The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-25
HECTOR d. LANE ISSUES A LET
TER ON IMPORTANCE OF
CONCERTED ACTION.
PLANTER IS MASTER OF SITUATION
Statistics Shows That 7,000,000-B
Crop Brings as Much as 10,000,000-
Bale Crop-The Pesky
Cotton Bear"

Nashville, Tenn, Feb. 1S-Hector d.
Lane, president of the Cotton Growers
Protective association. made public today
the following letter of advice to cotton
planters:
ATHENS, Ala, Feb. 1S.-The time has
arrived when the farmer should be giving
the prospects of the coming crop the most
serious consideration. That the environ
ments of the cotton grower are becoming
inimicable to their interests each succeed
ing year is discouraging; that the methods
of the cotton exchanges are becoming
more inimical in character is evidence
that they are being conducted by men
who recognize no rights of legitimate
commercial interests, and unwillingness of
the southern planter to observe and his
willingness to submit to the scourge in
the hands of this reckless class of specu-
lative gamblers is encouraging them in
their pernicious methods is rendering him
pitable in the eyes of the world and sub
jecting him to the obliquy of being both
stupidity ignorant of his interests and ig-
ANONYMOUSLY servile in his forbearance.
"As is usual mt this season, the cotton
bear is again in evidence, hewing down
prices to very lowest NOTCH using all the
sophistry that his cunning can devise and
all the articles that he can so ingeniously
invent to hammer values down to less
than living prices. They are thoroughly
Indifferent to normal conditions and think
ii' aTh %, nv. nro Sow;nc the seed Of incipient
my uie no snId, j.; ivy which II ;s nm nm.
S Sol,ln"'''Sn ,'d ~ ,nmn+mroI crowth rhpv
knoMh a,it u uai'a'i cont cottnn and
' mouiI o,,tr;h,,+o tbo;, oct;ve aid in nress
Moui 1 Io,, to No .I Iomost noint reDordless
i nf Tho - ao snffer;nn and destitutioS that
-, u, Jne ,,,o,oI throm"bont the south nm
a nu" th;s - nond;t;on H This time last wear
ger TINS conutiG M t,s tt te NV 'i ;ndns.
t my Meio oironIa timo ronnrts that If was
t ti,oi ;ntso,t;nn of the southern cotton grow
az ome 20 ih' ;nnreaso the acreage. which they
cioo ~ omnorncod would result in n
sncetun' &c ~ Gnn mo or ID ono GOO hales
P ;In fab T nre again beinS circu.
lated lated Inv them in he hone of affecting
f t1u " Calves Tho Southern nlanter has
t teu ne ,ld 10 check these reckless despo
o ore p Of our nronertv Nv manly and intelli-
GENT action The onV remedy is to fight
tba devil with fire. meet organization
With orro nizntion Do not he led into
tho arror that Won can combat this mower
can NOT deceive the brokers who buy your
nrodnce. They have their emissaries in
every town and village, they are even
now scrutinizing YOUR actions and know
more Of the general conditions than you
can possibly find out.
"Destroy the annual surplus of cotton,
which is the active coadjutor of rhe cot
ton bear This can be accomplished
by increasing the acreage of food crops
and consequently the judicious diminish
ment of cotton acreage. You will be
better off with a 100000 bale crop sell
ing at 10 cents. supplemented by ample
food crOps. than a 10000, O00-bale crop
selling at 3 cents.
'The world spends about 1886, 900, 900
annually for American cotton. If we
make a 1000, OOO-bale crop they will run
after us for our products. If we make
n 10 OOO OOO-b hale crop we will fall over
ourselves to sell it to them.
"The 10000. OOO-bale crop of 1894 and
1895 brought the south in round numbers
5000. 600. 600.
'The 1000. OOO-bale crop of 1886
brought 5000. DOC. 600. demonstrating the
irrespective of acreage used for food
crops and the raising of live took.
"Our nrotection lies in reducing orr
ACREAGE We shall keen ourselves in
formed of cron conditions omount If
nrodnction. etc, throughout the cotton
area Then Inv svstemotic and iudi-
cious marketinS of orr cotton we realize
inestimoble benefits that can not ba So
cured nermonentlv otherwise II is ROT
orr desire To- inst;l nreiudice. nor do we
wish to re tho sontbern baart; ~ ,ny-
th;na other than n res;stanca 70 c "mS
mercial vandalism bnt we anne,I to The
shirt nf tha nnmtho mu we o. tpe'i ~ W..
W., M,.noua st .h &C. uiass vi eoiol' ~
cnmnaiiad ~ nno,,nn ii IN +bo oottnn wo %
and wish boort;ir +ha+ we 'o ,ouId w romsa
unu frnm, this inth u. VIZ o h i bn,,
Srowino 60 ;ns;d;omsiy that Il com Ia" bo ILL i'll
enoT 10 tho frao1imS man ana" who 'i liaS " down WIN
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