Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-22
WORK COTTON ASSOCIATION.

Half a hundred York county 1arh-
ers. including representatives from
every township in the county ATTENDED
a meeting of the temporary organlza-
tion of the York county branch OF the
American Cotton Association IN the
courthouse here yesterday. Members
of the township boards of canVassers
from each of the townships with the
exception of Bullock's Creek, were
present and were given instructions as
to how to proceed in the matter OF
LAYING plans for statewide MEMBER
ship drive throughout the state Au-
gust 26. q and % when it Is hoped TO
secure at least 100 members in York
county. Following this drive and on
the first Monday in September, a
meeting will be called to be held IN
the courthouse at Yorkville, at IL
o'clock when the reports of the oan-
vassers will be received and a per-
manent organization of the York
County Cotton Association Will De Ell
fected by the election of a president
vice president, secretary and treasurer
and other officials. ,,
DR.. ]. B. Johnson. Of Rock HILL
temporary chairman of the YORK
county association presided with Jas
ID. Grist Of Yorkville, acting as tenn
porary secretary. Features of the
meeting were addresses by Secretary
A. v. Smell, of the Charleston Chamber
of Commerce and Hon. Allen john
tone. state senator from Newberry
county. The meeting was opened with
prayer by Rev. John A. McMurray.
The principal speakers of the oc-
casion confined their remarks to the
value of organization among the farm
ers and in the course of their addresses
sought to show that only through or
ganiZation and a determination 10
stick to it could stable price for cot
ton be maintained.
Mr.. Smell in the light Of his past ex-
perience with farmers organizations
rather doubted the success Of the
American Cotton Association. He had
been connected with the Grange move
ment in his younger days and In the
light of his own knowledge of farmers
and farmers movements through an
experience of twenty-three years on
the farm himself, he was afraid that
American Cotton Association and be
guided by its leaders in the produc-
ton of cotton and It's marketing.
Strength Of any class, he pointed out,
lay In organization and organization
was right and proper. The manufac-
turers organized he said in order that
they might market their products to
the best advantage and get the high
est price for their goods. He did not
blame them for that; neither did he
blame any other class of industry for
organization. The American Cotton
Association II strongly supported
would mean the salvation of the cotton
farmer; but If the farmers all over
the south did not 60 into the organi-
zation and support 1t whole heartedly
they would surely and swiftly go back
to the old condition and remain
slaves to other industry as they vir-
tually are now.
Senator Johnstone was happy at the
idea Of Chairman Johnson in asking a
minister to open the meeting with
PRAYER: because without Gods bless
ing and guidance no business or en-
terprise could prove successful. He
spoke of the great possibilities that lay
before the farmer through organization
and declared that the greatest enter
prises that the world has ever seen
have come through cooperation.
Twenty-Five years ago, he said, the
legal sellers of liquor were considered
impregnable in their business and he
who advocated their being outlawed
and the driving out of liquor was
laughed at. Yet a small number Of
men and women who knew that liquor
and its sale was an evil thing quietly
went to work through systematic or