The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-01-24
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FORMED BY THE COT
TON GROWERS
TO be Organized in Every
School District in
oklahoma

ne NuilOn0l NollCl dsaoCtdtioiA II
the outcome Of a meeting of cotton
farmers and az allied interest at the
Natinal Convention in Shreveport, La.
December I215."
To bring together iEto one aso-
citation the farmers BANKERS, merch-
ants, glnuers. railroads. newspapers
and all allied interests for protection
and promotion of the cotton industry
The sonth can stop growing cotton
and then be p7osperus, but the spin
nor can't stop their factories nor the
world stop using cotton cloth without
bringing ruin and disaster.
It only requires systematic effort
with thorough organization Of al the
cotton interests to throw of the evils.
which are menace and make the
south the richest and most prosper
Gus section Of tho world
Organization.
The plan is for all the formers.
merchants aad bankers. both land.
lords and tenants. 70 form = school
precin1t cotton association at each
school house in each county al in the
southern states. elect chairman and
secretary and a committee on acreage
Reduction of Acreage.
The first step IS q uniform reduc-
tion of the cotton acreage in every
school precinct in the southern states.
spasmodic efforts in isolated cascs
will not avail
A decentralization Of the entire
souths prosperity is threatened. only
by united eyort can success be
achieved
Notices have been sent to every
county in TIE southern s;ates for this
purpose. Meetings hav. been held
and every mail IS bringing in signed
pledges ny the farmers for an aver
age reduction of 25 per cent in the
acreage to be planted this year.
Signed reports from Texes. Indian
territory. Oklahoma. Arkansas, Ala.
bama, louisiana. Mississippi anc
Georgia have recently been received
up to jim. 20 by National Secretary
Oswald Wilson. Fort Worth, Texas
The work must he pushed until ev-
cry farmer. merchant and banker
has been pledged to a reduction Of
ehc cotton acreage II you have nOt
held meeting in your precinct, hold
it at once and have every farmer. land
ford OF tenant. white or black. sign
a pledge to reduce his acreage from
that planted last year and appoint a
committee to visit every farmer mer-
chant and banker In your precinct
whl 10 not present at the meeting and
secure their pledge and send National
Secretary Oswald W iison. Fort Worth
Texas.
Agreement to Reduce Cotton Acreage
in 1ScJ.
We the undersigned cotton growers,
residing in school district No 49,. =,
voting precinct No. . ..... ........
conaty, .... state 90 hereby pledge
ourselves to reduce our cotton acreage
in the year 1905 to the amount set OPP
posite on. nomes.
We also call unon our merchants
and bankers 10 aid us in securing a un.
form reduction of Gotten acreage this
year.
Bankers Endorsement.
une hundred bar6eis in convention
at Houston. Texas, Jan. IS. 1905, unaa.
imously adopted the following rcsou.
ton
Secretary of the National Cotton
Associiion Oswald Wilson made
sho.t bat forcem tax before the
meeting to get the bankers to pass a
resolution looking TO manimity OF &c.
tioa throughout the country for a re-
duction OF cotton acreage.
A resolution presented by Mr. Levy
Of Victoria, with Appropriate remarks
was adopted as follows
Whereas The interests of the
south demand that an organized sys.
tematic effort be made to reduce the
cotton acreage to be planted this year
and for each farmer 10 adopt diver
siecatiou ana ,he cultural system Of
growing cotton, therefore 9e it
Resolved By the undersigned bank
ers OF district No. 1, That we indorse
the work OF the National Cotton asso-