The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-19
TWO GOVERNORS TALK
TO COTTON DELEGATES
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a girl, possessing all the womanly sweet
ness and purity of her mother, and the
strength of that father whose name IS
an honest synonym of honor, strength,
capablity and tenderness. Should we try
for a thousand years could we name
her anything but Social Supremacy? The
other four children will be illustrious and
stalwart sons beautiful admiXture of
their parents, and these we will name
Agricultural, Political, Industrial and
Commercial Supremacy. When this day
dawns the south will once again assume
her rghtful position 1t will then be that
the reins of government will be placed
in the hands of men, southern born, and
the destinies OF this great republic will
be controlled by those who years ago
were shorn of power. and this nation
with a victorious tread, will march to-
ward the accomplishment of all those
national virtues which we love and re-
we're.
Summary.
ITO attempt to give in detail what the
Southern Cotton association means to the
south. is a task requiring a pen more
facile than ! can WELD. 1t means, when
our principles are rightly established and
adopted, billions of wealth and worlds
of happiness will attend the southern
people. 1t means that in two years this
association has been largely responsible
in saving $550,000,000 to the farmers of the
south. This represents a volume of money
large enough to buy either Alabama or
Arkansas at her Textbook value. If this
association should accomplish nothing
more it means that it has been OF
incalculable value in running that hydro
headed monster, called the bucketshop.
out OF Georgia and South Carolina and
in another sixty days the same can be
% Ax1yn hn
means that this association is bringing
order out of chaos and putting a moral
backbone in him. 1t means that it is
teaching him the beauties and benefits OF
a Investigation and demonstrating to
him that if he will use the same intelli-
gence in marketing and preserving his
crop as he does in producing it, that
the combined efforts of the world can
not rob him of that rich reward that is
justly his.
THE story will be told in a thousand
different varied and potent languages
II will speak to the people of the south
In the silvery tones of snowy white cot
ton. and in the golden notes of yellow
corn: it will speak in the language OF
the miners pick and the geological ham
mer: il will speak in the language Of
happiness that emanates from milllons
of happy farm homes scattered all over
the southland; it will speak In the Ian
guage of the medical and dental pro-
fessons: il will speak in the language
of the greatest to me of all professions
that of the law: 1t will speak in the
language of the industrial and CONNER
cial world the arts and the sciences.
In fact, from every avenue and calling
of life: 1t will be stamped upon every
new born state and borne to us on every
fckle breeze. and all these sounds and
songs and notes and anthems will flow
and mingle into one grand. long and
exalted chorus of what the south has
accomplished through the organizing and
systematizing the efforts of him who. I'M
III within the last few wears. had no
organization; but who, after all when
he come to give honor 10 whom honor Is
d.e is one of the potential factors in the
substantial upbuildings of nations
wealth and greatness-the American
farmer"
e. D. Smith introduced.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Jacoway's
address E. ID. Smith. national organizer
of South Carolina, was introduced and
discussed cotton and southern prosperity.
He said in part, The people of the south
have studied long in the school of eX-
perience, the fight has been long and
a hard one, but there is nothing but bet-
Ter times in the future for us. There
could hardly be worse conditions than
have prevailed since the war.
I'VE hear a great deal about the new
south There is no new south, but the
old south asserting ieself. The Yankees
taught us how to raise cotton at cents
ner pound and now we are going to
teach them how to pay us Il cents per
nound for It, We have paid the debt
under which we have struggled SO long
at the lash of these sharks in Wall street
and now the southland, waking from its
Ignorance and helplessness Will assert
Its independence and throw on the yoke
of bondage But success can only be
achieved through cooperation and by the
strong helping the weak.
"It is the weak cotton grower that
hurts the market and drags down prices.
The strong men of the south can take
care of themselves but for self-protection
they must put their arms about the Ut
lie. weak fellow who is not able TO pro-
tect himself against forces that are drag
cling him down. He is in debt ana must
sell his cotton at any price when ne Is
called by his creditors.
1--WE must supply warehouses in which
= cotton may BE- stored and where no