Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, April 28, 1897, Page 8, Image 8
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
./. F. NISliET Editor.
We are still looking for reports
from the Sub-Alliances.
The Cotton Plant is now published
at Laurens, S. O., and is
still in the hands of the Committee
with W. T. Crews as editor
and publisher. It is a bright,
lively, paper and evtrv Alliance
man should see to it that ho gets
the Cotton Plant and reads it. It
is full of good substantial matter
and the exchange price list alone
is wortli the price of th?* paper.
Let t <p Alliaticpmen ir<? to work
and get subscribers, ami if yn ir
subscription has not expired and
you are not receiving the paper,
write the publisher and ho will
make correction.
Report From The Primus SubAlliance.
Mr. Editor: As it has fallen to
my lot by appointment to correspond
for our sub Alliance 1
will endeavor to give you a short
item.
We have a well organized
body of Alliance brethren and
are in fine working order and
have some accessions nearly
every meeting. We have a good
lecture every meeting by oui
worthy lecturer, Brother .J. It.
Knight. A good lecture is the
life of an Alliance, and that we
have every meeting. We alsi
have a good attendance every
V. 1 4t
uk^ci iu^> I'ivn v uiuuiur Mft'ins ii
he interested in the Alliance
work which is a good work, whicl
in my opinion is the next organi
zation to the church. Some of the
money sharks say the Alliance
is dead, but they are mistaken
Let them tackle us, and they
will find the liveliest corpse they
ever met.
A good Alliance brother visit
ed me the other day and said tr
me he intended to attend the Alliance
as long as his old mule
was able to carry him to one. Tic
rides nine miles to one. We glory
in the spunk of such Alliancemen
Seventy five per cent. of A11 imen
are laborers and, if united
we would be as the driving
wheel of a great engine whicli
se'ts thousands of spindles in mo
tion when it revedves. Come.
brother farmer, make a spoke in
the Alliance wheel.
As I have been appointed re
porter I expect to do my duty af
best 1 can. I expect to go hewing
and if the chips strike some peo
pie 1 can't help it. If I should
write long letters I hope the good
Editor will grant me space in lib
valuable paper. I expect to chop
with the Alliance broad axe, and
some of the chips are sure tc
strike some of our County and
State officers. It matters not if I
write long letters, I do not get
if'1 a day as a salary and want
somebody else to get fifty centf
per day.
People in this section arc
mrougn planting cotton, ami it is
coming up slowly on account ol
dry weather, fruit crop* are look
inn hut* nnd promising. Not as
much sorghum cane planted in
this section as last year.
Mr. Editor, I will not write any
more for this time till I see if
this escapes the waste basket.
B. F. Adams.
SILVER AND OOLI).
Mr. Frewen Writes About Silver
And The Fall of Prices.
Mr. Morton Frewen, writing
from London to the Washington
Post, draws the line between the
debtor and creditor nations, and
shows most plainly the close relation
which the gold and silver
<| nest ion bears toward the fall of
prices, lie says :
In this moring's cable to the
"Times" Mr. Smalley reports from
W ashington an interesting interview
with the President. Mr.
.Smalley\s hitherto unshaken con
vietion has been that the St.
Louis bimetalic "plank" was dishonest?a
mere vote catcher. His
interveiw with the President, has
clearly convinced him that the
President, at least, is in earnest
in 11is desire to secure an international
settlement.
The Times" correspondent is to
be congratulated on his discovery;
if he perserveres he may find in
the public life of the Tinted
States other honest men. The
view lias been sedulously fostered
bv N*P\V York rrif ino it, Mm I
don press, that half the American
nation lias stuck its llag to anarchy,
and that the other half
won the day last November by a
platform so tricky as to involve,
in clasicj "party perfidy and party
dishonor." Mr. Snialley's pres*
ent voyage of discovery from
Manhattan Island to the little
' known District of Columbia, is
certainly worth while, if it has
) carried to bis mind the conviction
that the leader of a party, who
1 declared lor bimetalism before
the election does not stand a revealed
mono-metallist, now that
the election has been won.
As to the prospect of an international
monetary agreement,
to which many of us here have
devoted our energies for the past
twenty years, you will perhaps
> permit me to write at some
lengi'i. Looking back to the roc
ords of the abortive conferences
of the past it seems pretty clear
that those who attribute their
' failure to England's hostility,
know too little of the subject to
' answer the question, "but why
' should England co-operate ? Even
1 the late lamented I'rof. Eranci i
Walker, 1 venture to say <1 i<l not
| entirely appreciate England's po'.sition.
It was his view?a view
which 1 and many others accepted
because ot his great authority,
'.that if America suHerod by the
full ?if prices and the b?ss of a**par
I of exchange," yet England sufi
fered even more. This view, how
' i over, will not stand investigation ;
' tlie juestion of bimetallism ver
' | sns gold is priinarly a question
1 of debtor nations, versus creditor
' nations, and it is becoming clear
' by tin* light of modern research
that the creditor nation is the
gainer at the expense of the debtor,
and it is the gainer, too, by
particularly the whole amount of
the "appreciation*' of gold?the
fall of prices. The truth is, that
the great fall in the price of your
staple exports, such as wheat and
cotton, a fall which will each
1 year make it moro difficult for
' you to pay the interest on your
foreign debts, without shipping
your gold, it is this very fall
which by giving us. vour creditor.
cheap raw material and cheap
food, both secures our manufac
turing supremacy, and enables 1
us to Hourish inordinately as a v
nation, notwithstanding the pa- v
ralysis of our agriculture, and of fl
certain other special industries (1
which have been unminded by li
the competition of using silver in a
Asia. Lot me show the efleet ot f
the fall in pi ices upon our cred- t
iter relation with foreign conn- v
tries. Our foreign loans and in- l
vestments are upward of ten thou- I;
sand million dollais, the interest o
on which is sup]>osed to average l
1 per. cent., or $400,000,000 a t
year. This interest reaches us in i
the form of wheat, cotton, wool j
and other produce. Wheat lias c
in the past low years fallen more j t
than one half. Translating then I c
our entire receipt of interest into t
bushels of wheat it may he said c
that instead of receiving '270,- a
000,000 bushels of wheat as the ^
equivalent, of ?400,000,000 of in t
terest we are receiving, at the d
average price of the past four t
years over five hundred million "
bushels. As our total consutnp ?
tion of wheat, is less than 2-'0,
000,000 bushels a year t !?."?7
])Ounds per capita), the fall in c
the prices has given us in the c
form of" increased interest on our *
foreign investment more than the J
entire annual bread supply of c
our people. It is little wonder, t
then, that we reformers fighting f
this battle in England make little ?
headway against those who say 1
''better free bread than free silver."
r
l'rof. Walaer, however, use<l to c
warn us of the possible insolvency t
of our debtors, because of the *
great collapse of the price of what (
' they produce; but thus far, by t
con trust with our entire foreign j
loans, our losses in Turkey, t
Greece and the Argentine have 1
been a bagatelle ; nor is there any
i real alarm as yet felt in England ]
i that the further fall of prices will
involve any extensive liquidation
in America and Australia. Thus 1
far we are getting our four hunll
rn/1 /xf I tti/xn/xn^ ? ? d * f
I ill vvt iuiinwun ui init'iirai, itllU 11
one half of our debtors prove in
solvent we should even then he as
well paid as if prices under bimetallism
reverted to the previous
high level before 1873, and
all our debtors paid us in full. I
Theories apart, what are the j
facts f The gross annual per capita
income of the debtor nations'
has been largely reduced in the
past thirty years, while apparently
that of the creditor has increased.
In New Zealand, for ex I
ample, the per capita income has J
; la I leu since 1ST.'! from C40 lo
C'21, and tlio present income of
| your 30,000,01)0 of farm population
is not more titan 1/20 ; in
Kngland, on the other hand, Mr.
Rowley's extremely eloharate returns.
which ran he found in the
Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society for June, 1895, show
that our per capita income has in-1
creased since 1800 from C2S to |
C-12. This increase is 17 per
' cent, in money, hut if you estimate
the increased purchasing
power of the 1U2, Mr. Rowley
clioiee f 1? f\ t t l>/\ 'vl ? - - ? ? " ~ i* 2 ?
auuno mat iiiu it'iti HHJrOUKU UI III- i
come since 1 <800 amounts to 102 i
per cent. Mr. C'oghlan, the sta- ?
tistician to the government of
North South Wales, when I was .
at Sydney two years since, work- <
ed out for me these figures : The <
population of the colony is 1,200,000,
and the colony owes $2.r>,- <
0t)(),000 of interest to Kngland. '
Vt the prices of 1872 the exports
ihich were in 1894 XI5,900,000,
rould have realized 29,000, 00,
while the imports, 11,000.
00, would, at the prices of 1892,
lave cost the colony 10,819, oi
. balance of loss because of the
all of prices of 7,4So,90S on
he external trade alone. Inothei
rords, but for the (all of priceshe
entire item of debt would
lave been wiped out. and a bonus>f
2,000.000 would remain t<
he credit of the colony. I have
10 doubt that in the case of Oal
lornia, a community equal in
)o|>ulation and similar in rosour
es, the external indebtedness oj
luil State is not less than is tin
a-<e in Ynrl, South Wales, and
he loss bv the tall of nrioos i<
i
tqually burdensome. lint groal
is is the loss to New Soot I
iV.lies, it is still Holland that i>
lie gainer to the extent of tlx
lepreciation, ami it i< this argu
ncnt, that the creditor natioi
:aios hy each fresh fall in prices
vhieh, however immortal, is stil
tnpregnably intre died in the
conotnic faith ot thiscornnninity
Cheap silver involves low ex
han^es with all Asia; low ex
hanges result in cheap producion
in Asia and stimulated ex
)orts from Asia. Racially sue!
onditions are a menace to our
ivili/.ation ; even commercially
hey are not easy to defend, bu
inanciallv they appeal very pow
rfullv to certain predominant
nterests in this kingdom.
Having drawn attention to one
if the principal obstacles to cur
ency reform, which while ar
ibstacle to a settlement inucredi
or" England is an incentive n
ho United States ; perhaps yoi
vill permit me in a further let
er to point out how far the pres
>nt government of this country is
nepared to go, under pressure o
he exigencies of the Indian ad
riinistration.
Morkton Frkwen.
25 Oheshain l'lace, March li
1897.
THE TRUST COLLAPSES.
Hie Cotton Growers Will Havi
No More Trouble About the
Question of Securing Ties.
Col. D. 1*. Duren, manager o
lie State Alliance exchange, yea
onlay afternoon returned fron
W ashington, where he has beei
or several days on business o
;reat importance to the cottoi
growers of the State. He wen
>n to Sumter in the afternoon.
Col. Duncan, it. will be re
nembered, led the fight madi
ast year in many of thesoutheri
states, particularly in Soutl
'arolina, against the Hat cottoi
ie trust, introducing a wire ti
vhich, after a big light, the itn
sorters were forced to accept
[before the season was out thou
lands of bundles of the wire tie
vore manufactured and wold al
brough the south, many of th
rrowers boycotting tho llat ti
trust which had had thorn at it
mercy so long.
Colonel Duncan has found fror
lis visit to Now York that th
rarniers will have no more trouhl
ihout the tie trust. .Several com
rianies have gone to manufactui
ng tho Hat ties on a largo seal
uid they are now olTering t
purchasers all the llat ties tha
[hey can handle at 15 cents
bundle less than the actual wir
jsed last season could be brough
it. In other words, the price
lave fallen until the llat ties ca
t)e purchased at 15 cents less pe
bundle than the crude wire to b
? ? 11. - *: - ?
uauu 1IIIU LIJ? HUH can ue DOUgli
?t.
While the fight ma.Jo agaim
,he trust was thought by man
:o be'uHeless, the above statomei]
>f facts seems to show that it wn
exceedingly effective. No dout
here will be general rejoicin
imong th3 cotton growers c
>outh Carolina at the result.Lhe
State.
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