The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15
FARMERS WILL BUILD
 WAREHOUSE IN WEST END

| of the meeting. He said that he had worked over thirty-hve years for the organization of the Southern farmer. He | had been associated with the Grange and Alliance but never before have the . farmers sht wn more disposition to get l together than they are under the movement of the Southern Cotton Asso- ciation. Still this organization is far from being perfected and he declared that never would tho organization come up to the aims for which 1t is working until money was forthcoming sufficient to build warehouses to be owned by the growers.
 He held that before the Southern Cot ton Association could succeed 1t would also be necessary to have set of iron. clad rules and regulations and a head with power to enforce them. He point ed to the naming of a minimum price of this fall and yet so powerless are the executive officers of the Association that they are 1ot controlling the mar ket but on the contrary it is on the de- cline because the speculators still hold sway.
 wall Street." he said. "fs selling 10. titious cotton to the extent of s00,000 bales on some days while we, who raise the staple here in the South are selling only 40.000.",
 Warning ef Mir. BrasselI.
 Thts was characterised as an absurd performance but nevertheless true Mir. Brassell also warned those present to beware of the distress cotton because so long as there is a steady movement even of the negro's production 1t would help that much in filling the delivery orders. This would, of course, tend to keep prices dcwn. He appealed for an organization that would absolutely hold kA AA prics
 Mir. Gay and Mir. Seymour.
 MT. Gay and Mir. Sey nour followed next with speeches ,xplaining that the Southern Cotton Association took cog nizancc of the need of warehouses in It's constitution. MT. Gay told of the prog sss the Georgia farmers are mak- ing ir erecting these warehouses and even in organization of banks for the purpose of getting reasonable interest rates on money borrowed to hold cot ton.
 Mir. Seymour, in addition to the re- marks attributed to him already, urged the farmers to be Iaticnt with the or ganizaion work that is 6 ping on in the ranks of the Southern Cotton Asso sia- tion. It Is not the natter of a years labor or two years labor, but of a much longer time. He said that If any member b slitves that the purposes out
 
 years and Is wedds ed to the idea the sooner hc gets out of the org anizatton the better it will be for the whole South
 At the end of Mir. Seymours eddrees W. D. Sayre arose and sifd that he ton which will be held in the county until II certs can be obtained. W. R. Sawyer, of the office of State Auditor. was the last speaker. MT. Brassell referred to the dark conditions of the Western farmers about ten years ago and told of how. since then, they have worked out their salvation by perfecting organization. The way they did 1t was Ito interest themselves directly in grain elevators so that sufficient numbers of them were controlled by the growers to control the market. They are also now becom- ing owners of many of the flour mills, and have passed forward so far that the good will of the banks has been won and money at low rates Is ad- vanced to conduct an unfailing holding campaign when fair and just prices are obtained for their produce, The aggressiveness of the Western farmer was compared with the lethargy of the cotton grower all over the South. The speaker declared that ownership of warehouses was the only means of emancipation for the South ern farmer. His plan contemplated | the organization of stock companies where the houses are needed and the subscription to the stock in the major- ity by the growers. The subscriptions would be canvassed all over the coun- ties to be benefited, and could be based | on the proportion of the numbers of bales to be stored by individuals. MT. Sawyer counseled his hearers to look on the work already achieved, | and the work to be done with an en- couraging eye. He has for the past year hoped for the success of the l movement, but the results at this stage have been far in excess of his expec- tations. He characterized the move- ment of the Southern Cotton Associa- tion as the greatest undertaking in the South. He believed that if 1t fully | succeeded it could easily be placed at the head of all achievements in the United States, for 1t has been so many years that the Southern farmer has been robbed of his deserved profits. He appealed to men of all vacations to lend their support to the movement. After Chairman Brassell of the ware house committee had announced the names of his associates, the meeting ad- journed