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SALisirtTBY, N. C.V Jan. 4 1904.
Raleigh is preparing for a legis
lative bawl, ; :y 'A'..: . v. .::
It is stated that Russia does not
yet have a desire for mediation.
Too far gone for that we . suppose.
The Tom La wsons would be
nonentities if the newspapers did
not give their ilk so much free
space. v
- Salisburians are greatly inter
ested in the change of the city
charter, that is they Would like to
know what the change is for, '' V.
The large crop' of cotton and
boll weevils last year will prob
ably give life farmer an ' opportu
nity to reduce both this year.
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January 1st was the time fixed
for David B. Hill to retire from
politics We have noticed no un
usual changes in the weather.
Well, this istheV 4th day of
January and notwithstanding the
numerous resolutions made we
have obseryedno matereal changes
The British consider bur Mon-
roe doctrine wnoiiy justmabie in
view of the position of the United
States yea the position we took
in 1776 and 1812.
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It has been qnit6 often stated
that Port Arthur had enough pro
yisions to hold out for several.
montnsr out it seems tneir pro
visions t-were not of .the fight
, 1 r .. .
kind.
The paragrapberof the Raleigh
Post says "eggs are not a good
circulating medium." -There are
some tump speakers who believe
they. . circulate . very -freely espe
cially the older ones.
Tins Tom Liawson stun: seems
to us to be a skin game of some
kind and if no one has yet made
a haul or drop .' we feel sure I it's
only a matter of time till some
sucker is caught and the trick re
vealed. .
We give a portionj ot our space
this week to a description of the
Waco plan for holding and mark
eting cotton. It seems to be worth
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serious consideration and may
prove, if adopted ,:a splendid and
profitable idea.
President Roosevelt is much in-
; terested in f jin j it ser , the Japan
"ese method of wrestling. Prof.
Yamshitaskii of Japan , has been
giving- him lessons.' When the
President becomes an . expert we
see no reason why He ' should not
draw as large a crowd as Corbett,
Fitzsimmons or any of the boys.
Prohibition went into effect, in
tit unnouuA
r Charlotte Saturday evening - and
in speaking of ; the fact the Char
lotte News, jsaysr '
! r The rush all day long was un-
p.-precedented, 4ind wheji the , clos
'ing hour came' saloon snelves were
bare and barrels empty. The
orders from private parties were
, greater in volume than those from
' the: saloons' steady customers.
- But seriously, is this prohibi
tion? Doesn't this "merely mean
that the stock of beverages car-'-
, , ried by the saloon folks has simp
ly beentrajisf erred from the bars
to the homes of the citizens?
Doesn't it indicate that the public
sentiment that, would make pro
hibition a thing to be desired is
lacking and that a mere : farce is
being transacted?
Try TheWatchman, 1 year 50c.
'irJusThat Chairman
to do ;with it more than any other
individual in the State we do not
know; but this ; is ; what A he Isayg
jBpeaKing r oi .-. v several mils i is
thought will; come up for consid
eration, before the legislature: .
Plainly the design of these bills
is : to i overthrow . the Watts act
Let the friends of temperance
therefore, be vigilant to discover
and .swift to rebuke movements in
behalf of these bills. - -...This
snpreme impudence and
usurpation of perogatives is the
cause of so much bad feeling when
ever an advocate of prohibition
endeavors to say something. For
instance, let's change the word
ing thus, supposing the measures
are to be ottered oy inenas or
temperance : "Let the anti-pro-
hibisiohists, therefore, be vigilant
to discover and swift to rebuke,"
etc. ' All are supposed to be on an
equal basis and one has as much
right to use such phraseology as
another and it shows bad taste
for either side to .make use of su6h
statements. ' f
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CURRENT-COMMENT.
How vividly, Xat this 'season ,
does the memory of the old-fash
ioned wide fire-place, with its
sooty back, crackling flames and
glowing embers, come back to the
man whose boyhood): was spent on
the country farm I Raleigh Post.
The religious bodies of the State
nave ail spoKen out againBt our
lax divorce, laws and have urged
the enactment of more rigid di
vorce laws. It is how up to ; the
law makers to make it harder to
eat unmarried . in this State.
Monroe i Enterprise. n
. When the seal of public disap
proval is stamped upon every man
who drinks to excess then "A will
prohibition laws prohibit and the
life Tof the legislator be made
tolerable. Raleigh Post.
We have a tf" term of court
here. Judge Shaw having' been
commissioned to"! hold on till
finished . Unlesshe "on-suits,' ' as
the old countryman called it,
hundred or t two, this .means he
will be here until Gabriel is very
near ready to toot his horn.
Greensboro Record.,
Saysondon Truth: uThe Ken
tucky woman is simply the Venus
of Mild in warm, healthy flesh,
with grace in all her motions,, and,
when in love, heaven in her eyes.
She has the American capacity to
adapt herself to fresh conditions
Her nerves have not been set on ap
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edge by an Atlantic 6ast wind, and
she has a broad and sympathetic
nature." If a fellow can go oft
like that over a Blue Grass girl he
would have a duck ' fit. over the
peacheranas of the Tar Heel State.
Wilmington! Star. " '
Barn Burned. Stockholders Meet
V- Faith, if. C, Jan. 8. We heard
that the barn ' and 'contents of
John Troutman. who lives near
Organ Church, was burned yester?
day, Mr Troutman looses about
$400 or $500. i : The origin of J the
fire is not known. . The live stock
and a buggy near by were saved.
This is a severe loss to Mr. Trout
man at this season of the year.
The stockholders of ; Raney
jBrown & Co.'s store here . held
their annual meeting Monday
night. They are all highly pleas
ed with the, fast growing business
built up for them by Luther. Ra-
ney who was head clerk for about
four years. - Mr. Raney resigned
at this meeting and Luther Fish
er was elected tq Bll his placef
Mr: Raney has several good offers
to travel for some wholesale, firms
but has not decided as to - what
position he will accept. He will
take a rest of a few weeks as he
has been working hard
Venus.
Winston-Salem, N. C, Dec. 30.
The shipments of manufactured
tobacco from Winston-Salem dur
ing the present month footed up
3,218,170 pounds. Thisis an in
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crease oi tsi,oU pounds over
December, 1908. .The shipment
that month amounted to 3,181,810
pounds. '
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FARMERS AND BANKERS.
Ten Cent Cotton and the Waco VYare-hoase
Raleigh Post.
To tell ja farmer to hold his cot
ton for ten cents without having a
un i form system for doing it is al
most as hard as Pharoah s calling
on the Hebrews to make bricks
wit h out proyid in g it hem? with
sbrawl But the Hebrews nrovid-
ed themsel ves with straw and made
th; bricks, and . the cotton pro-
aucers muse sooner or later pro
vide ; themselves with a i cotton
warehouse system for safely stor--
irig thoirjeotton so'as to hold it
for - better prices. The three
great farmers' organizations, The
Southern 'Cotton Growers' Asso
ciation , section of The Farmers
National Congress of which Hon.
9arvie Jordan, .of Montioello,
Georgia, is president, the Farm
e,rs' Educational and Co-operative
Union, of which Hon. N. C. Mur
ray, of Greenville, Texas, is pres
ident, and the American Society
of Equity, of which Hon, J. A.
Everett, oi inaianapoiis, ind:, is
president, have advised cotton
growers to hold their cotton and
market it slowly, as needed for
actual consumption of the spin
ners. The decline in prices shows
that the farmers Jhave not been I
able.to act upon this advice, for
it goes without saying that .if thev
had held tjhieir cotton for ten
cents they would have received
this price since the world must
have cotton. They have held
back some cotton but not enough
to effect this great purpose. The
government report of December
3d found the cottofi grower whol
ly unprepared to resist the fall in
the prices of cotton as the logical
result which followed and will
continue to fellow the threat of
dumping upon the market during
tnis cotton season iz,Joz,uuuoaies
of cotton, and about 200,000 bales
of linters.
Present prices for cotton are son. Had althe overcoats in the
rubious. What is the remedy? world been damped on the mark
Farmers and bankers must get et last winter many a poor -fellow
together immediately and prepare
to carry over until September
1905. one million'and a half bales
of cotton. Every farmer must
bold over nearly, twenty per cent
of his 1904 crop, to prevent ruin,
and as many will not do this,
every tanner wno reads tnis sug
gestion and can do so should hold
oacK an tne present unsold por
tion of his crop. If he .cannot
hold all, then hold as much; as it
is possible to hold. If the man
who reads this can hold only one
bale let him hold; it, for co-opera-
tion of the small farmer, as well
as of the wealthy planter, must
be invoked. ; Make up your mind
to hold that' one bate or" that ten
bales to; orte yearr; Carry it; to
town ": where
there; as ; a . looal
bank. ' Do this at once, Look up,
an 'abandoned: storehouse that
carries insurance, if possible. Put
the cotton in there. : Insure it:
Get the lowest rate of storage and
insurance possible. .If you cannot
f do this,' haul it into the back lot
or your nome nanKer. V; iou may
count on him as your -friend.
This talk about bankers being.
against the farmers is all wrong,
and absolutely untrue. Get the
banker's consent to store this one
bale or ten bales in his back yard,
if you can do no better. Protect
it by keeping it off the ground and
by covering it. Then go to the
bank and get all the money on it
the banker will let you have iup
to your needs. He ought to let
you have it at 6 per cent, if you
put "the cotton in his possession
In this way every farmer can get
from his home banker nearly as
much money as he could sell his
jsotton for today. . To make the
cotton available,,however, it must
be brought , to town and safely
stored where the banker may
know it is safe. An; effort' at in
creasing its yalue by keeping it
hid out oh thearm is shown to
be impossible. The government
reports render such a policy fur
tile. Publicity is the only fair
business - like course. When
brought to town and stored . the
banker will loan money, on it. Do
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nbt borrow the money Cuul you
are compelled iq uo 8o.. r viu - aim
gry first;: ? Bu
.money on your cotton : norrpw it
ratherthaasell fitf at orlbelow
cost. - ?V7hat : should storing cot
ton j; and. -borrowing money cost?
"Say, your banker is" willing to loan
$30.00 on each bale, that is, . six
cents o n each poun d . Money a t
six per cent interest can be'had if
the cotton is safely ; stored or
placed in the banker's possession.
Add storage charges &nd insur
ance, and cotton can be carried
for a year, even under present ad-H
verse: condibon wat
$3.00 per
bale, or for six months at $1.50
per bale, or for three months at
75 cents per bale, if placed in the
banker's possession and safely
stored, whereas the recent ab rnpt
declines have reduced values at
tte rate ot.nve or ten dollars per
bale in less than a month.
Will not the bankers in every
cotton centre take up this grave
situation? They shonldbe the
leadnrs in every community. If
anything is to be done they must
cultivate the f riedship and confi
dence of the cotton grower and
let him understand that the in
te rests of both are mutually de
pendent upon their co-operation.
Will the'y not advise their farm-
er friends that if cotton is safely
stored conservative loans will be
made to tide over this crisis in
the cotton market? Arrange to
carrv the unsold nortion of the
crop until next season. The boll
weevil and diversification, of crops
will bring about a demand for this
surplus carried over into next
year. Every merchant today has
on hand overcoats carried over
from lasjb years which deteriorate
much more than; cotton does, j be
cause he was not off erd a fair
price last year, and it paid him to
carry them over and suffer the
cost ana aetenorapion or aomg so
rather than dump all his stock of
overcoats on the market last sea
would still have gone without one,
yetuch a dump of overcoats on
the market would have caused
overcoats to have been sold far
below cost, and. have ruined the
overcoat trade. Will not our
bankers see this and co-operate
with our farmers in carrying ; the
unsold portion of the present
ciop over into next year? Hold
ing cotton for a f aw. weeks is worse
than -not holding it at all. ' Such
half-hearted action is worse than
no action. "After taking hold
ot the plow, "i my father tfften
told me, "never look back." To
look back at such a time and dump
the accumulations of several
weeks on the - market is to ; plow
UP tne seeQ piantea, and
force the price of cotton lower
than it would have been to mark?
et each day's output daily. The
present 'conaitionj is a crisis de
manding heroic action on the part
tof our bankers and farmers. They
should be the closest allies. They
need each other and must draw
near-io each other if they would
better their own condition and
that pf the cotton states and ter
ritories to the sfuU" measure of
their ability to better it.
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Let every banker who reads
this "suggestion call by telephone
the editor of his weekly newspa
per and tell him to write anA edi
torial stating that his. bank la
ready to loan the farmer thirty
dollars, or such amount as he is
willing to loan, on oacjj bale of
cotton vwb ich the farmer wil 1. safe-,
ly store, at 6 per cent interest, or
such rate as he is willing to name.
The weekly newspaper i man will
write the editorial cheerfully, and
it will reach the farmer through a
trusted channel, and will be worth
to the unsold portion of the crop
millions of dollars. The. three
farmers' organizations above nam
ed have appealed to the . farmers.
The farmers have always been
ready. The trouble is clear. They
nave not as yet learned the lesion
that the. bankers are ready and
willing to co-operate with them in
marketing . their cotton. The
bankers on the other hand have
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taken no pains to invite the cot-
ton farmers to become
CUfe-
tomers. The two must - get to-
gether. . There is no need vfqr a
farmer to approach his banker
through any other channel than
the front door, of the bank : The
task of bringing .this to the; at
tention of farmers and ' bankers
alike : has been assumed by the
Business Mens Club and Farm
ers' Institute of Waco, ""Texas.
Their joint committee is submit
ting to the cotton'prpducers that
is, to the farmers, merchants and
bankers of the cotton states aud
territories what is now known as
the "Waco plan" for warehousing
cotton. The president of of the
six banks of Waco recently ad
dressed to . the r presideut o f each
bank in the cotton states and ter
ritories a letter, asking his opin
ion of this plan. Many replies
have been received, cordially and
in somej instances enthusiastical
ly endorsing and favoring it, and
urging upon the joint committee
continued work for its successful
inauguration. Some have not re
plied as yet, though replies are
coming in daily. It is noticed
that those who have taken long
est to fully consider and mature
an opinion are the most earnest in
their approval. It is hoped, how
ever, that all replies may be re
ceived by the middle of this month
as the joint committee desire a
full expression covering the whole
cotton belt before beginning the
active work of organizing ware
houses. ' If this system had been in op
eration the beginning of this sea
son and were in operation today,
the million and a half bales which
should be carried ' over to next
ear couJd be carried at less than
one-half cent per pound, or less
than two dollars and fifty cents pern
bale, and the remaining 'ten and
a half million bales could have
been sojdfor one hundred million
dollars more than all the twelve
and a quarter , million bales estir
mated to be this year's output
will be sold for. . When cotton is
now, offered at eight, cents it is
offered at less than cost of grow
ing and marketing it. It does
hot cost all cotton growers eight
cents to grow and market cotton,
but the wasteful lack of method
of most growers results in an av--erage
cost of eight cents, as the
untold number of unpaid chattel
mortgages ithroughout the country
evidence. Rather than sell at
eight cents cotton should be with
drawn from the market and mon
ey borrowed on it for absolute
necessaries of life To carry over
until next seaspn last winter's
stored overcoats merchants bor
row money, and it is unbusiness?
like for farmers to b rrow money
to carrj over their surplus cotton
until next year.
This letter is not intended to
encourage borrowing money or
hqlding cotton for fictitious prices.
It; now costs an average of about
eight cents a pound to grow and
market cotton. . Farmers should
have profit of two cents a pound
and should sell when cotton prices
give approximately this profit.
All successful merchants hdld
over staple goods" for a profit.nd
borrow money, it necessary;, to
enable them ta do so., and all cot
ton growers should' sell, and hold
over their cotton in the - same
way. Cotton is a staple article.
It can be easily stored and every
year should see held over such
number of bales as is not actually
needed by the spinners. Why sell
cotton this , year at seven cents
and begin growing it the first of
January, 1905, at a cost of eight
cents? Hold; over one and a half
million bales, save one cent, per
pound, that is five dollars per
bale, or seven, and a half million
dollars' on this million and .a half
bales, and by holding them off the
market, cause that portion, of the
.ten and a half million bales yet to
be sold, to bring ten: cents per
pound? Death and taxes are not
surer than that ten cent cotton
will ... b e the result. If . the bank
ers will call on the -editors of the
weekly newspapers to advise cot-
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to aid t'hem in this great work of
holding jft million and a half bales
of cotton over until next essin,
the weekly newspapers can come
nearer bringing about this result
than any ether body of citizenship.
Eugene Will' ams.
Waco, Tex. ' ' ;
Sensible New Yorkers.
There will be no whipping in
New York's elementary Rublic
schools.
By a vote of 22 to 15 the Board
of. Education yesterday decided
not to .permit corporal punish
ment in a moderate form as a
mode of discipline in their schools!
Bad little boys may rejoice mo
mentarily. But they had better
watch out: For stricter discip
line for them may result from the
board's discussions of corporal
punishment. M !:
Mrs. BaskerrUIe Dead.
A telegram was Teceived here
yesterday by Mr. W. B. Snow
from his brother-in-law, Dr. Char
les Baskerville, at Columbia,
Miss., announcing the death ' of
his smother, Mrs. A. L. Basker
ville, a 1 !iat place. Her cohdi
tion had been critical and Dr.
Baskerville, formerly of the State
University but now a. member of
.the New York Cityi College, had
been summoned to her bedside
several days ago. Mrs. Basker-
ville was the daughter of Mr. Har
rison Johnston, who is now one of
the leading business men in Mis
sissippi. j Dr. Baskerville is tbe'
only child. Raleigh Post.
The Real T&lng.
Farmers who work out their
road tax will appreciate this bit
of humor from the Indianapolis
Journal: .
There ain't no sich a thing as
a real Christain,-' said the man
with the patched jeans.
"D6n?t you think there ain't,"
said the man with the soft hat
turned up behind.. 4 'I know ' one
myself." 5 . ; ' "
"Ohi he never missed going to
meeting, I , s'ose?" sneered" the
other. i - f-
'I ain't laying so much account
on that as when it come time to I
work the roads,' he went out and
did an honest day's work, as if he
was working his own farm
- Charlotte, N. C, Dec. 81. At
8 o'clock this evening Charlotte j
became a prohibition city, the !
law yoted upon by, the people last ;
July becoming operative at that
time. Fourteen saloons and two.
beer agencies were put out of
busines. All save, one of tbeui
will embark in a similar business
elsewhere -three going to Norfolk,
one to Washington and two to
Florida. ,
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Tom Brown, who moved to
thisplace some time ago from a
farm below Davidson College, hag.
disappeared fromtown and noth
ing can be heard of .him. On
Monday, December . 19 being out
of work!be borrowed a neigbbo r'a
gun and started out for a bunt,
and never-returned. He leaves a
jvife and several small children in
very destitute circumstance. :. It
is generally believed that the man
has deserted his family. A purse
was made up for the relief of t he
wife and suffering cijildren,-
Mooresville Cor. Charlotte Obser.
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