Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-09-30
Want LAWS To
REDUCE COTTON
ACREAGE IN 1915
Continued from pasC cne.'

OTIS farmers will raise food Tor
their families and for their live SUCK
and will plant such other proat0'' as
may give fair promise, OF rea90naOle
sale;
."That it will plant cotton less and
other things more.
THAT the bankers, merchants anc
the planters themselves VIII cooper
ate to hold and market the present
crop to the best advantage ol the
present holders of the cotton.
THAT it is the. sense of THIS meet
ing that reduction of 90 per cent OF
the acreage planted in cotton Will be
necessary to maintain a ialF price
against over supply at home and
under consumption abroad; that the
minimum reduction in cotton acre
age with any one is 25 per cent
The buy-a-bale movement is ap-
proved, farmers are advised 10 plant
winter oats. a campaign of crop di-
versification is recommended, and the
organization OF companies lof the
establishment of cotton mills Is rec
commended, t'with view OF taxing ad-
vantage of the probable improvement
in the American cotton goods maket
on account of the curtailment of the
European mills and the opening OF
new markets for the United States.
The resolutions COMMITTEE was
composed of R. T. Compton, A. c.
Davis, George w. Rogers, J. H. Fly,
Adolph Felsenthal, B. w. Reeves, T.
]. Sharum, G. o. Light, Eugene Rolfe,
F. w. BrodnaX, 7. c. McRae and W.
T. Horn.
81 do not suppose it is necessary to
state fully the reason for this gather
ing OF representative men said
Governor Hays in opening his brief
address. 1--WE must get together to
solve this great cotton problem. The
existing conditions are, familiar to
you all, and we realize that something
must be done, and done expeditions
ly. If something is not done the
South, and mean the cOtton-groWlng
states, will Suffer, great and material
loss. The loss will not only affect
the farmer but the interest of the
business world OF the nation.
This thing of giving interviews
and advancing theories should come
to an end, and the people should get
every business interest OF the South
together and do business If we start
right in this meeting we can get the
cooperation OF the other cotton
growing states, and without that CO.
operation any action taken by US, as
a state alone and apart from the other
coton states, will have no tangible
results.
IF Arkansas took every bale she
produces off the market and reduced
the acreage next year 50 Or even 20
per cent, it would in no way nave
bearing on the market unless the
ether states, ORG majority Of them
did the same. We need some &C.
operative plan to takesa considerable
part of the present crop off the mar
ket and to reduce the acreage mex
year. Let us get behind the senators
and congressman of Arkansas and 'the
ether Southern states and try TO %
tain national government aid We are
here for business, and the result o.
this melting may mean more than any
one can anticipate at this time"
Clark for Reduction.
"This cotton question" declared
Senator Clarke, has passed beyon(
the domain of politics to domain o
business, and involves the well-belhs
and prosperity of all, In Washington
the senators and congressman haven
been doing anything for three month
but talk cotton and the cotton condi
tions. 1t is hard, though, to hrln!!
united action when there is such a.
versity of opinion, and that was I'll
difficulty met III the United state
congress. Too many are attemptin
to urge what public opinion may ao
vocate rather than what is right.
''T!lere is no use asking Washing
ton City to help you. Wash1ng.o
City can't help you any more. I'M
is a problem for the states to handl'
and they must handle My opinion
the only solution is legislative actio
Immediate action, and follow IN
methods during the civil war, Whe
cotton planting was absolutely Pre-
hibited.. However, that drasti
measure would not be necessary. b'
law is the only force with which "
can compel reduced cotton acreage
and reduced cotton acreage Is I'll
only solution of the cotton conditlol
Georgia is getting ready to take sag
action, | believe, and the other cot,o
states should do the same Iexa
producing 100000 bales OF cotton
season, could do much by enac.n
such measure through its 'eglsl'
ture, which now is in session.
Southern Senators POWerless.
1.-THE plan of Representative Henr
of Texas, that the government len
direct to the cotton farmer, wcnld II
lieve the immediate need. but ca
such measure be, passed? 'rnere al
twenty-five Southern senator's, al
and all of whom gladly will s'ppo
measure authorizing loan OF eve
500, 100000 to the cotton farmers
but gentlement thirty-two senator
cannot pass that measure through l..
senate. and where are you gong
get the other votes necessary"
"In my opiniGn, this terrific vi