Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1907-10-05

BACCO COMPANY HAD NEV'
BEEN HEARD OF in the dark
bacco district" Did you ever thi
man could write a thing like tn.
Voice in audience: mo, sir,
didn'tO Let's see whether the Il
in QUALITY in tobacco would car
the fall in price.
Statement of {. M. Flack.
have here a statement from (
of the best judges to tobacco in
world, e. NJ. Flack, a Hopkinsvi
broker. Let's see what he has to &
about it: THAT is the very thing
are after now" says Mr.. Flack, speI
ing of the quality of the tobacl
"The people are suffering very mul
They are not getting enough to II
on. At present the price of tObal
is LOWER THAN EVER BEFOIj
In fact it is at about a STARVATIlI
POINT" And this miserable nj
Beach says the American Toba,S
Company had nothing to do with I'll
and the wooden-headed farmers
mad and tore up the country.
Reading: In fact it is about starg
ton point In fact / take it that in
that territory-from Louisville 4
Nashville-for all that tobacco tn
they could not get more than th 3
and a half cents a pound. I questk
whether they would be able to
three cents a pound for it," Do 4
all remember it? (Cries of "
ought to.O
Let us see whether the men "
bought that tobacco and have bH
buying here in Hopkinsville for tE
ty years have to say about it.
Dority.
"a. o. Dority states that he II
resident of Pembroke, Christa
county, Kentucky, and lives alb
ten miles from Hopkinsville,
He states that he is now and
been engaged in purchasing tobaA
continually in that section in
around Pembroke for the past tvt
ty years, and that prices for tobal
were never as low during his expN
ence as they were in the year IS
1902, 1908 and 1904. or anything E
as low; that the prices prior to 81
time ranged somewhere near S&
all round"
Hear what the Solon of HopBs.
ville's ruined brokers has to
about this usual thing Of three-& IA
tobacco:
Chas. F. Jarrett's Statement.
Charles F. Jarrett, says that h
a resident of HOpkinsville. Ky, M
was, prior to 1902, for 25 or 30 ydF
engaged in the tobacco brOkeat
business. l bought for 27 years
the Italian Reggie and also for 81
French and Spanish Reggie. I bod.
from three to seven thousand hk
heads a year, and I know that ia
25 years prior to 1902 and 1903 ~
prices for tobacco were never
low, or anything like so low.
we paid generally from eighk
twelve cents for the leading Itaa.
tobacco-for the leaders, leaf
everything"
Am l doing right, my frle s.
or wrong, by making the s
ment that the American TobM M
company and the Regies had Sd =
thing to do with it and that the Ht
pie were never so filed with miM
and despair as when they had dok&
ion over us and that they alone H3
responsible for it, and that while E
held us by the throat it was the ~
dest period in the history of A
South. tApplause)
Trust ManipuIates Bremen MaSs
Running HopkinsVille and ClarI
willie Brokers.
Gentlemen, you will remember, &a
he makes the statement that the az
ity of tobacco broke these brokerE
it did you are the biggest seA;
fools l ever saw, buying tobaccofl,
your lives and couldn't tell bad to
70 when you saw it. (Laugh
What broke you, Brother Fla
addressing gentleman in audieI I&
(Mr. Flack; I'VE couldn't get
much as we paid for it.") The Aa
can Tobacco Company broke M
1idn't it? (MT. Flack: "Yes, sik31
lido Ask c. P. Warheld what rul S.
he brokers in Hopkinsvine
Jlarksville. (Mr. Stanley reads M
statement of Warfeld.)
Warfield's Statement.
In answer to your statej
Mr. Chairman (John Dalzell) M
TO how this competition is M
Ing to affect us, l would
hat Bremen has been, as you k
the only open foreign
.ry we have; that was the only f
1et they had, the others were NV
rolled by the Reggie system. Mr..
ield continues: Recently the Al
IAN Tobacco Company has undertA
o go in by Bremen and sell tolIfS
here. 1t has twenty-nine firms
Bremen, and it has been a dun
ground for all our products; ii
been the only open market tha1R
have had. Last year the Anne
Tobacco Company went into BreNlsN
and they put down the price of L @
20. They went in there and coul(
1ersell and did undersell-for the S
pose of driving out competition y
lndersell-this tobacco. Now
past season this competition has &
30 completely killed that every a
70 buyer in our market has been
IN this last year, every one, and IN
buyers are sitting there waiting
we know they cannot buy, and
italian people will not buy a pou
It."
Here is another tale Of woe,
sad and decisive-from their ,
hfrvafs norfft TTa N||.|