The Tupelo journal., 1907-01-18

cotton States, no amount Ol passive
appreciation and gratitude will avail TO
make the association a working power
against the hosts of adverse interests.
1T is full time that the people OF the
South seriously realize, and act ac-
cordingly, that successfully to meet the
stern conditions of this advanced age,
modern methods must be adopted and
adhered to. Today sees every great
field of industry save the agricultural
one organized, and its members pre-
senting a solid front to the rest OF the
world. Every other body of ~co-workers
is in a state of highly organized eff
cheney. 1t will not do for us to pursue
old methods, however attractive or
dignified they may be, however tradi-
~tionally Southern they may be, if we
are successfully to cope with twentieth
century business methods, and obtain
our honest share of the profits of in
dustry and intelligence. 1t is the age
of the brutal but effective fire-arm, not
of the gallant but now futile sword; the
day of steam and electricity, not OF the
stage-coach and p~ack-horse. And the
change that has been wrought in me-
chanics is matched by the change hat
has taken place in economic methods.
although they hold the whip hand
in the situation, of all who deal with
the cotton product, our Southern peo-
,1a have ,roGta5 1ooc+ IN oroportiop IN
their deserts. And all from failure to
work together in the broader place OF
business. Let them no longer neglect
or give only half-hearted or spasmodic
support to a movement which has for
its purpose the bringing to them their
fair and honest share in the wealth
their own hands and lands create, al
association which has already made
good its right to their support. The
larger the territory the stronger the
backing given, the more closely the
organization approximates unanimity
the more useful and efficient it will be.
Ninety per cent of the growers of cot
ton, by concerted action, after wise
consideration, could dictate the price of
raw cotton up to the very figure at
which the manufacturer could purchase
and still have a fair margin of profit.
But this happy consummation can only
be obtained by welding themselves
into n great body whereby they can
work in unison.
1.-The Southern Cotton Association is,
we believe, the solution of the situa-
ton. Its policy provides for local asso-
Citations with independent powers as to
local needs and conditions. 1t follows
the analogy of our political subdi-
visions, and provides for State, county,
district and precinct organizations; and
the great central or national ~associa-
ton, composed of the representatives
of these smaller ones, performs the
functions of Jul national government.
1t acts for the smaller organizations in
their federal relations, and for the
great body of the members in their
foreign relations, presenting an organ
lied and united front to the outside
world, by which is meant those not in
terested in the producing and market
ing OF the great white staple.
{ "In the firm and just belief that their
own best interest, and the interest of
the cotton States demand it, the Mis-
sissippi Division earnestly urges upon
everyone interested in securing a fair
and adequate price for the greatSouth-
ern product that thay rally to the sup
port of the Southern Cotton Association.
sd. H. CHAMBERLAIN,
81. F. CAsSELLs,
"R. w. MILLSAPS,
HENRY A. MINOR, JR.,
"COmmitee.r