The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21
COTTON ASSOCIATION
puusrDENT JORDAN MAKES
 ABATEMENT ABOUT TT.
It Stands for the SOuth's supremae' Commercially and Finaneiaiiy- Its Ways and
 Methods.
The following address Is issued to the farmers of the South:

The following address Is issued to the farmers of the South:
 The Southern Cotton Association stands for the South's Supremacy Si,r hSI, culturally, commercially and financially. The present effort of the Assoclatlon looking to the reduction of cotton acre age and use of commercial fertliizer, is merely an incident in the great Work which 1t was organized to perform. Ine principle object of the Association Is to unite in one grand business orSant sSants Eation the Southern farmers, merchantS bankers, cotton manufacturers ana III other allied lines of business to de- velop the vast resources or the nmy great Sreat staple crop-Cotton, at fair and prot- itable figure to the producers and coto ton milling interest of the count county the he building of cotton mills and bring apout closer trade relations between arS .nrS country and fSreign Tanips na.tpns' and a1a south American Republics, to seek wlder mar mar kets for the sale of our cotton ana cot- ton goods to the end that c4Hsufptp9a cons thp enl tended cotton production. To organize and perfect a cotton company Tor the pDotfon and oi it from wide fluctuations that are brought about py speculative influences. To encourage the building and maintaining of frst- class system of bonded warehouses; in which cotton can be stored at mini mum cost or encourage the proper stor
  crop may be marketed in such quan- titles as will meet the legitimate de. mand for consumption. To encourage so that it may go to market in the best possible condition and thereby bring to each grower its maximum Value. lo bearing upon tho production, manu1ac- ture and sale of cotton so that the pro ducer will be as well informed upon every phrase of the great cotton indus try of the world as those who handle the crop after it passes from the hands of the grower.
 Non AntaSOnistic.
 The Association does not propose, and will not antagoniZe any legltlmate line of business or industry carried on in the South. but on the contrary, US us lines of a higher development of agrl- culture, more extended building of fac- tories, wider. development of our con- strength. These are the fundamental underlying principles of the Southern Cotton Association. and in that or worR, tion of the entire agricultural, commer- cial and fnancial strength of the South.
 Organization Necessary.
 Organizakion of course, is one of the essential features of the Association be- cause without unity there can be no sociation throughout the various cots ton producing States and Territories, Is patented under the political form of the United States Government. The Asso- citation, in it's head formation. IS made up of representatives from the thirteen States and Territories producing cot ton; each State division is composed Of a representative delegate from each county or parish; each parish or coun- ty organization is composed of three Representatives from each civil sub division and each civil sub b-dtvision IS made up of the units Of the people. Thus we have a centralized organiza- tion, beginning from among -he people at the bottom and working through the counties, or parishes up through the state divisions and Forming the parent head-The Souther Cotton Association. The strength of the Association IS, therefore, obtained directly from the