The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-05

has to pay rent on land and stock and family. '''~ Is not this enough to drive our young young white men of the South away hands of the negro? The cotton held | Tn my country to a large extent is in .ne hands of men who can carry it a do 1t and buy up the scattering cotton from those who are obliged to selI7 | We should not allow another bale of cents %nite cotton Its to sell for less than bird in the hand is worth two in the push. Now we have bales in hand let us hold them. not burn them, but take good care of them and they rep resent $45 per bale should we act in good faith one to another. Would 1t not be folly to sell this cotton at the l present >price to raise still cheaper
 Cotton today is absolutely below the cost of production and can not stay there unless the holder acts foolish Now to sell one-half of the cotton held along through the year is just what would suit the manufacturer, but to stop selling entirely and to reduce the acreage is the thing for next year.
 only by eorp af how o fo do sba, sS we organize the farmers? Impossible in the required time. The best and only way is through the ginners of eQ. They. for the most part are practical business men and largely A class farmers whose interests are identical farmer. Then again, their number is not so great. He. as a rule, has more influence with his customers than any two among their number. His advice IS asked time and again each day du- ring the ginning season. He is in closer touch with them and knows better what they plant and how much they each will make than nine out of , ten.
 The plan of organization should be for one or more ginners to at once (don't wait for some one else to com ty in the South to call the glnners to- gether and arrange them into a Coun- ty lodge. These County lodges so formed can then call a general assem- delegate being allowed each County. and organize a parent lodge, who shall elect one President a vice-Pres dent Secretaries. The first duty of these County organizations should be to have each ginner see each of his cus- toners and urge them to hold their cotton for prices in some measure rA- munerarive and 25 per cent redlc- ton or next years crop, to find what the acreage was last year and what It to his lodge the number of bales gin- ned this year up to date. and the num- Der which he is likely to gin through out the balance of the season, also the number of bales ginned to that d3te on last year. and the total number of bales ginned last season.
 Each County should come prepared to the general assembly called, to fur duty would be for each ginner to find the area in his territory actually planted and the condition thereafter and report the same to the Secretary of his home order on the 18th day of each month until the first of Septem- Der, and then, in addition to the con- ditiou of crop should report number of bales ginned to date on the 1st. and 18th of each month until the end of that ginning season. Such infor- nation should be forwarded at once 10 who should find what was the cOndi- ton of crops and number of bales ginned to date in the whole South and return such Information adduced to each County lodge, and that lodge to its own members.
 The President, Secretaries and for their labor which expense could be met by each ginner paying $2 per year to the parent lodge and 50 cents to County lodge.
 practical? If the government can use us to inform the cotton speculator and manufacturer as to the cotton crop of the South, why not post ourselves and customers first? Some glnners will say, perhaps, Where is my, pay for all this trouble and expense% By placing a uniform and just price on customers ginning such as shall give him fair profit on what he does, and by giving the seed cotton buyer an insight into the conditions which he cannot otherwise obtain.
 Now, let the ginners take hold of this and see what can be accomplished
 I would be glad to hear from any and all ginners who either think well of this or who can suggest a better plan NJ. s. Pope, Gnner and Planter
 Humboldt, Tenn. R. F. D. No. 8.