The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17

of system in marketing. The staple is rushed to the market and the buyers = forced to take 1t at their own prices.
 euce was called to the fact that plant CTS take only about four months in the year to market twelve months sup ply.
 An appeal was next made to the farmers to study the differences be- tween the raw material and the finished | fabric in order to get a correct idea of what value Is to be put on cotton be- fore 1t leaves their hands. It is is the man who thinks and works who ad- yances and prospers not the man of brawn and muscle alone. The Finished Product.
 The speaker illustrated the vast diff ference between the price of pound of raw cotton and that of handker- chiefs. spool thread. mercerized goods and other articles of cotton fabric ex- pressed in pounds. The difference ranged between s1.200 and $2.400 when the scale was raised to the amount of a bale. For instance. $50 has bought a bale of cotton from the farmer while it takes s1.250 to buy the weight of a bale of cotton in handkerchiefs. For these reasons. it behooves the growers to know more of what becomes of his cotton. The problem of production is no longer worthy of their study. but that 1t is absolutely necessary to penetrate 1 the questions of. consumption and sup ply in order that the most valuable agricultural product on the face of the globe may be properly protected" It was told how the farmer works from January to December in. getting his cotton while the manufacturer sits at his dinner table and turns it into the finished goods. A greater equity Of division must be had between the grower and the manufacturer. In urging the groweres to awake from their lethargy and bondage in selling their cotton, Mir. Jordan made the statement that in all his travels through the South Montgomery was i the first place where he had seen that bale of cotton would be bought from
 a farmer without the staple being sam pied. He saw this sight yesterday af- Iternoon. He was surprised as he was | perhaps never before. He hopes to ! never see this sight again. He does | hope to see the time when in Mont l gomery the farmers will command the | buyers of the spots to not only sample | the cotton but have the samples spread | upon a table and the buyers made to | bid on the product. He also advised l the farmers to see that they got what ! prices are chaIked up on the blac kboard | according to true fluctuations.
 l The Holding Movement.
 Turning from the marketing feature
 of the cotton, Mr. Jordan spoke of the l holding phase. He said it is very easy | for a man to hold when the price is on | the incline but that the severe test 1 comes when a low price is threatened. This was illustrated in a degree when
 there were few timid ones last spring. | There were several who fell by the | wayside and had numerous excuses to | make for 1t. but he always found the | true cause by running his hand up the | backs and finding there not vertebrae | of the holding sort, but a despicable | sort of tenderloin.
 The farmers were again urged to
 stand pat after the speaker had related the results of his trip East immediate ly followed by his tour of the South. in the first getting line on the supply
 and in the latter seeing about the pros | pective yield. After this investigation
 he thought 1t ridiculous to sell the rest of the crop for 10 and Ii cents. The
 spinnOrs and jobbers not only of Amer | ica but of the continent were found to
 be short on supplies and he declared
 that if the holders were firm to the last and demanded Is cents for what Is left 1t will make the people who are dealing 1 in paper contracts come to the toe-
 mark and pay the price in order to | make the deliveries.
 In concluding his address, President
 Jordan spoke briefly of the great es-
 sential of warehouses to provide facfi- i Tfties for storing the TO tton. It is nee.
 essary to have string of warehouses
 extending from the Carolinas to the
 Rio Grande, said the speaker, in order
 to carry out the purposes of the Cot.
 ton Association. These houses should
 be the evolution of gradual educa-
 tional process and when 1t has been
 completed the farmer will be enabled
 to get direct trade relations with the
 spinners. There is promise af the suc-
 cess of the warehouse movement all
 through the South, according to Mir.
 Jordan, and so signal Is the promise in
 the eyes of the spinners that already he has received invitations from the
 Presidents of the leading spinners or ganizations of England and America tc
 send representatives of the Southern Cotton Association to meet as soon as
 possible with representatives of the
 spinners.
 PIanters and spinners. This proposed meeting of the plant
 CTS and spinnefs Is 10 get a closer re- lation between the two and to elimi-
 nate the enormous army of middle men that stand between them under the
 present regime and cali for their indi- l
 before the end of two months he would
 have representatives appointed and tha,
 the conference would be held with the
 spinners either in the United States or
 In England.
 The speaker felt gratified at the re- ports that are flowing in from the field
 agents about the loyalty of the plant CTS on the 15-cent proposition The
 proposition Is only a couple of days old yet Georgia and the Carolinas are already, about in line and he, Secretary Cheatham and the Southern organizers have been trying to take care of the other Southern States. When he had ended there was pro- , longed applause and few minutes was
 devoted to a word or two from Dr. A St, c. vTennille, NJ. B. Houghton anG i others who advocated practically al , that had been said by the distinguished visitor. Then the Iew minutes of talk. f ing down holding pledges followed un. , til 2,000 bales were enrolled when the
 meeting adjourned a few minutes be. 3 fore 10 o'clock.
 MT. Jordan was given an informa f entertainment after the meeting in tn, | court house last night by Presiden 5 Seymour of the State Division, and the
 officers of the County organ Zation. H. 3 will leave this morning for Atlants F where he has not been since he begar i his trip through the South.
 
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