The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 07, 1906, Page 6, Image 6
Attention, Farmers!
Address by Executive Committee
of the Cotton Association?Convincing
Reasons
"Why Farmers Should
Stand by Their Organization.
The following address, prepar
ed by Mr. E. Mclver William
son, of Darlington, was issued a
few days ago by the executive
committee of the state Cotton
Growers' Association: The
Southern Cotton Association, in
executive session in New Orleans,
has asked that the remainder of
the cotton crop shall be held for
fifteen cents. This was not done
without full and careful consid
eration and with all the facts be
fore us. There was not a single
vote in the executive committer
against this stand; it is no longer
a question of individual opinion.
Our association has taken the
stand, and the wisdom of its advice
in the past entitles it to oui
obedience now. The strength of
its ten-cent price last year undoubted
by many, and yet it won.
The eleven cents price last fail
was again doubtod, yet again it
has won. Have we in the past
boen most benefited by our
Anini ah r\ *? Mm fn ?
wi i/uo iuj ooruig; win
dom of our association? Itb
work in one year has given us
prosperity where forty years ago
our own efforts had left us in
poverty.
The Cotton Growers' Association
lias fairly earned, and
should ho given, our loyal support.
We must show to the
world that we ar? in earnest;
that we liavfe confidence in our
leaders and in the strength of
the Southern Cotton Association;
that we are unanimous in our
determination to fix the price ol j
our cotton. Once this riehfc is I
conceded I 1 rust it shall always
be used conservatively. We
should recognize that tho-e who
use our cotton are our best
friends, and that they should
have these goods at a fair price
We should protect the m.niu
facturer from violent fluctuations
and unreasonable demands. The
whole world must be made to
know that for the last twenty
years before our organization
the price of cotton lias not given
a living to those who have produced
it. The cost of its production
will show that wo cannot,
and we are determined that
we will not, return to those con
ditions where poverty and debt
have boon the only reward of
our labor. We must have a new
deal and *'.a square deal." The
poverty of of the South proves
, that we have not shared equally
in the profit of our labor.
It ! gene-rally agreed that the
present crop will be around fen j
minion ijaios. This estimate is I
confirmed by members of our
executive committeo from Louisiana,
Arkansas, Mississippi and
Texas, where in many cases
this crop has boen a failure. The
demand for cotton goods lias
never been better, nor the conconsumption
of cotton greater,
than new, and tne farmer's Jposition
can never be stronger, for
we have sold the greater part of
two crops for more than ten
eente. Last year the fanner
paiAINIT is cons
iJMl est authorities
be the best-knov
cotton blight.
"Yellow' Leaf 1
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jL^eai ruigni: are ti
erished soil, which
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Our stocks are of superior
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T.W. Wood & Sons, Seedsmen,
RICHMOND, - VIRGINIA.
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Write for prices.
held over 6,000,000 bales; now
we have less than half of that
amount to hold, and twice the
money with which to hold it.
Shall it be said of us that we
have lacked only the courage?
We know only too well what it
means.
On the one side is loyalty,
with wealth, prosperity and edu
cation; on tho other is fear wi'h
debt, poverty and ignorance.
Forty years of hopeless grinding
poverty has taught its lesson t ><.
well that we now should la 1
It is a light lor the very 1 ito ol
the South?not lor the farm r
alone, but for the whole South.
Our success is the success ol ti e
whole South; our failure is lb
failure of the whole South.
A reduction of 25 per cent in
acreage trorn the 1904 crop waalso
recommended. Those who
made this cut last year are not
asked to make a further reduction;
those who did not are urged
to join us in doing so now. Itwas
also advised that we should
diversify our crops so as to make
| our provisions at home. If we.
raise more cotton than the
world can uso wo will have to
sell it for what the world
| will give. The more cotton we
raise tho less we will get for it,
and (lie more work the South
will do for nothing, and yet we
have never boon accused of an
undue fondness for labor. Th
cotton from 24*000,000 acres
will bring more money than tho
cotton from thirty million. The
other six million acres planted
in corn will be clear profit to the
farmer. Diversification m kes
richer lands and greater profit.
Last year the writer reduced his
cotton 65 per cent, planting corn
instead. The value of the crop
was greater and the labor less
than if the land had again been
planted in cotton. The farmer
who hays corn and hay has
never succeeded, and never will. |
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the country to
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be result of impovKalnit
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the askinoj.
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THE MUTUAL RELIEF
AND
BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION
OF SOUTH CAROLINA
The Only Reliable Colored
Insurance Association in
Lancaster County.
SENDS GREETINGS,
Columbia, S. O., .Ian. 1, 1 DOG
At a meeting of the Roard of
Directors held at <-lllco of the
Association, Wednesday, Dec
ember 20, 1005, Dr. A. P.
Dunbar was unanimously re
elected General Manager, nnrl
will give all of his time, while
in I he State, to the business of
the Association, he haying decided
not to leave the State. Ho
it remembered that our Associa
tion is purely benevolent, and
we have mot promptly every
obligation promised. Our
Agents have the confidence and
respect of tho business men in
the several communities in
which they operate, for we em
ploy nons but the best, and our
members are satisfied. We
| promise for the future a contin
I nance of our prompt, ^flicient
I business methods, and honest
adiministration.
We wish you a happy new
year and a pleasant journey
through its twelve (12) months,
without, sickness or death.
Yours,
Rev. A. R. Robinson,
Vice-President.
D. O. BARNES, Agent.
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