Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-31
Nashville, Tenn, Oct. 28.
To the Members of the Planters
Protective Association:


To the Members of the Planters
Protective Association:
Realizing that you would rejoice
to hear, even indirectly, from your
beloved and patriotic general mana
ger and chairman, Felix G. Ewing,
I take this means of saying to you,
that [ have had the great pleasure of
reading a nine-page letter written
by MIR. Ewing, with pen, III a strong,
bold and characteristic style, which
clearly indicates to me that his
nerves are again in natural repose
and his strength rapidly returning.
In fact, he says that he has regained
twenty-five pounds. but 81 am aw-
fully weak and rickety, pining for
home, yearning topull my part of
the association load" although mot
capable of doing the hard work of
the past, and may not be for many
months" but Il will give my
thought and counsel to 1.-THE as
ISOLATION.
Wise and thoughtful as he always
was, and will again be, his thought
and counsel" will be most welcome,
whether he is or is not able again to
"draw water and hew wood" for
the Association. /. But his burdens
will besless on his return. By your
patriotic Gand heroic devotion to
home, justice and right, through
your association, the load" he
helped you to bear as long as he
was able to stand up, has been less
ened, the enemy has been driven
back, inch by inch, day by day
they stand whipped, they have
stacked arms and surrendered to
your just and considerate demands,
and the leaders backed by millions
are encompassed by the strong arm
of the law, and are being prosecuted
in dead earnest, by the Federal gov
eminent. No, your load" is not
what it used to be. You are practi-
cally out of debt, as result of an
inevitable and timely stand you,
three years ago, took and have gal
lantly maintained through your as
sociation-your last resort.
When Mr.. Ewing was stricken
down, you were in the midst of the
thickest of the fight. Other able
and patriotic members took his place
and continued the battle; an unprec-
edented success is yours-a victory, |
the result of your united and daily
effort. Your struggle, as well as)
your victory, by the advice of ply
stefan, have been withheld from Mr..
Ewing, and he now, able again, thank
God, to read and write, turns his
face toward home and friends and |
asks What of the hour?" pining to
be at the same time "side by side"
with you to continue your own fight.
Don give up the ship" If Mr.. !
Ewing must die, by such stand you |
can give him the chance to say vic
tory is ours, l die happy"
From every standpoint-fOr our
selves and in honor to him--it be-
hooves you to stand ysur ground.
Leave no stone unturned-always
acting within the limits of the law
to maintain your association. With
watchful eye, keep it and yourself
(and compel all others to do so)
within the pathway trod by the good,
home loving, law-abiding citizens.
You have already attracted the at
tracted the attention and admiration
of almost the entire agricultural
classes of the United States. Even
foreigners are writing here to know
how on earth farmers ever organized
and kept organized, and overcame
such powerful and INSCRIPTIONS
concern as the tobacco trust and its