The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-26
Presidea Moore Of Nolh Cardinals
sociaion Very Busy
He Will Call on Wilmington Merchants
for Support in the Moyement-Out-
side Help Has Been Received-Busi-
ness Me Of Charlotte Gave Liberal
Iy-Charter of the Carolina Timber
Company Amended.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., January -.

liz "a
Cotton Growers Association, is al
ready showing himself fit for the ef-
fee to which he was receatly cabed
at the meeting ia Raleigh. Holding
this higher office he has already begun
4 movement that he will carry through
On a larger scale even than he did the
county association Of Mecklenburg.
'7rhere is all abour him Hle spirit OF en-
brought to his work the added zest
that comes with a more closely studied
application and Il more mtImate2
knowledge as to the real essentials III
the organization, and this same lnF
press he makes tn all those VIII!
whom he enters iRto any detailed ek-
plantations. In il long conversation
late at night with Mr.. Moore, when lie
had told .Feur correspondent nIch
about the workings of the associa ton |
| and had practically proven his asser- .
! tons he made this statement: 1t Is
| not coercion, but it is = more intimate
knowledge of conditions, not only with
! the tanners. bit with the merchants,
and the mill men, all Of whom ere in
t~er-dependent, just TO look at the
thing practically, we cannot sell I'M
d, less there .awere the factories 10 use
our cation, <and certainly the mills
cannot operate without our cotton. 1t
is very true there We're at the begin
ming tHf OurvNyork~a .pNmber 0ftsarmers
who felt the right to employ the whip
hand, having once gained it. l am
sure there is now only the feeling OF
serving aaE Iutuall inSsrest."
MI. Moore was asked abort the &c
ton that sometime seems sumptuary
when taken Individually by a higher
officer, particularly with reference To
Me-. .Jordan's decision When he found
the pooling movement to be imminent
i'm New York. "Sue!h action said be-
"1u1tst aat times be taken, and taken
at once. for there are times when It
is impossible to cab together at a mo-
ment's notice all those most directly
concerned, and ~ceeHainly This act OF
MI. Jordan saved money scarcely To
he lre1E Eled to the farmers of the COT
ton growing area ut is Only a matter
of ,cOttuI sense. II q two million bale
/ peol took from the market, the rise
would have to come and For that req
sen Mr.. Jordan announced for fifteen
l cents and so held back a swing
. among the spectators that would
= have Ebean of SO. great harm to the
farmers-which means every avenue
of traue. Ycu will readily see that the
. new mills already operating and
1 those that will commence work now
Within q short whise, are going to CAN
: for more cotton, some or them using
, as many as a hundred bales a day, and
u others in proportion. This then is the
; true condition, and ahe7 producers and
!, their supporters should all have The
v ga1ns:"
Mr.. Moore is greatly pleased vita
+ the meeting held Saturday at Louis
n burg, which was SO largely attended,
= and was marked by enthusiasm and
# earnestness Oh the part of the mem
l. bers. Today SmitIhield is the place
It Of meeting. Tuesday president Moore
z will return 10 Raleieh:for SINE special
: business. then visiting other places in
g the following order: fBoldsboro, Wed
1t nesday, Washington City, Thursday
J. to present with a committee, the Over
q man bill to President Roosevelt for Its
Y, recommending - congress. friday
l. the Jump will be to Moa roe, h center
j. of Union coun,y'S splendid orsani:a'
h ton. Rockingham. will be visited p
Lumberton %. and January 80, will
1T be spent in active work among tn
a. merchants of Wilmington, where ;
fine support to the movement is eX
le pected. Fayetteville and Dunn viii
le close the itinerary for this month, Of
III 81, and February 1 respectively. MI
~ Moore will return to Raleigh where o.
as February 8. will be held 81 great farm
il N.a and h
y state dto your correspondent that the
expected to enroll every farmer i
Wake county. There is now n
~. doubt that the merchants, banker
~ and manufacturers realize the gres
import Of the concerted action tia
= seemed for awhile only a mall move
ment. backed eenly by isolated entht
siasts and cotton dreamers, who wei
called giraffe land whose aims WEI
ha misinterpreted. One of the be:
NJ proofs of this statement lies in II
n fact that merchants and bankers on
of side the state are contributing TO IL
m. fund for a more thorough organic
RI ton. one wholesale merchant IN R1cl
d. mond. Va, having literally contribute
he and influenced other money. Stain
lat in a letter to the president that Ae b
1c- lieved the committee could secul
us more than twice the amount in Ricl
ms mond. President Moore feels Su
III that when his plans are put into e
ecution each one of the fifty three 60
las ton growing counties in the state "
he proye a factor in so strSng a coop
err rative movement A telegram FRO
w. S. Pharr, secretary OF the Nee
las lenburg association and received
Louisburg last Saturday annOunc.
fnl encouraging receipts at Charlotte fro
the business men there and promis
zes more than double results as stated
for that telegram.
the The state amends one charter o
ing TO the Carolina Timber Company
ms the Cape Fear river ear Wilmingto