The Semi-weekly leader., 1905-11-29

crop VI IJUf3 @AOU,VUO,OUO, duO
for the crop of 1905, $4,000, 900
more than said crops would have
sold for without united effort and
cooperation on the part of the
holders of cotton, and that every
president, secretary and treasurer
of the county associations should
provide such means as may be
best suited in each county to COL
lect from the members the annual
dues of $1-00 and the Scent assess
ment 'on each bale of cotton as
well as other contributions.
End. That the county officers
should thoroughly advertise the
beat meetings on the End day of
December, and use every means
to secure a full attendance of the
members of such meetings and to
enroll the names of all farmers
who have net become members,
and that at said beat meetings the
county officers should use every
effort to collect the Scent per bale
assessment.
3rd. That if the people will re-
spond to assessment of the Scent
bale tax and thereby provide the
association with sufficient funds to
extend the organization into the
territory in which no work has
been done the control of the price
of cotton will be placed in the
hands of the association. If a
partial organization and an imper-
feet union of the farmers should
force the price of the crop of 1904
from 6 to 10 cents per pound and
the price of the crop of 1905 to II
cents per pound it follows that
perfect and general organization
all over the cotton belt would re-
suit in an absolute domination of
the market and long control of
prices.
4th. That Secretary Will H.
Woods is authorized and instruct
ed to prepare brief and concise
statement Of the work Of the asso-
citation, and of the results it has
accomplished, with a view of
showing to the people how much
good the association has done, and
that such statement be sent to the
county officers for distribution as
soon as possible.
The report is signed by s. A.
Witherspoon, chairman; E. 3.
Petty, 7. P. Price, j. W. Hamil-
ton, G. E. Denley, and was unan-
imously adopted.
The committee on good of the
association reported as follows:
Your committee on good of the
association recommends that the
resolution offered by Mr.. Wither-
spoon be adopted.
1t is further recommended that
the fertilizer manufacturers use
cotton bags to put fertilizers in.
We recommend that strenuous
individual effort is essential to the
success of the Southern Cotton
Associations; that it is the sense
of this meeting that every one
present be and is appointed a COM
mittee of one to Immediately call
his county organization together
and hold precinct meetings to per-
feet our organization.
Be it resolved, That the presi-
dent of this convention is author
lied and instructed to select and
appoint at his convenience a COM
mittee of not less than ten men,
bers who, in his judgment, may
possess such ability, and who have
such an interest in the subject as
will insure . careful and co1scien-
tious consideration Of the subject
of an improvement and perfection
of the organization of the South
ern Cotton Association, and of the
advisability of a method of organ
lied capital to carry out the OBJ
jects of the association, and that
said committee be called and in
structed to make a report Of their
conclusions to the State conven-
ton of the Southern Cotton Asso-
citation to be held IN Jackson on |
the 3rd day of January, 1905.
Report on Finance.
Your committee on finance, af-
ter careful investigation, appre-