The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1905-04-13
COTTON ASSOCIATION.


Y Metropolitan Journals.
i. "Hon. J. McC. Martin,
!. Port Gibson, Miss.
! "Will you kindly give, for pub
! lication, a synopsis of the system Of
/. organization, now existing in the
. various Cotton Growing States ard
/. Territories, and which are being
I steadily strengthened and extend
!. led 2"
I In reply to the above this paper
/. is written. To make the entire
. movement understood the general
. plan is presented analytically as
. follows: rst. Organization. 2nd.
Purposes of Organization. 3rd.
Means Of Sustaining Perpetuating
and Making the Same Effective.
There are four divisions in the
system, to-wit The Southern
Cotton Association" State or Ter
ritorial Divisions. County Divis-
ions, District Divisions. All are
modelled after the various civil
formations of American govern
pent except that they are business
centralizations, running from coun-
ty or parish districts, through coun-
ty organizations or parish organiza-
tions, as the case may be. to State
AMI National Association. The
word national h,ing used To indi.
cate the chief ur central association.
Thus, it will he seen, that the sys-
TEN comprehends a bringing into
systematic working order great
business government. intended to
promote, conserve and further the
purposes which will be considered
under the second head given in the
above analysis
The Southern Cotton Association
j, composed OF thirty members who
represent the fifteen cotton growing
States and Territories. in proper
ton to the amount OF cotton pro-
duced in each. except that no State
or Territory can have less than one
representative This is to the bus
iness system provided for, what
Congress is to our National system
of government. Through it, uni
formity is preserved, power central
lied and an official existence pro-
vided, whereby authority to act for
the interest of all the individual
units is focused. In short, 1t is the
only plan by which, scattered and
disorganized as they are, the vari-
Gus individuals, directly or indi-
rectly dependent up,.n cotton pro-
duction, can be brought into bus
mess alliance.
The State or Territorial Divisions
are to the system what State gov
ernment is to civil polity. The
first. deals with the business well
fare of the various persons, through |
the counties or parishes, and the
latter, with civil or political govern
ment. These divisions are COM
posed of members from each county
or parish, each being entitled to one
representative, so as not to make
the number 50 large as to endanger
quick and effective business deliber-
ations. Thus each society or par
ish is represented and the duties
and powers of the State or Terri
torial Division are fixed and care
fully defined, with sufficient elias
ITCHY, to enable the same to work
harmoniousIy with the National
Association, as we'll as with the
subordinate divisions in county or
parish.
County or Parish Divisions, as
far as Mississippi is concerned. cor
respond to the Boards of Supervis-
ors, their powers being limited to
County business. just as. in civil
government, the power of the
Boards of Supervisors is limited to
County affairs. In a future paper
the far reaching and great good
which flows from such orgauiza-
tions will be considered. In this,
| it Is the purpose to deal chiefly with
the Southern Cotton Association,
leaving all others to be hereafter
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