The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-07-04
ASK GOV. Brown To
Gall Conference
CONSIDER NEW PLAN MAR
KETING COTTON CROP.
IN Atlanta July 10th.

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Stetscn to consider the proposition
IL the Southern States Cotton
Corporation for the handling and
marketing Of the Southern cotton
crop, on fifteen-cent basis, the
plan was thoroughly discussed with
George Dole Wadley, the president
Of the corporation, and the plan to
call a conference Of governors Of the
southern States to approve or dis
approve the plan was unanimously
Endorsed. A goodly number Of mem
bers Of the organization were present
and each affixed his signature to q
petition to Governor Brown, Of
Georgia, asking that he call con-
vention d Tie gou.hern governors
and business men to lie held in At
lanta July 10. -Four governors have
already Endorsed the plan.
President Wadley and w. T. And
erson, director Of Reorganization,
went to Atlanta Tuesday, for a CON
ference with governor Brown and he
agreed to call the convention, if the
business men and farmers interested
in the plan SO desire. The petition
requests that the southern governors
give the plan serious and careful con-
sideration and that the matter be
thoroughly threshed out at the At
lanta convention. IT they see no flaws
in the plan, it will receive their in
dorsement and will Immediately be
pushed by the organizers. An effort
will be made to have at least one
thousand business men in attendance
atthe conference, besides the COVER
nors.
The plan to handle and market
the crop under The direction Of the
Southern States Cotton Corporation
was begun some months ago in
Georgia and it has spread over six
ties Of the state. The directors in
each one of these counties will join
in the request to the governor. For
ty counties have been organized in
Texas and Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma
have taken up THE campaign.
By asystematic marketing Of the
cotton it is believed that the price Of
fifteen cents can be maintained.
At the meeting at the auditorium Of
the Chamber of Commerce Wednes-
day afternoon w. T. Anderson pre-
sided. President Stetson stated that
Mr.. Anderson was familiar with the
plan and more intelligentIy preside
and asked him to take the chair.
Mr.. Anderson discussed at length
the inability Of the southern cotton
producer to.get his rights and declar-
ed that the southern people should
be ready aud willing to cooperate
in the establishment of any under
taking that will aid them in re-
ceiying their iusts deserts for their
labors. He stated that the matter
under discussion should be given due
consideration and that after a per-
sonal investigation of the plan, he
believed that inherited the attention
of the Chamber Of Commerce.
He dwelt upon statistics showing
that it costs 10 cents to raise cotton,
and yet the farmer is powerless to
get cost for it; that in 1911 the
south was favored with weather and
other conditions which produced a
$1,000, o00-bale crop, and the farm
ers received less money for it than
they get for p or IA million. The
more God blesses them the more
manipulators curse them. And he
contented that this wasnot because Of
over-production, as is usually char
ged, because the world has consumed
fifteen million bales Of that cotton,
leaving a million bales, or less than a
month supply, on hand as surplus.
What would be the status in other
lines, if. for instance, there was less
than months surplus Of wheat or
corn in the world?
Mr.. Anderson referred to the west
ern wheat growers, now advertising
for farm labor, proposing to pay So