Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-20
THE FARMERS IN CONVENTION
THE MEETING OF THE FARMERS
CONGRESS- HERE YESTERDAY.
Organization Elected Mt the stock
yards HoteI-A Large Enrolment.
senator Bowscr's state BOARD of
Agriculture Bill Endorsed.

l HOgidlt tullbI VI viz OWN anu
Journal, called the crowd in the hotel
to order and announced that the Far
mers congress would be organized.
on motion II. j. Caraway of Parker
county was made TEMPORARY chairman,
and d. o. Lively temporary secre-
tary.
The chairman in a forcible manner
announced the necessity of organiza-
ton by the farmers of Texas The over
production of cotton was the bane Of
/ agriculture, and it now behooves the
farmers to cooperate and seek u rem
edy for the existing troubles. He cali
ed for an enrolment OF names and
there was very general response on
the part of all who were present.
The following COMMITTEES were APP
| pointed:
Revolutionary. f.. Bradley of Fam
min, w. A. Verbs of Plano. j. A. Cot
tingham Of Kopperl, $. NJ. Haynes of
| Handley, J. A. Bailey of Bonham,
on rules and declarations of purpose
Hector d. Lane of Alabama, j. II.
/ Garner of Midlothian, NJ. Samson of
Alvarado, Thomas i. Mastin of Grand
view, w. ID. Coleman OF Mckinney.
on permanent organization-W ID.
| Stevenson of Oenaville, NJ. Hart of
Cleburne, j. II. Nichols of Mans
field.
The committee on resolutions re-
ported that they recommended. the
adoption Of the resolutions passed by
the American Cotton Growers Assoc
citation at jackson, Miss. January
and is. 1892.
The committee on declaration of
purpose reported:
We, the committee, adopt as the de-
claration of purpose the rules. by
laws and articles of the American Cot
to Growers Protective Association
adopted at Jackson. Miss, January
and 10, 1896, as u declaration of pur-
pose to be adopted by this congress.
The committee on permanent organ
izatlon reported that the temporary or
ganlzation be made permanent.
Senator o. z. BOwser's bill creating
a state board Of agriculture was dis
cussed by Mai A. j Ross state com
mioner OF agriculture; y. l.. Huffman,
ID. o. Lively, Il. S. Peters and others.
and on vote being called was the
dorsed by the congress.
The following letter from Senator
Bowser was also indlrsed:
In my humble opinion the various
cotton growers conventions have failed
To prescribe remedy that would give
any material relief. Even II their rec
concentrations were generally adopted
by the southern planter the relief would
be slight, and then only temporary.
The question IN both broad and deep.
The entire system OF southern farming
must undergo a change In order to
adapt Itself to the changed conditions
winch confront us at the close Of the
nineteenth century.
Our southern people have been drift
ing along under the deluslon that cot
ton was King and could never be de-
throned. totally unconscious of the
rapid Increase in It's production in
other countries, where labor was cheap
er and where the great bulk OF manu-
facturers were most interested. They
have neither sought or been furnished |
with statistics that would, IL possessed |
nave warned them years ago OF the dis !
aAters that awaited them. / insist thut /
had the southern planter been furnish. !
eu WIN reliable data and statistics af- |
nished his more favored brother i'm
the northern and eastern states. re-
sarding the farm products OF those
sections, by the bureau Of information
OF the United States government. he .
could plainly have seen 5-cent cotton
ten years ago, and the result would
nave peen that our southern people
would nave TO some extent prepared
themselves for the changed conditions
rms, OF course, could only have bear
done by dlyersifying crops. which. To-
he profitable, must have with it DIVERSE
fled industries
\ commission appointed by the rer-
eral government 10 gather reliable data
OF the worlds production Of cotton
WIN fatlo OF Increase, Is far more i'm
portaht than a monthly report Of the
heAds crop. In my opinion It Is not
. .ne Anleilcan crop alone that has so
Sei lousiy aiected the price OF cotton.
IN determining the present condition
or future OF any product entering large
INTO the export or import trade. ns il
tne case with cotton, one must ronsIIa,.
me supply and demand of the worlds
Pruuuct OF the raw material in the va
tous cotton producing countries: also
articles ''''"ul"ctureu
Ratio of Increase or decrease in ,ba
cred N'9' De conslu-
The popular opinion has besn tho,
ahe cotton planter Of our southern
production of the world Tbia o r2oton
IA mas been shared in by most Of our n 'r
nc men, II not by many of our noiita
economists. While this theory r,n',
,Ia,, neen correct in the past, the ones
NH, Vii Il, y, ls II true now? And how far
mi S1PFiS IA tle future?
nus ms 49, vital question and NAV ba
t ibdaIst with far more danger than w y
Mhlle cotton furnishes about o,o
~ op't tI OF the value of the entire exnort.
O oa me United States, 1t has been sadif,
n,rsi'eg!ed by the national buraaT ~
S, ,,,.s While reports from tbot
,,,an Sau furnish us with full data Of H.
,,.l supply and demand ar air, en
u ,r article OF use to man. even ~ ~
h,,t insignificant value, il has e,, ,ae
,,roa niue data on this most irnnnrta,,t
nuos,1o, so that, in dealing win The
~, ION, one must depend lareeiI I'm, ,t,s
on ar tG.rn ,i by the press and draw
VI zines umes memory for that data ui""
s,a sland' France, Germany ana pu.
80 80. are an making desperate essort tsus-
on themselves from their dependenco
mi mi america for their cation s,,In,ii'.
exe sg are and Of late years have been
tvhh M every influence to st,n,, vfen,
nro, p,,a,ouuetlon OF cotton In their n,,,,,
eonnt,gts and the cotton producina
ci Je,.rles with whom thew nrc u ,liis
ints.Iy related by commercial ond t tIioSt
he br. A Those who are famiIIsr g dt
mentg us,. mess methods OF those gov @rri
forts ,, hhow full wen what tbose ~
sentirD nsan, There is no political nart,,
fba '' n,sh allowed to enter into ap pa'ey
NJ puoIIc policies Of thosa any OF
lututN, 1hQt- u NAbHt kOkern- !