The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-23
Pledged for Is Cent Cotton
Are Holding on Firmly
Fine News From Many Sections Of the
South-Mr. Moore Is Not in Politics.
Great Interest Felt In the Suit to
Annul the l. As of the Atlantic and
North Carolina Road-New Candi-
date for Postmaster.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, \. c., February 10.

consideration now +
lin the care of the farmers and the
lother great interests OF the south to-
this with all its relative force
i'm our Owl state OF North Carolina.
Your correspondent listened for d loug
time to the conversation of c. c.
Moore, president of the North Caro-
lima division of the Southern Cotton
Association. of whom IL is agreed by
more than the farmers of this state and
section that fitness has found itself N
the election of that Mecklenburg man
for the chief post OF the associations
Interests among the Tar Heels
There may be many who do not begin
to realize the vast work done and al
lready accomplished. in behalf OF the
cotton farmers. 1t is worthy Of more
than mere passing 10 cot
and to enter into the full reckoning of
Mr.. Moore with the people Of his state !
-advisedly, with the people, for OH
the success of the tillers of the soil the
rest Of industry and toll are borne as
lstrict dependencies. President Moore
has recently been quoted q number of
times in ''Ihe Rural South" a paper
published in Alabama, and by the cot
ton growers, and in a section where
NJ Oh good is being done by thorough
i,organiZa.- On and the cooperation of
the merchants and parties to other en-
Iterprises.
h wires from Atlanta asked the
Question: as pledged cotton being
Isold:' and then added: Decline is I'M
warranted. Stand pat" Replies from
responsible and prominent holders Of
|spot cotton all over the south were 10
the effect that these pledged for -
cents Were holding on firmly, that cot
ton was not selling. From South Car
|olina, President Moore, has fine news
Jas to progress and determination. In
that state the farmers have paid in
$4,000 on the basis Of the levy of 10
lcents per bale. Georgia has exceeded
Ia1l other states in funds for the use
iOf the association, but a great part of
the money so received has been con-
ttrlhuted by the bankers, merchants
land manufacturers, who We're so de-
Esirous to see the farmers placed on a
firm and sure footing. Mr.. Moore
fsays. The truth and fact lies just
here, that the business men are more
than ready and willing to assist the
farmers to launch their enterprise Of
ia sustained market, but they want, at
the same time, to be assured mat the
farmers + honestly and earnestly
supporting their own organization, and
1are doing nothing at all &c retard its
fierce and advancement"
Mr.. Moore spoke with enthusiasm
tof the Alabama association which has
fcoron xr~rarssfay.c M WORK I'm tho rNn-
,ig%ressfonal district, and OF the devel.
sOpmS1f1 in Arkansas, Mississippi, and
In the last named state E. ID. Smith
1.-THE national Orga-iZer is AT work il
EpeCsCn
In response - direct request:
throughout the STATE, President Moor
idTtion of all the subsidiary bodie!
throughout his territory, and he i
fp1acng all the affairs of the association
i'm a line of system that will be of in
ffIifte valsIe I the effectiveness of tn
Organization.
TneYe have teen those already VIII.
}have ounded a II to the effect tina
MIR. Moore is in the association fol
,~.poIiticE.-" Yoar correspondent is as
3sured by cotton farmers and other:
afrom all over the state that such &
sEnng rs not even q passing thought
swfth this chief officer of the state as
ssociatiOn. Mr.. ,ioOre, perhaps even
;lgTter than ali the others who are d.
Srectly Or indirectly associated with
lhim IN this splendid enterprise he has
undertaken, realizes fully and also OK.
ipresses his REALIZATION that political
play can only result in the attuning
.of a prelude TO the death march of the
Southern Cotton Association-and AIR.
sMoUre is not IN politics.
4 d~eep-spirfted interest pervades all
mention here OF the suit Of Stockhold-
Ter Hill TO annul the lease of the At
;lantic and North Carolina Railroad,
(which was heard by Judge r. F.
Long, without jury. and will be decid-
Jed by him, with an early announce
Iment- \ man in Raleigh, prominent
lin the affairs Of the state, though not
a state officer, in s~p-aking TO your cor
respondent said: The material point is
stockholders ar. uneasy because the
Iannulment of the lease to X. s. How
land, OF Asheviile, and as made i'm
september 1904 for a term Of ninety
one years, wocld NEAR or not mean
so much to them. This lease was as
you will recall, on a graded rental
from three per cent reaching up to
seven per cert, while the lessees were
to pay OF tire floating debt Immediate
ily, and ais buy the supplies On hand.
In addition to this there was also to
be expended in Improvements the sum
of S25O,OOO. within a period Of three
years. So far the floating debt has
been paid, the supplies were bought
according to contract and about $780,
900 has been expended in permanent
Improvements. Then I'm addition to
all this about 100000 is being and
will be spent in bridging and extend
ing the road into Beaufort Mr.. Hill
owned n share OF the stock Of the
road before the lease, and later bought
another share. Another thing, too,