48 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOLL WEEVIL CONVENTION. 



SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. 



MORNING SESSION. 



Col. Charles Schuler called the Convention to order at 10:45 o'clock 

 A. M. Before proceeding with the regular program of the day, he asked 

 the Secretary to read the following telegram: 



LAKE PROVIDENCE, LA. 

 HON. CHARLES SCHULER, 



President Boll Weevil Convention, N. O., La. 



Regret that I am detained here by very important business. I heartily 

 approve special session of Legislature. Am deeply interested in work 

 before Convention, and will do my utmost to assist in carrying out its 

 suggestions. 



JAMES E. RANSDELL, 



The President then called for Hon. F. P. Stubbs, Sr., of Monroe, La., 

 who was to discuss the subject of the "Planter's Interest in Repelling 

 the Boll Weevil," but Mr. Stubbs was detained by delayed train and did 

 not reach the city until after Convention adjourned. 



Mr. John M. Parker, of New Orleans, La., was then called, and dis- 

 cussed the subject under consideration, from the standpoint of the "Mer- 

 chant's Interest," in the following paper. Before reading his paper, Mr. 

 Parker made the following brief remarks : 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention I am thoroughly 

 agreeable to state what in my humble opinion are the strongest possible 

 reasons why not only the governments of the States, but the Government 

 of the United States, should do all in their power to safeguard the ma- 

 terial interests of the cotton growers in this State or anywhere else. 



MR. PARKER'S PAPER. 



Agricultural success and manufacturing activity form the most stable 

 source of the wealth of every nation, and, of the two, agricultural success 

 is of the greater importance as it makes a people sturdy, independent, 

 self-reliant and furnishes a large portion of the products which in the 

 planting, cultivating, gathering, marketing, transporting and manufactur- 

 ing, give employment to millions in every walk of life, enable our people 

 to be large exporters and make this great country a world power. 



No one product is of more intrinsic value than cotton, which gives 

 employment to every class of labor from the ignorant and illiterate old- 

 time negro all the way up to skilled mechanics, men of science and to the 

 greatest financiers, who every fall discuss the problem of money needed 

 to move the crops, and by our exports turn the balance of the world's 

 trade in our favor. 



