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FARMERS' UNION NEWS v 1 _I_ riasaiesi nioHgt.M tor Pr* uo?i ?; Conducted my M. W. Dab as, Prss M?at C. Farmer? Unlen.) FARMERS MEETING PLANNED. Pre?Mlrnt Debt* of State Crganlzattoii Urge* Planter* to Attend. To the Farm?n of South Carolina: As the time drawn nearer for the annual meeting of the State Farmers union at the lale if Palms, July 23 24. 1 muat again ask you what steps sra you taking to make that meeting of real ?ervice to yourselves and the great state of South Carolina? The officers of the Farmers' union have invited you (snd that means YOU. Brother Farmer, not your neighbor) to me?t with us on July 23d In an open mesting to discuss two subjects upon which depends much that stands for the prosperity of the State, vis: The marketing of coth.n, and the use, misuse and purchase of commercial fertiltsor. We have the promise of . >r Bradford Knapp and Mr. C. J. Brand of Washington and Col. E. J. Wstson and Mr. W. W. Long of South Carolina, to address um on this occa? sion. Th* first two on cotton market? ing, the two latter on fertilizers and hrw tu buy and use them properly. Now ws know without your telling ua to. that four addresses without any "back-tsls" will be toe much for say audience Cils hot weather, no matter how refreshing the breeses ot old oeean may fan ua Therefore, we want YOU. not your neighbor, to go to this meeting cocked, primed and loaded, to make It your meeting. Ask questions, tell your experiences, and let no phase of these subjects escape yoar notice. Then we will have a meeting that will make 1913 epochal In the history of farming in South Carolina, So much to the farmers of the State generally. Below you will And the last letter from National President Bar? rett. 1 want the members and offi? cers of the Farmers' union to read It and ponder well the thoiughts he ex presses. 1 wish I could burn Into your brains the words of the tlfth para? graph of his h-tter?"Your emancipa fi ndss. your right. M ' me fr?>m your own efforts, II mwm o%:,irlsatlon through plans uuJ lA.toln your own ranks? and I believe through the Farmers' union"?"Stand by your guns." Bro. Reld has sent me a list of the unions that are alive In the State, and one of those that have f?llen by the way? side because the road was "long and stumpy." Are you going to quit be? cause of some discouragements? The most Idolised as well as the most hated man In South Carolina said he had "a long and stumpy road to trav? el" before he could be governor of the State. If he hud given up as you have done tmany of you his devoted fol? lowers), would he have ever been goremor? Would he have ever reached the honorable place in the United States senate which he now holds? My friends, you have forgot? ten your own history of but yesterday. Surely, surely the men who have bat? tled on both sides so valiantly for the good of Sooth Carolina politically since 'tti will not fall in this contest for economic and social ami business freedom which Is the rallying cry of the 20th century Two weeks remain In which fOl csn reorganise your feeble locals and have your counties adequately repre? sented at the annual meeting. You do not need to have some outsider or even deputised organizer If you wish to be In the greatest movement for economic fefuffSS. K?*t in now, and do a man's, yes and a woman's part Most of you know that the good WO men are eligible to Mtmbirghlp, bring them in. and nee how much more In? teresting sour sseethMH a-tll be C W habbs. President South Carolina Farmers Union PLWs TO AID F\RMFH. Crop Marketing n Problem Receiving Moral \ttcntlon To (tffhlul* arol Members of the Colon You can t pick up a paper these da\s without seeing something on marketing plans !?. aid the farmer to get hi* produce to the consumer without the grent difference in price us Itetween grower and commuter Commissions of all Softs SfS Mudylng this problem Individuals, corpora Hons lawmakers and am leih i have the one and only ? home It is all mighty Welt mm b of it all Is \ery edifying. With I i hoc h dls ciisston and planning and m homing nod uplifting berieft? lal results must result So mu? b agitation i ?n not teke penes without getting people to thinking. SsW after I While, With thinking ?b?ig right fSgOS, Peal IS ?Ulla may come. Hut 1 want to hum into your brains this idea, which 1 have stressed long and persistently?that the farmer isn't going- to get any adequate, practical, worth-while marketing plan until he works It out himself. Moreover, he won't accept anybody else's plan, o ' I know It, as you know It. If he does accept any semi- benevo? lent scheme in that direction, he won't stand by It. I know It, and you know It. It is besk usually to he blunt when the truth is to be told, because to soft-soap and palaver gets nothing but Contempt In the end. 1 believe The vast majority of American farmers know now that I am their friend all the time, and that I have no igfjg to grind, save their axes. So 1 stand forth and tell you the solemn facts, as I see and understand them, as I see and understand you. You arc not going to get your emanci? pation, your freedom, your rights, through commissions, through individ? uals, through corporations, aye, even through your great government. It must come from your own efforts your own organization, through plans formulated within your own ranks? and. I believe, through the Farmers' Union. Do not understand that I minimise or would stop others in honest and genuine endeavor to solve your prob? lems and get down to a tangible, workable, common sense plan for marketing. There are many unselfish and noble spirits at work, and, as I have stated, by the nation-wide agi? tation over marketing, good Is bound to come. Bu* you are arbiters and masters of your own destiny. Work out your own plans, or let such plan come as the solid, concrete action from your own folk. Then, when it Is In defi? nite form, stand fast by your guns. Foemen on every side will assault your ramparts, but Stand By Your Guns. Patience, pluck, endurance, co? operation, determination, principle, leadership?all are needed. Get them, brother; get them all. Then we'll g^t con.ewhere. C. 8. Barrett. Some Random Thoughts. It Is funny how thoughts are some times mixed: one man Interprets a statement one way and another Just the opposite. One friend says "It Is reported that the "fair boosters" have captured you;" another says, "I un? derstand you are opposed to a coun? ty fair." Both are mistaken. I am heartily in favor of a county fair, if It can be organized right and run without importing all the fakers In the county under the guise of amuse? ments. e e e I am just as heartily opposed to the county union spending its energies on a county fair when It hus u more im? portant work only partly accomplish? ed, vlx the market' g of country pro? duce, upon which we have expended so much thought and for which we have organised a right good little bus.ness. If the fair "boosters" will join us In making the Union Broker? age company a real live up-to-date produce exchange, we will then be ready to help them muke the best county fair In the state. e e e The county union at the Cain'y Mill meeting took steps looking to the working out of our orlglnul plun for a produce exchange. 1 look for results. Four years and two months ago, May 1909 the Union rHokerage. Company was formally launched at Cain's Mill. Like the great Napoleon, I bellev?' In signs, and anniversaries, and historic incidents, that inspire men to renewed effort that lead to success. It was a good omen that the determination to devote the Cain's Mill meeting to how to Increase the efficiency of the Union Brokerage Company was made at the Concord meeting of ihe county union. History is repeating itself. e e e I wonder if history Is also being repeated In the strictures of the re tall merchants on certain jobber* Three or four years ago it was Com? mon talk that the farmers little bus? iness would be run out in six to twelve months. That big money would be spent to do BO, etc. etc. W I look some notice of these rumors at the time, but gradually all such talk -eased, and through the Chamler of Commerce, with its county members, n began to look like we were all g" ing to pull together for the common good, as Dr. Maker BO Optly Sttld "to make Sumter and Sumter County a Letter place to live in" was >ur aim. ami the Farmers' Union heartIIj wel corned the Chamber of Commerce on u b i program. . . . S*oa to have this body propose ? 1 gnrnlshee law, and to stop jobbers from selling la consumers, and to Stress the buy at home" policy in loot ihe wny it is deem in ? recent In? ttl , U ? in the I Nlll) Hem looks like , r.to wal of hostility. We Sumtei County fnrmers, and Ihe city con? sumer tend as somebody said at i I recent conference that i attended, "We are all producers, and we are all consumers," so that we are not far apart in our interests if we but knew it) may be very slow to see how to serve our mutual interests, but such talk of coercion In the inter? est Of S handful Of merchants will do more to wake us up than all the lec? tures or economy that we can pub? lish. ? ? e True co-operation as practiced In some sections of the northwest and In England has not yet even germinated with our people. Some seeds have been planted, however, and when the tender plants come up will have to be cultivated and watered before there will be much growth. Hut it is com? ing and our Farmers* Union efforts, feeble as they have been, lukewarm and spasmodic, almost dying out un? til some hostile foe thinks the screws can be tightened, will be found when the history of our times is written, to have been no mean factor In the progress of events. ass President Williams and J. M Kolb were elected delegates to the annual meeting of the state Union at the Isle of Palms, July 2.1-24. J. M Brogdon and William Wells alter? nates. see Steps were takn to secure tick In? spection with a view to having the quarantine removed from Sumter County. We hope at the next meet? ing of the County Union, August 1st, at" Oswego, that this matter will be so forcibly presented to pur people that every farmer will Join in the good work of tick eradication. With the warning from the United States Department of Agriculture against our people selling off their cattle to the Northwest and active steps for better cattle with the tick removed, we will be getting ready for the boll weevil. But remember farmers this is your work and nobody Is going to do it for you, just as Mr. Barrett says in a letter before me, no one will solve your market problem for you. e e e I am told many good men say they would join the union, but nothing the farmers have ever done has succeed? ed. Mow long will you wait for suc? cess? The Union has lasted longer than the Grange, or the Alliance, or even the Peoples' Ice Co., and is stronger today in Sumter County than ever before. Our business enterprise has held its own for three and one half years and is ready for any tus sel that may be forced on it. And un? like the Masonic Temple, and the Y. M. C. A., has no mortgage on it. And this in spite of knocks from the out? side, anil a few chronic kickers and traitors on the inside. What more are you waiting for? E. W. D. JOTTINGS PROM HEM It FHT. Many Visitors to Rafting Creek Neigh? borhood?Children's Bay Sueeess faL Kcmbert, July I.?Miss Mary Le noir of Camden is spending a few days with her aunt, Mrs. H. C. lie thea. Miss Emma Allen of your city spent the 4th with her mother, Mrs Maiy Allen. Mr. W. S. Allen has Just returned from St. Stephens. What influence does the hot weath? er have on one's love Mr. Editor? Because some fellows drive a long way these hot summer nights and? "Don't tell tales out of school." I do declare these Rafting Creek girls get prettier every day. Dur last surely look best. These are not the words of an old bachelor, a widower. A fly is a piece of impertinence and ?no CUSS words Editor. He will not be screened off nor beat off. We had a fine rain last Sunday, I June 29, and crops are showing the effects of it. especially corn. Mr. Editor, your correspondent. "Hagnod" g?>t things mixed about the Children's Day at Bethcsda church, possibly because he was anticipating the fourth. He certainly did caUfcS a lot of contusion in the minds of many people. It was m\ privilege to attend the above named exercises and they were good, some particularly tine. Mrs. Stuckey certainly did her work well in training the children. i wll not attempt to sei the ac caslon before your readers, ;?s thai Is tin- task of mote capable talent. There Is a Mr. Strother visiting here. He t omes from Palrfleld cot II tv We have some as nice corn und cotton ai he could wish to look at. ! "Whew! Ain't it hot?" Amy Chapman, mother of Clp I Champman. himself an snelenl negro, died yesterday, July 8, aged i<>u year*), having been 111? ? mother of ten chil? dren, forty grundchlldren, and ore hundred great grand children. Sunday, July Ith, w;is one of the hottest days we ever knew, the ther? mometer showing around ninety eight from l j to B P. M Tin- highest rec? ord with us this yea I before this was ninety two, Mi A i ? in. she a Is v, letting in out ] communll) "I ? J." TARIFF FACIES_ACID TEST REPUBLICANS PROPHESY YEARS OF LITIGATION. Look for Tina I Aoouh Wool and Free Sugar After Three Years. Waahlngton, July ft.?if the thrift revision lull becomes a law as it has been passed upon by the senate Dem? ocratic caucus, many of its provisions will be tied up in the courts for inter? pretation, in the opinion of Republi? can senate leaders. Senator Smoot, Republican member of the finance committee, dclared to? day that the change^ in phraseology and reclassitications in the hill are such that it would take'four years of court procedure to settle just what they meant and that revenues in the meantime would be held up. "Importers," said Senator Smoot, "have lawyers engaged for no other purpose than to pick out flaws or al? leged flaws of phraseology and legal precedents established by past court decisions will avail nothing in this bill." Democratic senators, in view of the1 failure of the caucus to pass a strin- j gent binding resolution, will he per-j mitted to vote for amendments to the wool and sugar sein .'.vies, Republicans asserted today. They expressed the belief that amendments Would pass the senate cutting out free raw wool and free sugar, but when the hous* conferees would insist upon the original pro visions, that the senate conferees would yield ami that all the Democrats finally would approve the conference report. The final schedule of the I n derwood-Simmons hill was completed tonight by majority members of the finance committee and sent to the, printer. Chairman Simmons is expected to report It to the senate. HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGE. Rufiis King Paces Charge of Vio? lating the Mann White Slave Act, Florence, July 9.?Rufus King, a young man of Lake City, who has come to this State for the tobacco season was brought to Florence today under charge of violating the Mann white slave act. It is charged that King brought a girl to Lake City from Virginia for immoral purposes. The community of Lake City is the prose? cuting power. Assistant District At? torney H. E. Young was here and had .1. P. McNeill of this city and LeRoy Lee of Kingstree to assist him. The defense is to he represented by J. Monroe Spears of Darlington and D. Gordon Raker of this city. The hear? ing was postponed for two or three weeks, the prosecution being Stayed by the request of the government in * the matter. P. B. Racot, I'nited States commissioner, will hoar the case. DIRECTORS TRANSACT ROUTINE. No Action Taken on Cancellation of Hosiery Mill LnbOff Contract. Columbia, July 10.?Routine mat? ters were considered at the monthly meeting of the board of directors held yesterday at the State penitentiary | The disposition of the several hundred convicts now employed In thf hosiery mill after November 1 was infor? mally discussed but nothing of a defi? nite nature was decided upon. Tin general assembly abolished the con? tract with the management of the hosiery mill and work will have to be found for the convicts now employ? ed by the company. KILLED HIS WIFE ACCIDENTAL? LY. Oklahoma Man Shoots at Man and Misses Mark. Anadarko, Okls , July ft.?During the progress of B dispute mar Car negie, Okla, today In relation to his title to a si\ foot row ol beans, D. A. Dodglngton shot at s. Jones, his neighbor. The bullet went Wild ami struck and killed Mrs. Dodglngton, 30 feet away. Unaware of the result ol his first sind. Dodglngton emptied his pistol at Jones, this time seriously wounding Benjamin Robinson, a by? stander. Dodgington tied when a posse of farmers gathered, and surrendered to the sheriff at Anadarko, where he Was placed in jail. CrowleSM Roosters. Atlanta, lulv 8.? Wild rumors on the local stock exchange have it that common and preferred stock In all companies making alarm clocks Is go ing soaring to the skies this year The national movement is under way to take the crow out of roosters, oi as Mr. Goldberg would put it to take the chant out ol chanticleer These ruthless disturbers of MUeet slumber arc to have their vocul chords cut out - a painless operation, it is de elated and henceforth thej will real back, stretch their ne< ks and w hit pet to the hens beside them on the roost that morning hebt i^ breaking MMiHHiiimiimuim?mumMi?iuu??iMin??niHttmtmti ;uuium:: Can You Afford To Be Without a Bank Account ? This question lias no ref??renw in \>>\n- Rnancial condition, bw from a str|ctl| business |iolni of vlen run yon arYord to forego tho many ad\antages that an rin- Ui nuiiem .a growing hank SO counts? ( an vor nltord to let your ifMitit'titor have this nnV vantage over you? W hy not start an account with US Sncl take advantage of tin' convenience ami facilities effortled roe llie bettor protection <>r vot u Income? Fir^l National Bank mtt?mu?::uim?:?u;nt:t::?:u?:::::?u?n??:::wm:::n:m;wmmtt:ntwmtm Start It Now! Now is the lime to start a Savings Ac? count. Money de? posited up to 10th of July draws interest from 1st. Start sav? ing something today. The Bank of Sumter Atlantic Coa^t Line The Standard Kail road of the South Ilamitlcs the "Nell0*Vf Par? tien Spot" Through the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida FOUR FAMOUS TRAINS "NEW YORK AND FLORIDA SPECIAL" (January to April) ; "FLORIDA AND WEST INDIAN LIMIT? 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