The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-15

develop the production of cotton in
parts of the world where the savage
may be turned into a cheap laborer.
Third. The constant draft being
made upon the labor of the cotton
fields by the ever increasing manufac-
lures of the South.
England and Germany. assisted by
France, Italy. Switzerland and some
other countries, threaten to become a
competitor in the production of cot
ton in their colonies. If we would con-
tinue to hold the monopoly we must
at once be up and doing. not only to
hinder the progress of the boil Vice.
vii, but to drive it out of the Amer
lean territory which it already occu-
pies. This much to save the fields of
growing cotton. We must also de-
velop immigration from Europe to the
cotton growing states. We must have
more people to replace those who
have been drawn by the new South
ern manufacturing interests from the
fields. In addition to these. we must
also find a way to supply our cotton
crops to the markets of the world in
quantities that are the average of pro-
duction instead of in the way of a
feast one year and a famine the next.
To stop the progress of the boil Wee
vii and destroy him. means appro
priations by the general government
that will be sufficient to employ the
best talent and to execute the means
which they recommend. l have no
sympathy with the complaint of those
who have heretofore been employed on
this subject that the boil weevil could
not be hindered or destroyed. We
certainly want to put men to work on
the subject who believe that the boil
weevil can be hindered and can be
| destroyed. The remedy against The
second evil is very simple. The scar
city that has come about in labor must
be remedied by turning white Euro
pean emigration to this country. The
third difficulty of offering the world
big crop, then a little crop and then
a moderate crop, and then a big crop,
| and so on. will have to be remedied
by devising a system or warehouses
in which the surplus of big crop may
be kept and carried over to a time
when it is necessary to supplement
small crop This can be done and it
| will be done. Cotton should never
vary from to 16 cents in any one
year. There is ample capital in this
country to carry stored cotton at
| fair rate of interest, and not have it
| vary 100 per cent. on speculative move
ments. Nothing is needed to do this,
and thus get averages instead of ex-
| tremes, except the facilities to put
| cotton in shape to be good bank
security"
Committee Appointed.
Tonight in the parlors of the Camdo
Hotel, the first steps were taken to-
wards the system and scheme of or
| ganiza ton recommended by the Ma
| tional Cotton convention, through the
! Wilson resolutions approved to-day.
| Chairman E. S. Peters of Texas, Sec
rotary 7. H. Connell also of Texas,
| and several other prominent members
| of the Texas and Louisiana delegation
were in the meeting. They agreed that
| the vice presidents of the respective
states appoint each an executive COM
mittee for each state and report their
appointment to the general secretary.
1t was further agreed that in each
state the state vice president and the
executive committee should proceed to
organize under the Wilson plan.
Mr.. Peters appointed as members
| Of the General Executive COMMITTEES:
Paul NJ. Potts, Natchitoches, La; O..
P. Pyle, Mineola, Tex; Stanley H.
Watson, Houston, Tex; j. A. B. Low
EFT, Brownsville, Ala, and Oswald Will
son, Fort Worth, Tex.