The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-04-17
"A BIG REDUCTION
IN COTTON ACREAGE IN THE SOUTH IS
THE OPINION OF HARVEY JORDAN.
ISSUES A STATEMENT
Says Farmers Have Signed Pledges to
Cnrsail Crop and IL Eemsiae;s:
They viii Not Violate
Promises.

After a careful analysis based on
personal observation and official re-
ports, President Harvey Jordan of
the Southern Cotton Association is
confident that there will be a heavy
reduction in the cotton acreage in
the Southern states this year. In an
interview given out a few days ago
President Jordan says:
IL am confident in my own mind
that the cotton growers will this year
live up TO their promises and bring
about heavy reduction in their cot
ton acreage Hundreds of thousands
of them from North Carolina to the
Rio Grande have signed pledges to
reduce their acreage and do not be-
lieve they will violate these promises.
II believe that the wide discussion of
our present problem viii receive the
intelligent consideration of the farm
ers and that they will measure up to
the full requirements OF the situa
tion which confronts them If, on
the first of June when the cotton
acreage satisfies are prepared. a
heavy reduction In acreage is shown,
we will be in q position to present
~ tue HhSaAtHS " b1 tA the tF A4fiiif
that We have fulfilled our pledges,
which viii inspire the confidence of
the business world and give TO the
cotton growers more respect than
they have had rendered them in many
years. In other words, it viii demon
strate the ability of the cotton pro-
ducers of the South to successfully
handle a business proposition with
the same degree of success that they
have for SO many years handled the
question of production,
The Southern Cotton Association
will also undertake this spring TO
prepare statistics with reference 10
the cotton acreage. and every man
engaged in the planting Of cotton
throughout the entire cotton belt will
be asked TO report his acreage for
1904 and also for 1905. Ii these re-
ports are fully made. they viii give
10 the farmers the only true and COM
plete statement OF cotton acreage that
has ever been made in the south.
In order to make IL complete II is
absolutely necessary that the Organi-
cation OF the association should be
perfected in every cotton growing
county or parish. If We do not have
organizations in all the counties and
parishes. then it will be impossible
to make as complete a report as is
desired In order that we may know
the truth and know It at the proper
time tt is imperative that every farm
eT should take a personal interest in
this matter and give to the associa-
tiou the benefit OF all the co-opera-
tion in his power
1t is a movement directly in the
interest of the cotton growers, and if
| they rally TO its cause as they should
do. there can be no question but that
the wave of prosperity which we have
| nioyed during the last three or four
I years can be again set in motion and
maintained for all time to come.
/ The cotton growers of the south have
| IL absolutely in their power TO be
/ come prosperous, coutented and hap
/ py. If present conditions continue
/ and even grow worse, the cotton
growers themselves will be respon-
sihle and can not, with good grace.
place the blame for their own acts
upon the shoulders OF anybody else
, Every man who produces cotton. no
matter how small nor how great his
acreage. is an important factor in
. fhfH AfAGh gfhlF t4f. AttNGAAtbN Ak AtAAl
should plant the same acreage this
year that he did last year upon the
idea that other farmers viii decrease
theirs Such a man ls not only an
enemy fo himself bat Is an enemy
to his whole country 40 man ought
30 be So hard hearted and selfish as
to want 20 take advantage 90 that eN-
tent at his ueighnors and 10 specu-
late an the expense of his own people
when he does so ne is guilty OF the
same thing that he condemns in the
bear operations ia the cotton eX-
changes of the country
AT the present time general I'M
formation coming 90 me from every
cotton growing county lu the belt
indicates thar there will be heavy
reduction In the cotton acreage, and
t is % he sincerely hoped that the
farmers will continue in their pFe@.u
determination and place themsslFe.
ia a nasition within the next stxts
aavs where thsF Wlli be enabled q
dictate the price ~ their staple fo'
the hAiaucw II the present wear Va
the odd cotton states H 81 of cana
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