Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-02-23
JORDAN ISSUES CALL
Plan of Convention Goes Into
Immediate Effect.
THE TIME HAS COME FOR ACTION

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THE TIME HAS COME FOR ACTION
"PeopIe Are Aroused to imperative
Necessity to Do Something" De.
clares Jordan In Stirring Address
to People.
President Harvie Jordan, of the
Southern Cotton Association, has is
sued a call to the cotton planters OF
the south, urging them to organize
to carry out the will of the great New
Orleans cotton convention.
After reviewing the situation and
telling of the work accomplished at
New Orleans and calling for the gath
erings, as announced, President Jor-
dan explains the entire plan OF organ
ization adopted and urges that the
farmers stand together as one man
From his call it is evident that the
Southern Cotton Association PROPOSE
to get down to work at once and that
before the end of the present month
there will be a complete working or
ganization in every state in the south
and sub-associations in every county
and precinct
Call In Full.
The call of President Jordan follows
in full:
Monticello. Ca, Feb. l, 1905.
To the People Of the South:
The time has come for action; in
unity now is your only strength. The
movement inaugurated at New Or.
leans whereby the Southern Cotton
Association was organized, is the hope
now for the accomplishment Of lasting
benefits to the cotton growers of the
south, and to reap the full benefits OF
that organization, and to successfully
carry out it's purposes, it Is essential
that we have organization In every
precinct In the south.
The people of the cotton growing
states are aroused to the imperative
necessity to do something, and the
line of action marked out for the
Southern Cotton Association at New
Orleans, after full and free consulta'
ton between bankers, merchants, bro
kers, professional men and farmers,
is the guide to follow, and we must be
enthusiastic, determined and must not
tolerate and hesitation or deviation,
or else our efforts will be in vain.
1t is hardly necessary for us to
bring to your attention the fact that
unless we control the market and de-
mand, and receive fair and Just prices
for our cotton, bankruptcy stareS US
In the face, and there can be no es
cape from it except in the manner in.
dicated by the plan suggested to the
Southern Cotton Association and the
executive committee, to which your
attention is called, and is as follows:
- l.. To tie up and take care Of the
surplus of this crop; remove it from
the market until next fall and hold
balance of crop until prices advance.
2. Reduce cotton acreage and use
of commercial fertilizers under cotton
at least % per cent of that of last
year.
8. Arrange for a general system OF
bonded warehouses under the control
of the people of the south.
4. Organize the producers of the
south in every cotton-growing county
on a business basis to carry into op.
Grafton permanent system Of relief
and protection for the future.
Membership Dues.
The membership for all persons
joining this association shall De q
cents. and fees thus collected to be
turned over to the treasurer of the
county or parish association, who shall
retain one-half of the amount so col
lected for the use of the county OF
pari>h association, forwarding one
territorial ASSOCIATION. Tie treasurer
of the state or territorial association
to forward one-half Of the amount re
ceived by him to John II. Latham
Dublin, Tex, the treasurer of the
Southern Cotton Association, and re
port the amount thus sent to Richard
Cheatham, secretary Mont cello, Ga
The parish or county association
shall pay its own treasurer.
The county or parish assoc.atiol
shall fix a reasonable co1lpeneatio:
to be paid the township Or p2i!tic2