The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-04-26
A System of Marketing Cotton.

By request of N. c.. Murray, presi-
dent of the Farmers State Union of
Texas, hereby give to the press for
publication my views in regard to o
system Of marketing cotton.
First, let every State organize their
farmers into the Farmers Union, then
elect from each State proportionate
number Of your best men, who are
honest and qualified to do the business.
located. New Orleans being the great
est American center, would suggest
that city be designated as the place to
carry on the system. Establish at
that point q sTmoru Cotton Ex-
change, and in connection with the
Exchange, establish q secret Bureau of
Information, by which means direct
the Executive Board of every State
Union of America within few hours
time; each State Board could furnish
the information to the County Pr9si-
dent or Secretary, and by him each
Local notified.
Within three days time every cotton
grower In America would know the
exact number a nj Of bales of cotton in the
hands OF the epinners, and the number
of bales of spot cotton; also. the num-
ber of bales in the hands of the far
mer. With this reliable information,
and nothing fictitioua connected with
1t, the confidence Of every American
cotton farmer would be strengthened,
and when orders were issued from CEN
trail Exchange headquarters to held
cotton on or the market for any def
mite time iJ would be done at any
cost.
By this system of management all
fictitious reports could be set aside and
confidence in the cotton producers,
one for another, would be firmly es-
tablished. and the great army of cot
ton producers could swing into line,
and the bsars Of our cotton market dis
appear quickly. This being accom-
plished, a uniform system of prices on
raw material and manufactured goods
could at once be established, and no
longer would the American cotton
producers be the toys and playthings
of the cotton gamblers of the world.
Why our American cotton producers
do not act more in concert, in holding
their cotton is on account of lost con-
fidence in our statisticians, and even
in our ginners reports issued by the
government, because of the fact that
in many instances it is known that
ginners have failed to give correct
report, for pecuniaIy reasons. This
being true. we have NO source to
The only thing left for the cotton far
mer is organization. By the above
system we can get q report direct from
every cotton producer every two
weeks through the secretaries of our
local organizations, this information
furnished by them to our National Bn-
reau of Information at New Orleans !,
We in return would receive Q generals re-
of the exact cotton situation. BY this
/ means the Exchangewoufd be in posi-
| ti0n to issue correct orders in regard to
the holding or selling OF cotton; and
the growers being familiar with the
exact conditiong, would be in o position
| to act. S, I; IS. 8 |l.yi
plan By. wkich the problem Of market
| ing cotton. may be settled, and for
every thinking cotton growers' con-
stderRtinn- Some partiess perhaps,
will Ray that ell the farmers can't be
organized . his is Mue. But this will
entnO figure 30 far ae. reporting the
amount OF cotton raised is cOncerned;
as each local secretary could easily az
raised by all who are not members Of
Union. And with concerted action
OF tWo-thirds of the American cotton
| growers system of Just and remuner-
atiye prices could be maintained. do
not claim the ahoye plan ia, be COM
Iplete or absolute, bus one OF mature
c0naid deratiOn. However, many sug-.
gestions may! be made as an improve
msnts and should any thing better be
offered, i am ready to strike hande
with my cotton producing friends for q
forward march, until every enemy to
/ j1st and remunerative prices on our
cotton, shall be, ,extermina5edf forever.
would ask every paper throughout
I the cotton growing belt OF the United
States that iB friendly TO the cotton
| producers cause, to please copy.
Winnsb bGros Texas. O. s. a., d
John w. Ensign, Democrat, was