The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 04, 1915, Page TWO, Image 2
CAUSTIC ANSWER j
TO MR. KING.;
I
MR. MERR1TT WANTS TO KNOW j
WHY HE DOES NOT MAKE HIS
ADVICE AND ACTS AGREE.
To the Editor of The Florence Daily
Times.
Dear Sir:?
Being a tobacco farmer and desiring
to further my own interest as
well as that of my brother farmers,
I take the liberty of answering the
letter addressed to Hon J W Ragsdale
by Mr J D King, which was I
published in your issue of January i
26. 1915. I know Mr King well. |
He ran a warehouse here for eleven!
- 3 3 firnA I itroo |
years ana aurmg mat tunc j ???o .
intimately acquainted with him and
I am surprised at the contents of
his letter to Mr Ragsdale.
If Mr Kin? really means what he
says, why has he been buying tobacco
here every year and at the close
of the season, having it graded and
tied and shipped to North Carolina
for re-sale? Why did he ship about
one hundred hogsheads last year
from Johnsonville to North Carolida
for re-sale? Why has he advised
the farmers here not to sell their to-!
i 1
bacco loose and ungraded, but to
grade 8nd tie it and ship it for North (
/ Carolina? I wonder if he remem-j
bers telling Mr J Tyler Gaskins and
sending word to Mr Covington, both 1
large tobacco growers, to grade and j
I tie their tobacco and ship it to (
Brown's warehouse, Winston-Salem, |
N C. where he would look after it ,
without cost to them and that there ,
they would make money? Why does ]
Mr King, a warehouseman, kick on ,
getting bigger warehouse charges? (
He says the prices are higher here <
than in North Carolina right now
and I want to know how much he lost
on the tobacco that he shipped from ,
Johnsonville. No, Mr King has got- ,
ten himself confused. He has forgotten.
He only remembers this: ,
that it has been profitable for him
to buy the tobbacco here loose and i
ungraded, have it graded and tied :
and ship it to North Carolina for re- j
sale and then make the killing him- [
self. If not, why has he advised his
friends heretofore to do this way
and why has he done it himself.
Not to lose money? No. Then to
make money. Then why not let all
of us profit in that manner? Force
all to tie and grade here so that our
warehouses must stay open to handle
it and not force us who want to tie
and grade to ship our tobacco to
North Carolina markets when our
own markets can be just as good.
Mr King comes, originall: from
North Carolina, Winston-Salem, I
believe, and goes back home every
year when the season closes, probably
to sell that loose tobacco that
he has bought here in the rush and
crush of the short season when all
, of the tobacco is sacrificed; the
short season enables warehousemen
to profit by the saving in salaries,
and, right here, Mr Editor, you will
notice that all of the non-resident
warehousemen want the short season
and all of the prominent resident
warehousemen are standing ny tne
Y farmers to give them a chance equal
'to their North Carolina brothers.
That's the meat in the egg. Look
I
-out, Mr Editor, for the warehouseman
who buys ungraded, loose tobacco,
ships it to his home .in North
^Carolina and comes out in the paper
against grading and tieing. Whom
is he looking out for?King or the
I farmer?
The owner of a steam drying plant
says that it will cost practically
nothing to take off the belt on which
the loose leaves are carried through,
put on a chain in its place, put the
bundles on a stick, put the stick in
the links of the chain and let it go
through just the same. Practically
* no expense, no loss of time, because
all of the plants come built to uso
for either the loose or the tied.
In conclusion, I want to say this,
that South Carolina raises only forty
million pounds of a total crop of
> i jm. :n:
rmne nunarea ana nn> muuuii puuu-jo
raiseed in the United Slates and is
the only State in the Union where it
| is dragged out of the field into and
through the barn and shovelled onto
the warehouse floor untied and up
graded. All of the old tobacco
States, where tobacco is the backbone
of the country, grade and tie
and handle it as if it were wor?h
something, and yet here is South
Carolina just beginning to come inb>
its proper place, trying to keep
abreast of the times,having the lowest
average of any State in th?Union
for the same grade of tobai co,
being blinded to its own best
interest by peopie who buy here in
the rough, then grade and tie and
ship to North Carolina and after all
of this expense, paying warehouse
charges in both States and freight
from Johnsonville and Lake City to
Winston-Salem, N C, finding it so
profitable that it has been done almost
every year for the past twelve.
That letter reminds me of what
Mr Williamson said to the committee
of the House to which the tobacco
bill was referred. He made a
cracking good speech against the
bill and when he sat down a gentle
man who was present asked mm 11
he didn't grade and tie and ship his
tobacco to North Carolina and he
said he did. Five minutes after that
the committee reported in favor of
the bill. These gentlemen seem unabl^to
distinguish between what is
called the "Interest of the Fanner"
and their own individual interest.
Just another word. I want to
compare the average prices on the
North Carolina markets and the
South Carolina markets. In 1912
the average price for the whole
North Carolina crop was eighteen
dollars and ninety-nine cents per
hundred, against ten dollars and
sixty-seven cents per hundred for
our crop; in 1913 the North Carolina
average was eighteen dollars
and sixty-six cents, against thirteen
dollars and seventy-seven cents, the!
South Carolina average; in 1914 our j
whole crop averaged only nine dollars
and sixty-eight cents per hundred,
while the average, up to
Christmas, on the Wilson, N C, market
was fourteen dollars and ninetyone
cents per hundred. The same
types of tobocco that are raised and!
sold in Eastern North Carolina are |
raised and sold in South Carolina? j
the tobacco raised and sold here is j
just as good as is raised and sold in j
Wilson. The only difference is that
they grade and tie their tobacco in
the right shape and here we pitch
fork it from the barn into the ware-,
houses, where it is bought for a
song, re-shipped to North Carolina I
and sold for a profit, ?but not for
the farmer.
Yours very respectfully,
H N Merritt.
Lake, City S C, January 26,1915.
Do You Find Fault witb Everybody?
An irritable, fault-finding disposition
is often due to a disordered
stomach. A man with good digestion
is nearly always good natured.
A great many have been permanently
benefited by Chamberlain's
Tablets after years of suffering.
These tablets strengthen the stomach
and enable it to perform its
functions naturally. Obtainable everywhere.
: KIKGSTREE HIGH AND t
I GRADED SCHOOL NOTES. }
The Wee Nee Literary society
held its regular meeting Friday afternoon,
January 28, with Mr Lesesne
in the chair. The programme
was carried out very nicely. The
query for debate was: Resolved,
That the United States should prepare
for war in order to preserve
peace. Immediately after this the
house was opened for general discussion,
which was especially interesting.
After considering very carefully
the points brought out on both
sides, the judges rendered their decision
in favor of the affirmative.
We were glad to have with us
Monday morning of last week, Rev
D A Phillips, who conducted the
chapel exercises.
Literary Editor.
Haw Mr. Davis Got Rid of a Bad Cough.
"Some time ago I had a very bad
cough,", writes Lewis T Davis,
Blackwater.Del. "My brother, McCabe
Davis, gave me a small bottle
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
After taking this I bought half a
dozen bottles of it but only used
one of them, as the cough left me
and I have not been troubled since."
Obtainable everywhere.
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