Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-08-07
FOSTERS
LETTER.

lllS Executive committee OF the
Planters Protective Association, by
declaring against auctions, has mer-
tied the eternal gratitude and ad
miration Of US tobacco planters. We,
the rank and file, the hickory shirt
brigade, saw and felt the rascality
and fraud practiced in auction sales
at GAINESVILLE and other points be-
fore our association came into exis-
istence, hence we want no more auc-
tions, and cheerfully and heartily
support our Executive Committee in
all it has done and may do in the flu
ture against auctions. Give the buy
ing conspirators no opportunity to
get in their fraudulent methods of
combining for one of their number
to buy to-day, while the others stand
back and not bid. We planters will
support the Executive Committee
in the full and free exercise of the
great powers delegated to it.
Let it, therefore, make cur inspect
ors, classifiers, statesmen, warehouse
men and prizers carry out their con-
tracts and obey it's rules, regulations,
orders and commands in sincerity
and in truth, if any of them do not
cut their heads off by putting their
job into the hands of another. We
planters elected and will back our
committee. and thereby teach these
agents to know of a truth that their
master is the Planters Executive
Committee.
: Rumor has it that a certain little
fellow assumed to act as salesman,
and sold some Association tobacco
to his father-in-law, an ex-Trust
agent. This sale is absolutely void,
because both these parties knew the
party acting as salesman had no au-
thority from the Executive Commit
tee, and it had authorized nobody to
authorize this little duck" to sell
this tobacco. because nobody save
this Committee can authorize any
person to sell. The Committee
only has power from the
people to employ statesmen. This
rumor may not be true. 1t may
possibly be an outright lie aAoat
upon the wind, but we will investi-
gate, and, if it be true, we will call |
the attention of the Executive Com
mittee to it, and somebody will lose
a job. We are resolved to have no
such oficious intermeddling with
Association affairs by outsiders.
Our statesmen are employed to sell |
tobacco, and are not employed t.
employ statesmen.
We congratulate our Executive
Committee for the able and consci-
manner in which it has ad
the affairs Of the Associf
ton for the last two years. We
farmers are fully aware that the
members of the Committee are hui
man, and are liable to make mis-
takes, like other people, sometimes.
but it is our joy to know that the
Committee has made no material
mistakes or errors, and we WILDE de
lighted to have the same men com
pose that Committee for the future.
Their two years of training and ex-
perience is invaluable, and we hop,
for the good of the Association that
no change will take place. We have |
tried them, and know that they are
able and conscientious, brave and |
true to our interests and the inter
eSts of the entire country, and as
they now have an experience, and
that very experience enlarges their |
already large natural ability, to be of |
still greater good to us all We have |
written this that our Committee may
know our appreciation of it, and |
that we approve of what it has done, |
after we have critically watched it |
and seen its course for the past two
years.
1t is a great source of consolation |
to us farmers and tobacco planters
to know and to realize that we are
led, and that our affairs are man.
aged, by honorable gentlemen. They |
have not done all they did and Go
wish to do, but our dear Committee
must be patient, for we planters re
alize the fact that it takes, and will |