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iLLIMTE DEPARTMENT. J. F. XI SB FT Editor. On page 2 see an article b> I'rof. J. S. Newman of Clemsor College on ^protection and improvement of worn soil. It is nn able article and should be read carefully bv every farmer. There were between 00 and l'ttt farmers in the Cotton Crow er's Convention here Monday showing that the people are aware and alive to their interests and l';ey .iv in aniest and are deUr mined to do omething to try t< better tlieir condition. Cotton (?rowers Association. Lancaster, C., Nov. 22 !n obedien.ee to a call from .1 K !\ni?rht. the farmers met ii the Court Hou?e at the appoint. hour. The meeting was caliei t?? order by .1. K. Kniclit and I S. Kiddle was elected Seeretan /Vo. Ten). . t ?. A. i'orler e\ plained the object of the meeting 1 hen on motion K. 1.. llicklit was elected President of Lauras tor County Cotton fi rowers Asso ciation. J. N. Kstridjxo Vice President and T. S. Kiddle per mutient Secretary. In order i< g-t I lie townships organized it wai agreed to ask the representative! from each township to noniinnti some one for president of thoii townships and that the presidcn of this convention shall appoini in the townships not representee here today. The following wer? appointed as presidents of tin townships: Indian Land?Dennis K. llall Waxhaw?T. M. Secrest. Cane Creek?N. T. DralTin. (lills Creek?W G. A. Dorter I hi ford?E. It. Inngle. Flat Creek?J. N. Est ridge. Pleasant Hill?W. H. Hruco. Dry Creek?W.T. Vanlandinjc ham. < tn motion the [township presi dents were asked to call a meet ing in their respective township tri ortrnnizo tho association on tin tirst Saturday in December. < )n motion tho proceedinps o the State* Convention wen* rem hv the Secretary. On motion of J. K. Knight tin following rrsolutions were adopt ed: l{i.'Kii v'i:n 1st, That \v?* ir:\ it. ever farmer in the county to join us in : ' tin. uiigh <Miin;i;;> l nonpar!. i.i > i '/ it ion 11m* we may -tarn! a- a unit n defence of our rights against 111 tru-t- ;i11?1 ccinbincs now formed t> outrol prices 2 nd, That 1 ?y -ucti organization w> can,to n great extent. !i?-f ?it h" price of pr ?!11 t of our labor which is uti v.oif .?t .. ami eori-t it iitionnl righ giiarant I to u- by every priiwiple o our republican lorin of govi i oinent. >rd, That by -ucii orgauiz t! ion am by -tamlingtruetoit.it will place u i !i the broad level of eipialily w 11 Mi - nut ions who are itei r .in m iy greed and avarice to crush u- am reduce lis to a system of t:i -a I age an scrfd >m. and place us where we cai ay. "Thus far shalt llioii conic and in fart her." UK That lie farmers have lo-t I In* i prestige as the lords of creation to Their disorganized condition and an reduced to slavery of dcld that de -troys their independence and manhood and makes them the easy prey ol every combination formed to crii-l ; I.cm. Therefore we appeal to every farmer and to every toiler who earn* his bread hy the sweat of his brow li join us in this effort to fr uir.et*... Mini those ri"penriin? upon u?. Ap pealing to tliHt (rod who seals tlit* deetiny of man ami nation* for the rectitude of our conduct pledging to cnct other our live*, our fortune* and 0111 sacred honor to be true to thin orgnnh /ation against all the powers ofcorporate greed anil speouiativf syndicate* that are, or may he formed, to wrenot from oh the heaven-born right. to ? ri joy an adequate return for tho labor u! our hands. <>u motion tho mooting ad journed. | MR. RODDEY S PLAN. The Now York Broker Will | Not Abandon It. "| HIS TALK TO FARMERS i! I' Made in York County Since Adi jouriuueiit of Cotton (growers' Convent ion?A Company. I' I Mr. J no. 1. Uoddey of New York, the well-known cotton broker am! former South Caro' | Inn an,does not intend to abandon ! I Ids plan ior rejiulatint; the pric< of cotton. In tlie Yorkville En ) quirer ot yesterday appeared the following as to liis views since the recent convention of cotton growers in thcity : Mr. .John T Koddey has not iost j a particle ??i faith in his famous [dan for the control of tic price i 1 of cotton, lie believes as hm Jy 11 in it now a - he did thre year , . ago, when lie first gave it to the i public. In fact. Ins faith is, if .'anything, stronger than ever, j Then the scheme was a cotnpara' tivelv new thing; hut since that 1 time he has continued to study it 11 J in all its details, and now ho feels absolutely certain that if it ever has the opportunity < 1 a test it cnn't possibly fail. Mr. Koddey was in Hock Hill 1 last Saturday, on his way back to s New York from the cotton cons volition that was held in Coluni? bia last week. Learning from r The llerald that he would make I an address to the farmers during t the da}*, a reporter for The Enj ijuirer went over to hear what was said and done. The meeting had not yet been called when the leDorter arrived, and Mr Rndd?v being at leisure, talked intorest* lugly about bin plana. "They did not vote down my plan at Columbia," ho said, "but . they did not exactly ondorRo it. Von boo, I moan buninoes rather than politicR, and the political olomaut was more largely represented in the convention thau the business element. Thin i? not a political problem with which wo are dealing ; but rather a business problem, and unloan if ir dealt with in a businest) way wo can acP eompliah nothing. "However, I have no objection ^ to anything that waa done in the ' convention. So far uh it won! it was all right. Yho action of the * convention lookn to organization in the interest of cotton. I am convinced, from what I have rpoii y and loarnc 1 i'i New York?from :i what 1 actually know?that the i only possible rona ilv i the orguiization of a gigantic tru-t. The meeting did r.of take to tin?' idea. That is b can :> of a go. ra! misconception of the tri. :'a ' ation. Hut as decided to 01 f! gani/.e, and t!ntt i- a son. -e of l ati?laction to me. So thoroughly convinced am I that the trust ii ! plan i* the praetic; I one,I fee) -? ! suerd that ir the organization i? i completed it will drift into mv "I way of thin'; in;', and eventual y it will materially assist mo in earV1 rvinn out my plans. "Hut voti take up tho idea for a moment that because the con von, tion did not do what I hoped it would, that 1 am in tho leant dim [cournged. Far from it. i have | more lnith than ever in the trust nioa. I behove it. can bo curried out. Not only thin, I believe that ! 1 can perfert It. I believe it. no strongly that I havo determined ! to no into it with all the moans > and all the energy that I posnosn. f No big undertaking has ever been | carried to nuccess without hard! work and big rink, and no lens j can ba reasonably expected in the | present case. But I have this ?at- j iafactinn. As I f=ee it, the organ ization of this propoped trust is not nearly so big a thing as it ap j pears to most people,or as it once ' appeared to me. Taking the size' of it into consideration, I believe ! it will prove a comparatively easy j i task. [ "Just as soon as I can?1 have lawyers looking into the matter now?I am going to secure a charter for a cotton company, , which will really be in the nature , of a trust, and open hooks of subscription. What the capital stock will be, I have not fully de? id. d ; but th hares will be of th i par lvalue of about $5. Then vi> will i ceed by securing the privilege j of marketing a r -?-taiti porteo of grower's crop; say one bale out. of four. I have abandoned the warehous idea. We'll just have 1 the nrr it ili?nr f r\ hi > 1 h ?>. / ? I f ' ; allow ii? th<* control of one-fourth of his crop. On our part wo will guarantee him tin? market price; | '* that is that ho will not have to take los-, an?l a ho loavo him the privilege of raising as much! money on that fourth halo as h? lean, lie will keep the cotton on I his farm, of course, and itli wej , will ask of l.iin is that he hold it j i until wo instruct him to sell it.. j "Now lot us sec how it works. j At present, supply and demand ; , have nothing whatever to do with 1 the prico of cotton. Liverpool] S spinners combine with profession- j al operators and sell futures un til they get. the price of cotton down as low ns thoy want it.] Then, on this ba^is, they buy all the spot cotton they need. Why, right now, I can buy the entire n?xt yaar's crop of York county for less thaa the farmers can produce it to save their lives. Ilut suppose there is a 0,000,000 bale crop next year, and suppose the trust had under control along the line I have just explained, Hay 2,000,000 bales. Then suppose the spinners and mill men should re Rump their old plan of soiling futures to beat down the price. All the trust wonld havo to do would he to just buy every bale that the spinners and speculators dared to sell, and whenever the trust got : ready, it would call upon the sell: ers to settle. Having control of i the entire surplus, or onough of it I for all practical purposes, the trust could demand settlement on a basis of whatever figures it might choose to name, even up toj 2") cents a pound. "It looks pretty, doesn't it'#" continue 1 Mr. Koddoy. 44Well,it is pretty. There is not a possible !chance to slip up. There is no chance for the cotton farmer to lose mvthing. ! see no reason i any farmer. Ten though le.* should n 1 be wi Hi fig to t alio urn lli i.t stock, -!j )i;! 1 jclilhe lo allow tii * trust t!? privilege ol marketin" <?xn? -foilit!i of his crop, ami not | only that, thr?* will he iti the (i'lifmc the opportunity f"r those1 who take stork to make hie divi de nds.' 1 Shrjr11y after thin talk with the 'reporter. Borne f>0 or ?>0 farmers I from the surrounding country J collected in Koddey's hall, and Mr. lioddey went over hi* plans to thoni again in a clear-cut, earn- j ent speech. Ho covered about the j jsaino ground as above, and waaj J listened to with close attention, j n-vuriii ummnera oi tno ainiiouce ahowed their interest by asking questions, and in each case the answer* were entirely satiafae! tory. Mr. Koddey repeated his annoTinreinent of hia purpose to ! organize hi* proposed truat whether he got any help or not. He did nnt^ask for any help; but from all appearances, there were many, in the audience who were in full sympathy with him, and the indications are that if ho begins operations in the Hock Ilill section, he will start out under encouraging auspices. The Cotton Growers' Convention. The Cotton Growers' Convention which met in Columbia last. week was a body of very earnest and intelligent men, and thor-! ontrhlv aroused to the noepsuitv ?>f doing imething toward organ-' izing the farmers for their tmitual protection in the matter <>! ( controlling tin* marketing of their cotton. Whatever e se may or may not come out of it, whether the farmers -omeeed or not in perfecting ;?organic ation that will' accomplish the purpose4 in view, j it ia certain that somo good will come out of it in the very fact of ; the agitation of the matter ami the di ?cu. ion of the situation. It will direct the attention of the farmers to the situation and focus public sentiment on" it, and convince the world that the farmers are alive to the fact that they are being lohhed and that they do not. propose to stand still and ' tamely submit while the process is going on. Kvory county should respond promptly to the resolutions adopted, hold mass conventions and organize by townships,! and send delegates to the InterState Convention at Atlanta next month. As a matter of fact they are buying cotton now at their own price anil we see no reason why they should not fix the price at three or four cent* aa at five. The Cotton Market. Tho price* of cotton have continued to decline, nnd the level is now below that reached for forty y?ars, save in tho year lH9t. The decline baa followed conditions which by every argument point to higher price*. Abroad in the Lancashire district there have bsan serious diaturbancen which ujuy account in part for the unsettled condition of the markets. The manufacturers have insisted on a reduction in wages which the men insist they cannot and w ill not sub- j in it to. For weeks it appeared that a strike of vaat proportions was inevitable, involving the whole cotton interests of Great Britain. 1 bis situation undoubtedly depressed the market for the raw material. Mill owner* preferred to keen mil ??f I lie market until tliey know what was to happen, and with this English demand checked prices sagged. At (he last moment nun and tnili 1 owner- agreed to arbitration, and it j -coin- now that the threatened -trike i has been ayerted. If this he true there should !> ? a het- t ter demand fur raw cotton and a reao- 1 tion in prices in the near future. The Falls Itiver mill- corii]dain i f an over-supply of maniifaclured goods, and talk nt a shutdown. This some of the mill owner- object to, as other sectons especially in the South, would, continue to make cotton goods and i supply Fall itiver customers. They now suggest a national Jaw which! will compel a!! mills to reduce the hours of labor alike. Hut the promoters of Interstate protection do not say > whether or not they will pay the same for short hours as for long. It Is thus seen that the cotton market is btill unsettled. The low prices for the raw material hare not relieved the situation. A better iletimml iu in be expected, for two years has outrun production, and supplies on band have been considerably reduced. Home and Farm may be wrong, but we confidently eipeet an early advance. At any rate we see no reason to thinK planters who hold their crop can lose anything, whereas thuy may realize better prices by waiting. Tin: Dili: % >?: > conscnPTio^^ dan in: ctju T. A. Nh'ciiui. ill. O.. (lie Or?>nl ('llt'llllkl ?ll<] NflcutlNl, Will Ncnil, Frrr, Throe H.?Mles of 11 in Ac o I j l)lM>?r?<rril ICoinc lies In Nu t iers. Editor Entkhi'RIrr:?I have ?tI covered a reliable cure for Consump-y tion anil all Bronchial, Throat ami* Lunj* Diseases, General Decline, Loss of Flesh nnd all Conditions of Wasting Away. By its timely use thousands ot apparently hopeless cases have been cured. So proof-positive am 1 of its power to cure, that to make its merits known, I will send, free, to any alllicteil reader of your paper, three bottles of iny Newly Discovered Rome-# dies upon receipt of Express and Postotllce address. T. A.Sl.Ot'LM, M. (!., !>S Pine St. New York. When u r l'iir the Doctor pl> n.s. mention this paper. ( \) i Hot ( i>\/1\ ilioS Ill'HiK<; \ ri:s. Thirteen Slates to be Hepresentetl at Atlanta. Governor Kilerbe yesterday Hi-nt tite iollowing letter to the governors of t In rt oon id; ton growstales asking the appointment of delegates to the Atlanta convert linn of cotton growers: Dear i?ir : The cotton Growers', convention of South Carolina, which met in thi>? city a short time ago, decided to hold, in Atlanta, (la., <?i? December 11th, T 18!?7, a convention of cotton growers, composed of delegates from all the cotton growing states. The purpose of this convention is to consider the price, sale, and marketing of cotton, and to de- ^ vise, if possible, some plan by which the producers of this great starde can command for it a price above the cost of its production. Wo realize that it is essential to have concert of action among the farmers of the south. Thoroforo I earnestly nrro that nracti. able farm* be appointed from each atate. The repreaentation thai we ask for ia on* delegate from each congressional diatrict, and two from the state at large, to ataemble in Atlanta, Ga., on December 14th, 1H97. Trusting that you will seo fit to co-operate with u?, I ani, very reapectfully. W. H. KI.LRRIIK, Governor. PORK, 4- '4 r\ < ^ rori? sausage, BEES'. ' You can now pet fresh pork sailnape as well as llrst class beef at my market daily. I'rompl delivery made for all orders iu any pari of the town. W. P. YOUNG. July 'J\ lsn7(iy) Notice! To the lax p:c. i ? <?f I. inciter I'u ility The tax boolta will i>e <>|?-n In the < (Boo ol tbo ( '1 r ,i , if' r I r I. Unast* r < > U II < \ fur tkn , il l-, not i .xi ? for flaoal year c.o, from tho i.vili iiuy of i ii'Uii'i-r lo the Hint iluy of In-coinIn r, 1-jT. Tim follow-In * i t tho levy for Iho county State .. f? mills County - ' " Interest on C AC I'. 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