The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-21
TOURGE WAREHOUSE
SPEAKERS ARE TO TRAVEL IN
 MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Committee of Cotton Growers Assceia- tion Plans for Campaign oi
 Education--Enthusias
 Meeting nt Court House.


 Education---Ecnthusias
 Meeting nt Court House.
 sDehnite plans for securing subscrip- fions to the stock. for the buiidins or a standard cotton warehouse to De owned by the farmers and interested citizens of. Montgomery County. were yesterday perfected at an enthusiastic and business-Hke meeting of the Ware house Committee of the Montgomery County Cotton Growers Associations
 More than two-thirds of the mem bers of this committee met in the court House at noon yesterday ana deter- mined that, for the ultimate success or the Southern Cotton Association, IL was absolutely necessary that the peoPie who make the cotton should have their own warehouses so that they may be enabled to control the price or the commodity.
 . Rv A unanimous vote of the commit tee it was decided to send speakers in- to every county beat of Montgomery County to perfect much stronger orr ganizations in each precinct ana 10 se- cure subscriptions from the farmers 70 the cotton warehouse enterprise. With this end in view Chairman A, B. Bras sell appointed the men to do this work of their own volition and at ieast two dates have already been named on which these men will deliver addresses.
 A striking feature of the meeting was the point brought out by Secretary Charles l.. Gay that the recent con vention of the Southern Cotton Asso- citation had again endorsed the resolu- ton of a year ago, urging the farmers to decrease cotton acreage and fertili- gers 25 per cent In explanation Of this he said that the original resolution adopted by the great convention or 1905 called for a reduction by the far mers in 1905 of 25 per cent over their acreage and fertilizers of 1904. How ever the ratification of the resolution Tn 1908 applied only to those who failed to decrease during the past year.
 MT Gay laid particular stress on the sentiment of the New Orleans cenven- tion that with curtailment Of acreage and fertilizers should come diverslh- cation of crops and that corn, oats ana other products should be planted in- stead.
 Warehouses are Essentaaf.
 Tn calling the meeting of the ware house Committee to order. Chairman Rrasseu said that it's purpose was to devise ways and means for securing subscriptions to the stock for building the cooperative cotton warehouse
 ."We want the men who raise cotton to take stock" he said. and we expect by this to control cotton and not to make money out of it. We've got to organize upon a business basis before we can control the price of cotton and tell me, is there any better basis we can organize upon than the ware house2"
 In order to perfect the warehouse nroiect. MT. Brassell said that he thought the best plan was to select one man in each beat who should be afr forded a premium of say 5 per cent. on all subscriptions he would secure ana this would make 1t an incentive Tor him to get subscribers. Not only did the chairman lay stress on warehouse for this county, but he impressed 1t mon his hearers that warehouses should be built throughout the cotton belt and that, with Montgomery's suc- cess in this movement, 1t should be diffused throughout the surrounding counties and to other portions of the State and the South.
 Secretary Gay said that in regard to subscriptions to the warehouse. he had received a report from MT. Smith of Beat 15 who assured him that about 900 or probably 1900 shares had been subscribed in that precinct. In other beats, he said, some of the men in charge had desired to make partial re- port but he, had told them to delay un- til they could make a full and f1nal re- port.
 In respect to plans for securing sub scriptions and stirring up the farmers along these lines, Mir. Gay differed ma terialIy from Mr. Brassell. He thought 1t more advisable that speakers be sent into the country precincts for this pur- pose and that they name dates on which to speak at different places In the interest of the warehouse move ment. MT. Gay urged the sentiment of the New Orleans convention for diver sifleations of crops so that the time would come when the farmers would raise food stuffs instead of coming to town to buy them from the merchants, who possibIy had 8 combination on the nrice' He did not blame the merchants, if heinz A purely business proposition if they combined on prices, they were doing precisely what the Southern Cot ton Association is doing.
 Organiser Williams Speaks
 County Organizer N. B. Williams was in hearty accord with the plans set forth DY MT Ody. HI NPtS
 the tardiness of the outlying precincts in subscribing to the warehouse pro- feet. he said that country people are naturally inert and do not respond as ouickly as they should to orders, hence, 1t would be the correct thing to send these speakers into every county beat.
 Chairman Brassei spoke briefly for a second time but only to say that he fully agreed that the plan suggested by Mr Cav was the quickest way to get nm inc subscriptions. In conclusion. however. he said that it had been his experience. in his connection with The Alliance. that the speaker should make the date for himself. announce it for sometime beforehand. and he would be very certain to have crowd. He should not wait for the people of the beat te set date for him.
 "What's everybody's business Is mo- body's business" was the expression used by MT. Brassell in insisting that a few men get together for work. He did not doubt that the farmers, black and white, were willing to respond.
 J. T. Roberton of Beat II, spoke en- couragingly in behalf of the movement and. at the same time, endorsing the Ideas of MT. Gay. He said that his beat already had raised about $1.0oO ir subscriptions.
 p. R. Mastin and NJ. c. Scott also spoke enthusiastically concerning tho building of a warehouse and, as in the past. they pledged their hearty sup port. MT. Mastin said that the pro feet would be a sound investment anC that many a man would take stock fl ba ,yos onIv seen and convinced as tC