Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-05-19
MAKE CROP STABLE
GIGANTIC PLAN TO BENEFIT
COTTON GROWERS.
BY Means Of Bonded Warehouses In
Which Cotton VIII Be Stored
II 10 Asserted Market Can
Be Regulated.

word, funds will be Immediately avail
able In sufficient volume to forever
place the great industry of cotton pro-
duction upon a stable foundation. free
from the chance fluctuations of the
market, relieved of the attack OF ma
nipulators and leaving the gigantic
crop monopoly of this section to re-
spond, unembarrassed and unrestrict-
ed, to the legitimate laws of supply
and demand. The result should mean
to the south an annual actual cash
saving ranging from $15O,0O0,OOO to
$3.50, 1000. 900"
In these plain terms Daniel j. Sui
ly, the man who drove cotton to its
highest market price since tie civil
war, outlined the purpose OF his visit
to Atlanta and the southern states,
says the Atlanta Constitution.
"My plan," he continued, "contem-
plates nothing less than an eminently
practical materializing, by sane busi-
ness methods partaking of conserva-
tive business investment, of the end
W WHICH lIlt dliiQ IlC OdoiiNno
man of the south have for years di-
rected their efforts; and that is, the
creation of an impregnable business
system which shall do away with the
annual necessity of the farmer sacr1-
ficing millions of bales of cotton for
pressing debt, congesting the market,
hammering down prices, upsetting the
reign of supply and demand, and los
ing to this section the tremendous
sums that are its due in return for
the one crop indispensable to the
needs of civilization.
Simple Business and Finance.
mo thinking southern man for a
moment questions the desirabilfty OF
achieving this result 1t has been the
vision of every southern business man,
every farmers organization in the. his
tory of the south. The sole obstacle
to- putting that vision into practical
effect heretofore has been the lack
of the immense financial resources
and the machinery essential to the
handling of so vast a project.
THAT obstacle will now be removed,
II the farmers of the south and the
business men of the south are ready
to lend their earnest cooperation to
plans making obviously for their own
self-interest.
II do not ask one penny from the
southern people, do not ask the
pledging of one bale Of cotton, until
have given ample good faith of sufii-
cient financial backing, from sources
that are unquestionable, to carry
every detail of the plan into effect
and to safeguard the interest of every
farmer in the south, from the man
who raises one bale to the man who
raises a thousand bales.
"This understanding, which l am
willing to make good to all corners,
is the foundation upon which the
rest OF the plan is builded.
"a minimum fund Of $10. 100000.
subscribed by the most conservative
fnanciers of the United States, is
available to be invested in such iron
clad securities as shall insure the
ability and the responsibility Of the
plans promoters to redeem their
promises and obligations to the last
detail.
1.-THE people of the south will be
given the first opportunity to invest
In this project, II. upon rigid investi-
cation, 1t commends itself TO their
judgment.
But It will become operative, with
the same fock-ribbed backing, II the
south does not see At to put a single
dollar into II"
Bonded Warehouses and Certificates.
What are the details Of the plan!"
was asked Mr. Sully.
Simply the materializing." he an
swered, "of the plan your own Farm
ers' union has been and is striving to
put into actual operation, but in which
they have been impeded for lack Of
the tremendous ready resources indis-
pensable to its execution.
"The backbone of the plan Is a
chain Of bonded warehouses through
out the south sufficient in number
and capacity TO house one-third Of the
crop, and that one-third, as has been
demonstrated, will be the balance Of
power which will render market con-
gestion impossible and Insure the dis
posal of the crop in strict conformity
with the laws of supply and demand.
Farmer viii Own His Cotton.
mo farmer will sacrifice or sur
render the title CT his cotton under
this plan.
Say that he produces one bale of
cotton. Under present conditions, the
vast majority of southern planters
have already heavily mortgaged that
bale to secure the funds for its pro-
luction.
His creditors press upon him for
settlement In only exceptional in
stances is be able to Withstand the
pressure. AS an overwhelming rule,
he is forced 30 sell his cotton the mo-
ment II leaves the ginnery.
The same situation prevailing in
every southern state, it follows that
the bulk of the crop, instead of fol-
lowing natural business laws and be-
ings marketed over the legitimate
.period of barter and sale and con-
.-.s~, a. duuo1ad ,,non tho rnarkot