The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-07
HE VISITS MONTGOMERY
Prominent Grower Here to
 Confer With Mir. Poole.
President of National Cotton Associa. tiOn Declares that Intelligent Agitation Will Save Indus
 trial Supremacy of
 the South.

Col. E. s. Peters. of Calvert, Texas, President of the National Cotton Asso- citation. fresh from a conference with President Harvie Jordan of the South ern Cotton Growers Association, in Monticello, Ga, was in Montgomery yesterday to enlist Commissioner of Agriculture Robert R. Poole in the war on the bear cotton speculators of Wall Street.
 Colonel Peters had long conference with Commissioner Poole in his office at the Capitol He Is one of the wealth. fest and best informed cotton planters iE the South.
 Never in the last fifteen years has there been such agitation over cotton in all the States as there Is this year, said Colonel Peters to a representative of The Advertiser. T can see but one result: there is going to be a universal reduction in cotton acreage next year The tendency all over the cotton grow ing States Is to hold to the staple"
 Working With a Will.
 colonel Peters is perhaps the great est co-laborer that President Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Growers As sociation. has in the momentous cam paign for higher cotton prices that is hO" beiuS "dScu tOIn men, Tor the past several weeks, by personal influ- cree and through the press, have sound ed far and wide the warcry of the bat tie for the industrial supremacy of the South.
 Wonderful progress is making to- wards the establishment of higher cot ton prices, If the experienced word of Colonel Peters Is to be counted at this period. He predicts a remarkable de- monstration for the convention in New Orleans. He has just come from an ex- tended trip to Atlanta and other parts of Georgia. He is sanguine over the conditions of banks and merchants in that State and believes that there will be concerted action on their part to carry on the gigantic plan of holding cotton and reducing this years acre age.
 As for his section of the country. Col onel Peters speaks confidently on the cotton situation.
 Oklahoma Territory and the State of Texas" said the President of the National Cotton Association, "are we'll organized. The determination of the planters there to hold their cotton and reduce the acreage this year Is certain ly to be counted on.
 Tn Texas the State is pledged to two cardinal needs for salvation, holding to 1904 cotton and reducing the acreage for 1905 by 25 per cent. And the way they have done 1t and are doing 1t is by subdividing the State according to school districts that already exist.
 Meet at School Houses.
 "In the school houses of all the dis tricts the cotton farmers are meeting and registering their VOW to not turn loose their cotton on hand until better prices are obtained and to reduce this years acreage not less than 25 per cent"
 This "school house plan" as 1t is de- nominated in Texas, in the main will be presented to the cotton growers con- vention in New Orleans January 25, 26 and 27. Colonel Peters will present this plan at that convention. The chances are that 1t will be copied in all the States.
 The conference of Colonel Peters with Commissioner Poole yesterday signifies the 'horoughness with which the officials and cotton planters of ev- cry cotton State are being canvassed to arouse interest in the coming New Orleans convention. The aid of every Commissioner in the Cotton States has been solicited. Commissioner Poole named the fourteen delegates to the big gathering from Alabama Thursday.