Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COTTO'S GROWERS BI_ CO-NTENTIO'N E.D. Smith, of South Carolina, 31akes Rousing Speech-Talks of South's Great 3)onopoly Crop. Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 1.2.-One thousand men from every cotton grow ing State in America met today in Montgomery and conferred to devise ways and means to rebut the figures of the federal cotton report and to sc cure a better price for cotton. There were present congressmen, UnIted States senators, the commissioners of agriculture or their representativ's from every Southern State, twgether with hundreds of farmers, b.Lnlers, business and professional men whose homes are scattered throughout' the South. While nothing further than organ ization was effcctqd ofcially, th's meeting of the cotton growers proved their earnestness by the appointmert of four committees to be known as :he committee on resolutions, marketing and financing the cotton crop, national legislation and stats-.us, estimates and conditions of the cotton crop. These committees were appointed ear ly in the day and made to consist of the commissioners of agricultufe of each. State, three delegates from each State and President C. S. Barrett, of the Farmers' Educational and Co-op erative Union. E. D. Smith Waxes Warm. One of the principal speakers of the day was Senator E. D. Smith, of South Carolina, who, in scathing terms de nounced the so-called gambler of Wall street, Liverpool, New Orleans and foreign markets, and cried that the Southern farmer must declare his fin ancial independence of these people. He said the farmer should demand a fair, profit on his cotton, and vientured the assertion that if the New England farmer had such a monopoly crop as the cotton crop he would demand and receive 30 cents a pound for it. Senator Smith also made an attack upon the accuracy of the government report; and said that -the Southern farmer had lost enough money be cause of it to establish an insurance department; or to insure proper fig ures. He declared, too, that Attorney General Wickersham 'wanted to break a so-called monopoly to boost the price of cotton'but crushed no illegal com bination to force prices down. Will Int-oduce Bill. Wihen,gongress meets again in De cember, Senator Smith said, 'he is go ing to introduce a bill to require the secretary of agriculture to show in his monthly cotton -census, not only the amount of cotton/in the field, but the number of bales ini warehouses and *who owned these~ bales. Throughout his speech, Senator Smith was hear tily cheered, and it was he who spoke un til faces in the auditorium could nct be distinguished. WVatsop Permanent Chaia'man. 'The conventioxi was called togetber at noon. Capt. Reuben F. Kolb, com missioner of agriculture for Alabama, was made temporary chairmaai. He presided until Commiissioner of Agri culture E. J. Watson,. of South Caro lina, was made permanent chairman. The Rev. C. A. Stakely, of this city' opened the convention with a prayer. Addresses ~of welcome were made by Capt. Kolb. Lieutenant Governor Zeed, Mr. R. B. Evins, representing Guier nor O'Neal; President Gunt~r, o& the city commission, and President, Kohn, of the Montgomery (Commercial club, In behalf of Alabam-a an thb city of Montgomery. These addresses were ~responded to by State Senator I. A. Bush, o)f Georgia. For Oscar W. Underwod. The convention will be brbught to a close Wednesday evening with a dermonstration in honor of the Hon. Oscar W. -Underwood, leader of the national house of repiresentatives, who \will reach this, city with a party of good roads advocates from Birming ham. It is thought that Senator John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, will also be in the city by that time. FARMERS CO~NGRES:S FIXES THE PRICE OF COTTON Resoved TTint Farmers Thust Hold for 15 Cents--Basing Action on Esti mated Crop 12.00,000 Bales. Montgomery, Ala., September 13. Five 'hundred farmers, and as many bankers, congressmen, United States senators and business men. represent ing every cotton growing State in America, declared in convention today that the farmers' cotton is worth 15i cents a pound, and resolved that the farmer should hold his cotton for that price. The resolution followed a comn mittPe report that the crop in America wcould not excee~d 32.500.000l bales. For financinz the crop of this year. a r n!ntin wais adopted to thD "ff'ect There was also a resolution urging I that the several State legislatures should provide for a system of bond ed warehouses. Organization Made Permanent. Declaring that organization among! the farmers, and co-operation among with the bankers and financiers, was the solution of the problem, the convention resolved itself into a per man2nt organization, to be known as the Southern Cotton (congress, an'd adjourned to meet in Atlanta at the call of the president, E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture of South Carolina. The meeting in Montgomery is to be followed by a similar convention in ev ery Southern State, to be called by the commissioner of agriculture of! each State. By these conventions the action of the congress is to be ratified and reinforced by further steps toward securing a better price for cotton. Smith Speaks Again. Among the speakers at the conven tion today were Senator E. D. Smith, of South Carolina, 'who received the thanks of the congress for his attitude I. in congress toward the gov'ernment cotton report; Congressman Thomas J. Heflin, of Alabama; Congressman Henry D. Clayton, of Alabama, and Dudley M. Hughes, Congressman from the 3d district of Georgia; Oscar W. Underwood, majority leader of the, house of represntatives, and chairman .of the ways and means committee, sat in the audience. Smith Carried the Day. It was Senator Smith who perhaps made the speech which decided the congress in'Its naming the price of cotton at 15 cents, for Congressman Heffin wanted to make the price 14 or 15 cents, with 14 cents as the mini mum. Congressman Clayton, in his speech, declared his belief that in ten years' time the world would be using 25,000,000 or 30,000,000 bales of Amer ican cotton. President C. S. Barrett, of the Far mers Educational and Co-Operative Unioh, delivered an address on co operation. He denounced as baseless the reports of a bumper cotton crop, denied the charge that the Farmers' union was a combine to hold up civili zation, an6f asserted that there Is a combination for the purpose of ham mering down the price of cotton. Financing the Crop. W. G. Harden, president of the First National bank of Birmingham, spoke on ''Financing the Cotton Crop." Dur ing his speech he declared that the present crop could at best be only an average 6ne. He advised against fixing a .minimum price at which cot ton should be sold, but urged farmers to market their cotton slowly and gradually. Dr. W. E. Hinds, State entomologist, delivered a very instructiv'e address on the destructive- work done by the cotton caterpillars. The government was severely crit icised at the committee session ti morning for alleged inaccuracies i crop estimates and ginning reports. 'It was the opinion of The committee that the South no longer should rely On the national government for its crop reports, but make the~m out at home. E. J. Watson Speaks. Commissioner of Agriculture Wat son, of Sonth Carolina, and President Dabbs, of the South Carolina Farm ers' union, were severe in their ar raignment of the United States depart ment of agriculture in gathering cot ton statistics. Commissioner Watson stated that the government has had a statistician in 'his State for the, past ten years, gathering data for the gov4 emnent's crop reports, and that dur-. ing his ad-ministration he had never met the gentleman, or had never seen' him, nor had any of his sixty-five agerits in the State seen him. "The whole thing is a farce," he said, with indignation, "and we should no longer- relf on the government fori a correct report." Congressman Henry D. Clayton, of. Alabama, stated that the government~ crop reports were based on~ the best 'figures obtainable. "We must go hack to home governi Iment.," shout"d Mr. Clayton, "and get up our own information." IRA W. WTTJUAMS TALKS OF LONG STAPLE COTTON rrges Farmers to Grow Certain .Amount, Especially Since Good Narket is Promised. Coumbia, Sept. 13.--Mr. Ira W. Wil liams, State agent" of the farm dem-! onstration work, who has recently re turned to Colnmbia, after abandoning his slimmer hendquarters at Chick! snig,is n.ow occupied in bringing to a s'necossfa! termination the cam neign which hes bee~n made through tw~ soao for the zrnwing of the long ai a- eotton in South Carolina. The~ ~rngnr of the cotton and the separa tinof. both seed and Tint from the ontamintion of the shorter sta.ples.j constitute not the least of the difficul ties in connection with the growing of the long staples. "It seems that there has been quite a considerable quannty of the long staple cotton grown in this State this season," said Mr. Wmiams on Wed nesday, "though I have no way of knowing exactly how much. If thec farmers will properly preserve their seed and cu.tivate this cotton, there will be enough grown in South Caro lina in the course of a few years to supply the demands of this State." Will Find Ready Market. Mr. Williams calls to the mind of the farmers that Capt. E. A. Smyth, of Greenville, president of the South Carolina Cotton Man,uracturers' asso ciation, has promised that the South Carolina cotton manufacturers will purchase all the "staple" cotton which the farmers will grow. Mr. Lewis W. Parker, another prominent mill man of the Piedmont, has made the state ment that if the farmers will get 25 bales together in one place, having a staple length of 1 1-4 to f 3-8 inches, he will send a man there to buy the cotton directly from the producers. Mr. J. Adger Smyth, president of the Watts Mill, at Laurens, and of the new Duncan Mill, at Greenville, has writ ten to Commissioner E. J. Watson, expressing a desire to get in touch with farmers who have grown the staple cotton. One of the difficulties which the far mers who have grown this cotton will epcounter in putting it on the market. according to Mr. Williams, will be get ting it properly ginned. Most of the farmers will be obliged to use the reg ular type of saw gin, for this year, at any. rate. Good resuts can be gotten from this machine, however, says Mf; Williams, by having the saws slightly dulled, and having the machiner.y rui very slowly. He urges precaution in the separation of the seed from that of any other cotton and in keeping the line Dure from contamination with the. shorter staples. Tt is probable that some quantity of this cotton grown in the State will b.e btained during the Long Staple Co* ton exposition, which it is planned ti hold here during the State fair. .2 Never Despair. o At a St. Patrick's day dinner in Bost ton Senator Lodge once said: "Low as was Ireland's estate tlien, tere was no cause for despair. 140 estate is ever so low but that it might be lower. Like the woodsawyer's c'ase, you know. "'You need exercise,. violent exer ise, that's what _you need,' a doctor once said to this woodsawyer. /What is your business, my man?' "'I'm a woodsawyer, sir.' "'Well,' sid the doctor, 'su,ppose you don't grease your saw for a month or so.'" Round Trip E V Southern From Newi Atlantic City, N. J., atnd retui Account American Electric R: 1911. Tickets on sale October 4 returning October 18, 1911. Pittsburg, Pa., and returi..... Account National Baptist Conm 19i i- Tickets sold September i< turning September 23, 1911. Cincinnati, 0., and return... Account National Association of r 1--r6, 1911. Tickets sold Septe turning September 19, 1911. Knoxville, Tenn., and return Account Appalachian Exposition. Tickets sold Septemnber 9 to GOc limit returno;g not later than ten: of sale. Indianapolis, Ind., and return Account of Sovereign Grand Lod Tickets sold September 14, 15 an September 28, 1911. Memphis, .Tenn., and return.. Account Reunion Blue and Gray sold September 23 and 24, 1911, Summer excursion tickets on sale returning October 31, 1911, to mar The Southern R ailway offers supe Pullman sleeping cars and dining ct For detailed information, call or J. L. MEEK, A. G. P. A., F A tlanta. Ga. IT-WILL 1 fkHLIl WTW y4 .f NOTIcaEl DANK Copyright 1909 by C And it will them, which y to do, but it wi them that H14 TION it is y give them if yo YOU CAN account N014 T4 Newberry! S.i OF NEWBI Capital Stock - JAMES McINTOSH, Presidet PulaskilLodge,1No. 20,LI..0. F. Pulaski lodge, No. 20, I. 0. 0. F. will meet Friday 2)ight, September 1, at 8 o'clock in Klet,tuer's Hall. f .3. Y. Jone, " I W. G. Peterson, Noble Grand. Secretary. ________ CHusion Fares Fromtl gets a IA actly w 01WE S Lerry, S. C. We there a BARG t.. ............$22.4 offer bea ~way Association, October. 9-hat a D 5, 6 and 7, 19II, with final limit -gain" an .... . ..........25.5 0 Ttion (Colored), September 13-18, provd et and II, 1911, with final limit re- prov to . ..............- $17.30( b Stationary Engineers, September I* ber 9, 10 and 11, 1911, good re ....... ................ ....----. $8.35' September 11-October 1, 1911. _______ t day from, but not including date _______ ..........-$19.95~ g, I. 0. 0. F., Sept. 16-23, 1911 1 6, 1911, with final limit returning ..... .. ......... .....$18.50 Pr-ize 4 September 26-28, 1911. Tickets Book on ood returning October 4, 1911. "Why som< aily unitil September 3oth, good search of Pf ohrpoints. Acting Comn otherthe U. S. Pa > service and convenient schedules. service on all through trains. outhern Railway ticket agents, or ? GF ANK L. JENKINS, T. P. A,, PLEASE SWEETIHEART C. LQQ!JNT E. Zimnerman Co.-No. 39 not only Please :u ought to try 11 throw around 3H PROTEC our,DUTY to u can. by starting an r with HE vingS BanK RR Y, S. C. - -.$50.O00.00 J.ENRWOOD, Cashier SGOO1DS ARE THE BEST PRICES T HE LOWESF SCAN T GET AWAY2 e fact that every one trading witicus - ~quare deal or nothing.\ We toil you ex hat you are buying, or in other wcrds~ ELL TRUTHFUL GOODS~ whole story. We try to make an honestlproit te as possible, so that the buyer may come back. ar Goocds Are AllIRight ir Prices Are All Right fore truthfully claim that every trade with us is - AIN TRADE FOR YOUJ. Every bargain we rs the same relation to ordinary so-called b-.rgains amond does t.o other stones-it is the king and 11. Some dealers christen any thing as a "Bar :trust to the name to sell it. ains-Are Genuine in Name and Nature I of all bargains offered. Come at once. We will - you that you can save more money trading with ny where else. KLETTNER, THE FAIR. AND SQUARE DEALER. )ffers from Leding Manufacturer. patents. "Hints to hveitors." "Inventions needed.' :inventors fail." Send rough sketch or model for tent Office records~ Our Mr. Gireeley was formerly. missioner of~ Patentsg:and as such had.full charge of tent ffice. IEELEY&McINTIRE WASHINGTON, '.D C.