The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-17
ATLANTA WELCOMES
THE MANUFACTURERS
More Than Three Hundred
Delegates Present
ADDRESS MADE ON COTTON
D. A. Tompkns Says the Cotton Mill
Has Been the Southern Farmers
Moses-spencer Speaks
Today.
ADDRESS MADE ON COTTON

Atlanta, May IGNORE than 90 hundred
of the 5000 members of the National As
ISOLATION of Manufacturers, accompanied
by a hundred ladies, assembled today at
the opening of the tenth annual meeting
of the association. Representatives from
almost every section of the country were
present.
The Importance of the gathering was in
dicated by the fact that the membership
represents a large majority of the SSeOO,-
100000 of invested capital Of the United
States, and by the additional fact that
among the questions to be discussed dur
ing the three days session are interstate
commerce and reciprocity. That strongly
diverse views upon the former subject
are entertained was manifest in the dis
cussion of the afternoon session when
opposition to government control of trans-
portation rates was sounded.
Welcomed BY Mayor.
The first session was called to order by
President p F. Maddox of the local
chamber of commerce. who was intro
duced to make the welcoming addresses
Governor ]. NJ. Terrell. Mayor James G.
Woodward and John Temple Graves ed
itor of the Atlanta News. The response
was by Vice President William McCarroll
of New York.
Following these complimentary ad-
dresses the regular programme of the
convention was taken up. The annual ad-
dress of President d M Parry OF In
dianapolis was first in order.
Tho Of
stillman of New York showed the re-
ceipts since the last annual report. to
March 81, 1905. to have been s156, 1SS with
an unexpended balance at that date IF
$7S7a.
d. A. Tompkins of Charlotte, N. c.,
followed with an address on cotton; its
marketing and equalizing supply and
price.
After reviewing the conditions which
produce short or large crops of cotton, Mr..
rompkins declared that in the three
decades following the civil war the south
ern farmer produced a constantly increas-
ing amount of cotton. for which by reg
ularly decreasing price he received an
nually practically the same gross returns
The advent of the southern cotton fac
tory about the close of this period in
creased the demand so that in the fourth
decade. while the production remained APP
proximately the same. the prices doubled
the return to the farmer.
Factory Is Farmers Moses.
The factory proved the farmers A;\es
What he needs is a Joseph, and this must
be the development of commerce. which
shall average the production of a series
of years and thereby meet the world
demands and steady the price. Mr.. Tomp-
kns advocated the issuance of a ware
house certificate, which shall indicate Not
only the actual storage of the GOTTEN,
but also show the quality and grade OF
the staple so stored. Such certificate is
sued by responsible guarante companies.
would be negotiable in all the markets
of the world II would relieve the banks
of the south from the burden of carrying
the crop for the farmer and would relieve
the farmer from the necessity of forced
sales.
The afternoon session was devoted to an
address by Daniel Davenport CT Bridge
port. Conn. on the subject of THE Ne
cessity of Organization, National and Lo-
cal, by the Manufacturers and the Peo-
pie" Following his address came the an
nouncement of committees on resolutions,
nominations, rules and order and Gre
dentials.
The presentation and discussion of the
report of the committee on interstate
commerce closed the business of the day.
An elaborate reception was tenGered the
visitors at the Capital City club this even
ing.
The features of tomorrows programme
will be an address by Sampel Spencer.
president of the Southern railway. the
discussion of Canadian reciprocity by Eu-
gene Foss of Massachusetts, and an old
fashioned Georgia barbecue.
The selection of the next place of meet
ing seems to lie between San Francisco
and New York. It is said that an effort
will be made to carry the 1906 convention
to the latter city and make 1t the perry
nent meeting place of the association.