The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-13


 The general committee on resolu-
 tions composed of Messrn. P. M. Potts,
 ID. L. Maxwell. A. E. Going. and n.
 K. Boney presented their report
 which was unanimously adopted by
 the convention. The report earnestly
 recommenoed that so far as possible
 in each case. none of the crop of
 1908. still in the ownership of the
 producer. be sold below ten cents per
 pound for short staple cotton and
 urged growers to sell the crop so as
 to prevent selling in excess of one-
 ten per month of the remaining crop
 of 1908.
 The cotton growers are urged to
 apply to the local banks for loans se-
 cured by warehouse receipts repre-
 senting cotton to be held for the pur-
 pose of being marketed only when de-l
 manded for actual consumption. The
 suggestions offered to the convention
 for the organization of a holding cor
 poration are referred to the perman- ent committee, consisting of Chair
 man Jordan. Charles Gay and pr. Pierson. Recommends to the imme-
 date attention of Southern bankers
 and financiers the inauguration of a great cotton bank at some leading center in the South. for the purpose of establishing clearing house, to aid
 in financing and marketing tho cotton crop each season; urges a continua- ton of the agitation for cotton fac- tories enough, in the South to man. ufecture our cotton" and comments the efforts by the States, of Georgia, Texas and Mississippi in tho estab- lishment of tetxile departments in their agricultural colleges.
 The report recommends q diversif- l cation of crops claiming that this can | only be brought about by scientific study of the soil and practical rotation of crops: the extension of warehouse | facilities at local market points and all large interior cotton markets and | ports and especially oDmmending and ! endorsing thes upbuilding of the pro- | posed warehouse at the port of New | Orleans, that gin compressing and f marketing as, far as possible from l grower to spinner. and that these sam | ples be numbered and marked, the san1o as bales of cotton; that the Con- | gress of the United States and various | State Legislatures enact laws reauiT- l ing that the cotton exchanges revise ! their contracts making contracts fair | and just, and that the cotton deliver | more than five grades and that none below iniddling be deliverable; con- | demns speculaf1ng and gambling as encouraged and practiced through all exchanges; approves of the continue | ton of the United States cotton sta | tfstical reports when based upon tangible facts, 'but we do no approve of reports based upon calculation or guess work. I've urge that the De- partment of Agriculture use every | precaution to make their reports as | accurate as possible;" urge the im- | portance of local cooperation among | cotton growers in matters of common interest to the community.
 On the boil weevil, the report rec ammends that the farmers in States | now threatened with the boil weevil J to prepare themselves in advance for } the coming of the weevil by adapting | themselves as recommended by the ! United States Department of Agricul- | ture to approaching conditions and
 eve ask for a continuation of goy-
 ernment and State aid in combating | the weevil."
 l On night riding the resolution says: The meeting condemns in unmeas- ured terms the recent lawlessness | throughout a few of our Southern
 States known as night rioers ana I urge that the government of the Va- | rfous States where this evil is threat | enine the welfare of the people. to 1 take immediate and decisive action l for effectively suppressing 1t.
 The report concludes by requesting l the press of the South to assist in | bringing about the results that are ! hoped for from this report, not mere l lv in disseminating the information of | fine conference proceedings but in im- l pressinx upon the masses the. neces- sitv for united action in furthering | the mutual interests of the people of i the South. a.
 | aented a resolution. the object of which | is the foundation of an organization | which he stated would in time absorb | the work now being accomplished by | the Southern Cotton Growers Assocfa- | tion and Farmers Union, so far as the | cotton growers are concerned. The | resolution provide that President liar
 vie Jordan shall have complete charge 1 of the organization, which will include | the SoutherD< farmers and men in all | walks of life who are interested in the prosperity of the South, and that he | shall at once appoint one man in each cotton growing State to perfect the or- | ganizatIon in his own county. The an- | nuai dues shall be $1.50. oE which 50 | cents shah go to the National Asso- 1 citation to defray expenses, while the remaining $1 shall go to the county organization. It shall be the purpose | of the organization to collect data as to | yield. quality, and condition of the cot 1 ton crop as we'll as the local situation | in each county, as to the financing of
 the crop, in line with suggestions en- | bodied in resolutions Introduced We'd nesday by E. Fl. Frasier. of Atlanta, Ga. Another resolution adopted was of- | fered by H. H. Rodgers. of Louisville. l Miss, providing for the appointment by | Chairman Jordan of two other dele- | gates to act with him as a committee 1 to confer with a like committee ap- 1 pointed by the Farmers Union, now fin session at New rleans The two com