Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-08-12
wALHAI1A, SOUTH CAROLINA wEDN5s6aY AUGUST ~ 1o14
PRESIDENT DABBs ISSUES CALL
TO Farmers to Unite i'm Important
business Trip to Washington.

E. w. Dabbs, president of the
South Carolina State Farmers I'm
ion. has addressed the following to
the members of the Farmers Union:
To the Members Of the Farmers
Union: For the fourth time your
representatives in annual convention
have called me to the highest office
III your gift-that of president of the
State Union. That / have been so
highly honored by my fellow mem
bers Of the strongest and most repre-
sentative organization of farmers in
the State is a pardonable source of
service to- the union, and through it
to the people Of my State, it were
better not to be so honored.
Right now we are face to face
with disaster to our whole people
business of every legitimate kind, as
well as farming-and 1t rests largely
with you, my fellow farmers, to stem
the tide. In consultation with the
other State officers Of the union we
have issued several calls to action.
The last is for the reasSemDling of
the Southern Cotton Congress. You
may remember that the first congress
in Montgomery, Ala, was the out
growth of South Carolina's Union
just after you had first elected me
your president, and that Farmers
Union and other patriotic citizens of
this State largely shaped the policies
then adopted, which saved the South
from bankruptcy and the nation from
distress.
"To-day a greater calamity than
the 100000 bale crop of 1911 con-
fronts us. Eighteen or twenty mil
lion men are in the field in Europe
ready to kill each other at the COM
mand Of some hereditary over-lord.
Our commerce is destroyed because
these best customers of ours are in q
death struggle for racial supremacy.
1t is estimated that it will cost $54,-
900 a day to maintain these vast
armies in the field. This does not
take into account the still greater
loss of human lives, the flower Of the
manhcod of these nations s--'f-si
On to Washington.
'At the instance OF the South Car
Cotton Congress has been called to
meet in Washington on the 18th and
14th instant-Thursday and Friday
Of this week. l have named quite a
number Of members of the union in
this State as delegates, men whom it
has been my pleasure in the last five
years to know are true to the princi-
pies of the union. There are many
Ht hx,r
when making up the list. This is to
urge every loyal member Of the un-
ion who can possibly spare the time
and the means to meet with us in
Washington at the time named. We
will have the opportunity of a life
time to impress upon the President,
the Cabinet, the Congress and the as
sembled business men of the South
and the nation the principles of the
Farmers Union and the patriotism
of its membership.
81 think | voice the sentiments of
the peace-loving, law-abiding, indus
trious farmers when l say that for
the one thing Of keeping our country
from war with Mexico, President
Wilson and Secretary Bryan should
be overwhelmingly renominated by
accldHldIlOn Ol all Ine parties and
unanimously elected for another
term.
81 am sure the same wisdom that
has kept us from being involved in
a bloody war will, with the co-oDera-
tion Of the farmers and business men
of the South, find way to conserve
the value of our cotton crop, and
save us from ruin. Go with us to
Washington and let us show the
world that peace hath it's victories
greater than war"
Among the delegates to the Wash
ington meeting appointed by Presi-
dent Dabbs are the following:
Anderson-B. Harris, Pendleton;
j. M. BrOyles and T.. II. Wakefield
Anderson; j. w. Rothrock, Pendle-
ton.
Greenville-C. d. Smith, Fountain
Inn; j. A. Fowler, Taylors.
Greenwood-Col Alfred Aldrich.
Greenwood; J. II. Quattlebaum,
Callison.
Laurens-J. d. w. Watts, Lau-
rens; G. S. Wham.
Oconee-WJ W.. Long, Clemson
College; T. D. Alexander, Westmin-
ster; j. R. McMahan, Seneca.
Pickens-Joel II. Miller, EasIey.