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PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND COTTON PLANT. Thursday, December L4, 1905 RALLY TO THE COTTON ASSOCIATION. Time Now that Every One Should be Looking to the Strengthening of the Organization for Another Year and Putting the Best Men at Its Head. Messrs. Editors: I cannot be quiet on "cotton." I feel that the South is facing the most important question that has been before iis in many years: our cotton crop, how much to grow and how to sell? Now we are on the eve of the cotton year of 1906. Much thinking must be done during the next ninety days. Who is to think? Every man who lives in the South,, because the Southern Cotton Association stands for the upbuilding of the South. We must think of assembling in January at the different State cap itals for the purpose of selecting State officers for our Association and delegates to the General Con vention. The life of, the Association de pends upon who are the officers. If our coll, level headed men, whom we know to be good and true, are selected as our officials and dele gates, all will be well. Then we can go to our farms feeling assured that if we abide by and follow the direc tion of such men, our cause is safe. My farmer friend, we cannot have leaders; of the kind I speak unless we are a part of the organization. We cannot stay in the field seeding wheat at the time of our club meet ings and expect to name our best men for officers. We must go to every meeting and there vote on every question. If we see a dan gerous movement of any kind, we must fight it; if the movement is for good, we must fight for it. We must see that there is money to pay expenses of our best men as delegates to the County, the State and the National Conventions. We do not want our neighbor to leave his field and plow for a day or a week to attend to our business while we are at home and at our work. We must pay these men and we must show them in many ways how .we appreciate their leaving their own interests to protect and better our condition. Before we go to the State Conven tion, we must think of the man who is to be our president. Each State will want a man for president who is upright, clean in business and moral life. This is no place for tho trickster or the foul-mouthed joker, drinker or poker-player. The men who are elected to the presidency of the different States must meet the farmers often. I tell them now that the' farmers have no respect for the vulgar, joke-telling stump-speaker. No sir, the farmers want a -man who will talk business in a plain, sensible way. ne wants to Know wnat tne Cotton Association is,' what it is for, what can he do for its advance ment. He wants information as to wants of manufacturers and the cotton-consuming world. - No child's talk, now, but business only. Eighty per cent, of the business men and sixty per cent of the farm ers do not to-day know what the platform of the Southern Cotton As sociation is. These have not read, they have attended ho meetings, but are profiting by what the Association has done while they attended to their own affairs. ' Come out, men of the South, and join this great move and see what it means to you. i ; . I think the chairman of every County association should go to his State Convention and there let all assemble as chairmen and consult and plan as to the best way to guide his county Association, how to interest his countrymen and keep them in close touch with the general work of the whole Association. At night as you roast your shins before the fire, think of the Southern Cotton Growers' Association and of your part in it. C. C. MOORE. Another Defense of Mr. Jordan's Poli cies. Messrs. Editors: I see it has be come a common practice of late by some to try to jump on Harvie Jor dan with their muddy boots because he is trying to get fifteen cents for the remainder of this cotton crop. If he had only been attacked by the common herd we would have let it pass at that, but, inasmuch as some of the editors of certain newspapers in North Carolina have seen fit to try to lower him in the estimation of farmers by stating that he is not trying to do the clean thing, that he is acting with greed and oppression to the manufacturer, then it becomes our duty to try to state true facts. They say that inasmuch as the Asso ciation set the price at eleven cents and the farmers are now getting it they ought to be satisfied. Well, the facts in the case are these: When the Association met at Asheville the minimum price of eleven cents was set inasmuch as the government estimation of the reduction of acreage was only eleven per cent and the condition of the crop was 73.5 per cent. We decided if these facts were true, then eleven cents would be a fair price. But, it was thought, if in the future, the re duction of acreage should prove to be more than estimated, and the crop should deteriorate, then a .higher nrine ousrht Cand iustlv so) to be X . dm 1 asked for the remainder of the crop As is well known, the next govern ment report showed the condition of crop to be about sixty-eight pqr cent and the cut in acreage much more than first estimated. The gin ners' report has proved that even the last estimate was too high,,! and if we are demanding fifteen cents 'for the remainder, pray tell me where the "greed and oppression" comes in. ; I reckon Harvie Jordan is only undergoing the little parasitical at tacks of certain little editors that are common to all men who are of real benefit to the toiling masses of mankind. Many of these parasites who arrogate to themselves the right to denounce Jordan, thereby virtually attacking the Association, would hardly know a cotton stalk from a bean pole. They set themselves up as great apostles of finance to teach "Old Hayseed" what to do. I will pay them my compliments by saying that from 1892 to 1899, during those dark years of low prices, the finan cial bones of the Southern cotton farmer lie all along the pathway as monuments of our fool-hardiness for having followed certain editorial ad vice too faithfully. S. H. HOBBS. Sampson Co., N. C. 8,684,842 Bales Ginned, Says Govern ment Report. Washington, Dec. 8 A bulletin issued by the Census Bureau to-day as owed O GAO OACt J.' , .'I D 00,0, cuuuung round hal. half bales. A previous report h i7ArQtan 1 t j , - i.tsu.iui uoics 'Kiiiiien T.r 1 14,1905. . noor The amount of cotton ginm-d In states and Territories, is as fllovs Alabama, 1,066,728 ; Arkansas 4 813; Florida, 65,455; Georgia, UG?" 161; Indian Territory, 246,402; Ken tucky, 628; Louisiana, 362,307; Mis sissippi, 840,729; Missouri, 30-54. North -Carolina, 573,598; Oklahoma' 230,648; South Carolina, 992 708' Tennessee, 203,388 ; Texas, 2,07." W Virginia, 13,030. No report was made for Decem ber, 1, 1904, and therefore a com parison of statistics could not be made. Bankers, Farmers and Merchants to Meet at New Orleans January llth to 13th. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 9. President Harvie Jordan, of the' Southern Cotton Association, to-day issued a call for a general convention of farmers, bankers, merchants and oth ers throughout the South, to be held at NewOrleans, January 11, 12 and 13, 1906. The object of the convention will be toi discuss the work of the Asso ciation, with reference to organiza tion, handling the crop of 190G, trade relations between producers and spinners, extending the market for American cotton and holding the un sold balance of the present cotton crop for fifteen cents a pound. Many prominent speakers from various parts of the country have promised to be present and a larjre attendance is already predicted. Mc CLURE'S MAGAZINE AUGUST 1905. Take McClure's Magazine All Winter Test Do You Want Your Boy to be a Lincoln? You know it by heart the story of Lincoln 's greatness the country boy, self educated. , But, Lincoln did not educate himself on cheap, trashy novels and the sensational story papers with which the country is flooded. 'The country lads ancf lasses who emerge into the world to be come famous are they who have been silently reaching out for the things of the great, real world. 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