Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-05-05

one important respect: they have won
the enthusiastic support of the Bank
ers association covering their territory.
which, by a happy coincidence-one of
those accidents that are made to hap
pen-was in session eontemporaneously
With h planters. Dollars and acres
are to fight In alliance. with social and
political prestige among the reserves.
The bankers, inearnest of their co-op<ra-
ton, appropriated $40. 900 for the nest
egg OF the cotton combines campaign
fund. No one who knows the depend
ence of the cotton growers upon the
money lenders can fail to see the sig
~niftcance of this, Any hint as TO acre
age or fertilizers. IL dropped by the
man who is finding the money, Is quite
apt TO receive respectful treatment al
the hands of the planter.
And this brings us again to the mat
ter In hand-the cotton campaign. Ev-
cry cotton patch Is 10 be listed, and,its
reduction of acreage apportioned. Ev-
cry cotton planter is to be urged-by
the colonel In the big house. and the
major who runs he bank-to join the
movement. Negro planters, like negro
passengers on the train, are TO have
a compartment OF their own. This is
all to be voluntary. AS the New Or
leans Times Democrat says: There
Is no way OF dealing with those who
refuse to come into this arrangement;
blu their names viii be known and re-
ported to the state and general organi-
zation.' Exactly; their names will be
known and reported. Those who know
the power OF united public opinion In
the south are not apt to regard this
liability TO 'be reported" as one which
the recalcitrant planter will incur too
lightly.
This program. the reader will say,
means a vast organization. Well. the
people who run things In the south are
organizers. Their plan is. TO quote from
fieir constitution: ITO evolve and
execute practical and efficient plans for
regulating production, securing mar
kets financing the products. and gem
orally supervising and advancing such
interests" The alliance with the bank :
ers. Will. 1t is exnected. enable the or
ganiZation to finance the products
even to the extent OF holding back from
market the 1000, 900 bales of surplus
on hand.
The convention was serious, and rose
superior to ~partisanship. "A governor
noted for his lac OF appreciation for the
president OF the United states was
darkly frowned down., and stopped In
the middle of an attack upon him.
Along the line OF securing markets.
the gathering "toed Rooseyelt's heel
marks on the railway question, and
sent q special committee to ask the
president for q message to congress on
the oriental cotton market. Altogether,
the association shows activity and en-
ergy TO an interesting degree.
The scheme adopted for generally
supervising" cotton production is, how
ever, the most significant, startling, orr
iginal and picturesque feature of the
whole situation. The constitution of
the association provides that There
shall be an inspector appointed from
each county whose duty shall be TO
visit each and every farm and gin in
his county, n make a report
monthly as to all matters recommended
by the national committee. Also TO re-
port the number OF bales ginned In his
county in the ginning season (.
TO the county executive committees.
this to the state committee, and this
In turn TO the national committee.
The Man on Horseback.
How the language renews the impress
sion of a great political campaigni The
county organizations by March had
completed the work Of inviting planters
TO join. BY the time this is printed
the conferences between borrowers and
lenders viii have settled the lines OF
credit for making this years crop, and
the piows viii nave begun to lay open
the steaming burrows. The mammies
and piccaninnies cease dropping the
seed and looked fixedly at tile man on
horseback who silences the mocking
birds song as he cones along the big
road" The planter salutes the man on
horseback. takes him about the fields.
explaining matters relating 10 acreage
and fertilization and rides with him to
the next ford. The mar on horseback
makes entries I'm his book ana passes
on. He is the Southern Cotton ASSOC
cations inspector on his rounds. The
plantation has experienced a visitation
from the combines mounted police,
the pools paid c~onstabulary. II the
proprietor is not ia line with sssaatte.s
recommended by the national commit