federal and police ? raids began each meeting has been Js held at a different apartment or j private home. j P Fifty-two more alleged reds taken I: in raids here and in Passaic and it: Trenton, N. J., were released from ; c Ellis Island today on bail. According v to Miss Rose Weiss, an attorney for P thirty-seven of the prisoners, a bail t fund of S1.")0,000 in liberty bonds is j I now available and from now on about c thirty a day will be released. ; r 316 Radicals Arrested. -a Seattle, Jan. 20.?Federal officials ! announced tonight that twenty-seven j 1 alleged radicals, arrested last night, c are to be held for deportation. t Three hundred and sixteen were j ? arrested in the raids which were di-! v rected against members of the Union | of Russian Workers. The majority j I were releasel after examination by s Department of Justice agents. j; , The minister of public works has ' ' i--*" ?v no?;a^lt introduced a um uauic vuc . national legislature providing for i * the erection of a powerful wireless !' station by the Danish government, j*' It is planned to build a station of j ^ sufficient size to send wireless mes-jJ sages directly to the United States.{J Subscribe to The Herald and Xews.l ?2.00 a year. j' DID SO MUCH TO AID HER BOYS AND GIRLS Mrs. Cathey Tells of Results Tanlac Gave. "IT SURE IS FINE." \nderson Woman Says She is Glad to Recommend it Publicly. "I am glad to recommend Tanlac to the public, for it has done so much civ. > hrck hp;ilth to mv bovs and rirls and other relatives. It sure is a fine medicine," declared Mrs. Jose-; phine Cathey, of No 12. II Street,, Anderson, in a statement she gave : May 25, 1917. Her husband, a daughter, a son and daughter-in-law,, Mrs. Cathey said, had all been great-: ly helped by Tanlac. 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