The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-03-12


PHGNIx, ADBEvILLE Co., March 8.
The Phoenix Alliance, at its last meet
ing, passed the following preamble and
resolutions:
Whereas, The present low prices paid
for cotton are Improbable and unremu.
nerative to the producers of the staple,
and
Whereas, The curtailment or reduction
Of the cotton crop is the only remedy for
the evil which presents itself as efficient,
and
Whereas, The only method for max
ing this remedy available, is to make its
application general by cooperation and
organized effort, and
Whereas, the Farmers Alliance, Pa.
irons of Husbandry and other agricul-
tural associations are the only channels
through which anything like an organ.
lied movement in this direction can be
accomplished, and
Whereas, A too exclusive attention to
the cotton crop, and too great and cul.
psble neglect of the grain and other food
crops, and of the raising of stock, havs
been the means of draining the South OF
all of its capital for the purchase of sup.
plies to run cotton farms, and thus i'm
poverishing the farmers of the South, and
Whereas, This plan of reducing the
cotton crop has been and is advocated
and recommended by many of our best
and most advanced thinkers and ablest
writer's in the interest of the Southern
farmer; therefore, be it
Resolved, That We, the members Of
Phoenix Alliance, No. 62S, Abbeville
County, S. O., do most earnestly request
and urge that all the Alliances, Oranges,
and other agricultural associations
throughout the cotton growing States,
give this matter Immediate and serious
consideration, and that the plan of reduc-
ing the cotton crop, or some other plan
which shall be better and more practical
bic, shall be adopted during this year by
the cotton growers of the South.
ResoIyed, That in our judgment 8
reduction of one-fourth to one-third,
thus limiting the crop to five and one
half to six million bales, would probably
be about proper.
Resolved, That this scheme Of reduc.
ton of the cotton crop is recommended
or adoption, not with the desire or inten
ton, or for the purpose of inhicting
damage or loss upon any other class Of
our citizens, but in the spirit Of self
protection, and with the view of making
the production of the chief and almost
only money crop of the Southern farmer
reasonable profitable to the producer
himself.
Resolued, That the time has arrived
when we, as individual citizens and farm.
ers, should realize the fact that the in.
creased aggregate wealth of commune
ties and States is no sign or index of the
increased prosperity and happiness of the
individuals composing such communities
or States; but that increasing aggregated
wealth of States and increasing poverty
of the masses are conditions which are
entirely compatible with each other.
Resolyed, That ne will devote more o.
our attention aud energy to the grains
grasses, and other food crops, and tc
stock, and less to cotton, and thus secure
to ourselves freedom, independence and
prosperity, and by this means make
Southern agriculture the most profitable
the most independent and the happies
of all vocations.
Brethren of all orders-united We
stand, divided We fall Organization, co
operation, union, fraternity, unsal6sh
ness, self-forgetting patriotism which car
see the individual as the component par
of the whole-these; with industry
energy, and close attention to business
can and will accomplish all the farmers
desires-these can emerge all his hope
| in the fullness of fruition.
G. F. Ross, Secretary.