The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-10-22
DON'T SELL COTTON. NOW.
Steps Looking to Improvement
of the Situation Being taken.
The Progressive Farmer.

In the South the low price of
cotton continues to be one of the
chief topics Of discussion, and
serious steps looking to the i'm
provement Of the situation are
now being taken. President C.
S. Barrett, of the National
Farmers Union, has called a
meeting to be held in New Or
leans November 18th and 18th,
and President Harvie Jordan, of
the Southern Cotton Association,
has called q mass meeting to be.
held in ilemphis, Tenn, No
vembec 10th, 11th, and 18th.
It is a matter of great regret
to Us that these meetings are
not combined, and we hope that
the members of the two organi-
cations will yet effect this re-
sult-end it also seems to US
that it would be far better if
some definite plan Of action
could be agreed upon at least as
early as November 1st.
In the absence of such plan,
we can only urge our readers
simply not to sell at present
prices.
We have had enough talk Of
'fiffteen-cent' cotton. We re-
fused to stand for this folly
when it was first proposed by
the Cotton Association, even
though many subscribers disa-
greed with US, and the only re-
suit of the ffteen-cent idea has
been to stimulate extravagant
notions, Improbable delays in
selling, and over-planting in the
hope of getting this impossible
price.
But if fifteen cents is a price so
visionary that farmers should
never bank upon it, ten cents is
a price SO low that the farmers
of the South should forever re-
fuse to sell a pound of lint at
any lower figures.
Whether or not the unjustifi-
able fifteen-cent talk and other
conditions led to such extensive
planting as to make it impracti-
cable to force a ten-cent price
for all this years crop, we can
not declare with postiveness,
But it is at least our emphatic
opinion that proper action on the
part of Farmers Union and Cot
ton Association and their fol-
lowers-every farmer able tc
hold keeping his crop off the
would insure ten-cent
prices, and the stake is worth
trying for, and worth trying fol
at once.
, We should let the manufacture
ing world know that it canno'
, have our lint at less than ter
cents a pound land it will be wei
if we shall also come to know
that it is out Of the question
for us to expect fifteen cents ;
pound. A steady market, ranging
between ten and twelve cent!
: a pound, is the most desirabl
for all interests concerned.
I Seaboard's Conductors Courte
Gus Treatment of a Lady Pas
n senger.
q Those who travel much on tn
t Seaboard from Wilmington
d Monroe will recognize the follow
r ing, taken from The Chariot
II Observer, as fairly illustrative c
n the uniform courtesy which Car
e tain Williams always shows hi
n passengers:
: Il witnessed a little incider
.e on a Seaboard train the othe
IS night that impressed me yer
e much, observed a travelling ma
e yesterday. 1T was close on
IS midnight and the train was neal
IS ing it's destination-Wi Wilmington
l. There was only one woman O
Z the train. She had tiny bab
II in arms, a little girl who migE
10 have been 3 years old and sh
= was burdened with suit case
q and bundles innumerable. He
- destination was a flag static
p where there isn't a habitation i
le sight from the depot, nor We
'e any living creature about whe
y the train rolled up. Baby, bundle
g and all the woman alighted.
IS was as dark as pitch and fl
II some reason the friends she WE
s. intending to visit had not con
1t to meet her. That conductt
II didn't lose much time puzzlin
le over the situation. He bundle
the worried passenger and h
NJ belongings back on the trail
at pulled the engineer ahead uni
* the train reached a point over
y mile further on, directly opposi
th the home the passenger was
s. visit; then helped the woman al
her trappings off again and {
- corted her to the front door
II the house. Of course she W
q profuse in her thanks and wh'
VI VI the conductor boarded the ira
~ III and signalled the engineer to
"a al ahead there was a look on /
IL ~ face that betrayed the councioU
sd 'o9 ness Of a gallant deed, we'll dor
eu ,ar Would you have believed til
ng 3 there was a railroad in the coU
10 10 try on which such an act of COZ
,m' ,.n tesy could have been witnesse
~ ~ | haven't asked his permissiC
10, o1 but Pm going to give that cC
oil ductor away-it was Capt;
Williams.
Laws catch flies and let h