The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-30
ALLIANCE WILL AID.
In Securing II Cents
for Cotton.
President Graham Urges kllianCemen
to Pay the 3 Cents Per Bale. County
Divisions Of the Cotton Associa-
ton to Hold a Meeting.

Major w. A. Graham, of Macpelah,
president of the North Carolina State
Farmers Alliance, urges the alliance
men to pay the cents tax per bale
on cotton to defray the expenses of
the Southern Cotton Association and
has issued the following official COM
munication:
ITO the Secretaries of Sub-Alliances;
THE executive committee of the
Cotton Growers Association has
called for contribution of three
cents per bale for campaign purposes.
Please urge the members of your al
lance to pay the same promptly and
forward it to the treasurer of the as
ISOLATION.
Persons not members of the all-
ance but interested in cotton growing
should be also asked to contribute.
You can forward their money for them
if requested to do SO. Prompt action
is earnestly requested.
'Fraternally,
"W. A. GRAHAM, President"
Mr.. L. E. Parker, of this city, who
is secretary of both the State Ali
ancc and the North Carolina division
of the Cotton Association, has also
written a letter to the farmers, in
which the following paragraph rings
as though the bell has been struck:
1.-THE farmers are truly in the saddle
and if they will only buckle the girtn,
keep cool well-balanced heads, sit
steady and hold tight reins they will
remain there. 1t has been a long pull
but victory is at last in sight. Let us
welcome it and strike hands in closer
union and fellowship that we may
permanently retain its blessings.
To Meet October 18th.
Secretary Parker calls the various
county associations to meet not later
than October 18th, and read the adj
dress of President Harvie Jordan,
which has just been issued. At thes
meetings will also be emphasized the
importance of keeping the faith with
the great movement, and holding cot
ton for II cents. A copy of the ad-
dress accompanies each letter.
The address by President Jordan is
to the cotton planters, merchants and
bankers. The following, being the
closing paragraphs, is taken from it:
THE Southern Cotton Association
must be maintained and financed by
the farmers of the South. It's power
to protect the interest of the produc
ers is recognized and feared by all
the leading speculative and cotton in
terests of America and Europe. If
we go down in defeat the enemy will
be merciless and it will take twenty
years far the South to o,cover again.
Stand by the association and thereby
protect your individual interests. The
South is both mentally and financially
able to manage and protect her inter
ests from the dominating and devas"
tating hands of her enemies.
January the price of cotton
was depressed to six dents per pound
and the Southern Cotton Association
was organized at the New Orleans
convention, January 26, 1904, to bring
about harmony among the producers,
merchants and bankers SO as to adj
vance the price to ten cents per
pound. The world knows that through
this powerful organization the price
of spot cotton was advanced to ten
cents in the South on July 5rd, just
five months later. Not only this but
the assistance given the Bear opera
tors by certain officials in the United
States Department of Agriculture was
exposed through the efforts of the as
ISOLATION and the raScalS were prompt
ly turned out This work has already
saved millions of dollars to the South
and will continue to do so if foster ed
and maintained by the people. If
the South could advance the price of
a 100000 bale crop from s cents
to 10 cents, clearly it would require
but little cooperative effort to secure
not less than eleven cents for TO-
600, 1000 bale crop.
Let the people know the truth,
know the power of their strength and
then let them act promptly and the
victory for higher prices will soon be
won then their great staple will be
selling at it's real value to the world"