The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29

of the convention and 1t is as follows: To the people of the whole South, the Southern Interstate Cotton Conven- ton. composed of 5000 delegates chosen by the people of the cotton NStatsg in county mass meeting assembled. Issues l the following call:
 Let the people of the cotton States assemble in the county seats of their respective counties on the 11th day of February. 1905. at 1 o'clock D m, and elect a county chairman and a precinct chairman for each school district or other smallest political subdivision of that county. On the 18th day of Feb ruary 1905, at 1 D. m., there shall be held a meeting of all citizens of every school district. who shall elect a com hnittee of three on acreage and mem- bership. This committee shall immedi- ately request the signature of every l cotton planter in that subdivision to a pledge to reduce his acreage 25 per cent. under the acreage of the previous | year.
 "The convention calls upon every l merchant and banker throughout the cotton, States to refuse to extend ! credit for money or supplies to any planter who does not sign the pledge to reduce his acreage. Tt calls upon the cotton planter of lthe South to hold his cotton on his own farm, steadfastly refusing to sell 1 for less than 10 cents a pound at the ports of Galveston. New Orleans. Mo- bile. Savannah and Brunswick and Charleston. e...
 | Tt calls upon the planters of the Cot ton Belt to cooperate with the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Az Iriculture by furnishing through the | fn ta. sioner of Agriculture. accurate and re. iliabIe statistics of the cotton crop. and it further calls upon the Commission. CTS of Agriculture to transmit the same to the Chief Statistician of the Depart, ment of Agriculture.
 Tt calls upon every Southern Con- sressman and Senator, and upon tht President Of the United States, to uss
 every effort and to spare no endeavol to open to our commerce the markets of Sot th Africa. China and all the coun' tries of the world, and to that end ad. yocates an increase of the navy.
 Tt calls upon the planters of the South, finally to diversity their crops to make cotton a surplus crop, and tC I place themselves out of reach of tht lone-crop evil" .,
 This is the action of the convention in a nutshell and should be carefully read and digested by every one inter
 ested in the subject.
 The Waco plan which provided fol county meetings on February II, to SC. Iiect a cotton shed committee of three persons in each County. One farmer
 one merchant, one banker, these to sci apart a certain piece of ground and obtain agreements from every planter in the county to place all of his un- sheltered crop on that piece of ground
 where 1t could be protected from the elements and held until the price fixed | by the convention had been reached Thirteen men were named to meet in New Orleans on March 1S to formu- Il late plans for the future, N. P. c. Hard- ing being named for Alabama. A minority report signed by W. D. Nes-, bit W. H. Seymour. T. B. McNaren of Alabama. and the members for Geor- gia and Mississippi was presented, and all that part of the report was tabled except that providing for a meeting of committee here on March 13, Ala bama voting solidly to table.
 Two other important resolutions
 were adopted. One was that land own CTS should accept corn, wheat or oats
 at market price for rent of land, the
 same as cotton, provided the renter Is willing to reduce his cotton acreage
 and plant these other crops. The other creating the place of in' spector for each county, who will seC that the provisions adopted here art enforced and make reports of the cotton lginned
 Thus have in a few plain words pre- sented the action of the convention
 and what is expected of our people ir Icarrying out and making effective the plan of the convention.