The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-16

beautiful illustration of the importance and reeourcefulness of cotton
 During the past year. he said. the cry was heard that the weather was rs- sponstbe and not the association TOT the succsss thus far.
 s8coundrels in Washington.
 weather. weather, they say ex- claimed the speaker. Well. wasn thai tremendous storm that wiped those scoundreIs out of the department n Washing gtou."
 In line with the oppression. which he said had been heaped upon the South. the extortion from the South of the benefits of its soil and glorious climate. now was the time to teacn them" how to pay twelve and fifteen cents for cotton.
 Regarding the allegation that the Southern Cotton Association is trust MT. Smith said this was fine fiattery,
 We have learned we've got to fight the devil with fire" he said. we've got bigger blaze than him. We've got him on the run and we are going to keep him on the run"
 He took up the matter of tarihs and said . tariff wall had been butt around this country through legislation for the protection of New England, but he thanked God that the South needed n legisiation to provide a wall for its staple.
 After illustrating by a story how the spinners under contract to deliver goods at price on which they would have lost mcnsygat the then prevailing price of cotton, combined to shut down until they could ret cotton cheaper and they did succeed. he wanted to know why the people of the South didn't have a legitimate right to combine to maintain price for their product.
 It was not so, much a question ot price that the South fixes. he said, but 1t was question of the men back of the price. and he exhorted the man hood of the South to stand in this movement as firm as the Southern man did in the days of the Civil War.
 Competitors of Cotton.
 Mir. Smith showed that the only three competitors of cotton were wool. flax and silk, and that neither of them could be really regarded as a com peutor. Cotton was the South's only monopoly. He urged that all forces should be joined together in the move ment, the farmer. the banker. the mer- chant. the lawyer, the doctor and the preacher.
 Mir. Smith concluded with an elo- quent peroration in which he said the movement was bound to win because he was piedu1HB Wlth tne men or the Cou- federacy and the sons of these men.
 Following the speech of MT. Smith. an appeal was made for finances for the Alabama Division of the Southern Cotton Association and the following subscriptions were received: R. R. Poole. $25; Walter Brothers. $25; N. J. Bell. $25; Pink" Sayre. $1o; J. s. Ed son, $1o; Charles l.. Gay, SIC; E. B. Chestnut. $10; W. G. Jones, s10; ". H. Vaughn. $10; J. A. Cobb. $5; W. M. Hud- son, $5; A. R. Harvey, $5; W. J. Sellers. $5; H. A Belser, $5; R. A. Ashley. $5: W. w Sellers, s.
 MT. Smith spoke briefly in the inter est of the cotton warehouse move ment after which the meeting adjourn ed at 1:30 o'clock.
 Throughout the meeting, there were several negro farmers present and they listened attentively to the proceedings
 President Jordan and MT. Smith left here last night. MT. Smith will go to Ashevifle. N. C., where he has been invited to attend a convention of spin ners.