The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21

| gated the efforts to produce cotton ir l foreign countries, that up to the pres
 ers ers time and such efforts have been Sts fail | there will ever come a time when for | eign- grown cotton can ever be pro | duced profitably in competition witt 1 American grown cotton.
 Our Asiatic Trade.
 | It Is confidently believed that tht I Panama Canal will be opened to tht | commerce of the high sees within ths next ten years. after which time. thS direct and quick trade relations witf the Asiatic nations in the far East. In China alone, more than 450,000.000 oi people are ready and willing to wear cloth made from American cotton. In Japan, more than 45,000,000 of people are equally willing to be clothed from American grown cotton. With the in- troduction of our trade relations with 300.000.000 of people. & crop of R0,000,- 900 bales of cotton can be consumed with the same ease as 1t Is now done civilized nations of Europe and Amer. ica.
 ing just ahead, only waiting for proper faSeSesl0pmnent fSS sop1n the time has eome when mere matter of production, but in the development of our agricultural re- sources. W emust begin to reach out to wider markets in order to meet the rapidly developing agricultural condi- tions of the South.
 Information and Cooperation.
 The principal motive power needed to advance and promote our interests are Operating in perfect harmony to reach correct solution of the problems which now confront us. This organi- ] through is the So Southern Cotton Associa. tion. and the prospect for success ,s particularly gratifying at the present time. The South possesses an abund- mi In the veins of her people courses the highest type of Anglo-Saxo blood; a race which has always been equal to riably accomplished every great object which 1t has undertaken. What the South needs, more than all things else. matters outlined above; Our people should know the plendid possibilities within their reach and how to develop come come when s the ees New South w viii take a on renewed energy and prepare to take It's stand in the front ranks of the foremost nations of the world.
 I have absolute confidence in the fu- ture of my country, and believe the time is rapidly approaching when the South will be the richest and most de- l everything which pertains to advanced agriculture, commerce. industrial actiV- ity and the highest type of citizenship of an educated commonwealth.
 MemDersnlP DueSs
 The annual membership dues are only 25 cents per member. The fixed income of the Association and of the various State and Territorial, County and Par ish organizations. Is to be maintined by an annual assessment of few cents on each bale of cotton produced by It's members in 1905. and a small per cent on the capital stock of its members en- gagged in other lines of business throughout the South. This system will distribute the burden of maintain ing the Association equitaply on all lines of business alike and enable the Association to safeguard and protert the great staple crop of the South from the depressing influences of foreign domination. Last December. without organized effort, the spot holders of cotton in the South were forced to sub" init to an actual loss of $20 per bale, and it was only after the great conyen- ton at New Orleans on January 24th and the creation of the Southern Cot ton Association backed by the united efforts of the farmers and other busi- ness interests in the South that the tidal wave of depression was checked. Since that time fully $25, ,0O0,OO0 in valu. have been added to the spot cotton held in the South. and this has been &C., complished in the face of intense oppo- sition on the part of the strongest com bination ever organized among the