San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-03-24
COTTON MEETING.

H~t@-A A5ANN CNhhAa
N Your delegate to the Cotto
at Growers Convention begs leave t
d report through your county pape
1t the following:
1t For full proceedings would refe
5. to the daily Galveston News or tn
1t daily Statesman of the 11th ant
?. 18th of March.
e there was a large delegation from
t our great State, the most of whom
e were appointed by the County
!, Judges of the different counties
Y say about three hundred more Oh
less. Several of our representa-.
| tives were appointed by then
County judges as delegates then
| all farmers present were made
members of the convention assem-
bled, &c.
San Saba County had the honor
of the delegate on resolutions from
the 18th Congressional dist which
was very important committee.
The said committee made the fol-
lowing report:
To the Hon. John H, Coughran, presi-
dent of the Cotton Growers convention of
the state of Texas: Your committee on
resolutions beg leave to report the follow
ing resolutions to be adopted as the sense
of this convention:
First-That whereas the Cotton plant
ers of the state of Texas have already en-
tered INTO contracts with their tenants as
to the quanty of cotton they shall plant
for the year of 1898 and with their mer-
chants for the amount of goods to be sup
piled them. We believe it to be imprac-
ticable for this convention to take any ac-
ton that will tend to reduce the Texas
cotton crop of 1893.
SecOnd-That it Is the sense of this con-
ventiOn that the cotton planters of Texas
should take no concerted action to reduce
their cotton crops unless it was by agree
ment with all Ofthe cotton growing Ma
tons of the ea-th
our rich corn, wheat, cotton, sugar, fruits,
Vegetable and grazing lands, and the beau
! tifulueSs OF our climate for the raising of
hogs, cattle and mules, we feel a sense of
shame when we learn from our commits
sicneIRf agriculture tLat the State con-
sumed III the year of 1891, 22,660. 1886
pounds of bacon, 2,295, l59 pounds OF lard,
2,554, 500 bushels of corn and ,;'52,5lS gal
Ions of syrup more than we produced, and
We earnestly appeal to every patriotic
farmer of our state to add to his prosperity |
and blot out this reproach upon her good |
name as an agricultural country by con
stituting himself committee of one to /
produce all of the agricultural products |
that he consumes and in this way incident |
ally reduce the cotton crop.
Fourth-That we believe that in addi- |
ton to the foregoing that the true policy |
to be pursued to give permanent prOsperi- |
ty and power to the south is to offer liber-
al encouragement to the planting Ofman-
ufacturiDg industries here, so that we may |
diversity our labor and convert into the .
most valuable forms the raw material III
which she abounds. B F Phillips,
Chairman.
Which report we defended in
the committee room and conven-
ton, but the convention somehow
or other thought it best to abolish
resolutions No l and 2, and substi
tuted for first, TO decrease acre
age of cotton for the year 1898.
Which virtually done away the
good that might have been done,
otherwise as we thought.
We were of the opinion then,
and still think, to do any good in
the decrease of acreage in cotton,
the whole world must go into the
agreement to so do. For the cot
ton growing part of the Z S, to do
so would create competitors of
India, China and Congo of Africa:
which countries are now introduc-
ing American seed and machinery,
that may make their cotton equal
to ours in staple, etc, and then we
would have competitors that
would not down at our bidding,
and to decrease the acreage in the
cotton growing states would, event
ually injure us; hence we say the
second resolution should never
have been killed, if we want to de-
crease the cotton acreage.
The interstate cotton planters
meets at New Orleans
soon.
The convention at Austin select
ed one delegate from each Con-
districts to New Orleans (
and the convention requested the {
County Judges of Texas to ap-
point or have selected by the citi-
zens of each county enc or more
delegates to attend the convention
ut New Orleans.
While there was no visible good E
done, we were glad San Saba {
County was represented Though {
poorly. 1t shows to her sister J
counties that their interests is l
San Sa5a's interest, and that San t
Saba's interest should be their in {
terest in like manner; let it be cot 6
ton, corn or railroads, or anything
else for the good of the whole
state.
Why we should have represen-
-ation at New Orleans. At Little
Rock, Ark, March 10th, the cot
on growers convention met and a
was adopted as follows a
That, as the planters of Arkansas l