The Rice belt journal., 1905-09-22
HOLD THE COTTON
OFFICERS OF TEXAS FARMERS
UNION ISSUE LETTER.
.FLA77ERINC PROMISES MADE.
concert of Action Is Necessary for the
Protection of the Cotton
Interests.

To the Cotton Growers Of the Farm
ors, Tnion. We wish to briefly give
Won the action of your executive COM
mittee in regard to handling the coI-
ton crop.
After fully considering tn" cotton /
eituation from every standpoint, your ,
state officers and executive commit !
tee agreed that lie minimum IS
fair price for cotton, below Wnicn II
should not be sold by any one aDIe 10
hold it, and we have made arrange
ments to help YOU hold and carry IT,
This reasonable price of lie has Deen
accepted by the unions OF Georgia
Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, North
Carolina and Oklahoma, and by the
Southern Cotton Growers Association
at their Asheville meeting, and we
and they the now pledged to stand
by each other. and we must not fail.
Concert of action will bring you
this price and more if you choose 10
ask 1t and hold for it. We know the
crop is going TO be a small one; that
trade conditions are better than ever
known and that goods are high. Wool
has advanced more than 100 pr cent
in the last three years; and the
WOODEN goods market is no better
than the cotton goods market.
Those of us that you have elected
n look after your business interests
have bestowed much time and thought
in making arrangements to carry out
the plans we recomm md. A selling
agency has been provided, and for al
most the first time in our history we
are having some say as to the prlce
at which we will sell our cotton. This
agency has outlet direct to splnners
and expect that a good deal OF your
cotton will be sold without the hell
of two or three or dozen interme
diaries. A member of this agency is
- now on his way to Europe, after hav
o ing visited the principal spinning dis
tricts of New England.
All our plans are intended to guart
+ your interests. Your cotton Will no
Il be sold until you say so, and tn
D price, after deducting the charges q
our selling agents, must be equal t
n or greater than can be obtained /
r your local market.
n We have made arrangements
If help those who are willing to hol
and are compelled to borrow som
money against their cotton. Detal
~ about these will be sent you ne1
,g week.
to We don't recommend you TO stol
and insure any cotton except Wh;
YOU wish to hold for some futul
le months. We don't recommend borro'
~ ~. ing any money at all unless absolut
or ly necessary but borrowing money
G per cent is more businesslike thu
selling at a sacrifice and storage al
in insurance are much cheaper tht
re county damage.
~ Do all your business through agent
Never sell on a falling market. Pl
,o. tect your cotton against damage, WO
it harmoniously together, and millio
to of dollars will come into your nom
OF from Europe which you will never S
if you follow the Old rut. We W
:. the praise of the South last year.
~, us not lose our prestige and our gre
of advantage this year.
a Work for reputation, so that t
mt bales of the Farmers Union Snail
known throughout the world for &C
., grades, best ginning, fair weights a
~ freedom from mixes and false pac
,nir Show this to your neighbors "
ost are not members of the union, a
S E ask for their cooperation in the e
cause.
F. w. Davis, Chairman Elk. Com.
I IN E. A. Calvin, President State Uni
con B. F. Chapman, Sec.-Treas. st
,try Union.
bite John T. Garner State Busin
Agent.