Dear Sisters: S. T. P. wants us
to promise to write at least once a
month; I certainly can promise that,
for I would take a delight in writing
every week, only 1 am afraid I will
take up somebody else’*; space. So
I have generally waited till one let
ter was published before I wrote an
other.
There are ever so many things I
want to talk about, but it seems to
me that the most important subject
to every individual in the South, i s
the price of cotton. The way we
have been robbed this year by the
low price of cotton, ought to be
enough to teach us something. ]'n
my opinion, Americus Georgia has
started on the right plan. We ought
to ship our cotton direct to Europe,
Asia, Africa, anywhere that they will
buy it, and cut out Wail Street
gamblers; and all other gamblers.
It seems to me it would be a good
plan to let every state in the South
appoint a man to go across the ocean
and sell our cotton (next year’s
crop), now. Det u s put our price on
it; not less than 15 cents, and these
men negotiate with foreign coun
tries, and find out how much each
THE JEFFERSONIAN
one w’ants. Some day the world
could easily consume twenty million
bales; if the world wants it, the
South can raise it; but w r e must be
paid for it. Many plans are offered
for the relief of the farmers; most
prominent, crop diversification.
