The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-04-28
THE SoUTH's
President Harvie Jordan Tells What
The Southern Cotton Assocla-
ton Stands For.

The Southern Cotton association
stands for the south's supremacy ag-
vicaiturally, commercially and IMAM
cially. The present effort OF the as
ISOLATION, looking to the reduction Of
cotton acreage and use of com1ne:cla!
fertilizer, is merely an incident in the
great work which it was organized to
perform. The principal object OF the
association is to unite in n grand
business organization the southern
Farmers, merchants, bankers, cotton
manufacturers and all other allied
lines of business 10 develop the vast
resources Of the south and to main
tain the price of our great staple crop
-cotton, at a fair and profitable fig
IRE to the producers and cotton mill
ing interest Of the country. To de-
velop southern ports, extend the
building Of cotton mills and bring
about closer trade relations between
this country and foreign nations, and
more especially with the Central and
South American republics. to seek
wider markets for the sale Of our cot
ton and cotton goods, to the end. that
consumption may be made to keep
pace with the extended cotton pro-
drction. To organize and perfect a
cotton company for the purpose of
protecting the sale of our cotton and
to safeguard it from wide huctua-
tons that are brought about by specu-
lative influences. To encourage the
building and maintaining of a first
class system of bonded warehouses,
in which cotton can be stored at a
minimum cost, or encourage the prop
>er storing of cotton on the farm so
that the crop may be marketed in
-such quantities as will meet the lSsiti-
mate demand for consumption. To
encourage the better handling of the
cotton crop so that it may go to mar
ket in the best possible condition and
bring to each grower its maximum
value. To gather correct and ccu
rate statistics, bearing upon the pro
duction, manufacture and sale of cot
ton 50 that the producer will be as
we'll informed upon every phase OF
the great cotton industry of the world
as those who handle the crop after it
passes from the hands Of the grower.
Non Antagonistic.
The association does not propose,
aid will not antagonize any legiti-
mate line of business or industry car
red on in the south, but on the on
7trary. its best energies will be direct
ed along the lines Of a higher Develop
-ncent of agriculture, more extended
building Of factories, wider develop
~ment of~ou4 commerce and increasing
.our financial strength. These are the
fundamental underlying principles Of
The Southern Cotton association, and
in that work, it earnestly seeks the &C
tive ,ce-aperation Of the entire agri-
cultural, commercial and financial
-e1-efrpfh ri tS1e south
Organization Necessary.
Organization, of course. is II OF
the essential Features OF the associa-
ton, for without unity there can be no
strength. The organization of the
association throughout the various
rcotton-producing states and territor-
les. is patented after the political form
OF the United States government. The
association. in its head formation, is
made up of representatives from the
thirteen states and territories produc-
:ng cotton; each state division is COM
posed of a representative delegate
from each county or parish; each
parish or county organization is COM
posed Of three representatives from
each civil subdivision and each civil
subdivision is made up of the units OF
the people. Thus we have a centra-
1ized organization beginning from