The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-04-17
COTTON CONVENTION ADOPTS
RESOLUTIONS WITH TEETH

Columbia, April--At the big cot
ton convention here recently the fol
lowing resolutions condemning al
farmers who refuse to reduce thei,
cotton acreage were adopted:
Whereas, The movement for the
reduction of cotton acreage and for
better marketing conditions for cot.
ton as product is intended to and
Will bring about the commercial in
dependence of the South and all the
blessings incident to that indepen-
dence and,
whereas, This movement is like
wise an effort to secure from the bur-
den and toll of labor the women and
children of the South who for more
than half century have at the ex-
0cnse of education and culture been
he victims Of cotton and,
whereas, 1t appears to those men
interested and connected with this
movement that some of our farmers
| and business men have failed and re
fused to take the stand with their fc;
low farmers and
Whereas, 1t appears that a clas-
siLcation of those objectors is to be
as follows, namely,
First, Those wh, have heretofore
planted about IL acres to the horse
OF cotton and consider themselves
within the scope of this reduction
without any further reduction;
Second, Those who, through the
failure of previous movements de-
cline to enter this from lack of faith
in its success,
Third, Those who trust that the
dispensation Of Providence will send
storms to destroy the crop of their
fellow farmers, thereby enhancing
the value Of their own;
Fourth, Those who, from purely
selfish motives, refuse to enter into
this movement and reduce acreage
and for their own gain maintain their
present acreage with an increase of
fertilizer or increase Of acreage, hav-
ing full faith in the success of the
movement and believing that their
nelEhbors having reduced their acre
age the price of cotton will be great
ly enhanced and that they will doub-
ly benefit from the increase of acre
age at the expense of their neighbors.
Now, therefore, Be it Resolved,
That we call upon our people in this
crucial period of their history to have
that faith in each other and in the
country that will so materially aid in
making the movement a success that
those farmers who refuse to reduce
acreage cannot be benefited for re-
fusing, but will realize that this is a
business proposition and that i'm or
der for cotton to maintain substan-
tial price or advance the supply must
not exceed the demand and to the
extent that it is less than demand to
that extent will we obtain a profitable
price and this can only be brought
about by production of less cotton
than heretofore produced.
Third, That we remind the provi-
Dental farmer that the rain falls
alike on the just and the unjust; that
the dispensations of Providence do
not know geographical divisions, sec
tions and that we must be the vic
TINS of a double calamity and that
we fully endeavor to get the people
to realize that the South must have
prosperity or adversely as whole and
not as a State;
"Fourth; That we condemn in the
strongest terms possible as slack
er with all the meaning that the term
carries in times of war and in times
Of peace that farmer or business man
who willfully refuses to reduce his
acreage and fertilizer thereby hoping
to prosper and enhance his own
wealth at the expense and as bene-
ticiary Of the sacrifices and unusual
patriotism of his fellow men and that
we call upon our citizens throughout
the State to create that degree of
public sentiment which will visit upon
the head Of such an offender the
greatest degree of contempt and com
munity ostracism which is and ought
to be bestowed upon those who have
proven themselves unworthy of the
respect Of their fellowman."