The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-09-25
FARMERS MEETING
IN EVERY COUNTY
COOPERATION OF BUSINESS
MEN WANTED.
President Wade StackhOuse Tells OF
Call to Farmers of South
Carolina.

Call to Farmers of South
Carolina.
To the Editor of The State:
l noticed in your Mondays paper
you had a mistake in your headline
when you said the State meeting OF
the Southern Cotton congress would
be held in Columbia on October 1. 1t
should have been September "a. The
county meetings were called for Oc-
tober 1. l would thank you in your
Mondays paper to make correction
and to publish the call for county
meetings which l inclose herewith
and ask county papers to please copy.
Wade Stackhouse,
President.
hereby call a meeting Of the
Southern Cotton congress in each
county in South Carolina at the court
huse, IL a. M, October /. l request
that these meetings be called in adcl-
tion to any others that may have been
held. I hope before that date each
county will have been organized. That
will be wearing badges, indicating
in each county hundreds of people
they have paid 81 to help boost the
price of cotton and that we have their
support in trying to hold one-third OF
this cotton crop and for reducing the
1915 crop so per cent. We are gong
to use your dollar to help us organize.
While we shall be glad to have you
contribute 81 to the organization, we
are not going to let that keep you
from our meetings or from receiving
all the benefits we can secure. Ii you
work a one-horse farm or 5O-horse
farm; if you make one bale or 800
bales; rich or poor, white or black,
we need your influence. We stand for
the poor man as we'll as the rich, in
asking that our directors will take
that which we have-a cotton ware
house receipt-and withhold collect
ing his notes and account as long as
he possibly can, in order that we may
obtain cost or above for this cotton
crop. We wish the cooperation of
farmers, merchants, bankers, fertili-
zer companies and all other persons
doing business in the South. We wish
every farmer to sign our pledge. We
request you to hold, if possible, one
third of your crop for one year, un-
less you can sooner sell it for IL cents
per pound. We believe 100000 bales
or one-third of this crop can not be
used by the mills of the world before
September 1, 1915. We believe two
thirds the crop, or 100000 babes,
can be sold at about 10 cents or above,
if you will slowly sell as the mills
need it. We can sell the 10,000,O0e
bales if properly marketed, for more
money than we can the whole crop
and have 100000 bales on storage
next September. Will you( do your
part, or do you expect your neighbQr
to hold your third as we'll as his ?S;f
you and your neighbor wS.sI seryi}gJ
with with lie; Lee IL u s Xissipia, MA woS,d sntS H
lbrsve2 man jhe is, while you ran an
to make lew dollars out of his ms X
hood?
Suppose you and your neighb
both hold the third of your crop whia
both of you agree is necessary, vi
you not pledge to cut your Gotta
acreage so per cent. in order to gis
value to the surplus you hold, as We
as a fair value to the 1915 crop. L
your neighbor did not plant but ST r
acres to the horse, don't you think
would be fair to let him risk his fu
acreage and let you that planted N
acres to the mule cut 60 per cent
When the canvass is completed, Sc
that some one in your county is hoN
ing one-third as much cotton for or
year as was made in 1913 accord1E Il
to government bulletin 125. If tie
farmers have not pledged that mutn
ask the business men to put up tie
necessary balance. Refer to a similar
bulletin and see that total acreage ot
be planted in your county in 1913
only so per cent of the 1914 crop
Every cotton farmer, small or large
is playing a game of chance. lnsi
stake amounts to hundreds OF NIL
lions of dollars. If we put cotton Gpl
cents per pound, we will save the
South $3OO,OOO,OOO. Are you wllllng
to do your part? Come to your coun,
ty melting October l and be preparea
to instruct our legislature your wsh
as to a State warehouse bill; aScN
whether you indorse State control Ol
cotton acreage.
Wade Stackhouse,
President South Carolina DIVISION
Southern Cotton Congress.