The leader., 1905-04-26
PRES. JORDAN MAKES
AIN URGENT CALL.
COTTON ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT APP
PEALS TO PLANTERS.
Meetings Called for First Tuesday in
May for All Those interested in
Reducing Acreage and Retain
inc Cotton Surplus Until
Higher Prices Rule.

I
Harvie Jordan, president Of the
Southern Cotton Growers Assoc
citation, has issued call for meet
ings all over the South on the first
Tuesday in May Of the cotton
planters, and the merchants and
bankers interested in the cotton
situation, in order that reliable re-
ports from the proposed reduc-
ton in acreage may be made out
las soon as possible and turned in
to the central organization in each
county, parish and State. This is
the call:
Headquarters Southern Cotton
Growers Association,
Atlanta, Ga, April Is.
Bearish literature is being free
lily and persistently distributed all
lover the South in an effort to
create the impression that cotton
acreage and use Of guano under
cotton for 1905 will be but slight
lIy decreased. The people who
are responsible for these state
ments are either largely interest
/ ed in trying to depress the price
/ Of spot cotton in order to fill their
contracts sold for future delivery
at big profit, or they want a
large crop grown SO as to increase
| their revenues on handling the
crop. The wish is largely faith
er to the thought. !" Others have
mo faith in efforts of cotton grow
Iers to cooperate on a business
proposition and are doubling
i Thomases on general princi-
pies. Deeming it advisable
land important to have one
more general rally before
/ the end of the planting sea-
Ison, in order that the farmers
Imay assemble at their respective
county seats and discuss the situa-
ltion, ] hereby issue this official
call for mass meetings to be held
lat all of the county seats in each
zIof the cotton growing counties or
/ parishes on the first Tuesday In
MAY, 1905. The presidents and
other officers of the State and Ter
4 ritoIial divisions, and of the coun-
lty and parish organizations, are
4 hereby instructed and earnestly
requested to actively take steps
at once to advertise these meetings
fully, and secure good speakers
to address the people on the date
named.
i The above officials are also urg-
ed to secure from the farmers on
I that date an approximate percent-
lage of the reduction in cotton
acreage and use of guano under
cotton for 1905 in their respective
counties or parishes and report
the same through their States and
Il Territorial divisions to the central
association as quickly thereafter
as possible. If the general per-
centage in reduction is not suffi-
4 cient at that time to guarantee a
4 heavy curtailment in proportion
for 1905, the remedy can be APP
piled before it is too late by at
once planting a part of the lands
prepared for cotton in other
Ecrops. This can not be done after
4 the planting season is over. It is
absolutely Imperative that a heavy
reduction ID the cotton acreage
for 1905 be made and the food
supply increased. Any other
course will mean disaster, quick
and certain. Our enemies are
lighting hard and spending thous-
lands Of dollars to win ID this
struggle in order that they may
continue ID control of the pricing
land handling Of our great crop.
1.-The farmers have the situation alb
soIuteIy III their own control and
Twill either win on lose III the next
Thirty days. The officers and
members of the Farmers Educa-
tional and CoSOperative Union
land other agricultural organiza-
tions are cordially and earnestly
invited TO cooperate in the gal
flor these mass meetings. Oul