The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-07
RELIEF FOR-TOBACCO GROW
ERS.
Farmers the Power to
DethrOne the Tobacco Trust.

We are in receipt of official notice
from the headquarters of the Amer
lean Society of Equity, at Indian
apOlis, Ind, that this society will
send organizers into the tobacco
growing districts to organize the
growers to demand and receive a
profitable price for their 1904 crops.
The work will begin in Western
Kentucky. Four meetings are
already called at Morganfield,
Union Co., April 18th: Dixon, Web
ster Co., April 18TH: Henderson,
Henderson Co., April 20; Owens
obro, Daviess Co.. April 90. James
W. Lee, of Morganfield, is in charge
Of arrangements for these meet
ings. Other meetings will be held
in rapid succession until the grow
ing districts in Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Indiana, Ohio. Virginia.
North Carolina, Maryland, Penn
sylvania, Connecticut, New York
and Wisconsin are organized.
The plan of this farmers society
is different from any former one.
The Americans Society of Equity
proposes to or, ize farmers To reg
ulate m arketi : and thus compel
the price. 1t believes (knows) the
world must have what the farmers
grow-aii food and clothing sup
plies. 1t organizes the farmers and
teaches them how to market their
crops over the whole year instead
of dumping them soon after harvest
so that other people hold and man
ipulate them. 1t believes in farm
storage rather than city storage.
1t proposes to make the demand
seek the supply instead of the sup
ply overwhelming the demand.
1t knows, under the old system,
that when the year is around all of
the crops are consumed at prices
made by ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Ors, packers. food trusts and mid
dlemen-without any reference 70
what it cost TO produce them. 1T
believes, under the new system of
controlled marketing and price
on the farm, that there will
be even greater consumption, be-
cause prices will be equitable to
both producers and consumers, and
that when the year is around, the
granarIe.a and storehouses will be
empty. and the indispensable goods
uf the farmers will have been sold
at the farmers price.
This is not a society for tobacco
growers alone, but it is for every
crop grown by farmers: one society
for all agricultural interests. 1t is
in every State in the /!
Union, also in Canada. 1t is the
society that fought for dollar wheat
and won. 1t proposes TO carry on
It's work until every crop brings
profitable price, and until the grow
Or takes his profit first, before the
or trusts can touch his /
inc products, until farming is
elevated to an equality for profits
with the best business in the
and farmers come to the
ront where they belong.
In this call TO farmers to organ
re, special stress is placed on its
Importance to small cities and
country towns. Therefore, the
are invited to cooperate
o the building up of agriculture,
which means prosperity for all.
Merchants want farmers to get good
,rices, in fact, farmers can not
'rosper without the merchants
'rosper, hence their interests are
mutual. If the farmers and mer-
hants join i'm this movement to
escue the tobacco industry and put
on more than its old time pros
erous basis, it will be the greatest
Industrial event in the history Of
he localities affected.