The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-27
UNIQUE STATEMENT ISSUED BY NESB|TT 10 PEOPLE 0F STATE
Chairman State Democratic Campaign Committee Gives Advice Regarding Cotton.
 Hardly Mentions Politics

s@This little talk is political only in the sense that it is the urgent business of our people"
 Thus begins a formal statement to the public issued yesterday by ". D. Nes- bitt of Birmingham in his capacity as chairman of the state democratic cam paign committee
 The statement is unique in that 1t scarcely touches upon politics. MT. Nes- bitt simply states that the depredations of those battle lines which extend a dis tance as great as that between the Ten nessee river and the Gulf of Mexico, .Sas resulted in the closing down of those European mills which in peaceful times consumed American cotton.
 .'The nations which are at war are 'ciamoring for food" the statement con- tinues ''When peace is restored, America will be compelled to feed the half the world Plant half the cotton acreage in grain. The man who does so will be better off in a financial sense than the man who fails to do so.
 
 soon as the world is made aware that southern farmers will not be persuaded again to raise a 15,00o,0 ,0oo-bale crop, the world will begin buying our present crop. and that surplus which was brought over from last year. In the event that out side aid is eventually forthcoming, grasp ,it. It will be good, and the condition will be all the better in that we did not kSt down idly and decline to help our selves
 MT. Nesbitt was talking as practical co ~n man. By concrete figures, he proved that if the production is decreased next year a new crop of 7,500,000 and a carried over surplus of practically the same amount.
 {fIf the reduction is not as great as half" he added, 'the world cannot spin the cotton on the market, and prices will continue to be low. Industry, a deter imitation to help ourselves, an exercise of the brain with which we are blessed will soon restore the market, and the world will begin buying our staple at Gradually increasing prices.''
 Verify, the democratic party in Ala bama is in business. MT. Nesbitt holds that the party can be of service scarcely of greatest value than in picturing con- d.tsons as they actually are, and point Ing out the only possible remedy" '. In this respect, the tactics of the re- publican party in Alabama are quite dif- ferent. Already, The Age-Herald has carried news items to the effect that re- publican leaders have spread the news that there Is no European war; and that President Wilson is responsible for the tyesent price of cotton. Yesterday, w. ". Brandon of Tuscaloosa, probate judge of Tuscaloosa county, while passing through Birmingham en route to Franklin county, where he is billed to make ad- dresses today, stated that in his "cam- paigning' in the interest of democratic nominees he had encountered people in epublican strongholds who contended that war Is myth.
 T heard man say" stated the judge, ''that there was no war, and that demos cratic newspapers had conjured up war stories in order that predatory wealth might have an opportunity to rob the farmers of their cotton. I was tempted AsQ laugh. And then noting the serious nien of the individual, I knew that he z firmly believed the stories which repub- Ecan leaders had told him.
 MT. Nesbitt, democratic chairman, be- tieves that there is efficacy in truth Therefore, his statement on business con- ditions.