The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-05-17
What The Southern Cotton Association
Stands FOr2
INFORMATION AND COOPERATION.
(BY HARVIE JORDAN.)

L 'ANAaNtN SiNb
/ The principal motive power needed
to advance and promote our interest
are splendidly equipped forces, oper-
ating in perfect harmony to reach a
lscorrect solution of The problems which
now confront us. This organization
among our people is being sought
through the Southern Cotton Associa-
ton, and the prospect for success is
particularly gratifying at the preseut
time. The South possesses an abun-
dance of brain, energy and manhood
In the veins of her people courses the
highest type of Anglo-Saxon blood; a
race which has always been equal to
every, .emeggaTGX laud. &5icb has jD-
ject which it has undertaken What
the South needs more than all things
else, is information with reference to
the matters outlined above, our people
should know the splendid possibilities
within their reach and how to develop
their great resources. The time has
come when the New South will take on
renewed energy and prepare to take its
stand in the front ranks of the fore
most nations of the world.
have absolute confidence in the fu-
ture of my country, and believe the
time is rapidly approaching when the
South will be the richest and most de-
sirable section Of this great nation in
everything which pertains to advanced
agriculture, commerce, industrial ac-
tivity and the highest type of citizen
ship of an educated commonwealth.
MEMBERSHIP DUES.
The annual membership dues are onIy
25 cents per member. The fixed income
of the Association and of the various
State and Territorial, County and Par
ish organizations, is to be obtained by
an annual assessment of few cents on
each bale of cotton produced by it's
members in 1904, and small per cent
on the capital stock of it's members en-
gagged in other lines Of business through
out the South. This system will dis
tribute the burden of maintaining the
Association equitably on all lines of
business alike and enable the Associa-
tion to safeguard and protect the great
staple crop of the South from the de-
pressing influences of foreign domina-
tion. Last December, without organ
lied effort, the spot holders of cotton
in the South were forced to submit to
an actual loss of $4,000 per bale, and it
was only after the great convention at
New Orleans on January oath and the
creation of the Southern Cotton Asso-
citation backed by the united efforts of
the farmers and. chher,ri ih'ssiitalsesss 'sitalsess oipters
depression was checked. Since that
time fully twenty-five million dollars in
value have been added to the spot cot
ton held in the South, and this has
been accomplished in the face Of in
tense opposition on the part of the
strongest combination ever organized
among the bear element of the cotton
interests of the world.
The Southern Cotton Association will
gladly cooperate with all allied organ
izations seeking to advance and pro-
mote the general welfare of the farm
ers in particular and the business inter-
ests of the South in general. 1t will
antagonize only those Interest," antag-
onstic to the general welfare of our
people. The Southern Cotton Associa-