The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-01-01
LET THE LAW STAND,
PRES. OABBS ADVISES
GIVE ACREAGE REDUCTION
FAIR TRIAL, HE
SAYS
WILL HELP FARMER
President Of State Farmers Union
Writes of Marketing and 9th
: er Problems.

Wish tnat could get the ear of
every farmer in the State to beg that
this law be allowed to stand until IL
can be thoroughly tested out by three
or five years trial." says E. w. Dabbs,
president of tho South Carolina State
Farmers union in an address to the
farmers of the State, In which he
makes an appeal for retuntion Of the
cotton acreage reduction law.
Mr.. Dabbs' letter follows:
TO the Members Of the Farmers
Union and All the Farmers OF the
State:
noticed in the papers of Monday
that there Is movement to induce
the next legislature to repeal the cot
ton acreage law. I wish I could get
the ear Of every farmer in the State
to beg that this law be allowed to
stand until It can be thoroughly tested
out by three or five years trial. I do
most sincerely hope that no farmer
Will be SO determined 50 show his in
dependence, or to assert his liberty to
do as he pleases with what is his own,
as to go into the courts to set aside
this wise law. 1 can not believe that
there is a single farmer In the State
whose condition will not lie better
next November If he lives up to the
letter and spirit of the cotton acreage
law, than II he succeeds in smashing
that law either In the courts or in the
legislature. 1t is the most conserva-
tive and sensible cotton reduction
measure that has ever been proposed,
and bears equitably upon all farmers
alike, rich or poor, landlord or ten
ant. In my opinion the farmers who
have any kick are the few who sell
corn and hay at fancy prices to their
more improvident. neighbors. They
will have to take what their stuff Is
worth hereafter In the worlds mar
ket less the freight. The average
farmer will find his own farm mar
KIT fht has been buyer plus the
freight, plus the commissions, plus
the time prices, will absorb all that
he can make and save him these COM
missions and profits that are making
every one but Himself rich.
Besides with less cotton to engross
all his time. If he plans right he can
harvest oats and wheat 30 to 60 days
before the grain belt and sell at the
highest prices in the worlds market.
or course this means that the thresh
ers must be ready to sack the grain
right from the field and that the farm
ers have new sacks ready. and have
organized some system CT marketing.
The biggest work that Clemson. has
ever undertaken lies right here, and
II the powers that be In Clemson and
Washington back DIR. Long to carry
out what I know ho has wanted to do
ever since first met him, there will
be sane marketing In South Carolina
ncxt Juno and July.
Right now is the time to be plan
ming for sacks for this grain, Every
man who expects to have hundred
bushels or oats ts sell ought to pledge
10 use new cotton sacks to put them
In; four-bnshel sacks for oats and
tWo-hushel sacks for wheat and rye
would be about the right size 126
pounGs and t20 pounds. respectively.
trust that this is mattcr that tho
farmers union Will take up at tho
January meeting and we should like
10 hear from manufacturers what
they Will charge for such sacks. I hone
this matter will be taken up at once
and pushed through. Certainly if we.
demand that salt, flour, etc, be put
up IN cotton. VIC ought to put our
grain on the market in cotton sacks,
Ihe wheat growers Of Washington
through the farmers union sent q COM
mittee to Atlantg for IL, ,O00. coo cot
con sacks fhree years ago and could
not gel them. And the hop growers
OF California had to 90 to Philadelphia
for cotton twine, when the rniIIs nf
the Carolinas and Georgia ought to
have supplied both. &. q. q
I s & ss'..sbiident South Carolina sia;s Ear-
mers' Union. q s ~