The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-11
Even the Bears Would
Bull Cotton.
DAN SULLY DECLARES
Ex Cotton King Delivers His Message
to the Southern Cotton Growers.
Saws Prices Will Rise to | d Cents.
Hold Your Cotton" the
Farmers Salvation"

Farmers from thirteen counties,
numbering about 500 assembled i'll
Metropolitan Hall yesterday at noon
to hear Daniel j. Sully, the eX-cotton
king, deliver his message to the cot
ton growers. Every seat in the hall
was occupied. Scores were standing in
the asles, the platform was crowded
with well known cotton men, and in
the galleries were d few darkies form
Ing dark background.
Secretary I. j. Parker. of the North
Carolina Division of the Southern
Cotton Association, presided, and the
Wake county officers of the association
were on the stage, together with Com
missioner of Agriculture 5. l.. Patter-
son and leaders in the cotton move
ment, who seemed to endorse the SELL
timents expressed by the man who~has
mastered the cotton markets of the
world.
MI. Sully's speech was plain and
simple. easily understood by any who
heard him. He is not an orator, and
does not possess eloquence, but the
frequent outbursts of enthusiastic APP
plause attested the popularity of the
man. and seemed an inspiration to
the crowd
Mr.. Sully began by assuring the
audience of the pleasure it gave him
to express to them a few of the ideas
and thoughts that mad impressed him
for years. He declared that one of
abe most monstrous questions that
had confronted the South for a gem
Grafton was the price of cotton, and
that this question is fraught with ire
mcndous possibilities for either good
or evil. IF the prices go lower he
exclaimed, every industry in the
Southern states will be disorganized
thereby. He waded into his subjec
without further preliminaries, and
said:
To-day there is organized all over
Europe the Spinners Confederation,
and they have for eighty years been
living on the products of American
lionso dollars in upuununununun
soil. Europeans have spent many mill
lions of dollars in endeavors to RAISE
cotton on their territories, but il has
been demonstrated that no future at
tempt can succeed They have learn
ed now that the cUtCG growers of the
southern portion of inc United Sia;"S
have organized. a. ti.ir Win Il / T.
C0V,t90. the organized farmers kept
t.-r prices up fairy Wei ard Now, as
Europe has found that cototn cannot
he grown elsewhere, the spinners over
cotton, so as to put it where i. will
never rise again. The European spin
ners are using 60 per cent. of the
south If they can get 1T at 8 cents.
they will never again attempt to cul-
tivate the staple in foreign countries
where only failure has already result
ed That confederation has the help
and assistance of every spinner in
America as well as in Europe. because
the belief is UNIVERSAL among themt
that the South is once on it's feet firm
ly. as it was in 1908 and 1904, and
continues so during this year, they
will never see cheap cotton again,
(applause) and they are out and
bound to break the price of cotton
IF the whole South, its farmers,
bankers. and merchants. determined
to sell for not less than 10 cents, hold
the staple three weeks they will get
IL and II cents, for the European
manufacturers are today selling their
cotton goods on the basis of II cents