HOLD YOUR COTTON
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No Results As Yet From Public
Meetings, and It’s Up to Far
mers, Assisted by Merchants
and Local Banks to Hold
and Market Crop
Slowly.
^ The European war has affected
^ 0 cQfnerce greatly and has dis
i fueled the markets of practical
ly all products. As a result of
war, which has so recently
ie'4un, the cotton market has
been depressed, and great anxie
ty has been felt throughout the
4 entire South as to the final ef
fect on the price of our cotton
crop for the season just now
opening.
The fact that a large part of
( our cotton crop is consumed in
foreign countries, and that
some of the largest consumers
are at war, makes it uncer
tain as to what the foreign de
mand will be. There is also anx
iety upon the part of merchants
and bankers as to how the crop
can be moved, or marketed and
held until the cotton can be tak
en by foreign markets or be con
sumed by American mills, if it
were possible for them to in
crease their capacity sufficient
ly to take the crop, manufacture
it into goods and export the
finished products.
It is a big question, and more
or less of a problem. Various
meetings have been held to dis
cuss the situation, but as yet,
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little has been accomplished. A
meeting was called by Hon. E.
J. Watson, commisioner of agri
culture for North Carolina, and
was held in Washington, D. C.
A week later a meeting of bank
ers, business men and produc
ers was held in Washington, ov
er which George W. Rogers, of
this state, presided, and the fol
lowing week another meeting
was held in the same city at the
instance of the Secretary of the
Treasury. On August 27th an
other meeting was held in New
Orleans at the instance of Har
vey Jordan, President of the
Southern Cotton Growers’ Asso
ciation, and more recently the
meeting of the National Farm
ers’ Union was held in Texas, at
which the same subject was dis
cussed and dealt with.
As your Commissioner, I at
tended one of the meetings in
Washington City, and sat with
them during their deliberations.
So far as my observation ex
tends, but little has been accom
plished to give relief to the cot
ton producers, especially the
small farmer, who is in greater
need of help. The meetings in
Washington resulted in the
Secretary of Treasury adopting
a policy that would make cot
ton warehouse receipts a basis
of credit upon which money
could be obtained for moving
the crop and holding a part of j
it. However, this assistance i
must come through the regular
banking channels, and in such a
way that the banks themselves
will have to stand behind these
credits- The uncertainty of the
market value of cotton will, of
course, weaken this source of re
lief, and so, after all, the South
will have to carry whatever bur
den is involved.
The various meetings that
have been held have brought a
bout some confusion, and makes
it doubtful if any great good has
been accomplished. Personally,
I was in favor of a warehouse
system of holding the cotton,
with the government loaning,
through the local banks, direct
to the farmers on warehouse re
ceipts to the extent of $35.00
per bale at 4 per cent, for the
first six months, and the inter
est rate to increase one per
cent a month thereafter. It was
my idea that the government
make loans on cotton held in
accordance with plans approved
by the government at points
where as much as 5,000 bales is
marketed during the season,
and that the warehouse should
be in charge of a government a
gent, and the cotton be graded
and classified by the govern
ment, and that a charge of one
dollar per bale be made for
warehouse charges and insur
ance, and that ten per cent of
all warehouse cotton be placed
on the market each month.
I called upon the Secretary of
Agriculture in Washington and
presented this plan, but the
Secretary would not agree to
any plan for the government to
loan money to the producer di
rect, or through the local banks.
I have been urged to call a
meeting of the cotton growers
and business men in this state
to discuss the situation, but
hesitate to do so because I see
no permanent good that could
come from it at the present
time, and it would be putting
the people to that much unnec
essary expense in attending.
I believe the local merchants
and bankers will do all they can
to help market the crop to the
best advantage and to hold the
crop as long as they can. I be
lieve the solution of the prob
lem is for the farmers to hold
their cotton until the conditions
become settled, if they can, and
I hope the merchants and bank
ers will help them to do so.
The world needs our cotton in
time of war, as well as in times
of peace, and I believe that with
in the next few months we can
market our cotton at a good
price without difficulty. In the
meantime, let us not get panicky
and force our cotton on the
market. If we do, we are forc
ing it into the hands of the
speculators who will not take it
unless their margin of profit is
big. and we cannot blame them.
JOHN, H. PAGE,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
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