Owingsville outlook., 1898-12-22

: VI tobacco ical, 40 you rclnemD
4 this advice given to the wheat pr
Q ducers Il year ago: Hold yo
e wheat?' Did the farmers of Ke
tucky hold? Not one in twent
But the one who held realized tn;
he was master of the situation. III
conditions that obtained then
wheat repeats itself in tobacco. II
manufacturers, both of the Ol
World and the New, have almo.
exhausted their supply. They mu'
have our tobacco. They have abou
agreed, as in the ease Of wheat, t
take it at low price, and whe
they have it in plug the old or
will come: Short crop, ligh
weights; high prices for their pro
duct"
Low price to the farmer; higI
price to the consumer. The trust il
not the whole market yet, and tn,
Continental Tobacco Trust woul,
not be worth IA continental, evel
with its boasted seventy-tive mil
lion dollars. if we will stand firm
shoulder to shoulder, and ask tn,
labor organizations, and we do ask
them now, to stand by us fellow.
laborers. Help us, ye fellow work.
ers, to fight this powerful trust
that is threatening our bread. We
said the trust is not the whole mar
ket. 1t is not half the market us
yet, and it is for you to say if it
shall be. There are hundreds of
other plug manufacturers that this
big moneycd power is seeking to
destroy. They will be assaulted
one by one, the big ones first, the
little ones in turn, until the whole
market is the trust. Then, good
bye. hope. The price of tobacco will
be set by the one-man power, and
there will be no appeal. Hold your
tobacco! You know what your
crop has cost you. Add to this
fair compensation for your labor
and capital invested, and refuse to
sell for less. Buy your tobacco for
chewing and smoking from your
friends. Is the trust your friend?
Help US, all farmers, ye who labor
increasingly amid summer heat and
winter cold, and We will help you
when your war is inaugurated
against the Cattle Trust, the Wheat
Combine, the Twine Trust-the
trust, in whatsoever way it shows
self.
You do not have to fight trust;
resolve you will buy only products
made only by your friends, and
there will be no trust.
We appeal to you, merchants, TO
help us 10y handling only tobacco
made by the factories not in the
trust. We appeal to you to stand
by us with your sympathy and
kind words. and aid us in a fight in
a common cause. w. B. IlAwKIye,
Pres. Ky. Tobacco Growers League.
LOUISVILLE ToBAcCo MARKEr.-i
Office of The Weed" Saturday.
Deg. IL lS9S.-owing to thc public
of the soldiers returning
rom Porto Rico no sales took place
IN Tuesday. The market opened
With rush on Wednesday,, and
'yer I,200 hhds. were offered at
auction, larger number than il
vas possible to handle in the pre-
'cribed houses of sale from 8 to 4 |
''clock. The offerings were largely |
of new Burley of the
common and medium grades. The
was animated from the
tart. and these grades appeared to
De just the styles of leaf wanted.
Demand for the common and me-
lium grades continue very strong,
md, luckily, the supply is abun-
liant and generally in fair order.
offerings of new continue to show
he same features which have char
Icterized the crop since its first ap-
'earance on the market, and so
General are these features that the
rade has come to realize that this
rop of Burley is, taking 1T all and
III, one of the least desirable that
We have had for several years.
What it lacks, however, in quality
will be made up in quantity. Our
of last week that old
weet leaf would take an unexpect-
d turn and enable holders to real
ze, has not materialized this week.
The strong upward movement of
asst week has not been sustained.
Did leaf, even when sweet and in
very way desirable, showed ten
lency to weakness, and seemed to
eceive less attention than last
week. Prices, however, are not
Iuotably lower. Old bright trashes,
lways in demand, hold their own,
nd so it can be said of short bright
eaf of medium grades. In view of
he well-known deficiency of color
n the new crop, a fairly strong
uture for all colory leaf might be
afely predicted. The axiom that
is the unexpected that happens
as nowhere been better and often
r illustrated than in the leaf to-
'acco trade so that prophesies re-
the future have long ceased
0 carry any weight. The corps of
'uyers for the different manufac-
urers said to be in the new com
line are at their post and buy for
heir respective houses as formerly.
This competition which has SO
elped our market in the past will |
be less marked in the fu-
ure, when the buying element will
e more limited.
The Dark market developed con-
iderable strength from the start,
nd maintained it to the close of
he week. Long leaf, as usual, was
n strong demand at an advance of
o to 75c higher than last week,
nth other grades in full sympathy.