The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-26
roe BETTER PRICES.
Commissioners Lane, of Alabama, issues an
Address on Cotton

Address on Cotton
Montgomery. Ala. November 2..-com-
missioner Lane of Alabama, has issued mis-
| address 10 the cotton growers of the south.
which was authorized by the late meeting
of the cotton growers, held in Montgomery.
lie says:
This convention was called by myself
for the purpose of considering and devils
ing means through which southern cotton
growers might protect ttansselve7 from tins
many unfair devices used t. depress the
/ value of our chief staple The most promi-
nent one being fictitious reports fabricated
in the main cotton markets sent out bE
cotton exchanges and emauating from thc
minds of men who make preCarious live
ing as the bears on the cotton market.
lie then quotes largely from printed esti-
mates sent out by interested parties as 20
the size Of the present crop and shows hy
figures taat e viii not amount t. any thing
like that what is claimed. He shows by
the following statement the benefits % Dee
derived from the producers coming to-
getbe. and actIn2 i'm harmony. Consequent
upon The enormous crop produced mn the
season 1Sgl-g2 "a cotton convention was h"id
i'm Memphis under the auspices ot the Ais
sissippi Valley cotton Growers ASsoeId-
ton The recent convention az Mont
gomery was eminently satisfactory To an
engaged i'm it, The express purpose OF this
&
duction % the cotton acreage. How well it
succeeded in it's effort history OF cotton
viii bear us out. a decrease nm acreage
followed the ensuing season %. - and 33
of .. l56. 439 an acreage that is larger than
is pIanted in any one state with the eN-
ception of Texas.
Thc Market Advanced.
pursuanr 10 the Memphis cotton
convention cotton advanced seven
tasD points i'm three DAYS. Pursuant
TO the Montgomery meeting cot
ION values advanced tWenty-Seven
point. Whether these two occurrences were
coincidental or whether they We're caused
directly or Indirectly by these farmers IN
convention assembled it is for the country
to Judge but TO my mind 1t IS pracucal
demonstration of a fact that the vibrations
~ tbe cotton market are as sensitive ana
r.sponsfye to the touch of a convention
of practical farmers as they are 70 lu'iiip-
uIatious Of metropolitan lahTS'
The dominating questions cohtoht'h9
~, f,r,,,ars FIRST is TO refute the inidul-
t,,s raports being sent out by uhsefupu-
-, ,.rsons and bearing down present
,,,iea. and. secondly, to cooperate AZ an
andnavor to again decrease the acIedae ~
plantinz. the same IN anu
home consumption crops ,5 r,t..
..o,,,r production encourages aho fosters
t,,1,tion and il should he the effort
-, Intelligent and patriotic citizen Of
.',,tb ~ enlist all the instrumentali-
ti. available TO resist tins current thdi
i,,.id;o,Islv day 10y day drifting us into
fine vortex of poverty and desttuuo"'
A. to the Visible supply
rhara is less visible supply on hand than
60. ,-.ars Mills have less on hand, people
have less clothes on account OF the en-
forced economy of hard times
The total visible supply of cotton in the
world IS % 20s bales less than in 1898, and
605,4l4 less than lS92
The currency and tariff questions are
virtually settled and all the indications at
present point to a speedy return of general
nrosperitv and cotton prices must natural
~ rule higher
I'VE are of the opinion that after all this
matter can only be accomplished by indie
pendent individual action, stimulated by
intelligent argument and l hall undertake
to prove that to a great extent it is the
oyer-productiono cotton in excess of it's
consumption that is causing the failing of
in values until it has reached that point
which makes it less than IAN possibly be
produced by southern planters.
They Net in Jackson.
lie concluded his address by saying:
1.-THE convention at Montgomery adjourned
to meet at jackson, Miss on the second
Wednesda in January 1895, when and whels
we will endeavor to go into a perma-
nent organization under the name of the
Southern Cotton Growers Protective Asso-
citation.
Tho various governors of the states will
be requested To appaoint four delegates
from each congressional district and three
from the state at large. The commioners
of agriculture We're elected vice presidents
for their respective states. 1 urge upon
all farmers and others Interested in this
movement to attend the meeting at Jack
son, as il is question of the SraVest I'M
portance to the common country"