The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-04-18
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AT
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SUMTER, S. c.

equate food supply, especially for the
present year, is superlativc.
Without abundant food, alike for
armies and the peoples now at war,
the whole great enterprise upon which
we have embarked will break down
and fail. The worlds food reserves
are low. Not only during the present
emergency but for some time after
peace shall have come both our own
people and large PROPORTION of the
people of Europe must rely upon har-
vests in America. Upon the farmers
of this country, therefore, in large
measure rests the fate Of the war and
the fate of the nations. May the ma
tion not count upon them to omit no
step that will increase the production
of their land or that will bring about
the most effectual cooperation in the
sale and distribution of their pro-
ducts? The time is short. 1t is of
the most imperative Importance that
everything possible be done and done
Immediately to make sure of large
harvests. I call upon young men and
old alike and upon able-bodied boys
of the land to accept and act upon
this duty-to turn in hosts to the
farms and make certain that no pains
and no labor is lacking in this great
matter.
TO Southern Farmers.
81 particularly appeal to the farm
ers of the South to plan abundant
foodstuffs as well as cotton. The ycan
show their patriotism in no better
way than by resisting the great temp
tation of the present price of cotton
and helping, helping upon great
scale, to feed the nation and the peo-
pie everywhere who are fighting for
their liberties and for our own. The
variety of their crops will be the vis-
ible measure of their comprehension
of their national duty.
"The Government of the United
States and the governments of the
several States sand ready to coope-
rate. They will do everything posi-
BILE to assist farmers in securing an
adequate supply of seed, an adequate
force of laborers when they are most
needed, at harvest time, and the
means of expediting shipments of fer
tlllzers and farm machinery as we'll
as of the crops themselves when har-
vested. The course of trade will be
as unhampered as it is possible to
make it and there shall be no un-
warranted manipulation of the ma
tion's foodstuffs by those who handle
it on it's way to the consumer. This
is our opportunity to demonstrate the
efficiency of a great democracy and
we shall not fall short of it.!
TO the Middlemen.
This let me say to the middlcmen
of every sort, whether they are han
ding foodstuffs or our raw materials
of manufacture or the products of
our mills and factories; the eyes of
the country will be especially upon
you. This is your opportunity for
signal service, efficient and disinter-
ested. The country expects you, as
1T expects all others, to forego unus-
ual profits, to organize and expedite
shipments of supplies of every kind,
but especially of food, with an eye to
the service you are rendering and in
the spirit of those who enlist in the
ranks, for their people not for them
selves. shall confidently expect you
to deserve and win the confidence of
people of every sort and station.
TO the Railroad Men.
TO the men who run the railways
OF the country, whether they be man
ayers or operative employees, let me
say that the railways are the arte-
rics of the nations life and that upon
them rests the immense responsible
ity of seeing to it that those arteries
sutler no obstruction Of any kind, no
lneiiiclency or slackencd power. To
the merchant let me suggest the mot
to, small profits and quick service,
and to the shipbuilder the thought
that the life of the war depends upon
him. The food and the war supplies
must be carried across the seas, no
matter how many ships are sent to
the bottom. The places of those that
go down must be supplied and sup
Piled at once. TO the miner let me
say that he stands where the farmer
does: the work of the world awaits
| on him. If he slackens or falls, ar
mics and statesmen are helpless. He
also is enlisted in the great service
army. The manufactures does not