The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-30

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 the bears were bodily repulsed and the price went on steadily up.
 MT. Prices Waterloo. l That was another time that Theo- sSPs !rss ssd s he speakss p ns aas S time I hope the last dollar he owns Illustrating the importance of the Association, MT. Jordan alluded to the recent organization of the growers of Sea Island cotton. These held a meet ing a few days ago in valdosta, Ga, Georgia and Florida and they decided in body to come into the ranks of the Southern Cotton Association. They has been noticed by the. speaker that although the price of the Sea Island was at the time of the Valdosta con- vention bringing sixteen cents it Is now selling around twenty-one cents pound.
 As an indication of what the future demand. of cotton will be the speaker declared that the spinners of New Eng land have absolutely refused to go in- to any contracts on a basis of less than 17-cent cotton. He told of how from September to September is call culated to be 12,500,000 bales and that in the last year the Manchester report of 4,0O0,0 ,0O0 spindles The spindies are running night and day and it should be remembered that the Fall River mills were idle for four months last year.
 Again Mir. Jordan besought the farm CTS to turn their attention and study more from production to the market this Is the only way they will eyer cease to be slaves and serfs to the commercial world.
 another opportunity to score the sys- tenn of selling the cotton in Montgom- cry. county. He said he has never .un-
 
 where cotton could be bought from the producer without 1t being sampled or graded. He looked upon 1t as a case of tho farmer having an astound- ing confidence in the brokers having some unheard of faculties, that he can look through the binding to tell what
 'l Cotton Crops Value.
 The factor of the cotton crop in the wealth of the. United States was em- ph;asized ,, briefly by the speaker He mated from the total exports of the United States in one year the nation would be changed from a creditor to wheat and grain markets of the West are maintained by organizations, by their owning. gTanarieB and elevators where 1t Is kept until the consumers come to their terms on price. One does not hear people asking why the grower of wheat should not be given less than eighty-five or ninety cents for their cereal and yet the query is often put, why should the cotton grower ask fifteen cents for cotton.
 The South has tariff wall around the cotton crop" said Mir. Jordan. and this Is through the providential union of rain, sunshine and soil They are not to be found elsewhere in the world. It makes the South the clothier of the world. The rest of the world raised last year no more cotton than 1t did forty years ago. They have tried time and again to compete with American | hu a aaf. Faf IaA
 With a full Knowledge of this, the speaker declared that the South must no longer submit to the domination of the speculator. He denounced the role of the speeulator as that of a hot-air peddler, and perttnently added:
 They are stocked up with paper contracts. It is true, but when they go to spinning these contracts without the spots, wonder what sort of a product it will look like"
 The FarmerS' Course.
 MT. Jordan said he longs to see the time when the farmer will get so in warehouses owned by the producer and stand by these warehouses to await the coming of the spinner. He be- iieves 1t nothing but. just that the spin her should get out in the field himself and look around for the cotton he wants to buy. The farmers ought 10 own the roof as well as the cotton It Is only by establishing a chain of warehouses from one end of the South 10 the other, giving a minimum Of storage, weighing and insurance to the farmer, that the price will 5e eyer splnners will do business direct win the producer. The spinner is already anxlons ai.Ss us Tor such day. and the speqhkScCGT were recently made bv ali the spinners organizations of the world, which have onered to send representatives to meet representatives of the Southern CO''