[Tennessee]. [Texas]. [Cotton]

Secret Instructions from the National Cotton Committee [caption title]

Nashville: The Toiler, [1889]. Printed broadside, 18.25 x 5.75 inches. Old folds, light chipping, minor dust soiling, a couple of tiny holes costing just a few letters. Mounted in clear corner mounts and shrink wrapped on foam core. Good plus. Item #2450

A seemingly unrecorded broadside issued by The Toiler, official organ of the Farmers' Alliance and Agricultural Wheel, in which B.J. Sledge of Kyle, Texas, Chairman of the National Cotton Committee exhorts the membership to restrict sales of cotton in the coming month in order to control the supply and therefore the prices. Sledge is basically plotting for better prices in the face of a glut of supply in cotton, and instructs farmers to "hold back all the cotton possible, and in no event sell more than one bale of every ten bales produced for this year...." He also encourages the membership to keep this message private and to "let no copy of these instructions be in the custody of any one except of the president and Secretary of the Count and Primaries." Further instructions to the farmers will then be published in cipher through The Toiler. No copies in OCLC.

Price: $450.00