Show A GREATBEAH HUNT Beast Who Devours the Cot tonGrowers Profit Farmers of the South Should Fight tho Bears of tho Cotton Exchanges Cost of Production No Longer Regulates tho Value The Crop Should Be Held Back and Marketed Gradually Galveston Tex Aug 101ho following follow-ing wits Issued today To the Cotton Growers of the South As president of the American Cotton Growers Protective Association cognizant cogni-zant of tho great wrong that has been peipetrated upon the masses ot my fel lowfarmers the cotton growers of the South It becomes my duty us far as my limited ability extends to warn you of the dangers that environ you and of laid by cunning and unscrupulous men to rob you of your honest toll to fur thc devices and plans that are being thor Impoverish you and to enhance the discord and dissatisfaction that Is now dominant In the heart of the agricultural agricultu-ral classes In a knowledge of the fact that there Is something radically wrong In our systems No longer Is the product of honest toll adequate to our subsistence and no longer Is the cost of the production of an article any standard of Its valuation valu-ation and the law ot supply and demand de-mand has been displaced and In its stead Intervenes the results attained I by the commercial mountebank the most insidious and merciless of which Is he that with a tongue of Ananias nml dm linnpt nf tlm Mafia Is ItlUlder Ing tile material prosperity of our country and making paupers of our people I refer to that man that wears deservedly de-servedly the brutish name of bear lIe by false prophecies and wilful misrepresentations mis-representations robs us of our subsistence sub-sistence Imperils our posterity and leaves us nothing but poverty In our homes and hatred In our hearts The warning note has been Bounded let I forewarned be forearmed That there la a powerful and systematized sys-tematized movement to again depress the value of our staple this season Is patent to all Intelligent men and It rests with the planter of the South individually In-dividually as to whether he shall sub mlt to be sheared again like a sheep as he was lust season TIME FOH HEROIC ACTION r The time has arrived for heroic action ac-tion The alternative is left to either renounce the growing of cotton entirely entire-ly us a profitable crop or to take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them False rumors of the Immensity of J the coming crop have already been 4 widely circulated to Intimidate the tj I < K farmers Into rushing their cropsonjtho j t market hoping to get better prices before i t be-fore a decline This action on the part of the farmers will accomplish tho Intention In-tention of the manipulators of the market mar-ket and is to be deprecated as sulcl alto al-to their Interests The crop ought to bring fair values should be judiciously distributed over the selling season without the deliveries being too great i at any time and I would advise that all farmers that can do so without violating vio-lating a contract should market their crop as slowly as they can or at a ratio ra-tio of onethird less than last season the equilibrium of prices will be thus fairly retained and we will come much nearer receiving the commercial value of our product A GRADUAL DISTRIBUTION It will be remembered by many that previous to our Civil War on account of lack of transportation facilities it required from seven to nine months to market the cotton crop We now sell the bulk of It which Is three or four times the size in about three months thus congesting the market making competitors of ourselves In the mad rush to get rid of our product while on the other hand a judicious gradual distribution of the same over a greater period of months would be conducive to competition between the manufacturers who are obliged to have our material and they would be running run-ning after us to buy our product instead in-stead of our having to run after them to sell it And I desire to impress on the cotton growers the imperative necessity ne-cessity of organization for the accomplishment accom-plishment of this purpose all instrumentalities instru-mentalities should be engaged In the achievement of this consummation devoutly de-voutly to be wished Doubtless this endeavor will meet with strenuous opposition at the hands of those that recklessly speculate on the labor of the farmer of the South He would bo offered a little more than the market price to bring his crop In The argument of risk of lire loss In weights would follow with the usual denunciation of advice but I Implore you for the sake of your families rendered ren-dered destitute by these despoilers and for the love you bear the Sunny Southland South-land for all that Is sacred to our hearts and to our homes to resist this current that Is Insidiously day by day drawing us Into a vortex ot poverty rand r-and shame There never was a more cruel and relentless war waged on the people than on the South by England and her emissaries and Tory allies reducing re-ducing her people from atlluence to the I pittance of 10 cents a day for their labor 1 la-bor 1 |