The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-30
TO MEET
COTTON GROWERS OF STATE COME
 NEXT wEDNHgDAY.
nsesnbers of AHabama Dfvfsien VIII Gather in lzontwomery--Presid . of County Association Urges
 Large Attendance.


 The annual convention. of the Ala hama Division of the Southern Cotton Association will be held in Montgom- cry at the county court house, Wed- nesday, January ?, at which time it is expected that there will be more than two hundred delegates in attendance from the more than thirty organized counties throughout the State.
 The most important business which will claim the attention Of the con- vention will be the annual election or State officers. the election of delegates tn the national convention, which will be hez& in Birmingham, January 1T-19. ana me election of three members of fho national Executive Committee.
 The newly elected Executive Commit tee will meet in Birmingham on Jan uary IS, two days previous to the meet ing of the national convention. The etate convention will meet at the couri- fv court house at II o'clock Wednesday morning, and will probably continue in seasion through the day, and. if the business is not completed, will hold night session.
 Thiu will be the third annual meet ing of the State Division and President W. H. Seymour expects 1t to Ds me best attended meeting ever held. A number of subjects of importance 10 the Association will be discussed' Inc program will be announced later.
 President Charles L.. Gay, Of the Montgomery County Division. has writ ton the following letter to the mem hers of the county division. which will gro aIl oficers ana Members of the
 Montgomery County Division, 2. 2.
 saGentIemen--I feel 1t my duty as your president to call your attention once more to our State conventlons s.. 4tato 1ffx nVzn aN~ nesday, January 3. Remember all who will attend are invited to accept the privileges of the hoorf and l will delegate them. hope to see one hundred men representing our county
 Tt is passing strange. and to me surprising, how great interest all else material consumes of our time and att tention, yet, cotton. the fundamental basis of all prosperity of our country our absolute dependence, is allowed to wend It's own way. guided only by spec uiation and the interest of those whose business could not exist twenty-four hours without 1t. The average grower W rth today? As has been well said: IF we make a short crop, we get a short price; if a bumper crop, we get tho same.
 aour experience as an organization now two years old. granting we have lIEH HbCGTSAuks HdA thNSuN AH NAAt w are lip against mighty proposition, ana to hold the advantages we have gained, we must fortify ourselves. Let us come together. discuss these plans of fortihcation, and proceed to put them in action. To thus foFtify, lead- ing, thoughtful men, say: you must build warehouses to properly handle and finance your cotton. Also 1t en- nbiea the strong to protect the weak.
 @An official of our organization, who met the foreign spinners in conference at Washington. says among the first questions propounded was how many waresh0uses has your organizatfonT He was promptly told our association was young in the cause; we had some and more to follow. The spinner was grat- filed at this, and remarked, your farm ers cooperative warehouses should bring the producer and spinner in clos- CT touch with each other; 1t would en- able us to buy on certified receipts, leave for storage and better regulate the supply of our mills.
 we have no fight to make with our present warehouses, we need them and more Now 1t is conceded we have 4,raetically a monopoly of cotton pro- auction. In these prosperous times we note the advance of almost every com- modity in the industrial line, even cotton goods. yet we are confront8H with lower prices for the raw product.