The Forrest City times., 1905-10-06

Oi youE uEcoiuoS ouu yOuE uOmcS, your wives, children and your country. Stop selling cotton at present prices. Call upon your merchants and bankers to aid you in the heroic struggle that lies ahead. Store your cotton in the seed wherever possible and do not have it ginned until later in tn season. Store the lint cotton under good sheds to keep it dry on the farm, or place it in warehouses, where the receipts are needed as collateral to borrow money to to meet maturing obligations. All other lines of business borrow money, why not the armers. when by 80 doing they can hold their cotton of the mar. ket and materially advance it's price? Pay no attention to the "bearish" literature being printed and circulated broadcast through. out the south. Th,s is done with but one object and that to discour- age and induce you to sell your cotton at prices below its value. As producers you know that the crop is short and that unless you get good prices, at least eleven cents per pound, there will be but little or no profit in this crop.
 Hold your cotton and check up the present heavy receipts and de. mand not less than eleven cents for every pound ofmiddling cotton which you have to offer. The Southern Cotton Association, The Farmers Educational and Coop erative Union, The American So. ciety of Equity, The Farmers Al. lance of North Carolina, have all agreed on the minimum price of eleven cents. and the membership of these powerful organizations, standing together in unity and har. mony, can defy the combinations of the world and win another not. able victory, the like of which was never witnessed before.
 Call your county and district meetings throughout the entire belt. Build up your membership in the Southern Cotton Associa. tion and stand firmly together for justice and protection. If you will check the sale of your oottoo from 30 to 60 days this Association will guarantee an advance in the price, easily to eleven cents per pound. Do not rush your cotton on a de. pressed market, but sell slowly and prove to the world beyond all question of doubt that southern farmers have the ability, the de. termination and the strength to force the world to recognize their ? power in maintaining a fair price for their products.
 The Southern Cotton Associs. tion must be maintained and tn. anced by the farmers of the south. Its power to protect the interest of the producers is recognized and feared by all the leading speouls- tive and cotton interests of Ameri- ca and Europe. If we go down in defeat the enemy will be merciless and 1t will take twenty years for the south to recover again. Stand by the Association and thereby protect your individual interests. The south is both mentally and fin. ancially able to manage and pro. tect her interests from the domi. hating and devastating hands of her enemies.
 Last January the price of cotton was depressed to six cents per pound and the Southern Cotton Association was organized at the New Orleans convention, January 26, 1904, to bring about harmony among the producers, merchants and bankers so as to advance the price to ten cents per pound. The world knows that through this powerful organization the price of spot cotton was advanced to ten cents in tha Month op Iojr .,..