The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-04-03
ALIENS ATTACK
STIRS FARMERS
GOV. COOPER MAKES REPLY TO
GOVERNOR OF KANSAS.
Says 1t Is Uncalled For
State Chairman Also Makes State
ment Concerning Remarks Re-
fusing to Join Movement.
Jaws It Is UncalIed For

Columbia, April 1.-The bitter,
unjust and uncalled for attack made
on the cotton acreage reduction cam
paign by Governor Henry J.. Allen,
Of Kansas, last week has stimulated
the movement as nothing else could
have done. From every State in the
cotton belt letters come to J. Skot-
toWe Wannamaker, chairman of the
central committee of the South Caro-
lima Cotton association, assuring him
that the attack of the Kansas execu-
tive had but helped the campaign
which the Southern farmers are max
ing for commercial freedom and had
insured the success of the fight they
are putting up to save themselves
from bankruptcy.
Governor Allen last week gave out
a statement in which he said that the
cotton growers of the South in their
efforts to limit the acreage of cotton
to maintain high prices are TRADING
on the misery of the world" He de-
clined an invitation extended him by
Chairman Wanlmker to attend a
conference at which representatives
from every State in the cotton belt
are to be present, saying that cotton
growers are making as much money
with cotton at thirty-fve cents a
pound as Kansas farmers are max
ing from their wheat"
Chairman Wannamaker gave out
a statement replying to Governor Al
len saying that the latter was either
distorting the facts or else was very
poorly posted on the same. "The
Southern cotton farmer cannot sell
his cotton at 35 cents as Governor
Allen states," said Mr.. Wannamak-
er. ''For middling cotton, If he de-
cided to sell today at prevailing
prices, which are below the cost of
production, he could get around Is
cents a pound. The cotton farmer
cannot afford to sell his cotton for
less than it cost to produce it. Many
of them are confronted with financial
ruin unless they can get more for
their product"
Mr.. Wannamaker said that in the
security of a wheat price fixed by the
government, Governor Allen, is en-
tirely ignorant of the condition sur
rounding the Southern cotton farm
ers. "He cannot know" said Mr..
Wannamaker, that the Southern
cotton farmers are not only carrying
a large part of the cotton crop for
which they are offered a price below
the cost of production, but they are
unable to sell their cotton seed at
any price whatever. The cotton far
mer held his cotton seed as matter
of patriotism and in response to the
governments request placed it on
the market very slowly. Now he
cannot sell his seed at ALL
Mr.. Wannamaker declared that the
farmers of the South, by curtailins
their cotton acreage, would assist in
in the production of food with which
to feed the world. Food, he said,
comes ahead of clothes. "The poor
starving people of Europe are going
to buy something to eat even before
they buy something to wear" said
Mr.. Wannamaker. "The shortage OF
food is just as great as the Shortage
of clothes"
Governor Cooper's Statement.
The statement issued by Governor
Cooper follows in full: "The people
of the cotton growing States have
not criticized the fixing of the price
of wheat by the government. They
are glad for the Kansas farmers to
receive profit on their products
Two dollars and twenty-six cents may
or may not be an adequate price for
wheat. I don't know any more about
the cost of production of wheat than
Governor Allen does about the cost
Of production of cotton. I do know
and every well-informed man Of the
cotton belt knows that the farmer
cannot today get profit for his cot
ton. If Governor Allen will induce
some of the wheat growers of his
State to come to the south and gro"
! cotton under present conditions, they
could give him some valuable infor'
nation on the subject about which he
evidently knows so little, or else ne
would not have made the statement
he did"
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