The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-12-23
Reaelutiens Adopted Providing for the
Thoroush Organization of All Cot
ton Growers to Cooperate
With the Government in
sighting the WecviI.

Ming the delegates said: tnn !, =
IA WOULD BE A CALAMITY. tllCmse
S. The question that has brought In the
Sy3Tou hero to hold this convention is which
'inot one affecting merely the cotton ravageE
l3Er0wfDg region of the South It af tivatiol
Fleets intimately and directly the brough
awhole country. If the cotton crop or one of
s4tne South is to be DESTROYED by this Ing a c
sl}peat-lf the growth OF cotton as %.
commercial product In the South is to of crops
jceaso as the result of the invasion OF by man
4 th1B tnsect-it will prove world fuence.
wide calamity. 1t will affect ruin. mate r
Iously large commercial interests: IT, weevil,
AWlii anect disas trously every CONNER from tt
4elal 1 Interest and every line of trade complet
bne world over. More perha ps than may be
1any other sipgle product of the soil parties
{cottOn permeates and adjusts and RI o. matter
ealates the balance of the worlds It VI
{Ctade. ductiOn
LIS culture and harvesting. its nualy
preparation for the market, its trans year, 19
portablon 60 market, It's marketing pest, all
|Lcs s manufacture and the sale of ia on the v
iaDrlcs give employment to millions absence
.sSksssspeople IN our own country IT'S duction
speortaton abroad gives employ tors-G
many thousands OF ship sfderabl,
M sea1aring men, and It's follown
nun.ntnto cloth in foreign Of entoi
ianas a. OF such manufac. departm
8 t,,rs' a, - TO millions OF own expt
81 ,,an I'D ,,ornan thaar are beco
~ - ~ GAS merchanta bic is per syste
we'll. nigh Indispensable to tie e%Mstolgate Mo!g.a e
sfss.s trade. But moro than this. The
continued growth Of Gotten In these
Southern States see ms absOlutly In.
f7isnen GA hle.l s--2.5.Xpnca and
fegsnls to9s.se snss ano ena
- feF : I.Sence ITSELF OF the tpeo3ie or GI1e
x world. In the far greater part the
people OF. the world depend on cotton
fabrics with which to clothe them
~ selves.
OUR COTTON NEEDED.
''Their reliance is On the Southern
States Of the great American Repub-
lc for that which clothes tht m, for
here in the South we have the practi
cal monopoly of the growth of the
cotton plant Great effort and vast
expenditures OF treasure have been
made to develope its growth in other
.Fs regions of the worlds surface, but
without success.
THE cotton in the world grown
outside the United States has scarcely
an appreciable effect on the cotton
market. The eyes Of all are on the
South's cotton. What is the Ameri-
can crop going to be2 What the
price 1t will likely bring? These are
the questions men ask Of one anothc)
the world over.
''The South gentlemen Of the con-
vention, Is tho clothier of the world
Let Its crop of Gotten fail for three
years consecutively and the people OF
the world will go In raGs and naked
ness. Suppose, now az threatened by
this pest Of tie boil weevil, it fails
permanently; and what will the peo.
pie do for clothing? Wool and silk
and ramie fabrics Will not 60 round,
as staple articles Of clothing, to more
than third OF the worlds population
Are the people to go naked?
THAT is rot too broad q question
ft,a fr,t +, and nie tria
many years TO live in Mississippi and
share aovereipnty and duminion with
the negro, and we saw our insl itutons
crumblipg, we saw the civilization
that our forefathers had fought fer,
passing away and the law of self
preservation being the first law, we
observed it.. We rose In the majesty
highest type of Anglo Saxon man
hood, and t( OK the reins OF govern
ment cut OF the hands Of the carpet
Dagger and negro, and, so help us
God, from now on we will never share
any sovereignty OR domlnion with
him again."
THE BOIL wEEvIL.
An important address was delivered
by DR.. W. D. Hunter, of the bureau
of entomology, department OF agricul
ture at Washington, who has charge
>cf the boil weevil Investigations
which Is being conducted by the de-
partment. His subject was the Boil
Weevi Situation" He said in part:
''The ravages OF the boil weevil
have affected not only the cotton pro-
ducers OF Texas, as we'll as OF the
United States. but have alsO disturb
ed the general economic conditions
throughout tile south and have caused
disturbances In every quarter Of the
globe where American cotton Is used
in the factories 1t has caused every
person in the world. who uses cotton
In any form, to pay more for 1t than
formerly. The pest was first known
to occur in Texas in the vicinity Of
Bro sville about 1892. Since that
date it has advanced annually 40 O,
so miles, and there seems no proba.
Dtity tiint il will not . Tontually reach
erparts oil the south. where cotton is
6produced, If 1t docs not indeed reach
Spther cotton producing countries at
inPo,