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Show 'nigbt : : m t u mm I J Jt . t jfi J jf- J Jt , Jt j& MANY COTTON GINS AND TOBACCO BARNS BURN ( S. I 1 Staff Special ) DALLAS. Texas "Night Riders." with flaming torches, swooping down on cotton gins and tobacco barns, have terrorized many sections of the south. There hae boem some arrests, but the cotton gins oemtinue to go up in smoke Littlo heed has been paid, by gin 'pwiic-rs, to warnings which have been posted on gins demanding that work cease until the market price of cotton reached 4 0 cents And many gins 'iae been burned to the ground LLMOS1 I I I KV NIGHT The warnings have ben written on a piece of scrap cardboard with the I wo right-hand corners searrcd and match stuck through a double slit at he bottom. They have been signed The citizens eif Everywhere." "The lilack 75" and by tho ' Committee of 1U0 " Some lere no signatures. And Whllt almost every night brings new destruction, gin manufacturers manufac-turers and tiro Insurance men are contending con-tending that the blades are not the work of "Night Kiders," but the natural nat-ural run of bla.es in inflammable cot- ton gins. Thla because the number of fires in 10 JO hae been fewer than In corresponding months of 1919. There io some feeling that tho "Ku-Klux-lvlan" outburst is the result of the high cost of having cotton ginned and not due to the low market price.. The market price has dropped while ginning cost Itas gone up until It is, tour IUiicl; wh.lt it was be-fore the- war I I , 1 Vbovc: Tin- warning Lhni been posted on cotton gtns lielow: One I tip. cotton ins i tin south Qisoi i-. ;i picture ol b'. i Florence, Danker H who Bys tin- ; .ii lnvs ai.- n. : Mi.- oi itmliifc nt fanner.-. "These burnings are not tho work of the Intelligent f irmer," says P. V I- loience, vice pr esident of the Guaranty Guaran-ty Hank and Trust Co-, of Dallas." It would cut off his chance to make Ids cotton cron worth something, if he mp-plled mp-plled the torch to all the cotton gins- 'Any farmer kndVS tiitiie is no ip.au market value to cotton until it has been through a gin. classified by an export ex-port and put Into bonded warehouses. And he can borrow no money on his H crop until it has been put into a ware- house. "The wise farmer k'ets his cotton ginned. He can hold it then, until the H market is better." H "Night Luii-' activities against to- pH bacco owners are on tho Increase As iH an Indication of the growing terror. -10 tobacco barns have been burned iH in Chrlstian-co. Kentucky, alone. |