The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-03
The Cotton Journal.

The Cotton Journal.
 The cotton grower of the South are at last called upon to arouse them selves out of the Iethargy of thepres- ent and the recent past. and once again take on the armor of grim de- termination and defense against the artiicially depressed low prices for cotton. Cotton Is the only great sta- 'ple commodity of the world which is selling at and below the cost of pro- duction. It is one of the two great worlds necessities of the human race. It Is the only commodity where its production is confined to one small section of the worlds surface and where the people who grow it have the absolute power to control its pro- duction and sale. Notwithstanding these undeniable facts the people of the South appear tU be as helpless as babes in the powerful and avaricious hands of foreign mill owners and out side speculative interests. Instead of dietating the price of the products of their brain and labor. they appear to stand spellbound in meek and humble submission to the click of the cable and telegraph instrument which each day spells the lash of poverty on the backs of the highest type of the AngIorSaxon race. Cotton growers all over the South are daily seeing the bread snatched from the mouths of their wives of their children, the cloth- ing taken from their backs, in order that the cotton mill barons of for- eign country may increase their divi- dends and crush the producers of worlds necessity between the upper and neither millstones of eternal pow erty. If there be sufficient manhood in the South to resist this unholy war fare. let the patriots gather from every hill and valley and with unfaltering footsteps march to the great Cotton Conference called at Memphis on No- vember 10. II, 12. 1908.
 The die is cast. and he who falters or hesitates by the wayside should rot In his very footsteps and be forgot ten. The man who says, "It can't be done," is the man who has lost all hope and whose backbone is linked together with cotton strings. If the grizzled old veterans whS followed Lee and Jackson through the storms of shof and shell had hesitated and faitered. the glorious battles which were won and which made the Confederate sol. dier famous throuhgout the civilized world would have never been fought. If the South had cowardly submitted to the infamy of reconstruction we would today have been helpless and submissive at the feet of our conquer ors, and the blood of a proud and brave people would have been chilled under the dominating control of a race just freed from slavery.
 Men of the South. where is your manhood? Sons of Confederate he- roes, where are the memories of the valiant deeds of your sires? The South has never yet rallied in determined effort to advance the price of spot cot ton to living figures but what success and victory have followed in the wake of the campaign. Success is swift and certain now if the people will rally at Memphis on November 10, and as- sert their determination to resist to the bitter end the unfair and unreason- ably low prices now being offered for the present cotton crop of the South. Indifference will not win. staying at horne and expecting some one else to carry the banner through to victory will never enable the South to plant the flag of good prices on the ramparts