The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-07

reached through meetings or as in
diyiduals, and will ask that you see
that this pledge be printed in your
county paper, along with a copy OF
the message to the other States, and
that you issue over your signature a
call for every grower of cotton In
your county to come to the clerks
Office at the court house and afiz
his signature to one Of those papers
We further most earnestly ask you.
in discharging the, duties of your
Responsible position in this crisis, to
each day furnish by mail to me at
Columbia q statement giving the
names of the individuals that have
pledged themselves to hold their
cotton and to reduce their acreage In
accordance with the pledge, stating
opposite the name Of each the num-
ber of bales that he agrees or Pied
ges himself to hold.
1T is our purpose to endeaVor as
far as possible to send lecturers into
your coup.y to arouse and stimulate
the people to a full sense of their re-
sponsibility in this quick-holding
campaign, and / would suggest that
both you and the county secretary
and these lecturers carry a supply OF
blanks for pledges to each point Wis
tied, and that all of you get as many
signatures as possible file the doc,
uments in the clerks Office and
forthwith forward the information
to me. It is our purpose to collate
this information each day and to
publish the names of the holders in
the newspapers with the number OF
bales held, not alone so fa- as this
State is concerned, but the same
thing will be done in each OF the
other States.
After a careful consideration OF
every plan suggested in the present
crisis, the one that we are putting In
operation seems to be not alone
practicable, but the only one that is
open in this hour of need promising
success, and we feel that it is the
duty of every man charged With the
safeguarding Of the interest OF the
producing classes in this State to
throw aside as far as possible all
personal work and devote themselves
for the moment to the earnest dis
charge of this patriotic duty, which
means the conservation of a vast
sum Of money that Justly belongs to
our people, which can not be con-
served, unless our men heed the call
to arms and go into the battle with
the spirit that has animated our peo-
ple ever since the commonwealth
was founded.
"In regard to the two cents per
bale, in order that the accounts may
be kept without any danger of mis-
apprehension or misplacing OF funds,
it is earnestly desired that you ad-
wise and direct every man who signs
the pledge to remit this small sum
by postal money order direct to me
by mail. We desire postal money or
der remittance for the reason that IT
enables us to keep an exact record
and any miscarriage in the mails
can be easily traced Immediately up
on, complaint, and, further, there Is
no charge for collection.
"In sending in your daily reports,
simply use zone of the blanks, sup
ply of which is sent you, thus making
a duplicateTof the record In the hands
of the clerk of the court.
eve desire you to show this letter
and all of: the accompanying docu-
ments to the clerk Of the court OF
your county, ask him to receive and
keep these pledges on file and assist
you in every way possible with the
undertaking. I feel sure that there is
not a clerk of court in the State who
will not BIO; willing to lend this meas
ure OF assistance to a cause which
means so much to the epople.