The log cabin Democrat., 1906-11-01
AGAINST I. H. PRI,E
Pres. Burnett Urges Ginners
 Not to Report.
Amount Ginned to This Speculator on the Ground That i, will Hurt the
 Producers Interests.

Producers Interests.
 Pres. B. H. Burnett of the Ark ansas division, Southern Cotton Association, has recently issued circulation urging Arkansas gin ners not to make reports to TheO H. Price, the New York specula tor. of the number of bales turned out of their ginneries. Mir. Bur nett says:
 From an article by Theo. H. Price, recently published in all the leading papers, l clip the follow ing:
 Parties owning or operating cotton gins or ginning plants are requested to immediately send me their names and their post office addresses, that l may submit to them a proposition that may be to their subs antial financial benefit.
 Now the question for us to consider first is, who is Theo. H Price? And why does he want the names of ginners?
 He is the man of whom 1t is said He does not speculate in cot ton, but in southern fools.
 Prom the above article I would suppose him to be fishing for all other crop of fools, but with new kind of bait.
 "It is also said of Mir. Price, that it costs him S5o,ooo to make one of his crop estimates. l want to tell you that it does not cost him dollar, for we southern tools pay the bill.
 "Now, wby has MT. Price be come so generous toward the gin ners of the south? Is it because he really wants to put them Ill position to make money? No. He only wants them to supply him with information that he may use in manipulating the cotton market to hi own profit and to the detri ment of the south; or m other words, to help him rob our people of their God-given monopoly Why, he has already said that cot ton was high enough, and he is now preparing to help bear the market and crush the south as h has so often helped to do before; or if the information you ginners ginners Gin whom he seems to have so much terest) give him, would make it profitable to him (not you), he would get on the bull side of the market. Either way is gambling, pure and simple, and should not be cOuntenanced by any man who has the good of his country at heart. I have no faith in MT. Price and his methods, and would advise the ginner to make no report to anyone, except the government or some organiza- ton in the south, which has for its object the betterment of the condition of our people. If you give MT. Price, or any other spec ulator, information, and they pay you for it, you may rest assured that your neighbors and patrons will pay the bill with big interest.
 What did he say whe at New Orleans, in January, 1905, the $. C. A. declared for LOG cotton? He 1said the price at which it was khen selling, which was 6Hc was Sfoo high, and that 1t would surely go lower. So you see any old price was too high for him when he can have our people assist him in forcing it lower.
 "If we will not give out any in- formation to spectators Cor gam ble:s), sell our cotton only at an advancing market; stand together and support the Southern Cotton < Association; we will again demon \ strate to the world that we are fully & able to attend to our own affairs, and fix and maintain a price on # cotton.
 Yours for success of the south,
 "B. H. BURNETTE. M "Pres. Ark. Div. $. C. A. !" l