Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1918 — King Cotton, Autocrat [ARTICLE]

King Cotton, Autocrat

King Cotton Is threatening to become the autocrat of the American table. Not satisfied with having supplanted wool in clothing, and providing the juice of his seed for olive ell, he’s the basis for fine lard, a third part of a new-fangled butter, and they’re up scores of mills to grind his seeds into flour that goes well in several delicious articles, sausage stuffing among them. When he gets into the soup tureen and the coffee pot, King /Cotton will have the nicest, tightest, biggest kingdom that ever was. And yet, only a few years ago his kingdom was largely confined to gunpowder and nightshirts. What a mighty leap to pie, butter and wiener® I—Syracuse Journal.