The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-08-25
SAM H. SHERARD,
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
Prominent Greenwood County Man
Presents His Claim To The Demo-
Gratis Of The Third District

and approaching the fact that from
the earliest Colonial days our State
has been a leader in all things that
have served to make this nation the
great World Power that it is today,
and being proud of the fact that a
Just pride of origin has animated our
people, that high ideals and ambi-
lions have controlled their actions,
and that for pure Americanism, none
rank higher today, Sam Sherard is
a candidate for the Democratic NOM
ination to Congress from the Third
District, and he respectfully solicits
the suffrage of the voters in the
Democratic Primary next Tuesday.
He is a farmer at Ninety Six. Thir-
ty six years old. A graduate in agri-
culture from Clemson College in
1908. Five years with the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture in the Phil
Iippines, China, Japan, India, Egypt,
England, Europe and the Holy Land.
Farm Demonstration for five years in
this country. Investigated Industrial
land Agricultural Legislation in Eu-
rope with particular stress on Rural
Credit. Societies, Long and Short
Time Loans for Farmers, and Coop
~erative Marketing Associations. Is
proud of the fact that he helped
make it possible to organize the Cot
ton Cooperative Marketing Associa-
ton in South Carolina, and believes
in developing a system of marketing
for all farm products.
Knowing that South Carolina is an
agricultural state, and that eighty
per cent of our people are dependent
upon agriculture and the manufac-
ture of cotton for a livelihood, Sam
Sherard has prepared himself to
represent the Third District and he
has experience and training that Pc
culiarly fits him to help our State
in Congress at this time.
Agriculture, today is going thru
a process of readjustment and revo-
luton that entails terrific losses to
the owners and operators of farms.
A great many of u people do not
seem to realize the plight of the pro-
Queer. Thousands of farm workers
are leaving the fields. They are dis
lcouraged, and unless something is
done to rehabilitate agriculture, un-
less the producer gets sympathetic
consideration and encouragement,
our great basic industry will dwindle
and starve, and with it's downfall, all
other industry and business will
perish! Anything we can do to help
agriculture at this time, will help all
other business, and for this reason
lSam Sherard believes that we should
have lower freight rates on farm
produce that we of necessity will
have to sell to replace cotton. We
cannot produce and sell at a reason
able profit crops from a diversified
system of agriculture and pay the
freight rates on them that are being
charged today. He is opposed to any
protective tariff, but believes that
the South needs markets for her pro-
ducts.
He endorses the work of the agri-
cultural bloc in the. senate, and will
~endeavor to create a similar organl-
cation in the lower house of congress
for the benefit of agriculture. He
endorses the work of the War Fin
ance Corporation, but knowing as ne
does that it is only temporary legls-
~lation passed as a war measure, and
~re-created through the efforts of the
agricultural bloc in the senate as
a relief measure in the present crl-
sis, Sam Sherard will work for a per-
manent system of short time loans
for farmers that will be good for all
time to come. He studied this system
lin France. He believes in charging
the Federal Land Banks, and in max
ing them function without so much
red tape as at the present time. Our
local banks are not in position to
loan money over long periods of time
for the purchase and Improvement
of farms, but our Federal govern