The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
HOST GATHERS
I'm NEW ORLEANS
To Attend Annual Meeting Of South
ern Cotton Association.
ENTHUSIASM IS GREAT
Notable Addresses Delivered by PreSi-
dent Jordan and Others in Resume
Of Work of the Association.

WAN ldF5e anu representative at
tendance from the cotton growing
states, the Southern Cotton Growers
Association opened three days ses.
sion in New Orleans Thursday.
The hall was crowded when Pres
ident Jordan called the convention to
order. A feature that attracted at
tention was the presence of a negro
delegation from H.nds county, Missis
sippi. Secretary Woods Of the Mis-
sissippi association snid they were reg
ular delegates and entitled to seats.
President Jordan was given an oya-
tlon. Invocation was offered by Rev.
DR.. Beverly Warner. Ex-President
John NJ. Parker Of the New Orleans
cotton exchange delivered an address
of welcome in which he said the spec
ulator is the greatest enemy the far
lner has He counseled the farmer
not to '1kill' the golden goose by put
ting up prices so high as we will soon
have an active competition from other
countries.
Mr. Foster, member of the Loulsi
ana railroad commission, and large
cotton planter, responded. When Mr..
Foster concluded President Jordan de-
liyered his address on the southern
farmer.
President Jordan reviewed at some
length the objects Of the association
end its accomplishments. He re-
ferred to the discovery of dishonest
practices in the bureau of cotton sta
tistics in the department of agrlcul-
ture at Washington and the fight
made by the association for purity
there. He then discussed the reasons
for the demand made by the associa-
tion-11 cents for cotton.
'It has been ascertained by inves
tigation," he said, "and has not yet
been denied, that at the prevailing
prices Of the manufactured products
this season, spinners could easily
nave paid 12 cents for the entire
crop to the growers and declared div
idends on their investments. on
this basis a crop of 100000 bales
should have brought the producers
$600,000,000 II we demand and re
ceive Is cents for the balance of the
unsold portion Of the crop, basis mid
ding, at interior points, we will still
be unable to average the whole crop
at 10 cents a pound, due to the unwar-
ranted low prices at which more than
one-half Of the crop has been sold.
The proposition to hold the balance
of the crop at a maximum figure CT
Is cents is, therefore, based upon
conservative reasoning surrounding
the present legitimate laws of demand
and supply.
Concluding his address, President
Jordan urged the wisdom and neces-
sity for compact organization among
the growers in every cotton producing
county in the south
Mr.. Irvine Of Georgia said extern
sive Italian immigration would ulti.
mately result in italian possession OF
southern lands. He thought the en-
orgies of the south ought to be direct
ed to the education of it's youth in
the advantages of farming and to the
sending of city boys to the fields,
Mr.. Smith of South Carolina said
that the south during the past year
had made all the cotton needed with
out difficulty and with negro labor,
and there was no occasion for dis,
cussing the question of securing ad-
ditional labor until the southern far
mers were assured an enriching re-
turn on the cotton they were able to
raise.
AT the conclusion of the discussion
Hon D. A. Tompkins Of Charlotte, N.
C.. was introduced to speak on Got
ton Values in Textile Fabrics"
At the opening of the afternoon
session announcements we're made Of
members from the various states to
serve on the committee which does the
actual work Of the convention. The
committees provided for are on acre
age and diversihcation, pushing the
work Of organization and financing
the association, warehousing, holding
balance of unsold crop, trade relations
and statistics.
The night features were a paper by
John D. Walker of Sparta, Ga, on
closer relation between banker and
farmer He was given vote of
thanks for raising the first $4,000
for the work. Walter Clark presi
dent OF the Mississinni division. spuNe