The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-04-02
THURSDAY. APRIL 2. raS.
FOR THE woRTH OF COTTON.

MIR. E. ID Smith, OF the southern
Cotton Association. Made Two
Strong Speeches In LumberlOn
MOnday-Nakesa an UnansWeT.
able Argument For the Worth
OF Cotton aud Pleads for
United EifOTiIO Obtain It's Worth
A Worlds Necessity Which
the South Has Long Sold for
Less Than II Is WOrth-A Fight
In which Merchants and
Bankers and Men of all VOea-
lions Should Engage.
Mr.. e. D. Smith, of Columbia,
s. c., national organizer of the
Southern Cotton Association, ad-
dressed the farmers and bust.
ness men at the Lumberton OPP
era House Monday at the noon
recess of court and again at 81
O'Clock in the evening. A large
crowd heard him at the noon
hour and a fairly good audience
attended the evening address.
Mr.. Smith is perhaps the best
informed and most forceful
speaker connected with the
Southern Cotton Association.
He is logical, eloquent and con-
vincing and he challenges
and holds the attention of his
audiences from the first
word. His arguments in re-
gard to the price of cotton and
the proper plan to pursue in or
der to obtain that price are ab-
solutely unanswerable, and it is
hard to understand how any man
can hear him without forming a
determination to help in every
way he can the fight the organi-
cation he represents is making
in the interest of the entire bust
ness world of the South. He
shows that men of every other
vocation are US vitality interested
in obtaining fair price for cot
ton as is the farmer, and be
shows how all may help.
Owing to a misunderstanding
as to the hour for the morning
address a representative of The
Robesonian failed to hear mucl
of the first address. At the Operj
House in the evening tn
audience was called to OF
der at 8:15 by Presiden
W. P. Barker, of the Robe
son Cotton Association, and afte
short prayer by Rev F. F. Eur
the speaker was introduced b.
Mr.. Stephen Mcintyre. Ia his e1
ceedingly appropriate introduC
tory remarksMr. Mcintyre spok
of the power that knowledg
gives and said that farmers ar
coming to see that they ought I
know as much about their bus
ness as other men. The Soutl
ern States, on occount of the
situation, soil and climate, mus
raise the cotton to clothe tt
world, and he took pleasure
introducing the man who is goir
up and down in this South i
structing the farmere how to o
tain fair price for the world
necessity. Mr.. Smith said
part:
The most ignorant, short sigt
ed man, when it comes to seei
what is really for the best int
ests of the people, is the busine
man. The farmer, by reason
the fact that he has suffered a
has learned in the bitter sch,
of experience, has in rece
years studied what has broug
ABOUT the poverty and ignorar
of the South and is better
formed than the business mt
The South has need Of or,
deal more of the knowledge u
is power.
There is never an effect witht
cause. The force that NAL
al commerce valuable, that
hanees the value of all proper
is the brain. We are depend
upon the use OF cur brains for
very existence. We are
adopted children Of nature;du
blutes are the real childr
We come into the world max
with q years of actual gro,
before we attain our majority
the cereals upon which we +
and the clnthinRwe arecompeI
to wsar are artiicially prepar
From the cradle TO the grave
existence is dependent upon
use Of our brains. WHAT ha, e
-