Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-01-18
TO THE BOTTOM GROWERS
OF WAYNE COUNTY.
Come, Wednesday 24 January,
One and All to GOldsboro.

Come, Wednesday 24 January,
One and All to Goldsboro.
This is going to be the most impor-
taat year you have ever seen. Your
actions, efforts and determinations
this year wiz decide your fate for a
long time. you will agree with me
that during all your experience as
farmers, yoHr main money crop, cot
ton, you have had no voice in setting
the price. That part of your busi-
ness has beer attended to by the
manipulator ;or speculator, because
you were fios organized and in a
position to demand your rights. This
unjust custom has been practiced ON
you for the past so years, and it is
time for us to wake up and call a halt
to this unjust proceedings.
There has already come a change
over the dreams of great many far
mers and they are realizing they can
and will have a voice in the fixing of
the price of their products. They
realize in "union there is strength"
and they are organizing themselves
in one great body, for they realize
the fact that as long as they remain
unOrganized they are powerless to en-
force a demand and cannot be of any
assistance to their fellow-farmer in
demanding just and equitable price
for his products.
A full and complete organization is
imperative. Our progress and pros
perity demand it. Whether we will
continue to stand by, as helpless as
babes, and see our cotton go, as we
have seen it, for less price than it
cost us to produce it, is the great
question that confronts us today. AS
Moses commanded the children of
Israel to look and live, when he had
hoisted the great brason serpent in
the wilderness, our interest and our
leaders commands US to act and live
financially.
All great men of the South, who
feel an interest in southern prosperity
are with us in this great undertaking
and advise us by all means to organ
ize.
To aid in this great organization
movement in North Carolina, Col. c.
c. Moore, of Charlotte, who was re-
Gently elected President of the State
Cotton Growers Association at Ra-
leigh, hopes to be able to visit every
cotton gruaing eoanty in the State,
and talk with the farmers on this
great question. Tell them what the
organization has done and what it
can do if the farmers will organize
and prove faithful to their trust.
He expects to be in Goldsboro,
with other able speakers, Jan. 9th,
and would be glad to meet every
farmer in the county and give him
his views upon the subject. Brother
farmers, less give him a rousing
crowd and thereby enable him to SOW
seeds that will bring forth, not only
forty, but a hundred fold.
We have the matter now in our
own hands if we possess the man
hood to use it. If we lose this oppor-
tunity by not thoroughly organizing
and sticking to the organization, we
will not have this good opportunity
so presented to us again perhaps in
the next decade. Our power is now
recognized as never before. Wall
street has asked for conference with
the cotton growers, something that
was never heard of before.
The main thing we need is a
thorough organization in every
Township in the South. When that
becomes the case we can easily
arrange to deal directly with the
spinners and leave the speculator
| unnoticed. Be sure to come Wednes-
day the "a and help to put the ball
in motion.
n. w. Musgrave Chairman,
Cotton Growers Association,
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