The Port Gibson reveille., 1905-04-13
PRES. JORDAN
HAS RETURNED
FROM his TRIP OVER THE
SOUTHERN STATES.
WILL LIVE UP TO PROMISES
he is Confident That the Farmers
viii be True to Their Promises and
Bring About Heavy Reduction In
The Acreage. Preparing Statistics.

The Acreage. Preparing STATISTICS.
Atlanta, Ga.-After a careful study
Of the situation based upon personal
observation and official reports, Presi-
dent Harvie Jordan, of the Southern
Cotton Association, is confident that
there will be a heavy reduction in
the cotton acreage in the southern
states this year. AS is well known,
Mr.. Jordan has been in every state in
the south and besides he is daily in
receipt Of reports from the various
state organizations, in which it is
stated that the acreage is going to
be reduced. In an interview today
Mr.. Jordan says:
/ am confident in my own mind that
the cotton growers will this year live
up to their promises and bring about
a heavy reduction in their cotton acre
age and do not believe that they will
violate these promises. believe that
the wide discussion Of our present
problem will receive the intelligent
consideration of the farmers and that
they will measure up to the full re-
quirements of the situation which con-
fronts them. If on the first of June
when the cotton acreage statistics are
prepared, heavy reduction in acreage
is shown we will be in a position to
present to the business world the evil
dence that we have fulfilled our pledg-
es, which will inspire the confidence
Of the business world and give to the
cotton growers more respect than they
have had rendered them in manyyears.
In other words it will demonstrate the
ability of the cotton producers Of the
south to successfully handle business
proposition with the same degree of
success that they have for so many
years handled the question of produc-
tion.
The Southern Cotton Association
will also undertake this spring to pre-
pare statistics with reference to the
cotton acreage; and every man engag-
ed in the planting ofcot;on throughout
the entire cotton belt will be asked to
report his acreage for 1905. If these
reports are fully made, they will give
to the farmers the only true and com
plete statement Of cotton acreage that |
has ever been made to the south. In
order to make it complete It is abso-
lutely necessary that the organization
Of the association should be perfected |
in every cotton growing county or par
ish. If we do not have organizations
in all Of the counties and parishes,
then it will be impossible to make as
complete a report as is desired. In
order that we may know the truth and
know it at the proper time, it is imper-
ative that every farmer should take a
personal interest in this matter and
give to the association the benefit Of
all the cooperation in his power.
It is a movement directly in the in
terest Of the cotton growers, and if
they rally to its cause as they should
do, there can be no question but that
the wave of prosperity which we have
enpoyed during the last three Of four
years can be again set in motion and
for all time to come. The
cotton growers of the south have it
absolutely in their power to become
contented and happy. If
present conditions continue and even ]
grow worse, the cotton growers them /
selves will be responsible and cannot {
with good grace, place the blame for
their own acts upon the shoulders Of :
else. Every man who pro-
iuces cotton, no matter how small nor |
how great his acreage, is an important 9
factor in this movement. Certainly I
no man should plant the same acreage {
his year that he did last year upon t
-he idea that other farmers will de- t
srease theirs. Such man is not only t
IN enemy to himself but is an enemy c
% his whole country. No man ought
o be so hard hearted and selfish as to
want to take advantage to that extent
If his neighbors and 70 speculate the h
Of his own people. When he t
loes so he is guilty Of the same thing 0
hat he condemns in the bear opera r
ors in the cotton exchanges Of this Il
country. d
AT the present time general infor- G
nation coming to me from every cot il
on growing county in the belt indi- Ii
ates that there will be heavy reduc- II
ion in the cotton acreage, and it is e.
o be sincerely hoped that the farmers a
viii continue in their present deter el
and place themselves in a p
'osition within the next sixty DAYS Il
There they will be enabled to dictate til
VIII Remain Some Time.