The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
FARMERS UNION BUREAU.
Conducted by S. G. Farmers Union
Farmers Get Ready.


From all over South Carolina comes in
ers Union and all about the work ofthe Farm.
ers Union?
In answer to all these questions will say
that the first step is to get fifteen good farm
to the State Secretary, B. F. Earle, Apdersou,
9. c., and get Instructions and literature CIV
ing ell instructions as to how to proceed 70
organ ize and when an organizer can be sent
to your section ofthe State.
Do Not Forget This.
That at all places where Farmers Union
Speakers are to address the people that the
people at these places are expected 10 adver-
tise the meetings and make all local arrange
ments to suit themselves, and to meet the
speakers at the Railroad.
In our travels over the State the cheering
sight OF the finest corn crops ever seen IN the
State greets the traveller In nearly every sec
Fortified with fise corn and feed crops and
entrenched behind over one thousand cotton
warehouses and increasing our membersnip
al an average OF more than three thousand
per day, the Farmers Union justly feels
proud Of its success Farmers, stand firm to
your original principles and guard against
the influence OF the willy demagogue pollti.
clan and the demaRogue newspaper, and al
or dig under your fences.
The Farmers Rally Meeting Of Oconee
County, South Carolina, to come OF at OAK
way near Seneca on the 2lst OF August bids
fair 10 be the largest gathering OF farmers in
that section In years.
The speaker on that occasion will be fresh
from the field and in good shape to tell the
people about the grand campaign OF the
Formers Union all over the South and es-
pecially about what has been done In South
Carolina and Georgia.
Two Of the worst enemies OF the Farmers
Union that we are now up to Ia the dema.
gogue In our ranks and some inconsistent
Newspaper men on the outside that are at II
all the while warning the Farmers Union OF
the dangerous demagogue and at the same
time advocating the Importation OF low grade
Immigrants for the use OF cotton mills. Now
II does look like any man with even ordinary
intelligence should know that this low grade
immigrant class Of people are the very best
supporters OF demagoguery on the face OF the
earth. Hence we warn the Union against the
influence either the demagogue politician or
these demagogue newspaper men. One OF
these is as dangerous leader az the other ls.
There is some significance about this con-
tinual harping about the amliation OF the
Farmers Union with the Federation ofLabor
and the demagogue that smacks OF pure rot
have always opposed farmers organizations
and catered 10 the interest Of corporations.
Whereas the population Of these United
States OF America is being constantly, rapid
creased by an rwhelming tide OF foreign
immigration composed largely Of paupers,
criminals and otherwise undesirable immi-
grants, and,
made by some OF the Southern States to en-
courage the foreigners 70 come into this
Southland OF ours and viewing suoh efforts
with alarm and great disfavor, that we join
grafton; and,
wv heress seeing that large part of the
troubles and disturbances in this country
arise from foreign ideas promulgated by the
fNrQI0n NJ nfar a n llx,
socially. religiously or otherwise, and that
before we were afflicted With these hordes OF
criminal, and reckless foreigners. lock outs
socialism, anarchy and many other evils
Whereas we feel and know that we have
the purest and highest type OF Anglo-Saxon
civiliSation on earth here In the Southern
states and earnestly desiring TO keep II such
Carolina OF ours, and,
Whereas we feel and know, with the so-
cursed jug traffic that the Express companies
many nj ~ Of our young m men hand and older % ones TOO, sc
With the Sabbath breaking foreigners mixed
with class Of low, degraded Sunday drink
ing boys for them TO mix with would make
darkest Africa blush,
lst. Resolve that wo arc determin that
as far as IN our power lies to keep our splsn-
did lnheTttAnpe Tor ourselves, our children
aai our ehildren's children and atrive to bet.
Ter Ter ha and I prepare them for the daily avoca'
god. That we the bishop Branch Local No.
2s Of Apderson county Farmers Educational
and Cooperative Union OF America are un-
alterably irrevocably opposed to foreign i'm
migration OF any kind and In any manner
whatever and II they do come with their own
accord let them prove themselves by making
good citizens.
Respt. submitted.
A. H. Mitchell.
Chairman Committee.
Above resolution adopted by Union and
ordered published.
G. w. Gaillard, Sec.