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VoL5. No. 41.
GASTONIA, N. C., OCTOBER 12, 1911
One Dollar a Year
FAIR PRICES ASSURED
■^f all Farmers’ Follow Lead of Majority of
Farmers’ Union, Says Barrett, Cotton-
Hoding Movement Will Assure Fair Prices
for Remainder of Season.
In a statement issued today on the cotton
situation, President Barrett, of the Farmers’
Union, says the majority of members of that
organization are holding cotton, and that if
farmers generally in the South will act in con
cert with them, prices will from this time as
cend to the level justified by the intrinsic de-
o^and of the staple.
Mr. Barrett’s statement •follows:
^0 the Officers and Members of the Farmers
Union, and Cotton Farmers’ generally:
The Farmers’ Union has outlined a definite
program looking to the holding of cotton, and
is thus far meeting with success,^ The ma
jority of our members in the Southern States
are, I think I may state with safety, holding
I^ack their cotton from the markets until such
finie as the price corresponds with the value
of the staple to civilization. Even where cot
ton has been sold by the farmer, it is, as a rule,
being held by the local merchant who realizes
the price tendency will be upward and who is
^terniined to reap a profit on the transaction.
If non-members generally will co-operate
with the Farmers’ Union and refrain from
selling their cotton at present prices, the cam
paign to secure a just figure will be an unquali
fied success.
It is needless to state that the quotations
now prevailing are far below the actual worth
of the staple, but they are also sufficient to
show to every farmer in the South, whether
or not he is affiliated with the Farmers’ Union,
the advantage of coming in with us that we
mayTvin this fight.
Our interest is mutual. The business man
w’ho has bought or will buy cotton, the'Farm
ers’ Union member or the non-Union farmer
who grows cotton all have millins to gain by
getting from civilization what the staple is
actually worth. You can rest assured some
one is going to reap the profit. Logically, that
some one should be the man who has raised
the cotton. His has been the labor and wait
ing, and his should be the' reward.
It is from a solid business motive, there
fore, that we ask the co-operation of all ele
ments in the Southern States in this important
campaign. The price of cotton is going up as
certain as sun-rise. It remains only to see
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whether all farmers will get the advantage of
the rise, or whether they will thoughtlessly
sacrifice their rights.
Hold cotton! That should be the keynote,
in self-protection, of every man in the South
remotely concerned in raising or handling the
fiber. CHARLES S. BARRETT.
Union City, Ga., Oct. lo.
Morality in Roads.
At the National Good Roads Congress,
Bishop Fallows said:
“Good roads are closely allied to religion.
Good roads in the country districts would not
only increase the church attendance, but
would improve the general moral tone of the
community. It is a work that is worthy of
the assistance of all the churches in the coun
try.”
That is good gospel. A man’s ideas and
purposes are always bettered by fair sur
roundings. Order, neatness, usefulness con-
stXute a sort of high plane of thinking. Given
the character of the material conditions of a
community and you can almost tell how it will
vote or in what numbers it will go to church.
A dirty gutter is 'an obscene story. A deep
mudhole in a country road is a nest of pro
fanity. A miserable old broken down hog pen
nearby is a scandal in the neighborhood. A
man’s thoughts are largely what ihs sur
roundings make them. If they are ragged,
filthy and disordered, so is his thinking.
4^ NOTICE OF STATE MEETING. 4.
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4> Notice is hereby given that at the *1*
4* meeting of the State Executive Com- 4
4* mittee held in Greensboro October 5th, 4
4» I9ii> it was decided that the annual 4
4» meeting of the North Carolina Farm- 4
4* ers’ Union should be held in the town 4
4 of Wilson, N. C., on the 13, 14 and 15 4
4 of December 1911, and that the first 4
4 session will be held at 10 o’clock, a. 4
4 ITI-, on the 13th. 4
4 All county organizations are urged 4
4 fo send full delegations. 4
4 H. Q. ALEXANDER, President. 4
4 I. P. COGGINS, Chairman. 4
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