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Show CAMPAIGN INAUGURATED INAUGURAT-ED TO STIMULATE THE 5ALEJP COTTON. Dry Goods and Department Stores in the large cities have inaugurated a campaign to stimulate the sale of cotton goods so a demand may lit created for cotton among the mills of the United States. The movement has also been taken up by the wives of the Cabinet olficers at Washington, D C, and other leading lead-ing ladies of the Nation, with the view of consuming as far as possible the present season's cotton crop, enabling en-abling Uie merchants in the cotlon growing districts to operate some where near a normal basis and give money to the planters, as well as encourage en-courage them to plant cri-ps for next season. The cotton business is such a tremendous tre-mendous figure iu the South that stagnation of the cotton market des-roys des-roys purchasing power of tho community com-munity and necessarily limits tho operations op-erations of merchants in all lines of business. The Southern merchants are big purchasers of many of the leading commodities, such as grain, grain products, boots and shoes, dry-goods, dry-goods, clothing, hardware, etc., and unless there is a market for cotton to put money in circulation, their ability to purchase is correspondingly limited. To give the movement the greatest possible impetus, the railroads have been asked to lend their aid towards stimulating the sale of cotton goods in I lie. smaller towns, impressing upon up-on them the necessity of lending all possible aid to the move, as tho very commercial existence of the entire South is dependent upon (he collon industry. |