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Farmers Union Leads Fight to End Cotton Gambling
The Farmers' Union urges Congress to pass laws suppressing cotton futures gambling on the New York Cotton Exchange and similar markets. It cites Southern hardship, near bankruptcy in 1908, and calls for widespread support from farmers, bankers, and merchants to exterminate the gambling institutions.
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National Farmers’ Co-operative and Educational Union of America
New York Cotton Exchange
United States
South
Congress of the United States
New York
Farmers’ Union
The
Farmers’Union
Charles S. Barrett
Farmers’ National Co-operative Union of America
Washington, D. C
Congress
Paul Russell Williams