Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-03-15
the SOUTHERN COTTON ASSOCIATION.
President Jordan Makes Statement as to What
the Movement Means and rs Purposes.

President Jordan Makes Statement as to What
the Movement Means and lis Purposes.
Atlanta, March 8.--As many peo-
pie throughout the South are not
thoroughly familiar with the pur-
poses of the Southern Cotton Asso-
citation, President Harvie Jordan has
written an article which fully sets
forth the scope of the work which
has been undertaken and explains in
detail what is to be accomplished.
Mr.. Jordan calls attention to the fact
that the movement is by no means
confined exclusively to the farmers
of the South, but states that it is q
movement for the whole South in
which every line of business is inter-
ested. Mr.. Jordan's article is as fol-
lows:
WHAT WE STAND FOR.
There are thousands of people
who do not yet understand what the
Southern Cotton Association stands
for, who created the association or
what the association is now under
taking to perform. People in all
lines of business, farmers, merchants,
bankers, editors of newspapers and
others still have vague and indis-
tinct idea of the scope of this move
ment. Many people in all walks of
life appear to think that the Southern
Cotton Association is distinctively a
farmers movement to be operated
along the line of the old Farmers
Alliance, and Il which the interest
of other lines of business is only in
cidental to the immediate carrying
out and perfection of the resolutions
intr oduced and passed at the New
Orleans Cotton Convention January
"a to 26, 1905. The mind of every
man who entertains such opinions,
which are only partial outlines of
this great movement, should better
inform himself and begin to fully un-
derstand that the Southern Cotton
Association stands for no particular
class, that it stands for the solid
South and all classes in the South
that are interested in advancing and
promoting the future prosperity of
this immediate section of our great
Union. The original idea and inten-
tion of the Farmers Alliance was
good as far as it went, but unfortu-
nately it did not go far enough, was
not sufficiently broad and liberal in
its scope and among its tenets taught
antagonism and prejudice between
the farmers and those with whom
they had to deal. The result was
disaster even before that great move
ment became finally stranded on the
barren rocks of political upheaval.
The Southern Cotton Association
will avoid the dangers and pitfalls
which wrecked and ruined the efforts
of the farmers in the past and which
failed to enlist the active cooperation
and support of the business interests
of the country. The interest of the
farmer, merchant, banker and
Southern spinner are all joined to-
gether and the success or failure of
one is ir'erdependent upon the other.
We, therefore, must rise or fall to-
gether and no single class can expect
to succeed that undertakes to mo-
nopolize and jeopardize the interests
of the others. We stand for the SUI
premacy of the South agriculturally,
commercially and financially. To
succeed we must all join hands to-
gether to work in a { Nmon cause
for the attainment of a common end.
The cardinal principle of the AS
sociation is to safeguard and protect
the value of theIgreat money crop of
the South-cotton. Upon the price
Of raw cotton paid to the farmer de-
Dends not only the prosperity of the
growers, but the prosperity of every
legitimate business and profession in
The South.a BY the price of cotton
8 regulated real estate values, in