The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-21
Farmers Rally at Trinity.

Alcolu July 1.-THE following gentle
men addressed the Farmers Field Day
meeting at Trinity, near here, on yes
terday:
Mr.. John Madison DesChamps spoke
on the subject: 1--WE and the Other
Fellow" and for more than an hour
entertained his audience on an interest
ing expose of the natural advantages
of South Carolina; during which he as
sured his audience that be would be a
candidate for governor in 1916. Many
complimented the address of Mr.. Des.
Champs, who by the way is a brother
of our ablo representative, Hon. r. S.
DesChamps. Mr.. j. N. DesChamps has
travelled all over the United States and
into many foreign coentries, has had
much commercial experience, has
written extensively aud is all round in.
formed on the topics Of the day, and a
pleasing and Instructive platform ora
tor.
Hon. J. Arthur Banks, State Sena-
tor from Calhoun county, next address
ed the meeting in re, the great advant-
ages to be derived from housing and
storing cotton as per the State ware
house law in South Carolina, and re-
cited the ease and facility with which
he, through the instrumentality of the
Hon. John L. McLaurin had secured
money on his cotton in his State ware.
house at st. Mathews, through the
National City Bank of New York.
The next on the program was that
silver tongue orator and Southern de-
bator and champion of the cause of the
farmers, the Hon. John L. McLaurin,
State warehouse commissioner and
originator and effector of the State
warehouse law. who after a few intro
ductory remarks. explained that he
had Just returned from Atlanta, where
he had been using his great endeavors
TO get the legislature OF the State OF
Georgia and the great State of Ala
bama to pass just such a warehouse
law as he had by untiring efforts Sc
curep for South Carolina and that he
found that the great effort in Atlanta.
where the legislature of Georgia is in
session is to crea9e in the large cities
large warehouses TO which the farmsr
would be expected to ship his cotton,
giving rake-otf TO the railroads and
place the farmers property where il
| would be not only collateral for the
large banks in the great cities, but
give to the stockholders OF the large
warehouses in these centers a large
margin in the storage and to the con.
Meeting banks in said cities the loan:
and deposits, or certain reutentative
portion of the peposits. Mr.. McLaurin
made fervent and patriotic appeal tc
the farmers to stand together and car
ry out the plan of the State warehouse
law and thereby save the South from
financial ruin and at the same time
bring themselves into the possession Of
the profits that were justly theirs by
the hardships incident to producing
and harvesting the cotton crop which
he said was the foundation of Southern
civilization and what prosperity the
South had made.
After the meeting was over, which
was presided over by that truly gen.
erus representative, the Hon. Bob
White, Capt J. N. Mckenzie, agricul-
turist for the D. W. Alderman &>Sons'
Co., of Alcolu, in company with this
correspondent, motored to Sumter in
company with Senators McLaurin and
Banks.
Great praise was heard on every
hand for the magnificent. sumptuous
repast that was served today by the
ladies Of Trinity.