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tBIIOK GROWERS
Itl IN ICON.
Hon- Hoke Smith Makes Them
Plain and Sensible Speech.
SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
Which Wdl Affect th# Price of Next
Year’s Cron Urges Diverslcation
of Crops-Commlttee's Report.
Macon, Ga., Nov. 20. — Ihe
Southern Interstate Cotton Growers
Association, which was formed in
Macon last May, held its first con
vention here tod<y. President
Jordan stated that the prime object
of the convention was to form an
interstate bureau for the collection
and distribution of information re
lating to the cotton business of the
south, and to offset the over-esti
mating of parties whom he believed
irresponsible.
Hon. Hoke Smith, of Atlanta,
was the principal speaker of the
day. His address partook largely
of the historical and statistical and
was well received. Mr. Smith
said in part:
“While cotton today brings 10
cents a pound it has only been
three years since the crop was sell
ing at five cents per pound. What
are the elements which have caus
ed this variance in price? Recog
nizing the laws of demand and
supply, we must see that the de
preciation in the price of cotton is
and le to a production of the staple in
excess of the demand for manu
factured goods. A knowledge of
the supply of cotton and of the de
mand for cotton goods /or con
sumption will enable the producer
to tell at the time of the year when
cotton is picked, the price at which
lint cotton should sell. Another
cause which has facilitated the de
preciations of prices at the time
the cotton left the hands of the
planter has been the unbusiness
like plan of selling it.
“More than 70 per cent, of the
cotton which is used in the great
cotton mills of the world is raised
in our section. The mills run dur
ing twelve months. They need
the cotton as much in July as they
do in December. The plan of sell
ing has disregarded the time of
consumption. Instead of handling
the crop so that it would be sold
from month to month during the
year, as the mills lequired it for
use, it has been the practice of the
planters in the south to rush their
cotton onto the market during a
period limited almost to two
months, forcing its purchase by
speculators rather than holding
the crop until the consumer or
the mill owner came after it.
“By the co-operation of the mer
chants and the brokers the planters
have been enabled so soon as the
buyers succeeded in depressing the
price to take their cotton off the
market, and as a result they today
see the price of cotton going back
to the figures at which it sold dur
ing the month of September, and I
have no doubt the balance of
the cotton crop thus cared
for by our farmers will bring
them over 10 cents a pound. This
price, however, could hardly have
been realized had the farmers raised
one million bales more cotton.
“There are three questions ‘of vi
tal importance, which affects the
price of next year’s crop. They
are how much will the mills of the
world consume in 1902? How
much but cotton will the balanci
of the world produce for other thai
domestic consumption in 1901.
How much will we produce in tilt
south in 1901?”
In closing Mr. Smith urged the
diversification of crops.
At the afternoon session Captain
John A. Davis spoke on the rela
tion of the banks to the cotton
growers and the business commit
tee made the following report,
which was adopted:
“1. That an Interstate Cotton
Planters’ Association be organized.
“2. That each state association
be allowed three representatives
upon the interstate executive com
mittee.
“3. That the interstate executive
committee be authorized to adopt
a constitution and elect officers.
“4. That the chairman ana sec
retary of this meeting be authoriz
ed to act for the interstate execu
tive committee until the same can
meet and act.”
On motion the first meeting of
the interstate executive committee
was directed to meet in Atlanta,
Ga.
if--
Chattanoogans Mad.
Chattanooga, Nov. 21. —The ac
tion of the city council in granting
a franchise for anew telephone ex
change at its meeting Tuesday
dignation in the community, and
there is talk of a mass meeting be
j ing held to protest against the
I granting of this privilege. The
ordinance was railroaded through,
j the public knowing nothing about
lit until yesterday morning, when
j they were surprised to learn that
j such an important franchise had
been granted without discussion.
A number of prominent citizens
who favor an independent tele
phone exchange denounce the ac
tion of the city council, as it is not
believed that the promoters of the
new’ company mean business.
I Mayor Wassman may veto the or
dinance, as there are no restrictions
in it to prevent the parties from
selling out to anybody that wants
to buy the franchise.
Passing of the Chaperon-
The older generation of English
people is looking on in dismay
and something like alarm at the
disappearance of the chaperon,
night has aroused considerable in
and the year 1900 will go down in
history as the date of her formal
abolition. For the first time in
the annals of English society at
the few dances permitted by the
anxieties of the Boer war, the girls
appeared unchaperoned. Lady
Jeune, commenting in the Fort
nightly Review upon the fact, says .
that it probably was due to the, 1
disinclination of the older women,
whose sons and husbands were in
hourly peril for such festivities,
combined with their reluctance to
depriie their daughters of all
amusement at a time so depressing.
She adds:
“The Rosebud Ball of America,
which was inauguiated here, has
long been the fashion on the other
side of the Atlantic, where we have
watched the system of complete in
dependence among young people
in full swing. The result there is
perfectly satisfactory, but this has
been the first test of it in this coun
try, where hitherto all tradition
and experience have been in oppo
sition to it. One can only say
from personal experience and ob
servation, necessarily limited, be
longing as one does to the ostrac
ised class of chaperons, that there
was nothing different to the old
days except that the rooms looked
bale and lacked the background of
color and brilliancy, which un
doubtedly a crowd of well-dressed
women give, for the modern cus
tom of sitting out between dances
empties a 100 m almost entirely.
“While admitting the experimen
tal nature of the proceeuing, we do
not belong to those who see noth
ing but evil in the emancipation of
girls. Wth our system of educa
tion and training it seems almost
impossible to continue the control
of former years, and the danger, if
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exist are the best safeguard against
any evil that may conceivably
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SOUTHERN PROGRESS-
The New Industries Reported *n
the South In a Week.
Chattanooga, Nov. 17. —Among
1 the more important of the new in-
I dustries reported by The Trades
man for the week ended November
17, ar- brick works Palmer,
Ida , and Valdeu, Miss.; boiler
works at Pensacola, Fla.; broom
factories at Cadiz, Ky.,.-and Cuero,
Tex.; a cigar factory at Waycross.
Ga.; cold .storage plant at Pine
Bluff, Ark.; a cotton gin at Gad
sden, Ala.; cotton mills at Dublin,
Ga., and Baton Rouge, La.; elec
tric light plant at Arkadelphia and
El Dorado, Ark., Bristol and Cross
, ville, Tenn., and an electric light
plant to be established at Nashville
lat a cost of $150,000; a flouring
I mill at Gadsden, Ala., a $50,000
, furniture at Texarkana. Ark., and
1 others at Browsville and Knox
ville, Tenn.; gram elevators at
Westwego, La., and Nashville,
Tenn.; hardware companies at
Columbia, S. C., Amarillo, Tex.,
and Charleston, W. Va., ice fac-
tories Toccoa, Ga., and Post Gib
son, Miss.; a $225,000 irrigation
j company at LaGrange, Tex.; a
$25,000 lime and stone company at
Bristol, Tenn.; SIOO,OOO lumber
companies at Memphis, Tenn., and
Charleston, W. Va., and others at
Hollandale, Miss., Roganville and
| Wells, Tex.; machine shops at Co
lumbia, S. C., and Knoxville, Tenn.;
a mattress and bed spring factory
at Knoxville, Tenn., a $2,00:1,000
mining and manufacturing com
pany at Bristol, Va.; a SIOO,OOO
coal mining company at Clarks
burg, W. Va.; a cotton oil mill at
Magee, Miss.; packing houses at
Tampa, Fla., and Gulfport Miss.; a
galvanized iron roofing and siding
plant at Hammond, La.; a saw mill
at Midland, Fla.; a shingle mill at
Wooling, S. C.; a shoe factory at
Corsicana, Tex., a soap factory at
Knoxville, Tenn.; a $160,000 sugrar
factory company at Wharton, Tex,,
and at New Orleans a sugar refin
ing company, with a capital of
$600,000; telephone companies at
Charleston, S. C ; and Nashville,
Tenn.; and underwear mill at Ath
ens, Gs., and $250,000 wheel works
at Jacksonville, Fla.
COUNTERFEITERS SENTENCED
Judge Newman Closes the Court
Term at Rome.
Rome, Ga., November 20. —The
first term of United States court in
Rome was concluded today, and
Judge Newman and the ten officials
who came with him. returned to
Atlanta. Jeff Nix and Sam Pull
iam were sentenced to two and
three years, respectively, for coun
terfeiting. The work of the grand
jury was completed, and both
grand and traverse jurymen paid
off. Judge Newman favors build
ing a federal courthouse here and
will do everything to secure one.
Writers in Politics-
Atlanta Daily Nows.
Among the new- members of the
British parliament are two jour
nalists, Winston Churchill and
Henry Norman, and one novelist,
Gilbert Parker.
There were several other literary
candidates, ii c uding Conan
Doyle, in the recent election, but
they were defeated. “Are novels
j and newspapers to direct our poli
tics?” sueeringly asks The London
Saturday Review in an editorial on
the election of Churchill, Norman
and Parker..
There is no danger to be dread
ed. In the past Bulu er-Lytton,
Macaulay, Monckton Miles, Dilke
and Justin McCarthy made very
useful and distinguished members
of parliament. Disraeli and Glad
stone were writers of lenown, and
in the old days a dramatist like
Sheridan rose to distinction in the
commons. It would be easy to e:.-
; tend the list, but these names will
do.
111 this country journalists and
i the writers of books occasionally
rise high in politics, for instance,
| Roosevelt, and both Gieeiey and
Watersou were in congress, in the
house, while our own Patrick
W alsh made a fine record in the
senate, and such men as Bayard
Taylor. James Russell Lowell and
Whitelaw Reid made able diplo
mats.
But as a lule we keep “the lit
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too much of Joel Chandler Harris
and Harry Edwards to send them
to congress. Writers-of their gen
ius are fitted for better work than
they would find in politics, and
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