The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-30

tower, of the Farmers Union of Mis-
dressed the farmers and citizens gen.
orally Of Forrest county on the sub
ject OF the warehouse plan of the
union in Mississippi. He was intro
duced to the audience in a brief
speech by Mr.. s. v. Robertson, and
was warmly received.
President Hightower makes no effort
to assume the methods of the platform
orator to reach his hearers, but con-
fines his talk to plain matter Of
speech. This manner serves his pur-
pose better than eloquence and or
nate fluency. He holds the earnest
attention of his audience, and when
he has finished it has been found
that he has been both impressive
and convincing. With the conclusion
of his address he was heartily ap-
plapded and found himself surrounded
~ members of his audience extend
dng him congratulations.
4 One statement President High
tower made in the course of his ad-
dress attracted pleasing attention.
Speaking of one of the many objec-
lions the Knockers" have to the
Farmers Union as an organization,
one OF these, he said, was that it was
a political proposition. President
Hlghtower stated emphatically that
for himself he had no political aspir-
atoms and that so long as he was at
the head of the organization, if he
could prevent it, the Farmers Union
would have nothing to do with DO
1itics.
The latter half of President High.
towers address was devoted to the
warehouse plan of the farmers state
organization. He plainly and con-
vincingly went over the plan and
showed how advantageous it would be
especially to the small cotton plant
ers. How it would return a profit to
them through savings in the storage,
handling and the selling of their cot.
ton.
The leading object is to establish
a chain of warehouses throughout the
state, numbering from 100 to 200, i'll
possible, all to be merged into one
company with a capital if possible of |
81 100000, the subscriber to the stock |
in any local warehouse to become a |
stakeholder in the state warehouse
company Bnt, he said, the state |
did not intend to wait to get
$1,OO0,000 to do business. The state
company, he said, already had enough
to begin business and would be do
ing business when the next cotton sea-
son opened.
Before entering into the methods of
the state company, he told his hear
ers that the reason why the company
wanted the largest capital possible,
was because the larger the capital it
had the higher would be the financial
rating of the company in this country
and in Europe, thus permitting 1t to
deal directly with the buyers and
spinners of the world.
The advantages of this high finan-
cial standing to the small cotton
planter was made plain by showing
how the cotton would be handled d.
rect from the cotton planted to the
spinner whether in New England or
in foreign countries. At the central
Office OF the state company provision
would be made for handling direct
from each and every warehouse the
cotton stored therein.
For instance, should a farmer put
his cotton in the warehouse at Hat
tiesburg, this cotton would be weighed
and graded by men expert in the bust
ness. On this cotton would be given
a warehouse receipt
This done, sample of the cotton,
with the certified weight attached
would be placed in a small case, car
rying the local warehouse number and
IL.
Here, would be kept record of the
number of bales of each and every
grade, SO that the central office would
be in position to fill orders for what
ever grade the buyer might want. For
instance, should the buyer, whether
representing a spinner in this country
or in Europe, want a lot of middling
cotton, the state central office, know
ing in what local warehouse this lot
of middling cotton could be had, the
local warehouses, if not located where
there was cotton compress, which
might have on hand middling cotton,
would be instructed to ship to that
cotton to Hattiesburg, for instance,