The Monroe journal., 1921-09-09
BROOM RAPS NEW ENGLAND
MILLS FOR PROPAGANDA
County Agent Ridicuies their Claims
Of Profits to Southern Farmers in
Ten and Eleven Cent Cotton
MARKETING HELPS THE PRICE
By T. J. w. Broom

From September to October 18th
is to be observed as 'Sign-Up- Month
all over North Carolina. in every
county that grows cotton or tobacco
and every farmer who has signed a
contract is asked to work that month
to get additional signers. and every
farmer who has not signed should
sign before October 18th so as to be
a charter member and help choose
the first directors.
We earnestly appeal to every one
who reads this 10 take of his coat,
roll up his sleeves. and to go TO work
in this great fight for the economic
freedom OF north Carolina farmers.
Progressive Farmer.
New England spinners are sending
out literature to the effect that ten
to eleven cents for the 1921 crop will
pay the farmers a profit. The old
time masters of the cotton growers
are still busy on the job. Not content
with running their mills, New Eng
land spinners are already busy pre-
pairing statistics on the cost OF pro-
dueing the 1921 crop and graciously
telling each other what good profits
the growers will make this year II
they are allowed ten cents per pound
for the staple. Can you beat It?
Read the following paragraph incor-
porated in a circular sent out from
Boston on August 18th to the MEM
bers of the New England Manufact-
urers Association by their cotton
statistlean:
"Cost of Producing 1921 Cotton Crop
Very Low"
"When II is recalled that only u
year ago authorities on the growing
of Gotten were declaring that it cost
from IS 20 40 cents pound on the
average 10 raise the staple, ii is as
tonishing 10 read these statements of
responsible banks and cotton firms In
the south TO the effect that this
years crop will show some profit TO
the farmer IL he receives only ten
cents or eleven cents for It,"
Farmers, what do YOU think of
this? England and New England
have been fixing the price OF the
South's great staple crop ever since
we began TO grow Ii. and always at a
profit TO themselves, while the grow
ers for the most part shaved their
wives and children TO produce 1t and
TO continue to produce under the
present marketing system or will we
sign a cooperative marketing con-
tract. assert our independence and
become masters of our own industry?
Our forefathers took the rifle In
hand and STOOD shoulder to shoulder
through long years OF bloody war to
win our political freedom, and the
cotton growers of the South can, by
signing cooperative marketing
contract, and standing shoulder to
shoulder, win our economic free
dom. Is 1t worth the price? Shall
we do il? Yes. the farmers of the
South are going to do ii. They are
doing ii every day now, and will con-
tinue until the victory is won.
Reader, what part are you taking in
this great work? Every Southern
man should be vitality interested, for
IL is of momentous concern to every
interest in the South. We want to
see every citizen of the county be-
come a booster for the marketing
association.
The Associated Press dispatches
few days ago in describing the adj
vance of nearly three cents pound
In cotton prices In one week, de-
clared that one of the conspicuous
causes was "the work of cooperative
marketing associations In several
states of the belt
See your county agent for con-
tracts and go to work In your COM
munity for signatures. You can do
no better service for your commun-