The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 16, 1920, Page 6, Image 6
mont<;om!-:ky cotton mhhtixo.
Six Things to Do to Help (?Vt Hotter
Cotton Drives.
>"What did the Cotton Association
meeting at .Montgomery do?"
"What can I do to help get better
prices?"
These two questions are now being
asked on every hand. Perhaps the
best answer to both questions is given
in the editorial view of the work
of the .Montgomery meeting and its
plans as given ii> the Progressive
Farmer of September 11th, an advanced
copy which has been furnished
us. Which is as follows:
CAN" DO
The Fight for Better Cotton Prices:
Six Things You Can Do
The'great meeting 01 me Hmcntau
Cotton Association in Montgomery.
Ala., last week, discussed a lot of
things, but we believe the gist of the
whole conference nfay be given in six
definite things every cotton farmer
in the south can do to help the fight
for better prices:
1. First and foremost, hold your
cotton. We must show the bear gamblers
and the other allies that they,
have absolutely mistaken the spirit
and determination of the southern
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people if they think we will sit idfyi
, by and be robbed of half the fruits |
of this year's labor. It has cost between
30 and 40 cents a pound to
make this year's crop. The decision
of the Montgomery meeting was that
40 cents should be a minimum price
for middling.
Not only must each man resolve
to hold his own crop, but he must see
his neighbors and insist on their holding.
As J. A. Brown says* "We must
shut up the market so tight that no
man can buy or beg a bale of cotton
at present prices?so that the only
way to get a bale of new-crop cotton
until prices improve will be to steal
it!"
J. A. Todd, the distinguished
English authority, who came to Montgomery
at President Wannamaker's
request, sized ii$ the present worldsituation
somewhat as follows: (1)
The world* will need every bale of
cotton that is produced this year.
There is no real overproduction. (2)
Right now. however, there is practically
no movement of cotton goods, a
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in the business of cotton manufacturers,
and of course they are not offering
normal prices for cotton. Present
prices are only fictitious prices based
on a temporarily demoralized market.
Nevertheless if one-fourth of the
cotton farmers of the south are such
fools as to accept this fictitious undervaluation
for 1920 cotton, prices
on the whole crop will be lowered.
We must keep anybody and everybody
from selling at present prices.
? 2. Go to your county mass meeting
next Monday, Sept. 20th. Every county
in the south is asked to hold a
mass meeting of its cof)ton farmers
on this date, to make plans for holding,
warehousing, cutting acreage and
cooperative marketing. Go and get
your neighbors to go. both landlord
and tenant, black and white. We
must educate everybody and all classes
to the importance of this fight.
And see to it that everybody makes
some contribution for supporting the
Cotton Association ;n its plans. A
good method will oe to have every
grower to authorize his ginner to deduct
10 to 25 cents a bale for the
organization. Business men should
subscribe liberally, for no one will be
hurt more than they if the south's
spending power and debt paying pow
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er is cui m na.ii.
3. Cut your cotton acreage next
year by sowing a record-breaking
grain crop this fall. Don't just talk
about "cutting down acreage"?a
negative sort of programme. Tell
everybody to cut his cotton
acreage by sowing more wheat, oats
and rye, and by sowing more clover
to enrich the land for corn next year.
This is the only sensible way to reduce
acreage.
4. Put your cotton in a warehouse,
and organize a cooperative marketing
association. Remarkably important,
was the comprehensive report on cooperative
marketing adopted at Montgomery,
the result of months of labor
by Cotton Specialist Murph and others.
The report tells just how to
start cooperative selling with official
grading or classing in your community.
As for warehouses, if mere is not
sufficient warehouse room in your
section, it will pay to hurry up the
construction of buildings of a cheaper
sort.
5. Do all you can to help men who
are in a tight place financially from
having to sacrifice their cotton. Make
it a point to see the president or
cashier of the bank you do business
with. Tell him a large part of his
business comes from farmers and
that farmers expect him to go the
limit in helping them now. See your
merchant and tell him he had better
suffer some temporoary inconvenience,
better to wait until he can wait
no longer on his 'cotton customers,
mther than force the south back into
the poverty and backwardness it for
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merly suffered. And if you have tenants
or neighbors who insist on selling
anyhow, hut their cotton if possible,
and hold it. out of the regular
channels of trade.
II. Demand also a fair * me for cotton
seed. This subject has already
already been discussed in previous
issues of the Progressive Farmer. The
dicision 01 the .Montgomery meeting
was that the farmers who can use
cottonseed meal for feeding should
exchange cotton seed for an equal
quantity of cotton seed meal, or
should sell seed when a ton of seed
is selling for as much as a ton of
meal.
If this battle for better cotton
prices is to be won. the growers themselves
must fight to the finish. Here
ait? si.\ aeniiue tilings ever\ man mil
do. Check up yourself and see how
many of them you are willing to do
?and spread the news to your neighbors.
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