Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-26
THE SOUTHERN COTTON ASSOCIATION.
What It Stands for--Its Aims and Purposes
Will Gather Statistics.

The Southern Cotton Association
stands for the South's supremacy agri-
culturally, commercially and financially.
The present effort of the Association,
looking to the reduction of cotton acre
age and use of commercial fertilizer, is
merely an incident in the great work
which it was organized to perform. The
principal object of the association is to
unite in one grand business organization
the Southern farmers, merchants, bank
ers, cotton manufacturers and all other
allied lines of business to develop the
vast resources of the South and to main
tain the price of our great staple crop
cotton, at a fair and profitable figure to
the producers and cotton milling interest
of the country. To develop Southern
ports, extend the building of cotton mills
and bring about closer trade relations be-
tween this country and foreign nations,
and more especially with the Central and
South American Republics, to seek wider
to the end, that consumption may be
made to keep pace with the extended
cotton production. To organize and per-
feet q cotton company for the purpose of
protecting the sale of our cotton and to
safeguard it from wide fluctuations that
are brought about by speculative influ-
ences. To encourage the building and
maintaining of first-class system of
bonded warehouses, in which cotton can
be stored at minimum cost, or encour-
age the proper storing of cotton on the
farm so that the crop may be marketed
in such quantities as will meet the legiti-
mate demand, for consumption. To en-
courage the better handling of the cotton
crop so.that it may go to market in the
best possible condition and thereby bring
to each grower it's maximum value. To
gather correct and accurate statistics,
bearing upon the production, manufac.
ture and sale of cotton so that the pro-
ducer will be as we'll informed upon every
phase of the great cotton industry of the
world as those who handle tho crop after
it passes from the hands of the grower.
NON ANTAGONISTIC.
The Association does not propose, and
will not antagonize any Legitimate line of
business or industry carried on in the
South, but on the contrary, it's best ener-
gies will be directed along the lines of a
higher development of agriculture, more
extended building of factories, wider de-
velopment of our commerce and increas-
ing our financial strength. These are the
fundamental underlying principles of
the Southern Cotton Associ .tion, and in
that work, it earnestly seeks the active
CO. operation of the entire agricultural,
commercial and financial strength of the
South.
ORGANIZATION NECESSARY.
Organization, of course, is one Of the
essential features of the Association, be-
cause without unity there can be no
strength. The organization of the AS
sociation throughout the various cotton
producing States and Territories, is pa
tented after the political form of the
citation, in its head formation, is made
up of representatives from the thirteen
States and Territories producing cotton;
each State division is composed of a
representative delegate from each county
or parish; each perish or county organi-
zation is composed of three representa-
tives from each civil subdivision and
each sub division is made up of units of
the people. Thus we have a centralized
organization, beginning from among the
people at the bottom and working
through the counties or parishes, up
through the State divisions and forming
the parent head--The Southern Cotton
Association. The strength of the Asso-
citation is, therefore, obtained directly
from the people, and its SUCCESS must de-
pend upon the people, whose interest it
seeks to safeguard and protect. 1t is q
movement in which the sympathy, sup.
port and active cooperation of every
man OF business and profession, in the
South should be cordially enlisted.
EXISTING CONDITIONS.
For the past fifty years the South has
directed it's energies principally in the
production of cotton; our people have
taken but little interest in devising the