Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-11-23
John T. Monk

he did not leave large estate, OuI ia 'nS $500
sense of the word he was success. In the nls'
place he was an honest man, claim that qulte
large number of his more successful nelsn-
bors cannot successfully make. He dleo re-
spected as christian gentleman, which is 1tsel
rare attainment. He left a large family ten
strong, robust and respectable children; 1our ol
whom. Misses Mamie, Clara and Matte ana
their brother Arthur, will stay in Fitzgerald
with their mother Mrs Flora Cozwel, OF Lake.
land. Fla "A R. and Johnnie, of Montgomery;
W. o. and S. A. Monk, of Oklahoma, and oamu-
elO a prosperous farmer of Daugherty county,
with all of whom the Enterprise sympath1zes IN
their bereavement.
Contribute something to the common gooo'
Do not live at the expense of your nelghoors'
The Howell organs continue to boost any
candidate but Hoke" The Dublic Courier
Dispatch says:
'Dick Russell and Joe Hill Hall are now
stirring things up bit politically. They may
prove to be live wlres.'
Mr.. J. M. Mcdonald is on the streets again
after weeks tussel with appendicitis. AT one
time, Sunday, his case was considered Serious
and DR.. Floyd McRea was wired for and came
down Monday evening" but found Mr.. Mcdonald
so much approved that he returned without OPP
Grating.
WHAT COOPERATION MEANS TO THE COTTON
GROWER.
necton with the busne me s 81 taet IN con
five years, is the absolute destruction of any
proposed connection between supply and de-
mand in all the great staples.
This is true not only of cotton, but of grain
and meat and wool and iron and other of the
staple necessities of life.
This is due, of course, to the rise of specu-
laton in commodities, which speculation has
been crystalized and systematized in the vari-
GUS exchanges. Under this system a cotton
crop of 100000 bales will be bought and sold
twenty thirty or forty times over in twelve
month.
There are, of course, two schools of
thought on the question, one claiming that the
speculation is beneficial to she producing later.
est and the other that it is wholly injurious.
Without entering into any extended discus
sion of the merits or dement's of cotton specula-
ton, it is our purpose to call attention to the
great and beyond question: beneficial res llts of
the Efforts of the Cotton Association. In the
face of repeated failuref on the part of unsefsh
leaders to combine the producers, the present
leaders determined to head another struggle
for industrial independence. The result of the
season of 1904 were something marvellous, in
the face of record-breakng crop, by determ-
ined cooperation, prices we're maintained at
level that brought to the great producing class
of the South prosperity which had long been
hoped for, but never before realized.
The present season is again showing the bene-
fetal result ofintelligent cooperation Whether
the crod be nine and half, ten, ten and half or
eleven million bales, it is apparent that the
price level will be maintained at figure that put
the Southern cotton producer in position to en-
ter the next year with full confidence that he
will receive for his labor fair return.
Another feature of the cotton question worthy
of note is the fact that the cry for cheap cotton
comes not from the consumer, but from the spin
ner. The difference between cotton at 10 cents
and 12cents would not make to the average family
a difference of $40 year in its expenditure for
Cotton goods, but it would make difference of
$780, 000, 900 to the cotton growers to the South.
If there was true spondence in values
in this world-with meat at 15cents, wool at 80
cents and eggs at 25cents dozen, a pound of
cotton is intrinsically worth IS cents, and with
the ssfuloperaton of the Cotton Association
some day the true correspondence in values will
be esta blished.
Ra- Note the dating of the label on your