Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-03-15
Tremendous Gain to State Shown In H.
Success Made by Cotton Co-Operatives
Farmer Members Will Profit to Extent of About $24O0,
600 $4,000 Bales Handled This Year.


The State Press is full of encouraging articles of the
made this past of the Cooperative Market
ing OF cotton, of which, from the pen Edwin Camp
the Atlanta Journal especially noteworthy and so full
OF information that take pleasure in reproducing here
Mr.. Camp Writes):
The article Fridays Journal telling of the distribution
OF $4,000 among members Cotton Growers
Association should farmers the assoc
ton and should increase already substantial rece
ing from the business interests of the State
This $1,800000 FORTH constitutes third payment
on the account members Who instead of selling their cotton
ton for gradual orderly marketing that the
be 6e ALREADY have received 20 cents pound which more than
harvest as fall o.
And it further that members will final pay
ment before the end Of the from $50 to s
In or it moral eq that U the e members will be- paid
the figure will be- 20 sea e3oq least with the that
till 5 en o market be @ & han s @ now
than tens of thousands Georgian when they sold last Sep
t o1Sls oo6 georgia ''''"0 Tins
i've esss Gey the gain the
Most that soooo has bone into the hands speeua
tors W ana mddemfn tho world have h.n
had s IL 1 esodsSs5s oSSo What trade
first But than ali what gain
for therefore, r f mos % nd for s GodOe
Instead the money went into the hands of relatively small
and into the hands of relatively middle
already Of te eorga cotton CO.
] MEAS that will be greatly extended in and use
year The brave desperate pioneers
Cotton Growers cooperatve association accomplished things
there will be cotton to be handled
more o mer to- be- OF an new thing has been ere with
more cotton under CONTROL the influence the market will be
and an not of IN 4Rs ire Of the
leaders of the of brilliant attapmens
opinion that 1T the law of supply and demand and the
cents 81 h mat had raised the price OF e00" fro" %
In making this leading business man showed
ne had real the sound
Thy do not intend raise the price arbitrarily
are MOI holding associations They defeat the law
On the all they do all they purpose do get
for the PRODUCER the fair price reached by the free
And ii who fundamentals and the history
realize that cooperave succeed in dong that thew
have accomplished the financial in the
There e, never fs. has been an acSompms9t
lars INTO the pockets OF the producers of coon-osy has
y1aS %ad SaS been lucky this year.
and have ridden a rising market ''
OF course they have ridden rising But there was
There 1 Will ALWAYS be rising market in cotton 50 o
million or half million quarter million farmers have to
dump Their years crop in the three fall months the
There has been rising market ever the Civil war
9O2 when cotton fell 81 points after the opened and
There was rising Market in a Men the so farmers n SOLD 6
points bn after the opened and the points $3.50
And by year till 1867, cotton fell 100
In l9/o tell IO after the and
l4S0 points, $74 bale after the farmers 1880
lnl98l9 fell 1O70 after opened and then
rose 9l0 points, $45 bale, after the farmers sold $3.50
IN i99zO tel 4OO points after the opened then
rose 40O points, %4 bale, after the farmers sold
l92O2 fell LIS points after the opened and then
rose SIS points $l875 BALE after the farmers sold
In l9222 fell 48 after opened and then
rose z05 points, $35 bale. after the farmers sold $500
There nohg extraordinary about the
this from the
official quotations of the New York Cotton Exchange "
For half century and the the South hav
been dumping their within and drno down
the RTe-deeang for the time the law of supply demand
Then when the helpless fellows taken the nit
sums due to this supreme folly the price has INVARIABLY s
profits middlemen
The law of supply and demand temporarily dethroned nv
the act of throwing twelve months
three MONTHS INVARIABLY has regained its ascndancv and
yielded riches those who deserved the Door no
The cotton cooperaives idiots
have insane notion of corneng and defeating the me
vabe workings of supply add demand know cant he
done ~ II N"n' DC
All they to do enable producers n oct Tho
price fixed by the law of supply and demand - o. LIN
They have it in the
If they had the south would be rich, not bevond +be d-
of avar but beyond the supplying dadenng struggles W I
past that have made of honest cAzerr,
prey and toll OF demagoguery and violence ~
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