The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-11-05
HARRIS RETURNS
FROM CONFERENCE
Farmers Will Cooperate In Market
ing Meet in Washington.


where he had been attending a
meeting of the joint agricultural
conference at the headquarters of
the national board of farm organiza-
tions. This meeting was attended by
$50 representatives of 80 or more
farm organizations from practically
every state in the union. 81 have
missed very few important meetings
of farmrs in the last 80 years,
said Mr.. Harris, and / consider this
about the most progressive and most
far reaching that l have ever at
tended.
each and every one who attend
ed went for a definite purpose. 1t
was the intention of this meeting to
see what was tn cause of so much
dissatisfaction caused by the wierd
kind of deflation that came upon
the country like bolt of lightning
out of the clear sky. 1t was the con-
sensus of opinion that there was no
need for the deflation policy and
evidence was brought out to show
plainly that the farmers were being
Disseminated against by the policy
of Secretary Houston. 1t was easy to
see that the farmer is not getting
his pro rata share of the currency
needed to protect the great agr-
cultural interests of the country.
"The world may rest assured that
in the future the farmers are going
to take a more positive stand for
their Just rights They have been
asleep too long already and allow
ing themselves to be dictated to by
other people who have no other OBJ
iect but their own personal gains.
7 am proud to say he is blaming no
body but himself. He is waking up
to sense of his own duty and this
can only be done through organlza-
tion and cooperation of the farmers
of the North, East, South and West'
banded together in a great organlza-
ton They have found out who hit
Billy Patterson
Politics Not Mentioned
81 consider it remarkable that IN
this gathering of $50 men from all
parts of the United States, in the
national capital, just few days be-
fore the presidential election poll
tics was not even mentioned. 1t
showed very conclusively to me that
this body of men was there ferretlng
out the great problems now hinder
ing the prosperity of the country
and hunting remedy. As this was
such a representative meeting and
not alone of Southern farmers. The
following statement of the next
stem committee that studied the
causes and suggested unanimously"
A great crisis exists in agricul-
ture today which vitality affects
both farmers and the great mass OF
city toilers dependent on farmers
for their food and clothing So ser-
Gus is the situation that the farm
ers' organizations which speak for
agriculture have been repeatedly
sounding the warning, believing that
the industry and business of farm
ing are affected with public inter-
est and that the whole country
should know the facts.
Under the governmental urge to
feed the hunger stricken people of
the world ,our farmers, at enormous
sacrifices of both money and labor,
endeavored to produce adequate
crops this year. Despite this fact the
farmers have been forced to bear
the brunt of a deflation policy insti-
tuted by the government, a policy
which is the basis of the farmers
present financial troubles.
The war debt, including interest
when paid, will aggregate $40,OOO,-
100000. To repay this debt under
conditions of present prices and
farm products and wages for labor
will require two bushels of grain,
two bales of cotton and two days
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