Cotton Farmers Must Get Together or Be Ruined, Feb. 25, 1919

From the editorial page of the Wilson Times, Feb. 25, 1919

Don’t Forget the Cotton Convention Here Wednesday

Don’t forget the Cotton Convention which meets in the court house on Wednesday at 10 o’clock. This is the biggest meeting and of far more value than any you have attended in a long day. The situation is alarming and unless something is done another large crop of cotton with one on hand and every farmer knows there is a lot of cotton in the hands of the farmers even will spell ruin to them and the South if the matter is not looked after.

Let every farmer in the county come to Wilson prepared to agree to cut his cotton acreage and put that much land in something to eat and if this is done the price of cotton will not only be increased, but we will have plenty of food to take care of our families without buying it. Under present conditions the western farmer is guaranteed a big price for his wheat on account of the great demand for foodstuffs at home and abroad.

Every pound of cotton raised this year not only helps to decrease the price of that you have on hand, but also helps to increase the price of the western farmer’s food products, because it makes an automatic market for his produce to the detriment of cotton.