The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
FARMERS CAN WIN
Sec. Parker Says: "HoId
For 10 Cents.
Mass Meeting Of Cotton Farmers Will
Be Held in Every Southern State.
Remedy in Hands OF
Farmers.


gram just received explains itself:
"Greenville, Tex, Dec Z, 1904.
| T. B. Parker, Raleigh, N. c.
Mass meetings called on the 18th
in every county in Texas, Indian Ter
ritory and oklahoma to hold cotton,
Suggest you call meeting in N. &. for
same purpose. Texas will hold.
(Signed) e. S. PETERS,"
To the above / replied: Similar
meetings will be held in every county
IN N. &. Our farmers will hold their
cotton.
T.. 3. PARKER.
| Therefore / suggest the cotton farm
ers in every cotton growing county in
the State assemble in mass meeting
at their respective court houses at l.
o'clock. on Saturday the 18th - take
action in regard to the very low price
| to which cotton has dropped.
| The remedy lies in the hands o. tine
! farmers themselves. With will power
| backed by determination TO not sell
another bale of cotton within the next
so days. and not then for less than -
cents per pound, victory will he theirs
| and good instead of starvation prices
will be in sight.
There have been only about $780,
| 900 bales of the present crop sold.
therefore the buyers have not the sit
1
mand at the very lowest estimate l.
| 800, 200 bales more. and will take them
at good prices provided the buyers con
| not scare our farmers into selling at
low price.
There is no denying the fact there
has been a large crop made. Every
| thing has been favorable to a maXl>
mum crop and unless the farmers
come together and lake n firm stand
we will see still lower prices. But with
| prudence and firmness the low water
mark has been reached.
1t is not the amount of cotton that
| has been put on the market that has
/ depressed prices but the big crop that
/ is in sight. The buyers are depressing
prices on prospects; figuring that the
cotton has been made and must be
sold They know only too we'll the
farmers disposition to sell but let us
for once show them there Is limit
| in price beyond which we do not pro-
/ pose to go.
There has never been a more favor
t able time for the farmers to hold their
cotton than now. They are fairly we'll
/ out of debt and have better provision
crops than ever before. Besides. the
merchants. manufacturers, and every
class of our citizens, except the cotton
bears" and we have goodly number
| of them whom we are under no oD1-
=
night for better prices.
The present low price is not blow
that falls on the farmer alone, but VIII
affect every class of our people from
farm hands to bank presidents. The
farmers are simply the distributors or
this great aggregation of wealth that
rightfully belongs to the South. From
them il goes into every channel OF
trade and into every avenue of bust
ness When the farmers fail to ge
the money they cannot distribute ii
hence all suffer. The real alert busi-
ness people know this and are willing
to stand by us in this fight and give
us their sympathy and assistance II
necessary.
VIII we be men. standing for our
rights. our homes and our loved ones
or will we be pigmies crouching be-
fore a set of tyrant's asking for mercy
at their hands, when they have no
mercy? Away with the thought be
men. true men standing for your
rights. Remember the days of the jute
bagging trust and see what determlna-
ton and firmneSS accomplished. Re-
member the "Edenton Tea Party ana
the Stamp Act in Colonial days, ana
act accordingly. The time has come
when we should come together as one
man LAYING aside prejudice, if we have
any, and take a firm stand. Meet ut
voIlr respective court houses, pass res
buttons in regard to prices and hold
| ing a part of the present. crop and
take steps to reduce acreage next year.
Then stand by these resolutions. AL
vour county meeting arrange for town.
Shin meetings so as to enlist every cot
TON farmer. Get them all to become
interested and take part in the meet
iups After your township meetings
have another county meeting Have
your secretary notify me at once of the
action taken at your county meeting.
| If necessary a State meeting Will be
called later, but the thing TO 90 now Is
TO get your county in good shape. Let
every reader of this attend these meet
inps and get his neighbors to go also.
l. The prosperity of the South largely
! depends upon our acton IN TINS mat
! ter -, r.
meeting.
mn SErDITRyOES COEfRT