The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-07-21
SPEAKERS At ALeoLu.
HON. j. l.. MCLAURIN TELLS or
his EFFORTS TO SPREAD
WAREHOUSES SYSTEM.
Would Have States OF Georgia and
Alabama Enact Laws Similar To
That Adopted by This State-Hon.
j. NJ. DesChamps, Candidate for
Governor. and State senator j. 4.
Banks Make Interesting Speeches

gentlemen addressed the Farmers
Field Day meeting at Trinity, Claren-
don county, near here. on yesterday:
Mr.. John Madison DesChamps
spoke on the subject: I'VE and the
Other Fellow" and for more than an
hour entertained his audience on an
interesting expose of the natural ad-
vantages Of South Carolina; during
which he assured his audience that he
would be candidate for governor OF
south Carolina in 1915. Many com
plimented the address Of Mr.. Des-
Champs. who by the way Ia a BROTH
er OF our able representative in the
legislature from Clarendon, Hon.
Ralph S. DesChamps, Pinewood. Mr..
j. M DesChamps has travelled all
over the United States and into many
foreign countries, has had much COM
mercial experience. has written ex-
tensiyely and is all round very we'll
informed on the topics of the day,
and pleasing and instructive plat
form orator
Hon. j. Arthur Banks, State sena-
tor from Calhoun county, next ad-
dressed the meeting in re. the great
advantages to- be derived from hous-
Ing and storing cotton as per the State
warehouse law in South Carolina and
recited the ease and facility with
which he. through the instrumentalitv
OF the Hon. John J. McIaurin had
secured money on his cotton stored In
his State warehouse at st. Matthews,
). C.. through the National City Bank
OF New York He very ably defended
the cause Of the farmer of this nation
and particularly the south-the cot
ton and tobacco grower.
The next on the programme was
that silver tongue orator and South
ern debater and champion d. of the
cause OF the farmers, the Hon. John
L. McLaurin. State warehouse COM
missioner and originator and effector
or the state warehouse law, who af-
ter few Introductory remarks, ex-
planned that ne had t,st return 81
from Atlanta, Ca, where ne had been
using his .ireat endesvors 20 get the
Legislature OF the state OF Georgia
and the great state Of Alabama 10
pass just such n warehouse law as
he had by untiring efforts secured for
South Carolina and that he found
that the great effort in Atlanta, where
the legislature OF Georgia Is in session
is to create In the large cities large
warehouses to which the farmer
would be expected to ship his cot
ton. giving a rake-off to the railroads
and place the farmers property where
1t would be not only a 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
connecting banks In said cities the
loans and the deposits, or a certain
retentative portion of the deposits.
MIR. McLaurin made a fervent and
patriotic appeal to the farmers to
stand together and carry out the plan
OF the State warehouse law and there
by save the South from financial ruin
and at the same time bring them
selves into the possession of the profits
that were justly theirs by the hard
ships incident to producing and
harvesting the cotton crop which ne
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.
erous representative from Clar-
endon. the Hon. Bob White, Capt. j.
y. Mckenzie. agriculturist for the
ID. w Alderman and Sons Company
OF Alcolu. in company with this cor
respondent mOtored to Sumter in
company OF Senators McIAurin and
Banks, where the two distinguished ID
guests took the 5.07 train for Colum-
Dia. Senator Banks and Commission
er Mclaurin will speak in Camden
saturday. the 18th. i'm the afternoon.
Great praise was heard on every
lhand FOR the magnificent, sumptuous
ieiast that was served today by the
good ladies of Trinity.