The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-04-02
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VI SURPRISE THE WORLD
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HITS BACK AT GOV. ALLEN
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Warns Spectators, Gamblers and
Manipulators Their Hour
Has Struck.
HITS BACK AT GOV. ALLIE

st. Matthews, S. c., March 28.
The Calhoun County South Carolina
Cotton Association held a largely at
tended and very enthusiastic meeting
in the court house here today. The
meeting was attended by delegates
from every section of Calhoun County.
The campaign for cotton acreage
reduction, the planting. Of increased !
food crops, the holding of cotton for
remunerative prices IS making won
derful strides in this country. Reports |
were received, urgent business trans
acted, and statistics are now being |
gotten up for the purpose of framing
final reports to State headquarters on
cotton acreage reduction, fertilizer re-
duction and many other matters of |
vital Importance to the cotton inter
ests.
The meeting was presided over by
Mr.. j. r. Faircy, county chairman.
After a full and lengthy discussion
of various subjects being handled by
this campaign twenty delegates we're
elected to attend meeting in Co.
lumbia on April 3. The meeting was
addressed by several local speakers.
The sentiment in favor of this cam
paign is receiving wonderful i'm
petus. The county chairman, various
officials and committeeman who are
behind the campaign in Calhoun
County are making strenuous efforts
to put Calhoun County in the lead at
the coming convention in Columbia,
and she will certainly stand at, or
close to, the top.
The meeting on April 3 will Prob
ably be one of the most largely at
tended meetings ever held in the
OF IT, Il l..
bama and Mr.. w. B. Thompson, of
New Orleans, will address the meeting
in Columbia on April and all inter
ested are looking forward to their
addresses with keen delight.
Absurd, Says Wannamaker.
Two Of the leading New York
houses have issued within the last
two days estimates on Cotton acreage
reduction, use Of fertilizer and prep
aration. When telcgraphed the esti-
mates by one of these firms today
, showing the reduction in cotton acre
age of lG per cent for the belt and
curtailmcnt of fertilizer for cotton of
Is per cent for the cotton belt, the
State chairman stated that these fig
ures were absurd. He is now receiv-
; ing reports, not only from evcYy. 5 =
tion of South Carolina, but from cv-
cry section of the belt, and the state
! mcnt which will be issued by head
! quarters Of the South Carolina Cotton
Association on April 3, will be SEN
sation to the cotton trade. This state
mcnt will be probably more accurate
than even the government statement,
/ as no pains are being spared to get
! absolutely correct figures first hand
1T Will be statement on acreage Gun
tallment for cotton, acreage planted
| in cotton for 1910 orroonn for norp
in 1919, fertilizer curtailmcnt for cot
! ton, preparation and labor conditions.
! This statement is now being prepared
| by a large force of experts Several
Of the leading journals of the great
manufacturing centcrs have requested
that the South Carolina Cotton AS
sociation furnish them with this re-
port. The report will probably receive
more attention than any similar re-
port that has ever been issued. Chair
man Wannamaker, stated that while
this report will be sensationally bull
ish, at the same time the final result
of these figures point inevitably to
the fact that the South has deter
mined to raise their own food crops,
curtail cotton acreage raising cot
ton more as a surplus crop, holding
cotton for remunerative prices, and
that as = final result, this fall the
spectators and manufacturers will
bitterly regret when it is too late, the
fact that their foresight was not as
good as their hindsight, and it will
certainly come home to them that
"thc saddcst words Of tongue or pen,
are the words it might have been"
Had the spectators, gamblers and
manipulators not been such gluttons
and not claimed the pound Of flesh
when times were hard like in 1914,
and only granted the cotton grower
a mere existence when prosperity was
rampant like now, when every sec
tion except the South was enjoying
unthinkablc prosperity, says Mr..
Wannamaker, they might have post
poned their final undoing, bat the
farmer now realizes that the sooner
they are relcgated to that realm
whence no traveller ere returns the
better, and their hour is at hand. He
says that if Governor Allen came
South under present conditions, in all
probability he might need winding
sheet or burial sheet made from
some Of the off grade cotton grown
in Carolina. However, the result Of his
action, declares Mr.. Wannamaker, has
81 stirred the men that it will largely
add to the absolute certainty Of the
victory in this campaign, and will
prove Of great value to the entire
cotton belt, so that in the end they
should vote him a monument inscrib-
ed "The first fool who saved a ma
! ton"
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