The Breckenridge news., 1905-07-12
LETTER FROM
II. L. BELL.


Importance and value of a county pa.
per like yqlrs. l want to herein con-
CIRCULATE you upon its success More
th4 all other Issues combined do l
sh IKE hands will you upon the stand
yotI have taken for temperance. For
If there is burning issue before the
people today 1t is the whisky..question
notice you Breckenridge county
people only have one saloon left and
that will probably be- voted out in the
near future And here is hoping she
will ''go." Some people feel like it is
actually pulling their eve teeth to
evenly hink of voting against a saloon,
but Ner you once get them to see
otherwise they are sorry that they
havnt heen over there le ago 1t
also saves you the troubl d annoy
alce of being pulled .auled at
when the liquor queo foes come
up for they know y going to
stand pat tor what IS
Y NOW cur po1ticisJ in the habit
of railing out9 ist the meat
trust the steel trut STANDARD oil
trust, but trey ieek as a mouse
on the whisky trA., thinkssthough,
it is mostly through habit to get
votes, for when it comes to country
people. cursing the beef trust lots of
them don't at beef once week, but
l am sorry to say that they don't come
in contact with whisky that little.
But If they do get hold on a little beef
once in a while it has never been
handled by Swift" or "Armour,
Now, friend Babbage, I.notice you
are working to aid the farmer in
holding up prices Tor which the farm
er should appreciate and thank you
But more depends upon the individual
effort on the farmers part than any
thing else. Organization is good and
all right as far as 1t goes, but yon have
got TO get a basis to work upon and
that basis is to have a little surplus
money to back you mp for IL you do
not have it the other fellow already
-kz;n1art and he therefore takes ad.
vantage of that fact, and goes after
you. OF course the rule of supply
and demand ultimately sets the price
on everyth ng but organization and
self effort will aid the farmer In get
ting the hrst best price instead OF
letting the speculator get the bulk
of the profits.
Now don't understand me to be
down on the legitimate speculator
for they are an essential in the land,
but the speculator who stands ready
to gobble up the first profit on a cou-
modify while the person who Is really
entitled to 1t is helpless ought to be
''trozsn" out of bu siness. The specu-
latoss-in -spples stood ready last fall
TO taKe in the apple crop at soc Il 6Oc
per barrel but the fasmers shook as
pretty and nice Ben Davis apples as
you ever saw from the tree and loaded
them into the Vinegar car" neteS at
home 40c per bbl taxing speckss'
ores and all.
/ offered an apple dealer in tH
.ity of Louisville my apple crop u
be put upon cold storage and for hyn
10 Sc them out as he saw proper
and not to pay one cent on them
until he took them out and the price
set was very reasonable which ne
himself acknowledged. even told him
to send his own man from the city
to my orchard and pack the fruit
TO suit. himself and that his mans
board would not cost him one cent,
and he said: mo 1 don't want to do
that for will take my chances here
in the city. said you will not take
any chances at my apples here in
the city and l went home thoroughly
convinced that there wa a move on
TO- OF in the apple line a we'll In
other line TO get your stuff on the
market and then butcher you.
1T all the farmers would make few
moves like that, the fellow would soon
come to the producer to buy and we
wouldn't have SO many glutted mar
kets.
Fast living is one great me mace to
the farmers prosperity. You see an sd-
vertisement that there Will be a great
Ball game"-Beer garden attractions
and Shooting the Chute'in the city,
is very low railroad rates to get you
there and back. You pstronize these
things every season and you are rob-
hing your farm OF It's ''life money.
Yours truly
H. L. Bell, Guston, KY.