Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-03-31
INVESTIGATION
Something to Sell Every Day"
BY OSWALD WILSON Secretary National Cotton Association
The National Cotton Assoclatio

The National Cotton Association,
which was organized at Shreveport,
La December IA, 1904, was last week
dissolved at Fort Worth and its work
merger into the Southern Cotton AS
ISOLATION, which was created by the
New Orleans Convention January rs,
1905. Col g. S. Peters, of Calvert,
Texas, and Mr.. Oswald Wilson, of
Fort Worth, were the president and
secretary, respectively, of the Ma
tional Cotton Association.
The merger of the two associations,
which eliminated at Fort Worth, un-
der an agreement which was entered
into by Col e. S. Peters, president OF
the National Cotton Association, and
Hon. Harvie Jordan, president Of the
Southern Cotton Association, was the
outcome of negotiations which have
been pending along this line for the
past few weeks. The Southern Cot
ton Association is now fully organized
in all the States east Of the Missis-
sippi river, and in taking up the work
which has been heretofore carried on
by the National Cotton Association,
west of the river, it is confidently pre-
dicted that within very short time
every cotton-growing State and ter
ritory in the South will be thoroughly
combined under its splendid system of
organization
The merger is very gratifying to
the officers Of the Southern Cotton AS
ISOLATION, in view of the fact that Col.
q. S. Peters, who was president Of the
National Cotton Association, is also
vice-president of the Southern Cotton
! Association, and who will now have
active charge of the work of the lat
tcr association west of the Mississippi
river.
me consolidation Of the two asso-
citations will avoid any friction in the
future and eliminates confusion which
has existed in the minds of the bust
ness people with reference to the two
organizations, both apparently work
| ing to the same end. The Southern
Cotton Association looks to the COM
| bined organization of the entire peo-
pie of the South, including not only
| farmers, but every allied business in
terest. The great object of the South
| ern Cotton Association is to protect
and safeguard the cotton crop of the
South from the devastating bear raids
which have so often financially de-
pressed the price Of the staple in the
| past
The South's supremacy, agricul-
| turally, commercially, industriously
and financially, are the four great
planks in the platform of the South
ern Cotton Association, and in the
success Of its work, the association
| calls to it's aid and cooperation not
only farmers, but every merchant,
banker and allied business interest in
the South.
The success of the Southern Cotton
Association has been very marked in
all of the old States east of the Missis-
sippi river and in Arkansas. There
can be no question that the entire
business and farming element in the
great State of Texas will quickly take
hold of its movement and in the near
future it is confidently predicted that
the membership of the association will
exceed in Texas the membership in
any other State or territory through
out the cotton belt. The consolida-
ton of the two associations guaran-
tees perfect harmony for the future,
and indicates more than all things
else, that the officers of the two as
sociations are more deeply interested
in the success of the people of the
South than any advancement of the
personal interest of any particular as
ISOLATION. The president of the Texas
Association, Mr. r. E. Smith, of Sher-
man, will be supplied with an abund-
ance of literature of all kinds needed
in the country and civil subdivision
organizations, and each county can
secure all the supplies needed by
writing to the State secretary, Mr.. w.
C. Hutchinson, Dublin, Tex.
The department of publicity west of
the Mississippi river will be under the
direct management of Col. e. S.
Peters, vicepresident of the Southern
Cotton Association, whose headquart'
ers are at Calvert, Tex.
The entire press of the State and OF
the South, is earnestly requested to
aid the movement in every way pos
sible and the officers of the associa-
ton beg to convey their high apprecia'
ton at this time for the splendid in
terest manifested by the Southern
press and the. great and valuable aid
which has been rendered the move.
} ment through that source up to the
, present time.