CAPT. J. L. COLLINS' REPLY TO
EDITORIAL SQUIB OF LAST
ISSUE.
Editor Advocate:
In your issue of last week there ap
pears in the form of a squib what may
be termed an invidious thrust at the
personelle of this office. It is very un
forunate that such petty lampoons as
this should be given out, and that
there is an element of critics not broad
minded enough to see that the bene
fits derived from the Business Agents
office go right back Into the hands of
the rank and file, the very ones who
contribute in dues every three months
towards replenishing the treasury at
headquarters, and also the very ones
whose interests this office was created
to protect. ' How? Tne constitution
put it, in buying, selling and contract
ing. Some knockers, it has been no
ticed, get terribly shaky when the
treasury funds begin to dimish below
the thousands, apparently unmindful
that the paying membership placed
the same there for meeting such ends
as would materalize to the benefit of
such as need the assistance such of
fice was created to benefit.
Let {hose who deal through the of
fice of Business Agent tell the per cent
saved to them through the operation
of the agency, and not the fellow who
would like to see these thousands of
dollars hoarded up.
The Rank and. File, knowing not
who was reaping a benefit from a
very short sighted person who at
tempts to inveigh against an officer en
deavoring to carry out his duties faith
fully and conscientiously in a place the
lawmakers saw proper to create, and
stranger still that any functionary
should entertain the idea that an or
ganization of such magnitude can be
run at the direction of any one or two
They had better read the by
and constitution and criticize
men.
laws
derelection of duty, rather than enter
complaint as to the cost of running
this or that office.
I fail to find any clause or section in
the drama we are playing, granting or
encouraging that act known as "Dog
in the Manager," if every officer will
attend to his own official duties con
scientiously, and render service with
that unselfish spirit implied in the
duties of the same, the co-operative
spirit will have been carried out and
the cause greatly strengthened.
For the reading of the squib herein
referred to an unthoughtful person,
the inference would be drawn that the
Business Agent and his bookkeeper
were the only ones drawing money out
of the treasury, eh?
dwelling in transparent palaces had
better consider when trying to pull
the mote out of thy brother's eye, lest
phenomena of more repulsive mag
nitude appear to the gaze of those for
whom the Business Agent acts, and
* who are paying the salaries of the oth
officials and their assistants as well.
However, the writer feels that a dis
cussion of these questions will be more
appropriate at the coming state ses
sion, the proper place for action, and
the present incumbant is not at all un
about rendering a stewardship
Ye that are
a
er
easy
that will pass inspection upon
lines of "Equity, Justice and the Gold
the
en Rule.'
J. L. COLLINS,
State Business Agent.
In Jackson we live by eating Ten
nessee eggs, Illinois butter, Kansas
beef, Indiana tomatoes, Colorado po
tatoes, Texas honey and canned cream,
but we don't do It by collection of sub
scriptions past due.
V
CALLED TO NEW ORLEANS.
Oxford, Miss., Nov. 2, 1908.
To Whom It May Concern:
The Farmers' Union has called a
cotton conference ot all the farmers
and business men in the south to be
held in New Orleans, Nov. 11th and
12th, and the Southern Cotton Asso
ciation has called a similar conference
of all classes to be held in Memphis at
the same time. I urge that every
county in the state hold mass-meetings
in the county seats on Saturday, Nov.
7th, for the purpose of sending dele
gates to these meetings. Both should
be largely attended by all classes.
All local unions and the executive
committees of each county union are
urged to send delegates to New Or
leans. We hope to have a full attend
ance of business men at New Orleans.
The Grünewald hotel at Nsw Or
leans is headquarters for the. dele
gates and visitors.
« -
Respectfully,*
G. 'R. lÖGHTOWER,
President Mississippi State Union.
Railroads give a rate of one fare for
the round trip.
HOW TO OBTAIN A BETTER PRICE
FOR COTTON.
There is one way and only one way
whereby we may obtain better prices
for our cotton. The growing of every
farm product necessary for home use
will curtail the production of cotton,
raise the price to at least 15 cents
per pound, and in addition, will enable
us to use the money obtained for cot
ton to build magnificent homes, school
houses, churches, good roads, educate
our children, buy the luxuries of life,
and fill our banks to overflowing. The
holding of a part of our cotton from
the market will only be of temporary
benefit while the growing of all feed,
food, and live stock necessary for
home use will decrease the yield of
cotton, almost do away with the neces
sity for the credit system, and enable
us to hold all of our cotton until we
obtain equitable prices.
The too exclusive culture of cotton
has forced the price of cotton far be
low an equitable one and established
the credit system. As long as south
ern farmers raided their supplies at
home, there was no overproduction of
cotton and no necessity for the credit
system. But the extensive culture
of cotton marked the dawning of the
era of low priced cotton and the credit
system. What hope is there for better
prices for cotton as long as the hus
band, wife, and children cultivate by
far the larger part of the farm in cot
ton to pay for corn, mules, bacon,
lard, and other farm products bought
at princely profits added as credit
profits. There is no hope.
There is no sane man who does not
know what we will get more money
for ten million bales than we will for
fifteen million bales. The history of
the past twenty years is proof positive
of this statement. We all know that
large crops of cotton means a low
price and that a low price for cotton
means poverty and wretchedness all
over the south. Then why will south
ern farmers and their wives and chil
dren work in the heat and cold for
300 days in the year to grow a large
crop of cotton to pay for high priced
corn, bacon, lard, mules, and other
farm products with the profits of sev
eral middlemen, railroads, and supply
merchants added. In the language of
Puck: "What fools we mortals be."
G. H. ALFORD.
Magnolia, Miss.
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A man must be educated to be a
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Very few farmers have visited the
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expect large numbers and no doubt
all will come that can afford it. Hard
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year.
By placing an advertisement in the
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you are after, sell what you want to
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