Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-08-14

the society who remember Calhoun
distinctly.
Solicitor Boggs
spoke next, and his subject was the
Importance of organization. He was
at his best, and judging from the
many complimentary remarks. he
made quite hit, especially with the
farmers, who in this section are
fully appreciatiye Of what unionized
farmers can accomplish. He made
many illustrations of how ur!onism
can always accomplish more than
fndividuallsm. He spoke on how the
little streams, starting in the noun
tains, being 80 small that a cow could
easily drink them dry, but as they
progressed mountain downward, how
they grew into larger streams and
how each drop was loyal to each
other until, when a mighty stream
Is formed, how they become almighty.
BY this illustration he meant that the
farmers, being loyal to each other
by joining the unions, will become
mighty, and will then be able to COM
mand price for their great commod-
ity-King Cotton. Solicitor Boggs
said that If the farmers of the fifteen
cotton States would become fully or
ganized, then all of the money In
Wall street and In Chicago and in
New Orleans, and in the world, could
not dictate what the farmers should
do and what they should not do. The
farmers have the reins in their hands
and they should take hold OF them
and make cotton really the king. He
said that a farmer in Greenville
county was offered 12h cents for
his crop this coming year, and he
asked Mr.. Boggs for advice, and he
told him that just as sure as he sold
1t, the buyer would use it against
him, and that II many farmers sold
their crops in advance, then the bears
could control the market. educate
the farmers in the fifteen cotton
growing States and they will snbju-
gate the world" said Mr.. Boggs.
Tablet Unveiled.
After Mr.. Boggs had concluded, the
large crowd moved to the front of the
Society Hall building, and after a few
remarks by Governor Ansel, a marble
tablet. three feet by eight feet, was
unveiled, Miss Leize Stribling, the
beautiful daughter Of President Strlb-
ling, pulling the veil from over the
tablet. On the tablet were these
words:
Pendleton Farmers Society,
Organized 1815-Chartered 1917.
This Hall
built by the Society in 1926,
Quarterly Meetings
Second Thursday in February, Aug
ust, May and November"
Dinner was then announced and
the meeting took recess for nearly
two hours.
Unveiled Brass Cannon.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the
crowd gathered in the grove In front
Of the Society Hall to witness the un-
yelling of little brass cannon, which
had been mounted upon a granite
slab. This cannon was presented to
the town of Pendleton in 1851 by
Theo. D. Wagener, a part owner of
some vessels running blockade into
Charleston during the late war. The
cannon was the distress signal can
non on one Of these vessels. Miss
Cema Sitton, the attractive daughter
Of Col. A. ]. Sitton, the captain OF the
original red shirt company, unveiled
the little cannon while the band was
playing Dixie. The old flag Of the red
shirt company, which was the first
company to organize in the State, was
planted near the little cannon, and
the gentle breeze unfurled the old,
shot-worn ciolh over the mounted
piece.
Original Red Shirt Company.
The original red shirt company was
organized at Pendleton on August 27,
1875. 1t was organized for the ex-
press purpose OF protecting the rights
Of the people of this land and to visit
the radical meetings and compel a
hearing or division of time between
the radicals and the Democratic
speakers. 1t was this Pendleton COM
pany that marched on Anderson Court
House, then in the hands Of the radi-
Gals, and forced the radicals, who
were holding a Congressional cam
paign meeting, to allow the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress, Hon.
d. Wyatt Aiken, father Of the present
Congressman, a hearing. 1t was at
This meeting that Candidate LInnp,S