Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-22

receiving all the benefits we can Sc
cure If you work one horse farm
or a fifty horse farm: If you make one
bale or 500 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 iredl-
tors will take that which we nave
cotton warehouse recelpt-anu
withhold collecting his notes and ac-
count 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, mer-
chants. bankers, fertilizer companies
and ali other persons doing business
in the south. We wish every farmer
TO sign our pledge. we request you
to hold, if possible, one-thlrd OF your
crop for one year, unless you can
sooner sell II for twelve cents per
nomnd We believe five million bales
or one-third Of this crop cannot De
used by the mills of the world pc
fore September 1st, 1915. we pe-
Iieve two-thirds of the crop, or ten
million bales, can be sold at aoou'
ton cents or above, If you will SLOW
lv sell as the mills need it. We can
sell the ten million bales, II proper
ly marketed, for more money thah we
can the whole crop and nave nNe
million bales on storage next 9ep
tember. Will you do your part, OF
40 vou expect YOUR neighbor to hold
vour third as we'll as his? II you
and your neighbor were serving with
Lee in Virginia, would you expect
hin, TO face the enemy like the praVe
man he was, while you ran away W
make a few dollars out OF his man
hood?
Suppose you and your neighoor
both hold the third of your crop
which both of you agree Is necessary
will you not pledge to cut your COZ
ton acreage SO per cent In oruer u
give value to the surplus you hold'
9s we'll as a fair value to the 1919
CROP. If your neighbor did not plant
but four to six acres to the morse
don't YOU think it would be talr 10
let him risk his full acreage and let
YOU that planted twenty acres 10 tne
mule cut 60 per cent? Wheh the
canvass Is completed, see that some
one in your county is holding one
third as much cotton for one year as
was made in 1913, according to govern
ment bulletin 1875. If the FARMERS
have not pledged that much, ask the
business men to put up the necessary
balance. Refer to similar builetln
and see that total acreage TO De
planted in your county in 1915 is only
so per cent of the 1914 crop.
Every cotton farmer. small or
large, is playing the game OF chance:
The stake amounts to hundreus Oh
millions of dollars. If we put cot
ton up four cents per pound, we Will
save the south three hundred mil
lion dollars. Are you willing to do
YOUR part? Come to your county
meeting October 1st, and be prepar-
ed to instruct our legislature your
wish as to a state warehouse blll' al
so whether you endorse state control
CT cotton acreage.
Wade Stackhouse, President
S. C. Division Southern Cotton Con-
gress.
Form of Pledge.
State of South Carolina,
County of ............
Whereas, owing to the reduction
in the consumption of cotton incl
dent to the general European war,
the cotton planters of this state re-
aliZe the necessity of concentrated
movement TO withhold from the
market a portion of the present cot
ton crop and the reduction or the
acreage for the ensuing year or 1913,
Now, therefore, in consideration OF
the sum of one ($1.0O) dollar, to the
undersigned. paid by the president Oh
the South Carolina Division OF the
Southern Cotton congress, the sign
er of this agreement hereby coven-
ants and agrees to and with the said
president and his successor in office,
as trustee for and on behalf OF any
and all signers of like pledges in the
state Of South Carolina, as follows:
First That he will sell no cotton
prior to October /. 1914.
Second That he will reduce the
acreage planted by him, his share
croppers, and others under his con-
troll in 1915, to not exceeding htty
per cent of the acreage planted by
him in 1914. l planted .........
acres in 1914. l agree to plant"
acres in 1915.
Third: That he will store and
hold a year at least One-third of his
1914 crop. unless twelve cents per
pound can be obtained therefor, un-
less absolutely forced to sell sooner.
Fourth: That the Signer of this
agreement as liquidated damages,
agrees to pay TO the president of the
South Carolina Division of the South
ern Cotton congress, as trustee for
the signerS of like pledges in the
state of South Carolina ten QO) dol
lars for every acre of cotton planted
in violation of the provisions of this
agreement. Any funds so paid in
any county to be divided among the
signers in such county.
Witness my hand and seal this
..... day Of .........., 1914.
Signed. sealed and delivered in the
presence of: