The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-19
$740O Was Raised Yesterday
TO Garry on the Work Of
the Organization
ROOSEvELT'S BROWNSVILLE
ATTITUDE is ENDORSED
Speakers Yesterday Were as Urgent as
Ever to Have Growers Stand Firm
and Give Heartiest Support
to Organization.

The features of yesterdays sessions of
the Southern Cotton association were the
addresses of Governor-elect Hoke Smith
of Georgia, Ex-Governor Duncan C. Hey
by popular subscription of s74SO to carry
on the work of the association during the
present year.
The largest single contribution of the
afternoon was $1,000 by the Mississippi
organization, and two $500 contributions
We're made by the South Cotton Journal
and C. C. Clifford of Memphis respective
ly. Other amounts ranged from $100 to
So. Another appeal will be made today
and the free list of contributions will be
published tomorrow.
Governor-elect Smith addressed the
convention yesterday morning at 10
o'clock and Ex-Governor Hayward ad-
dressed the convention yesterday after
noon at 2:3O o'clock.
The auditorium at Seventeenth street
and Third avenue was crowded on both
occasions and both speeches were re-
ceived with close attention by those pres
ent.
Roosevelt's Action Endorsed.
At the afternoon session a resolution
was adopted endorsing President Rooss-
velt for his stand in the Brownsville af-
fair.
Governor B. B. Conner will address the
convention this morning at 10 o'clock.
and 1t is expected that the attendance
will be large. Governor Conner arrived
in the city last night for the purpose
of making the address,.
The convention will come to a close
tonight after one of the most important
meetings ever held by the association.
1t was announced last night that the
acceptance of the office of president by
Harvie Jordan for another year will de-
pend entirely upon the financial support
to be given his efforts by the association.
The Sessions In Detail.
The second days session of the South
ern cotton association was called to or
der yesterday morning at 10 o'clock by
President HarV1e Jordan.
The attendance was larger than on the
previous day. Governor-elect Hoke-Smith
of Georgia was introduced and addressed
the convention on Fractional Means of
Making Lint Cotton Bring to the Farmer
a Just Price"
He said in part:
Gentlemen of the Southern Cotton as
sociation-It gives me pleasure to be with
you, because the result you desire to
HI.
people of our section and prosperity Of
our nation.
While ordinarily the laws of supply and
demand can be relied upon to bring the
producer just price for the product of
his labor, artificial conditions may exist
which interfere with the natural course
of trade. This is the situation which ap-
plies to the sale of lint cotton by the
farmer.
II the farmers of the south sold their
cotton to the owners of the mills of the
world the mills need the cotton, with
no interference from false estimates of
crops, or false estimates of value created
by speculative exchanges and bucket
shops, there Is every reason to believe
that cotton would today sell at Is cents
pound.
wish to see the cotton growers fully
awake to the true value of their great
staple. 1 would have for them the CO.
operation of all the people of our sec
ton, and the sympathy of all patriots
throughout the nation.
Development OF Cotton Crop.
Let us consider the wonderful develop
ment and Importance of this crop to our
people. The culture of cotton in the
southern states began in ITO.
In 1879 276 bales of cotton were ex-
ported In 1S00 $4,000 bales were export
ed By the end of sixty years such was
the capacity of this section to produce it.
that in 1860 the crop reached 4,s24,6c0 bales
Eighty-fve per cent at that time of this
enormous crop was shipped abroad.
During the last century the cotton crou
was sold for $4,000 900. 600, and the United
States has received from the export OF
cotton during the same period $1,000,
100000.
our American cotton crops for the six
years preceding the crop of 1906 sold for
s3 POI 900. 1t created the vital force
which has brought prosperity throughout
the south, and 1t contributed from foreign
countries to our national prosperity over
$1,000, 100000
During the past three years the cotton
crop has sold for an average of s650.00 900
annually. Two-thirds of this same amount
has been received from exports. Our cot
ton sold abroad has brought back from
the people of other nations in three years
the vast sum of 81 200 900 to give life
and force to the commerce of our coun-
try.
II has contributed more to make the an
nuai balance of trade with the nations of
the world in favor of the United State
than any other commodity or industry,
and more than all other agricultural pro-
ducts combined.
True Value of Lint Cotton.
Realizing how important it is that the
farmer should receive for his lint cotton
a lust price, we should find its true value,
and we should seek to remove as far. as
possible those influences which cause
fluctuations in the market and which de-
preciate the price while it is in the hands
of the farmer.
Lint cotton is the great raw material
from which the people of the world are
clothed.
An eHment to be considered in deter
mining the true value of lint cotton is
~ nradt which ossld be made by the