The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-31
NORTH MISINFORMED
SECRETARY OF GINNERS' AssOCIA-
 TON WRITES LETTER.
Declares That Offer Was Mnte to As- sist in Every Manner Census Dee partments Work of Securing
 Statistics.

Dallas, Tex, Dec. 30.-The follow ing letter was issued today by J. H. Connell Secretary of the National Ginners' Association, declaring that the ginners and farmers are in accord with the census bureau in its cotton estimates:
 MT. North, in today's Washington dispatches, complains to Congressman Burleson, without cause regarding the disposition of the National Ginners' Association to destroy the work of the census bureau. Here and there form
 CTS are found who declare that the census cotton estimates have been hurtful to the growers in this. but no
 large organization of farmers have so expressed themselves as indicated in
 MT. North's statement. As Secretary
 of the National Cotton Ginners' Asso- ciation in session at Shreveport this month, I am prepared to state posi- lively that no criticism of the bureaus
 work was permitted to pass. though some severe strictures were offered for consideration.
 Just why MT. North should assume that 1t is the object of the National
 Ginners' Association to gather infor-
 nation regarding the amount of cotton produced in advance of the report Is beyond my understanding, and at vari- ance with the intention of the Associa- tion. There is certainly in the consti- tuition and bylaws of the National Cotton Ginners' Association nothing to justify the fear expressed by MT.
 North when he says: But I confess
 myself unable to follow the reasoning | which leads the growers and through
 them the ginners. to imagine that 1t will be to their advantage to destroy the system" etc.
 J. A. Taylor, the President of the National Ginners' Association, Is in At,
 lanta today, holding meeting of the ginners of that section, but l will quote his letter of December 27, ad- dressed to Mir. North from this office. | which will refute the assumptions con- tained in the communication addressed | to MT. Burleson:
 Dallas, Tex, Dec. 27. | $. N. D. North. Director of Census l Bureau, Washington:
 Dear Sir--As you will probable have
 noticed in the press. the ginners are | organized with a view of getting out
 q report for themselves similar to the | one you get out. We will use every | endeavor to make your report more perfect. We are having our reports | sworn to and think this will make | ginners more particular than they
 have been in their former reports. We | will ask for report at the same time
 and the two reports should agree. We. | as glnners, have thIs information and | will compile 1t and will benefit by 1t
 if we can. In regard 10 making our
 report public, I must say that we have
 no desire to do this ahead of you. We
 will be glad 10 arrange with you SO as | to work in harmony. l will try to | come to Washington in the near fu- | ture and talk the matter over with | you. Yours very truly,
 ]. A. Taylor.
 President National Ginners' Associa- | ton
 Mir. Taylor's letter cannot be mis-
 understood and it seems probable that
 the ginners' association can do much
 to improce the report put out in fu- | ture by the census bureau. Mir. Bur leson, the author of the act instruc- | ting the bureau to gather these cotton l statistics intends. according to Wash
 ington despatches of today to amend
 and amplify his original measures The constitution adopted by the na- tIonal ginners in session in Dallas re- gently suggests definite ways and means by which this may be done as stated in the four objects to be serv-
 ed by the Organization. All beary
 directly upon the statistiNal fIeld. that in no way injure the work by the census bureau. The four objects are:
 1. It shall be the object of this association to secure a full and com- pleta report of cotton ginned, field condition, acreage and amount un- sold at interior points for the informa- tiOn of gIuners and their customers.
 2. It shall be the object of this organization to gather these facts by q system of frequent individual re- ports made. and return the full report and meaning of these figures prompt Iy to every member of this associa- tion-
 B. It shall be the object to obtain information bearing upon cotton pro- duction in other fields. the con3ump- tion of cotton by domestic and foreign mills and the supply of cotton goods stored.
 I. It shall be the object to give the
 most reliable facts relating to the market conditions in the worlds cot ton centres.
 The ginners hope to see the most complete work done by the census bureau in behalf of the cotton grow CTS because a large percentage of the ginners are cotton planters and the
 gin customers interests are closely associated with those of the ginners throughout the South. While the gin ners will be first to benefit from an organization of ginners if properly de- veloped. the cotton interests of the South and the cotton markets of the world will receive substantial benefits. More complete information will do much to curb the speculative in fluences upon the cotton market.