Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-09-28
Memphis Cotton Exchange and
the Bagging Question.


has unanimously resolved to repudi- l
ate the action of the late New '
Orleans Baggiug Convention. II
sent delegates here, who, like all the
other delegates, supported and APP
proved the action taken, at the re-
quest Of the cotton farmers Of the
South.
Since then, however, q vigorous
and systematic attack has been
made on the plan adopted which
allows the farmers to use whatever
bagging they see fit, and frees
them from the dominion of the
Jute Ring, The Memphis papers
have teemed with communications
on the subject, and all the old stock
arguments Of the jute men and
buyers have been advanced as new
and original. According TO these
the farmers are the unhappy victims
Of the new rule, which proposed to
cheat them out Of sixteen and
tweety-four pounds on every bale OF
cotton. Nothing could be more
lludicrous than the pleas OF these
BUYERS in favor of the farmers, while
the latter, at whose request the new
rules we're adopted, protested
against any change, and insisted
upon maintaining q system which
allowed them to use the bagging
they preferred, and whiehguaranteed
their being paid the full price Tor
every pound OF cotton they shipped
to market.
The various farmers associations
and commissioners Of agriculture
who attended the convention in New
Orleans, laid the views Of the agrl-
cultural classes on this suolec'
before the cotton exchanges repre-
sented here. They could not D.
deceived by the old tare system, a
they had been for SO many years
The matter was fully elucidate'
here, as it has already been in tn
press and at the various agriculture
conventions held TO discuss the sui
iect, and the benefits to the farmer
Of selling their cotton net weight
and getting the full value for
instead of selling it together VII
some twenty-five or thirty pounds
jute and getting less than its valu
we're so clearly demonstrated, tn
the attempt to reopen the argume
at Memphis has deceived no on
The Memphis Exchange altogeth
recedes from the action taken her
and the plan it proposes of separa
ing the cotton covered bales fro
those covered with jute, and sellil
the former on their merits, witho
any special allowance or tare, is
solution of the problem it is u
!, friendly to the farmers, and it "
materially assist the jute ring In
present and future conspirac
against the farmers. We are Sol
:. to see so important a cotton cen
" as Memphis place itself in line W
Galveston in an unfriendly attitr
toward the farmers, on whom
prosperity Of both Of these toy
depends, and take such action
will embarIass the solution OF
great problem, and render it all
more difficult for the South
farmers to make themselves free
independent of the corners and ri
which have squeezed so m
million dollars out of them.
But if Memphis has placed her
in antagonism to the wishes
aims of the cotton planters, we
certain that the other Soutt
cotton exchanges will not do so,
will ioin with New Orleans in m
:. tanning the action Of the late CON
0n' ton held here, in giving the farr
freedom from the jute ring, enah
them to use any bagging they
fit, and assuring them the full
for their cotton.-Times- Demo-
N;pt -. CT. Nou