The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-02

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that when they we're written the
writer knew that they were false.
CONTINUED cheers and applause.)
Now. If that be treason, IL that be in
cendiarism, If | am the one red figure
with the AK and torch for making that
statement, then, by the Eternal God.
] stand by 1t. prolonged applause;
cries of Give it to them. A. o." and
laughter)
The arti lie to which ! specifically
refer was written by Mr.. Beach, .
CORES pendent for the Saturday Even
ing Post His argument. in brief, Is
this: He wishes to present this case
to the world a lot of wooden-headed
farmers in Kentucky and Tennessee
down here in what Is known as the
black patch"-got a notion in your
heads some way, God knows how: he
intimates that your heads are so thick
that somebody must have bored them
and poked il IN that the cause OF low
prices in 1902 and 1903 vas not due
to anything his innocent client. the
Afiifl lCdil a OAtaCOS
done, and he first attempts to show
that the low price received for that
tobacco was due TO TRADE CONDl-
TONS: then he attempts to show
that in addition TO trade conditions it
was due to the EXTREMELY MEAN
QUALITY OF CROPS AND THE
POPULARITY OF THE LEAF AT
THAT TINE Oaughter) then he goes
on to say that the scraping Of plant
beds actually has so decreased and
depleted and curtailed the crop that
that is why the price went up (laugh-
teri. Now that sounds very foolish
to YOU and me: that statement was
made for foreign consumption (laugh-
teri Then he argues that there never
was any combination between the
American Tobacco company and the
Imperial T baccO company ard the
Regies: that they never were in col
fusion: that there never was any proof
to sustain it. he says this country was
never divided into districts and each
man lad a district. and he concludes
by saying that the poor American To.
bacco company never did you any
harm in it's life. and finally that you.
without cause or excuse. have stupid
" gone to work and covered this coun-
try with war and dosolation and that
YOU are a band OF Ku KluX; ana the
New York Sun says you are worse
than the hunchakiSts, a band OF Ar
menian assassins.
am here at your request. in my
poor way to prove as best | can that
those statements are untrue. and that
we are not marauders and not slarch-
lists. and that while there have been
instances of lawlessnoss which we all
deplore. nevertheless ! maintain that
the law has been fairly well enforced;
that We are not, as a rule. as a whole
community in a state Of terror or war;
that we are still good citizens, going
TO church. loving God, and working
for a living. Nong and continued ap-
plause)
Now. / wish to read you his first
statement-and | wouldn't misquote
the gentleman for anythlng-and | am
not going to misquote anybody here
today. ! will read you the first state
ment of Mr.. Beach. You never heard
anything like this before, and neither
did |. until | read in the newspapers
that was "A liar for saying that this
fellow was not telling the truth.
wish to say in this connection that
very few papers in this district have
treated me unfairly; that two newspa
pers in Hopkinsville had a just com
plant AGAINST that interview, but not
on account Of any fault o. mine-the
interviewer understood me to say that
Mr. Reach was a correspondent Of one
Of these paners. and | don't blame The
uarers for warJ ding to rspudiaF him
From both the "KentucIian" and the
"N.w Era" during this whole trans
action have. so far as ] am concern
cd. received nothing but just such
treatment as | would have accorded to
them had they made the statement as
cribed to me and had | been running
a paper in Hapkinsyille. ! am going
/ today to be just to everybody; | don''
want to do an injustice to anybody il
/ ! can help it.
(Reading from the Saturday Even
/ ing PosD: The officials of tn
American Tobacco company" says
| Mr.. Beach, ION the other hand
allege that natural conditions hay'
played a large part In increasing tn
price of tobacco, and that the associa
| ton has exerted a comparatively SINAI
! influence in securing the advance.
/ Well, we'll. THE crop of 1902 was
| fair to look upon, but its APPEAR
! ANCE was it's chief virtue (lts dis
/ appearance was its chief virtue to thu
! American Tobacco Coz daughter.
! (Reading.) THE farmer sold ii at 2
/ fair figure. if he sold it early. but from
/ the time it was hung in the barn the
/ tobacco steadily deteriorated. d.
/ you remember anything about that
Q.aughterD Every man who bough
/ il sold it for less money than he pa,t
! for it," (Hidn't but one man buy It
/ Mr.. Beach, LaughterD For ever!
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