The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-02-24


needed Tor consumption Now is it
rot lar better 10 sell 100000 bales
ior S45o.oooooo than to sell
100000 bales for S5oo,ooo,-
coo; or is it not far more
profitable for a farmer to sell 7 I2
bales of cotton for S575.oo than to
sell ten bales for $4,000. This is in
axact proportion to the reduction
that the planter is asked to make.
But this is not all. If said reduction
in acreage is not made the 100000
bales to be carried over to the next
crop, and the other 100000 bales
held by the farmers for 10 cents per
pound will all have to be sold at a
great sacrifice.
1t is plainly to be seen that # the
cotton growers of the south carry
but in good faith this plan, that they
have every thing to gain and nothing
to lose; whereas, if they fail to do
this they have everything to lose and
nothing to gain. except poverty. loss.
ruin and bankruptcy. And to bring
this state of affairs upon the planters
of the south is to destroy at one fell
swoop the prosperity of this beautiful
Southland.
Il seems to be a mystery to some
;:2ople, but it is not to me, that bank
ers, merchants, newspaper men and
business men generally are standing
so close to the cotton growers in this
fight, and are so ready and willing
10 cooperate with them. These peo-
pie are sincere, and it is painful at
such a time as this, when every ones
influence and work are so much need
ed. to hear their motives impugned.
They we'll know that what helps the
farmer helps them, and that if he
fails and falls that their time is not
far off. Will the cotton planters OF
the south allow any selfish feeling
and prejudice, or anything else, to
keep them from uniting in this effort
and thereby bring upon themselves,
tn cir families and fellow-citizens fl
rsncial ruin and disaster? 1t is to be
hcped that they will not.
The county executive committee OF
the county association has appointed
March 3, at p. m. for a meeting to
be held at the school house of each
school district in the county, OF all
interested parties, to sign the pledge
that has been suggested and adopted
b. the Southern Cotton association.
This pledge, with the plan Of said
as ISOLATION, was heartily and unan1-
mously adopted by the county asso-
citation on the 18th inst The county
association has made provision for
ali farmers, who have already reduc-
ed their cotton acreage totem acres or
less to the plow, 70 sign such pledge
ard thereby become members OF the
as ;ociation, with the understanding
th:t they may ormaynos reduce their
acreage in cotton, and with the fur
thcr understanding that if they do
no. make any further reduction, that
they are to be regarded as having
done their full duty. The convention
seemed to recognize that such farmers
ar: the pioneers in this great move
ment, and that the service they have
been to themselves, ard the county
at large should be fully acknowledge
ed. AS Newberry county numbers
many such farmers it is to be hoped
that all of them will become members
of the association by signing the
pledge and that they will tell those
about them the results and benefits
that follow such reduction in acre
age in cotton
It should be remembered that the
only way to become member of the
association is to sign the pledge and
pay Is cents as membership fee.
All cotton growers know and ad
NIT that something will have to be
done to relieve the present situation