Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-12-06
Tho South Carolina Farmers Union.

OF South Carolina, at the, meeting
held in Anderson last week, decided
to make known to the public at large
the following main objects of its mis-
sion in our State:
/. To teach our farmers how to
produce profitable crops.
2. How best to market our pro-
ducts 30 20 to turn the profits of our
produce into the hands of the pro.
ducers, instead of allowing the non
producers to reap these profits.
TO THE PRESS OF THE STATE
We believe that it will be to the
mutual interest of the Farmers
Union and the press of the country
for the Farmers Union to use and
advocate its cause and principles
through all the established newspa-
pers of the country without prefer
ence 80 long as the present friendly
and cordial relations between the
Farmers Union and the press of the
State prevails.
TO THE FARMERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
We believe the farmers of the
State appreciate the fact that farmers
should have an organization of their
own composed exclusively of farmers.
We believe that no other occupa-
tion that has an organization of its
own can consistently object TO farmers
having an organization of its own,
composed entirely of farmers.
The Farmers Union proposes to
attend to its own farming business in
its own way without making any at
tempt at pulling down other legiti-
mate occupations or business in or
der to build up our own farming in
terest.
In order to fortify our position in
demanding profitable prices for our
money crop, cotton, and inforcing
the same, the Farmers Union urges
it's members and all other farmers
of the cotton belt to raise all home
supplies on their farms that will grow
there protitably.
Our Farmers Union discourages
the system of buying many supplies
Chat could be grown on our South
ern farms) at high rates for he pur-
pose of growing the one crop-cot-
ton, which invariably causes our cot
ton to be sold at forced sales to pay
for supplies obtained at high rates.
RELATIONS WITH THE ASSOCIATION.
Why there should not be any fric-
tion between their members?
Because we have the same interest
at stake as to profitable prices to the
producers of cotton!
Because we should be liberal
enough towards each other to permit
each organization to attain its OBJ
ects in it's own way
Because we feel it duty we owe
each other to stand together!
Because every interest of the
South is staked upon profitable
price to the producer of our great
staple crop cotton
Because the Farmers Union is
strictly farmers organization
Because all other interests have
their separate and distinct organiza-
tions, and the cotton association is
an amalgamated, or coherent organ
ization, where all interest in the cot
ton belt can come together in grand
conference for the welfare of our
common interest, which anchors
around profitable prices to the pro-
ducers of cotton!
Because we all live here together
in the Southland, where cotton is
king!
Because when foreign interests
combine to reduce profits to the pro-
ducer of cotton, and succeed in doing
it, every dollar thus forced out Of
the producers hands that goes to
foreign interests is just so many dol
lars taken out of the South, which
will sooner or later be felt in every
vein and artery of our whole system
of industries and trades, whose pulsa.
tions are sent forth from one heart
which is EMBEDDED upon the fleecy
staple cotton!
Because it is the right thing to
teach all of our men and women that
there is something better in the land
than selfishness
j. G. Stribling, Anderson county,
IT. II. Foster, Greenville county,
j. N. Knox, Abbeville county,
w. N. Bruce, Oconee county,
j. F. Hendricks, Pickens county,
Committee on Resolutions of
Farmers' Union Council.
Parties desiring more information
and constitution and bylaws of the
Farmers Union, address b. f. Earle,
State Organizer, Anderson, S. G.