The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-04-27

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In speaking of the doubt expressed
by some as to the farmers STICKING
together, Mr.. Everett asked that he
be shown man who would not stick
to that which makes him money, as he
knows the Society will eventually do.
Mr. Everett spent several minutes
in telling what the Society has al
ready done for the farmers of this
country. About year ago, he said,
the Society told the American far
mer that his 1908 wheat was worth
one dollar a bushel This was pub
lished as news through the papers of
the country and attracted much at
tention. The object was to make the
demand look for the supply and put
wheat up to one dollar while it was
in the hands of the farmers. This
plan failed for several months but the
Society kept it up and last February.
dollar wheat was reached. To prove
that tho Society, through the farmers,
put this price on wheat. Mr.. Everett
stated that cash wheat or real wheat
was five or ten cents above speculative
wheat, in February, and the specula-
tors were continually trying to bear
the market. This one act on the
part of the Society WAS worth mill
ions of dollars to the farmers of the
country, said Mr.. Everett Many
farmers had held their wheat crop
until the Society got the price up to
dollar and then sold at profit Not
only this, but the action of the Society
andits result nowhest mad the.effect f
holding up the price on corn, oats,
potatoes and other commodities.
Mr.. Everett said If this could be
done with wheat why could not the
Society do 1t with tobacco. Tobacco o,
he said, is the most necessary luxury
in the country, and, if those people
who use it couldn't get it for less
than four tines the present prices,
they would have it even then. The
Society is not antagonistic 10 the To-
bacco Trust, he said, but only wants
to tell the farmers Row to put their
own price on their tobacco He said
that the Tobacco Trust could lust as
well ray the farmers of Kentucky
more for their t1bacco, because they
could add the amount to the consum-
er's end of the transaction, who
would pay it in order to get his
favorite luxury. He said he could
not explain why the Trust does not
pay the farmers of Kentucky more
for their tobacco, unless on the theory
that corporations have no souls. The
Society, he said, has the most ex-
cellent system of crop reporting in
the country. From the local unions re-
ports are sent to the national union
as to the quality and size of the to-
bacco crop. By these reports the
minimum or equitable price for the
whole country is fixed and sent back to
each member through the official pa
per. At present, Mr.. Everett said,
the Society will not put price en- to-
bacco, but will do so later. When the
Society has million members and
states to the Tobacco Trust its price
ON tobacco it will have to buy at tn at
price or not at all. Mr.. Ev erett de-
MED that there is an production
of tobacco and stated that when the
farmers put their own price on the
crop the demand will readily seek the
supply. As with the tobacco crop so
with all other farm products, when
the proper time arrives. Already,
hesald, the agitation over the tobacco
question throughout the State by the
American Society of Equity and in
dependent unions has had the effect,
lately, of bringing mp the prices on
the crop.
The speaker made it clear how the