The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-09-25
4 CALL TO COTTON FARMEn>
To Hold One. Third Cotton OH Market
And Sign Pledge to Reduce
Acreage.

county in South Carolina at the court
house, II a. M, October 1st. | request
that these meetings be called in addi-
tion to any others that may have been
held. | hope before that date each
county will have been organized. That
in each county hundreds of people will
be wearing our badges, indicating t2ey
have paid $1.00 to help boost the price
of cotton and that we have their sup
port in trying to hold one-third Of the
cotton crop and for reducing the 1915
crop so per cent. We are going to use
your dollar to help us organize. While
we shall be glad to have you contrib
ute S1.00 to the organization, we are
not going to let that keep you from
our meetings or from receiving all
the benefits We can secure. If you
work a one horse farm or 80 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 well as the rich, in
asking that our creditors 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, fertilizer
companies and all other persons do
ing business in the South. We wish
I'eyery 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 y
cents per pound. We believe five
million bales or one-third of this crop
cannot be used by the mills of the
world before September 1st, 1915. We
believe two-thirds the. crop, or ten
million bales, can sold at about
ten cents or above, if .0l will slowly
sell as the mills need it. We can sell
the ten million bales, if properly
marketed, for more money than we
can the whole crop and nave five mil
lion bales on storage next September.
Will you do your part, or do you ex-
pect your neighbor to hold your third
as well as his? If you and your neigh
Dor were serving with Lee in Virginia,
would you expect him to face the
enemy like the brave man he is, while
you ran away to make a few dollars
out of his manhood?
Suppose you and your neighbor both
hold the third of your cotton which
both of you agree is necessary, will
you not pledge to cut your cotton &C
reage so per cent in order to give
value to the surplus you hold, as we'll
as a fair value to the 1915 crop. 1t
your neighbor did not plant but four
! to six acres TO the horse, don't you
think it would be fair to let him
risk his full acreage and let you that
planted 20 acres to the mule cut so
per cent? When the canvass is COM
pleted, see that some one in your
county is holding one third as much
cotton for one year as was made in
1913 according to government bulle-
tin 125. If the farmers have not
pledged tlat much, ask the business
men to put up the necessary balance
Refer to similar bulletin and see
that total acreage to be planted il
your county in 1915 is only so per
cent of 1914 crop.
Every cotton farmer, small or large
is playing a game OF chance. The
stake amounts to hundreds OF millions
Of dollars If We put cotton UP four
cents per pound, We will save the
South three million dollars Are you
willing to do your part? Come to
your county meeting October 1st and
be prepared to instruct our legisla-
ture your wish as to a State ware
house bill; also whether you endorse
State control OF cotton acreage
Wade Stacknouse,
President South Carolina Division
Southern Cotton Congress.
Form of Pledge.
State of South Carolina,
County of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Whereas, Owing to the reduction in
the consumption of cotton incident to
the general European war, the cot
ton planters of this State realize the
necessity of a concerted movement to
! withhold from the market a portion
Of the present cotton crOp and the