The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-09-12
THE NORTH CAROLINA TOBACCO
ASSOCIATION.
The Work Accomplished by it-What
it Proposes to do in the Future.


Well done, tobacco men of North
Carolina! Your task at Greensboro
last Tuesday was faithfully executed.
The crisis in the life of the State To-
bacco Association came and you met
it like men and saved the organiza-
ton from utter ruin. "Well done"
will be the verdict upon your work
throughout the length and breadth of
the Old North State.
AS we had plainly pointed out be-
fore the State Association had reached
point in its history when some
change was necessary, its aims and
and policy were not right. Some new
plan of organization was needed to
make it the power for good which was
originally intended. This was all
plainly foreseen by the delegates who
assembled in Greensboro on Tuesday,
and the Convention at once set itself
to the task of reformation. To Mr..
Reed, of Oxford, is largely due the
ideas which were carried out in the
new organization. This new plan
under which the Association is here
after to work has been briefly stated
elsewhere in this ISSUE The Associa-
ton will hereafter look to the general
good of the State tobacco interests,
and do no legislation for local organi-
cations. 1t comes out on the broad
plan that any tobacco man in the
State can become a member by the
payment of an annual fee of one dol
lar. This secures him a ticket from
the general secretary, which ticket en-
titles him to the low railroad rates te
the annual meeting at Morehead City
to the reduced hotel rates, and to the
pleasures of the annual banquet giver
at the annual meeting. Membership
in the Association does even more, i
throws around the participant all tht
protection which the Association car
give and secures him the pledge of as
sistance in business, &C., from ever,
: member of the State Association.
broader, a more inviting Or NOR
; liberal platform could not we'll be i'm
agined. Aside from these persona
benefits which the Association throw
around each member it goes into tn
higher work, as suggested in the South
/ ern Tobacco Journal last week, of ad
Z vertising to the world the bright to
, baccos of North Carolina. OF cours
TIE benefit it does in this way will b
: reaped by all alike in the State
: whether members or not, but we be
S lieve that almost every tobacco man i
e North Carolina will come into the As
sociation under its new plan of organ
ization. We believe that before tn
> first of next July the State Associatio
will contain membership of not lie:
y than 900. With such band of work
= ers this organization will become
4 power for good in The State.
The Association means business {
last. Heretofore it has been all play
e and some one expressed it, call ton
n foolery.'' The new treasurer is D,
o under bond for the amount of tt
funds in hand. The constitution an
bylaws are being carefully write
# and will be given to the public SOC
in neat pamphlet form. New con
mittees will be created, and announce
II by president King at an early da
together with the other committee
=, Taken altogether the State Tobac'
- Association has just found its missit
$ after cropping in the dark for two yea
N Its future is bright, and Its succs
under the new plan fully assured.