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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. November 21, 1901. . THE NEW-BORH CUBA ; Its Economic Condition uncquaueu upporxuniiies for Brawn, Brain and Capital Cuba is today on the high road to more prosperous times than she ever previously experienced. There is no disease among the population of 1,572,- 797 other than might be found In any . community under a normal regime. Poverty there is, of course; it could not be otherwise In view of the events of the last few years. But there is em ployment for all who care to work.and a fair wage to be gained with which to support life. To the Cubans them- due for the rapid recovery the island has mad from the state of nrostratton it had reached at the period of the Spanish evacuation. Practically with out resources of any kind, the people went to work. The meager funds that could be borrowed Were employed in putting the sugar estates in order, in planting tobacco, in raising crops or larm produce, etc. After a hard strug gle for more than two years the recon struction of agricultural Industry nas been achieved,, and smiling fields are again to be seen where all was desolate only a short time ago. With the present favorable aspect c Cuban political affairs, foreign capital may now seek investment in the agri cultural concerns of the island; buL the work of reconstruction is beyond any need of such assistance, and agri cultural development will proceed apace even if , foreign capital is not available. The fertile soil is there in abundance; peaceful conditions are as sured by the United States in agree ment with the Cubans. These two es sential points are a solid guarantee for prosperity in the future. In the production of fruit Cuba is rapidly regaining her old position. Pineapples and bananas are freely en ported to the American i markets. Orange culture is occupying the ser ious attention of many farmer. Gar den truck is also being sent forward to the United States. Few who have not witnessed with their own eyes the recuperative ener gy of Cuba can realize the great prog ress the island is making toward great development, materially and politlcal lj. The Cuba of five years ago is even now but a historical fact. The Cuba cf today; under the fostering care of the U. S.' government, is pre-eminently a country of Jhe future. The avenues open to men of brawn, brain and some money, are more inviting in Cuba than in any other section of similar area and natural resources in the world. Cattle and live stock raising is a Cu ban industry hitherto sadly neglected save for home consumption, but which because of the very favorable natural conditions existing on the island, espe- ft A will ciany in oania vaara piuvmcc, mu grow to stupendous proportions in the near future as a result of the progres sive and aggressive operations of The Santa Clara Fruit and Cattle Co. This company is a corporation of conservative business men, organized under United States laws, with head- capitalized at $1,000,000.00. It owns and controls over 86,000 acres in San ta Clara Province the finest land ex isting anywhere under the sun. Near ly 56,000 acres are heavily wooded with the finest grades of mahogany, cedar, etc., while nearly 30,000 acres consists of fine arable land rich in ev ery natural element necessary for the profitable cultivation of fruit, vegeta bles, raising of live stock, etc. In Santa Clara province the attrac tions for settlers and investors are im mense. The Santa Clara Fruit and Cattle Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., are making a proposition to investors and people of limited means which possesses the elements of strength, safety and pros pective profit hitherto unequalled by any similar investment enterprise. The company has back of It some of the solid business men of Philadelphia, who are able to carry out their agree ments and representations. A limited number of shares of the stock of this company will be sold to first comers at par, payable in single payments, or in monthly .quarterly cr semi-annual installments. The com pany binds itself to develop every re source for accumulating profit along lines ,of conservative and energetic management. It is confidently believed that inside of two years large quar terly dividends will be declared and paid, placing the company on the top most pinnacle of success as an indus trial investment. For additional particulars, -literature, etc., address The Santa Clara Fruit and Cattle Co., 1001 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa., or Limeburner & Turner, "Western Fiscal Agents, 185 j Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. Some people seem to believe that It s is the name, "people's party" or "populist" to which those who vote the plutocratic ticket most object and if the name was changed success could be . more easily obtained, That sort of,, talk has no reasoning to sustain it. While the plutocratic papers tour out the vials of their wrath on the name, that is not what they object to, for no name could be invented that would suit them better. It is the prin ciples of the party that they are against and the fear of the legislation that would be enacted if the party ehould gain power that , they are con cerned with. What possible name could be invented that would be more acceptable to them than the simple and all embracing one of 'people?" To think that any other name for an organization defending the principles that populists believe in would . be more acceptable to them, is a vain imagining.. - DAWKS ON BANKS Charles G. Dawes is a candidate for offlce just at present he wants to be a United States senator and in conse quence he Is talking to suit the people. He believes in national bank notes and is down on the greenbacks, but ,fce sees that it Is to his political Inter est while, he Is a candidate not to go too far along the' line of favoring the bankers. The other day in a speech at Joliet : which .!' he y made before ' some workingmen he said: The proposed plan would en danger the stability of our cir culating medium. In time of pan ics there is need of an emergency circulation to lessen the financial stringency that always shows it self at such crises. To authorize the Issuance of asset notes would add to rather than relieve the dan ger of panic. Asset notes are a convenience to the banker rather than a benefit to the community. With a govern ment bond behind the bank there is no question as to the soundness of its currency under any and all circumstances.' An asset currency would be a constantly varying quantity of uncertain value, and of least value in times of panic, when there is the most need for a sta ble currency. , The condition which asset cur rency is designed to relieve is an actual one. It is to provide for an emergency circulation which will be of service to the public in times of panic. Such money should, . however, be subject to a repressive tax, so that it- could not be used for profit by the banks in normal times. Such a restriction would at the same time result in lessening the effectiveness of an emergency circulation in times of panic. That will be good enough for be-fore-election talk, but after election it will be something' different. The first paragraph is sorind and the two fol lowing are partly so. All notes issued by banks, whether secured by bonds or assets, are for the benefit of the banker rather than the community.The issue of all note's by banks adds to the danger in the time of stringency and increase the danger of total col lapse. The talk about an elastic cur rency indulged in by the republican spell-binders during the last two pres idential campaigns was all clap-trap. The elasticity that they talk aboat always has, and always will work in the wrong direction. At the very time that the currency ought to be expanded it will be contracted. To . sum the whole matter up on the money ques tion: "There is nothing true but pop ulism." The whole people will begin to appreciate that fact in about eigh teen months or two years from now. THE RAILROAD rUXL The Boston Transcript, in comment ing on the Nebraska election, remarks: The Nebraska democrats must be wanderers, for Mr. Bryan says one of the reasons for their defeat in that state on the 5th was that the party did not have money enough to bring home the men who were . away from home to vote. As Ne braska went republican by about 12,000 there must have been a per fect exodus of democrats from the state this fall which was unnoticed by the press. The way elections are managed by the railroads in this state is of course incomprehensible to a Bostonian, bint it is very well understood by all sorts of political workers in Nebraska. In the first place the railroads of course have a permanent agent in all the towns of the state. How many per sons they can find who would be away from home on election day would be hard to tell in exact figures, but most of them will go home to vote if they have free transportation which the agent stands ready to furnish to all those whom he thinks will vote the republican ticket and to no others. Here in this university town, where there are five or six thousand students and among them several hundreds of voters, an agent of the railroads i3 always stationed to hunt them up and give them round-trip tickets to go home and vote the republican ticket. Several hundred perhaps went home from Lincoln to vote on those round trip tickets. Taking the whole state over in an off year, the republican vote in the state of Nebraska i3 run up several thousand votes in that way. That is a very great advantage that the republican party always has in this state and of which the Boston Transcript knows nothing. If it had had the facts before It, the article would most probably not have been written. There are a few things if congress were run In the interest of the people instead of the trusts and the banks that it would do. It would take the tariff off trust made articles, It would provide for irrigation In the great plains, it would begin the building of the Nicaragua canal, provide -for a government cable to the Philippine Is lands, ratify the reciprocity treaties and pass a Jaw. that would take away from a government clerk like Madden the power to suppress reform weeklies. It is hardly probable that it will do any of these things. The communism of capital has an other special demonstration which shows that that sort of communism has no limits in race and nationality. The French coal miners, who jtre said CANDY CATHARTIC ill I II lIM "II I i , 111 IIP IIIlM' 1 I Ml II I III O turn m lOc Sc. Mb Genuine stamped C. C C Never sold In bulk. O 1L I .a . . ctcwaix oi me aeaier wno trie to sell "something just as good." X I f to be paid the lowest wages for that class of labor In any country, after years of work have at last effected an almost perfect organization and are about to inaugurate a strike that will cover nearly all the coal producing territory. When the French capitalists viewed this situation, they called on the American communists of their or der to help them out and a response was made immediately. The coal trust began shipping anthracite to France and putting it on the retail market toe $2 a ton less than we can buy it for in Lincoln. Then all the capitalistic pa pers, both in this country and France, announce that the strike has been killed for good and all for if the miu ers do strike, the French consumer gets his coal even cheaper than he has been getting it. So endeth this chap ter on the communism of capital. SUPPRESSED PAPERS . Th third assistant postmaster is simply a government clerk, but under a republican administration he exer cises a power that no constitutional monarch' in all Europe would dare to attempt. Last week he suppressed the following publications in violation of law and on the authority of his own ukase. They have all been sent through the mails under the laws for years. The Independent may not have the list complete, but the following make up the number noticed during the week: ( "Art Study Pictures," the Art Study company. "ReveH's Popular Religious Series," Fleming H. Revell company. "Two Penny Classics," Charles A. Kent. "Forward Series," the Church Press. 'Tygodnik," W. Dinlewicz. "The Religious Liberty Library," International Religious Liberty 'asso ciation. "Law List of United States Com mercial Lawyers," the United Com mercial Lawyers. "Anglicky Listy," Ant. M. Soukup. "Nichols Monthly," Rowell & Nich ols. Milwaukee' comes in for a touch of the postofflce branding iron, the list of papers today excluded from the se cond class inc.ading: "The Catholic Directory," M. H. Wiltzius & Co. "Living Church Quarterly," the Young Churchman company. Vierteljahrliches Magazin der Mod- ernen Literatur," the Herold company. "The Bonded Attorney," the Asso ciation of Bonded Attorneys. "The Forwaerts Libra-;'," Victor L. Berger. "Gillan's Quarterly," S. Y. Gillan & Co. If you don't get your Independent one of these days you may know what struck it without further inquiry. The date printed with the address on your paper each v.-.ek is the date at which your subscription expired or will expire. Please examine it and if in arrears favor us by sending the amount due by first mail. If you put it off you will forget it. The term "black journalism" which was first used In The Independent has been largely adopted all over the Unit ed States in replying to the charges made by the plutocratic press. It has struck the head-line writers as an especially effective reply to the cry of yellow journalism," made against ev ery writer who would call attention to the follies and extravagances of the idle rich, and who support the doc trines upon which this government was founded. BRYAN ON THE INDEPENDENT The Commoner contains the folio .v- editorial comment in its edition of Nov. 22: "The Nebraska Independent which Is Included in our clubbing proposition) is one of the leading populist papers in the United States. It is ably edited and pop ulist readers of The Commoner will do well to take advantage of its free sample copy offer to be found on the twelfth page." The reference to the free sample copies concerns the offer made to send The Independent absolutely free for six weeks to all those sending their names for sample copies, so that they may become fully acquainted with tha character of The Independent before they subscribe. In its full and able Washington correspondence, free from sensationalism, In its able and schol arly contributors, in its discussions of banking and currency, and In the way in which it covers the whole field of news in which thoughtful men arc interested, it differs from all other papers. Tne management tnereiore feels safe in making this extraordinary offer to send the paper for six weeks free on trial to all who. are interested in the broad fields of political econ omy, banking, currency, good gov ernment and the general welfare of mankind. NOTICE Occasionally we receive a letter from a delinquent subscriber who ob jects to the payment of the amount due for the alleged reason that the paper should have been discontinued at the expiration of the subscription paid for. In reply to any who may have a similar understanding we wish to say that we do not discontinue The Independent sent to responsible parties until we are REQUESTED TO DO SO. In our opinion a subscriber or patron of the paper is entitled to a reason- IN THE PARSONAGE A Chapterv From the Life, of the Village Parson's Helpmate In .every Village the pastor's wife exerts an influence often as great as that of her husband. Needless to say. the responsibility of her position is great. Her approval or disapproval is not given without careful and con scientious consideration. This em phasizes the importance of the enthus iasm shown by Mrs. S. E. Leech, wife of the pastor of the Methodist Epis copal church at Madison, Me., over an important event in her life. The ex perience is best told in her own words: "In 1895," she says, "the birth of a child left me with complaints which caused me to suffer for several years. I was distressed after eating and was troubled with nausea and the forma tion of gas in my stomach. There were severe pains and weakness in my back and loins and I was also afflicted with other troubles to which my sex is sub ject. Doctors treated me nearly all the while for three years, but. I was not benefited to any extent." "But you seem to have recovered marvelously," was suggested. "Yes," Mrs. Leech answered, "and I will tell you how it was brought about. I had read of cures effected by Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo ple and I decided to see what they would do for me. There was a de cided improvement while I was using t: e second box of the pills, but I did not stop taking them until I had taken six boxes and was cured." Mrs. Leech suffered from the same troubles that are making thousands of women miserable. A few of the symp toms are "severe headache, loss of ap petite, exhaustion, pains in the groin or limbs, pale or sallow complexion, nervousness, offensive breath, etc. The sufferer may exhibit one or more of these symptoms," or may have all. They simply Indicate the ravages dis ease has made upon the system, and the" more . of these symptoms the pa tient shows the greater the necessity for prompt and persistent treatment until they have been banished and the bloom of health is restored. To ac complish this end, Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People are the only un failing remedy. 'They are one sale at all druggists or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price, fifty cents per box or six boxes for two dollars and a half, , by Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. able extension of credit, a reasonable amount of time in which to send his renewal. We look upon the renewal of subscription the same as any other business transaction. For example: We purchase large quantities of white paper have patronized the same com pany for several years. You will con cede that it would not be courteous treatment for this company to de mand "cash in advance" of the ship ment of the paper j Should such a de mand be made we1 would feel inclined to 'resent the arbitrary . action of the company and send our" business else where in the future. Practicing the rule of "do unto others as you would be done by," we do not abruptly- and arbitrarily strike a patron's name from our subscription list. We continue sending him the pa per until he renews his subscription or we are advised that he does nof want it longer. On the wrapper is stamped the date to which the subscription is paid. which is sufficient notice to any reader of the condition of his account. We do not send the paper free of charge to anyone. We believe that our policy is just and equitable. With very ' rare execeptions the readers of The Independent have appreciated on liberal and generous dealings with them. Of those who do not appreclaite it we can only say that it is impossible to please everyone. THE INDEPENDENT. badlyTisgruntled for , by the- contract and will keep warm the insane, the blind, or the pau pers tor whose benefit it is bought. In state , and , county Institutions questions of quantity and quality are not considered in purchasing supplies. Bread and meat are not bought to sus tain the lives of the inmates so much as to encourage the republican butcher and baker. It is no consolation at-all If that butcher or baker cheats, that a republican, not a democrat, is the gainer thereby. Both alike are fit candidates for the penitentiary. It Is an article of faith in these in stitutions that drugs cannot safely be bought except from a republican drug giBt, and cannot safely be admin istered to patients except by a repub lican doctor. It is assumed that a physician who votes - for democratic candidates cannot have received a complete medical education. No clothing will pass muster unless it has a republican label. The goods may be slazy and have no wear la them, but. that is overlooked so long as they are politically sound. ' Hardy's Column Big church Building. Hard to Sub stantiate Old Republicanism. Clean Out, Signs of the Times One of the three largest church buildings in the United States was dedicated in Lincoln, Nebraska, last Sunday, by the St. Paul Methodist church. There are several higher and more expensive though but two that cover more ground. It is promised there will be a social room kept open every day and evening of the' week How much better such a place will be for young people and strangers than a saloon. 1 WHEN OTHERS FAIL, CONSULT lillil SEARLES & SEARLES LINCOLN, NEB. 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SEARLES '& SEARLES, RooLlokf?jEAaAB,k- r '1 It has got fcr- that pitch that politi cians do not dare to oppose woman suffrage or free trade in a joint public debate. The negative of these two questions is the hardest to substantiate of any two public questions now up for settlement. Congressmen do not dare to hold joint debates with their opponents, neither are they anxious to make speeches in congress on that side. A law that helps one sex or class to the detriment of all others is worse than Infernal. Just as it was in purchasing stone for the penitentiary, republicans did not think of buying it of the quarry men for then they could not cover up the steal, but sent another republi can to buy the stone and then paid him two prices. Just so republicans do not always buy bonds of county authorities but wait for another man to buy them and then pay him an ad vance. Of course the advance will be divided some time or other. Pre miums have been paid on bonds and our state treasurer ought to know It, and could he not pay it to the county as well as to the first purchaser? Over a year's interest was torn' off as pre miums.. The county officers could have torn off that interest just as well but then there would have been nothing to divide. The Chicago Tribune Seems to Have a Very Bad Attack: of the Mulllg-rumps The Chicago Tribune evidently wanted something and wanted it bad, which it did not get from the republi can party. The proof of it lies in the fact that it has lately been engaged In telling the truth about the republican governor and other parties which it as sisted in electing to office. One of its recent editorial attacks on the repub lican party was as follows: "We know what the spoils system brings about," says Dr. Hirsch. "No baker can sell bread, to a state institu tion unless he is a republican. You can imagine what this republican bread is when the superintendent would not buy any other bread, no matter how much better in quality." The men in charge of state institu tions find in "republican bread" hidden virtues which make. amends for sour ness and short weight. The men In charge of the county institutions pei-- ceive in "republican coal" qualities hidden from the public which offset the shale and dust mixed with it. x The man out of offlce is not inter ested in the politics of his baker Or his coal dealer. Nor is the public inter ested in the politics of the men who furnish bread and coal to charitable institutions. The party label on the loaf counts for nothing. All that is demanded is that the quality shall be good and the price not excessive. Whether the coal , is "republican" or "democratic" matters nothing so long as it has the evaporating power called You Can Hatch Chickens by the Thousand . . IN . ' The "ONLY INCUBATOR" "Which has no defects and has advantages over all other machines. You can raise the Chicks in THE ONLY BROODER, -which will not freeze, smother, or overheat the chicks. Write for Catalogue. Sold ob.30 days trial. THE ONLY INCUBATOR CO.. Box H, Lincoln, Neb Three of the most corupt cities in the United States have been cleaned out. New York, Cleveland and San Francisco. If two more could be clean ed, Philadelphia and Chicago, the pol itical air would not waft so much bad smell. The fight in Cleveland war for taxing franchises the same according to selling value as widow's cottages. No matter if they did not cost anything, as in most cases they were given by the city and state au thorities, what they sell for now should be the basis of taxation. Pingree In Michigan and Roosevelt in New York had the same fight' and won the day. The school teachers of Chicago had the same fight and gained the day in the highest court of the state. Two hundred and fifty millions of property valuation was found not taxed. That increased the assessment fifty mill ions, and increased the school money over a million. As near as we can read the signs of the times on the trust and millionaire sign boards, the coming congress will not touch the tariff, grant the sh!p subsidy nor retire the greenbacks and silver dollars. They want to carry the congressional election next fall, then if Bryan is elected in 1904 they will have a short session after election in which to do all that robbing and piracy In their next presidential platform they will promise to change the tariff but they never will promise to grant ship subsidy or retire the greenbacks and silver dollars. The tariff on corn and wheat may be reduced a little but not on any thing the corporate trusts make or handle. They may stop coin ing silver dollars but as long as Bry an lives they will not dare to retire the silver dollar. They may commence on the isthmian canal but the rail road corporations will not let them fin ish it. There is nothing that will bring them to time only for one of the European countries to commence to finish up one of the canals. So when all the European countries put the same tariff on our goods we do on theirs it may bring them to time on that question. CNTTON AND CHINESE TRADE Why the Southern Planter Has to Take One Half Lss for His Product Than in 1873 Editor Independent: I have written several article about the export price of the barrel of flour in your paper for the purpose of showing just what force caused the fall in the export price of the bushel of wheat from about $1.32 in 1S73 to 65 cents in 1896. In this communication I will show just what force caused the fall in the export price of cotton from 19 cents per pound in 1873 to 8 cents in 1900. This fall of 11 cents in the selling price of a pound of cotton hit every man, woman and child in our fair land a body blow. Is it any wonder that conditions in southern states are not what th'jy should be? The only wonder is that there is not a civil war in those states of greater proportions than the war of 1861 because the fall in the price of cotton has injured the southern people more than ever the loss caused by freeing their slaves.. The farmers of the northern statos raMEKHtgMKl Q V D U I I I Q P11.13000 CUBED.-lst. 2nd. or 3rd stages of Syphilis cured 0 I I il I L I U for ?W- Ful1 12 hox treatment never fails. Pimplas, akin eruptions . , ' - yaniiih as if by mafic. Remember money returned if not satisfactory. 52 single box. By mail, plain wrappera. Hahn's Pharmacy, 1805 Farnara St..Omana. Nsh. SOLD BY B. O. KOSTKA. LINCOLN. NEBR. were hit a tremendous blow in the fall of 11 cents on a pound of cotton. Their horses, mules and many other products of the farm declined in price about the same per cent as the cotton had declined. It was not a direct ap plication of the force that caused the fall in the selling price of wheat, cot ton and corn but an indirect applica tion of that force that caused the horses and mules to fall in price from fifty to sixty per cent. There were two causes for the decline in the price of norses and mules, the first and priu ciple cause was the great fall in the export price of cotton and import price of sugar and rice; the second cause was the use of electricity for running street cars which formerly used a large number of horses. We do not export enough horses or mules so that the export price in any way controls the domestic price. The object of this communication Is to show in a tan gible way just what caused the fall in the export price of cotttfn from 19 cents in 1873 to 8 cents in 1900. In order to accomplish the above object I have to treat the subject in two ways firsts to show just what forces did not cause the fall in prices, second, to show just what force did cause the fall ixx the export price , from 19 cents to 8 cents. There has been so much of ail kinds of discussion about falling prices during th last thirty years that nearly every fellow has some kind of a panacea which he thinks will cure the disease. So before I can discuss with any person the real cause of falling prices I must knock all the prejudice and pre-conceived ideas and notions out of them by showing that the forces, namely, overproduction, supply and demand and quality of money has had nothing to .do during the last thirty years with the question of fall ing prices as applied to most of the American farmers products. 5 As it would be 4 waste of time and non sense to write anything on the ques of falling prices without a live, up-to-date object lesson, I place below a table giving a ; true history of our exports to China of uncolored cotton for some of the years from 1873 to 1901: No 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 1873 1,381,543 15 13 13 1874 894,429 12 117 12 1880 4,360,842 7 8 10 1885 51,216, 7 8 10 1S90 19,165,106 6 8 . 10 1894 50,458,349 5 11 22 1895 34,672,248 3 11 22 1896 73,261,149 3 10 20 1897 119,448,184 5 11 22 1898 98,113,469 i 10 2 1899 221,043,642 W2 10 22 1900 182,023,681 4 11 24 1901 83,859,402 5 12 26 Explanation fcf table: No. 1, years; No. 2, yards exported; No. 3, price per yard received by the cotton rais ers delivered at the sea board; No. 4, price pr yd. paid by Chinamen in his money at our ports; No. 5 the am'ount per yard that the Chinaman would have had to pay if the cotton plant ers of this country had received as much for their uncolored cotton as they were entitled to. Every reader of The Independent should make "a careful study of the table. The decline' in the selling price of the bushel of wheat was caused pri marily by the decline in the selling price of the barrel of flour. The same can be said of . the fall in the sell ing price of the pound of cotton from 19 cents to 8 cents. This fall in prices of 11 cents, per pound was caused primarily ; by the decline in the selling price of cotton goods es pecially the fall in the selling price in that make of cotton goods canea in the official records uncolored cot ton. The table above is a very in teresting one.. The fall in the price of the yard of uncolored cotton from 15 cents in 1873 to 5 cents in 1901 shows a decline of ' 63 per cent. The decline in the export price of . the bale of cotton from 19 cents . in 1873 to 8 cents in 1900, was about 60 per cent. The cotton planters of this country want to . know just what caused the fall in the price v of the yard of uncolored cotton from 15 cents in 1873, to 5 cents in 1901, also the fall in the price of the bale of cot ton from 19 cents to ii cents. There has been improvement in coton, raills which would lessen the cost of jnanu facturing a yard of cotton , and sonio improvement in, appliances to -produce cotton that would lessen the cost of production. More than fifty per cent of the fall; in . prices was caused by other force? than those stated above. There are Natural forces about bIx in number wh4ch should have caused this declin in price of more than fifty per cent but they did not. There was . an unpatural force more potent than the six natural. - forces that caused this great fall In the price ot cotton. I must prove that the : six : natural forces, namely, overproduc tion, quantity of money in circula tion in our country, ocean freights wars and famines abroad, competi tion in foreign markets, and cost of production were not the force that caused the decline. By examining the table we find that the Chinaman paid about the same price in his money for the yard of cotton cloth in 1901 as ;he paid in 1873. This being the case it would be ridiculous to claim that it was the overproduction of "un colored cotton cloth" in the world that forced down the price to the American cotton planters from 15 cents in 1S73 to 5 in 1901 as shown by the table. There was about $17 per capita of money in circulation in 1873 and about $26 per capita in circulation in 1901. This shows an increase of about $11 per capita during, the years from 1873 to 1901. This would indicate that the selling price of the cotton cloth would have advanced above the 15 cents per yard instead of declining to KU per yard. Ocean freights are lower in 1901 than in 1873, therefore there should have been an advance Instead of a decline. Wars and famine would have advanced the Drice Instead of causing' a decline. American cotton planters have the market of the world for their cotton therefore competition in foreign markets did not; furnish the force that caused the fall in the selling price of the yard of cotton from 15 cents to 54 cents on the nnnnil from 19 cents to 8 cents. The cost of Droduction is nhnut :i great In 1901 as in 1873. While ther are many thin ers to cheaDen nrorlii". tion the extra cost to fertilize larg portions of the country where cotton has been raised for the last thirty year nearly offsets all gain made by im proved methods and machinery. The cotton seed which was not of much value in 1873 is auite valuable now and adds considerable to the cotton planters income. It would be absurd to claim that the cost of production had declined more than fiftv Der cent. The natural forces are not guilty of producing the fall in export prices as shown above. It was an artificial force that caused the decli ne and ran easily be destroyed by the cotton planters and rarmers of this country if they would make a united effort to destroy it. The Chinaman Durchased the rloth with the commercial value of the ma terial in the silver dollar that three- fourths of the people of the world use. in 183 tne material in this dol lar was worth about 100 cents and in 1901 was worth 45 cents. It is as rlain as the noonday sun in a cloudless sky tnat tne ran in the selling price of the material in the dollar used by the Chinaman from 100 cents in 1873 to 45 cents In 1901 furnished the force that caused the selling price of the yard of cotton cloth to fall from 15 cents to 5 cents and the pound of cotton from 19 cents to 8 cents. There Is only one possible wav for the cot ton planters to Drevent a farther da- dine in the price of their cotton and in order to place themselves on the same plane in the markets of the world as a large number of cotton planters in other countries thev must tiIaa the commercial value of the ounce of silver at $1.29. C. G. BULLOCK. . In Lots of 500 Editor Independent: If I had the money I would have your paper Drougnt to this section In lots of 500 at a time. It is badly needed. BRYAN TYSON. Carthage, North Carolina. 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