The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-02-17
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Broad constition Adopted by the
Southern Cotton Association.
PL \ A LIBERAL ONE.

w DSVSbOP LubA( Sodbus
II is Not Confined to Cotton
Growers Alone, but In.
vites all to Jeln.
We publish below the most promi.
nent sections of the constitution
adopted last week by the committee
Of the Southern Cotton Growers Asso-
i. citation appointed for the purpose. The
committee met in Atlanta and was
composed OF the following gentlemen:
Harvie Jordan, of Monticello, Ca,
president OF the Southern Cotton
Growers association; John Q. Gibson,
OF Port Gibson, Miss; j. A. Browne,
OF Chadbourne, n. O.; E. d. Smith,
OF Magnolia, s. c.; II. Y. Brooke, OF
Luverne, La; R. II. Dancy, OF Dallas,
Tex. Section one declares the purposes
OF the organization are:
1st, Systematic organization to pro
tect and develop the cotton and agri-
cultural Interest Of the cotton growing
states and territories. 2od. To regu
late, by all legal means cotton, corn
and grain production, diversitication
OF crops, stock breeding fruit growing
anu all such matters as pertain to ag-
riculture in said states aud territories,
Or the cotton growing counties and
parishes Of same. 3rd. To regulate, by
all legal means cotton supply and cot.
ton financing. 4th. To facilitate, en-
large, extend any systematize cotton
marketing, using every available
means to secure broader and more ex.
tensive markets, and to limit produc-
-ticn to demand at tremunerative prices.
5th. To reduce to minimum all ex
penses of handling and transporting
cotton and It's products, from the time
1t leaves the field until it reaches the
consumer. 9th. To promote, stimulate
and seek more varied uses for raw and
manufactured cotton. 7th. To en-
courage, aid and secure building and
operation OF c)tton and other manu-
faotories, throughout the cotton grow.
ing states and territories. S5h. To
bring together and in co operation al
the various )tton interests, cotton
manufactures and agencies, with a
view to such regulations, as will pro,
tect, stimulate and promote all. 9th.
To use all agencies and means which
Will improve, pcrft CT, enlarge and in.
crease all southern ports and the busi-
ness done at e6ch. 10th. To bring
before the proper authorities and use
all legal means to secure establish
ment OF decks in commodious and
available southern harborS for ship
building, ship repairs and naval sta
lions. l1th. To urge, encourage and
advance any all measures, which will
bring about commercial treaties be
tween the United States, China, Japan
and the entire eastern world, whereby
American commerce Is extended anG
new fields are opened to the pr1duc'
tion5 of the cotton growing states ana
territories. 18th. To further all
measures and evolve plans to turn te
the United States Central and South
American trade and for extending the
use of the products OF the cotton
growing states and territories as we'll
as those Of the entire union to the
people OF those countries. 18th. To
formulate policy, prepare plans and
get ready for the great opportunities
which will come TO tue cotton grow
!, ing states and territories with the
a03Ppebing Of the isthmian canal. 14th.
TO effectuate and make operative clos
er business relations between cotton
manufacturers and cotton producers,
and dealers In manufactured cotton,
whereby neither shall have their bus
mess interests jeopardiZel by sudden
and unreasonable depression in prices
or by unnatural and entirely spccula-
Tive advances In value Of raw material.
Neither OF which are based on supply
and demand. 18th. To mature plans
and methods for securing accurate sta
tistics from ginneries, private and
public, from cotton, manufacturers so
as to furnish correct inform alton as to
annual consumption, from farmers, so
rs to know general acreage, devoted,
from year to year, to any sp. G. tic ag-
ricultural product In the cotton grow
Ing states and territories; and for Sc
curing such other statistics as may be
or value to the general purposes OF
this organization. l6lh. TO prepare
and furnish to each ginner, under
sanction OF law. q uniform system OF
gin books, for use by all gins, private
and public, as will get accurate Infor-
nation from all such gins. of cotton
gfnned, from month to month, during
ginning season, with actual weight OF
each bale, SO that such wei nts may
be aggregated, divided by five hun.
dred, and the number Of bales given
b5 states and counties and territories,
or the fixed basis of five hundred
pounds each. 18th. To use every
proper effort to secure adequate con
stitutional legislation to put into folca
and effect, where necessary the meth
ocs and plans adopted by this organ.
ization.
Section two says no power given and
no duty provided in article one shall
be SO exercised or performed, as to be
violative OF the constitution OF the
United States, for any cotton growing
state, or the laws OF the Unite,
States, or any Of said states and ter.
ritories. Section three provides that
The organization and all OF its asso-
ciates, under its system Of state and
county and sub civil division OrganiZa-
tions, are and shall be non. political
They shall not CO. operate with any