Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1907-10-05

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you put it on anything red it will
turn red. This was chameleon" to-
bacco you raised those two years.
, (Laughter.) As long as the farmer
had it it didn't have any color, fibre
or quality; but as soon as the trust
got hold of it it was ALL RIGHT,
got better on account of the
CHANGE. (Laughter.) And the
funniest part of it is, Ed Jones Cad
dressing gentleman in audience) that
the next year, on the same ground,
with the same nigger, the same mule
and the same sunshine, you raised to-
bacco that acted just the other way.
! (LaughterD Is there any use con-
tradicting a statement like that? But
for the sake of the argument | will
proceed
! have here a statement of a man.
present in this audience, who was at
this very time a buyer for both the
Italian Reggie and the American To
bacco Company, who actually bought
millions of pounds of this channel
con- tobaccO-almOst in sight of this
tabernacle-and whom you all know
l-brave, genial old A. o. Dority.
| (ReadingO
Dority's Statement.
"The crop of 1902 was similar in all
respects to other tobacco raised be-
fore and since. There was nothing
PECULIAR about either it's appear
ance or texture, and there was NO
| UNUSUAL or UNACCOUNTABLE|
| CHANGE in its appearance or QUAIL
| ITY AFTER it was hung in the barns
or at any other time. 1t is true that
it did not deteriorate in value"
All! it looks mighty peculiar
after reading that statement, Mr.
Beach (voice in the audience looks
| yellow"0 No, not yellow, but the
ugly, awful serpentine green on the
back of a viper, or the red on the
| fangs of devil tremendous ap-
plause.)
Whole Question Previously Investi-
gated by Congress.
! Now, I presume that Mr. Beach, in
investigating a question like this,
could find out something about it if
the same question had been tried out
in a public place, by competent wit
nesses and still more competent
judges don't you?
Now, let's think of it. This
man, the author of a book, as
ii understand it, writing for the
information of mankind and for
one Of the greatest papers (and I
will say that for the Saturday Even
ing POst-one of the greatest and
hitherto one of the most cOnserva-
tive papers in the world, made that
statement-made THAT statement,
when | shall prove to you that the
falsity of it was literally blazoned be-
fore his eyes and that that very ques-
ton, as to whether or not the prices
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the crop caused it's fall in value, and
more than that, the very question as
to whether the pitiful bankruptcy of
the brokers of Hophnsville was due
to the KIND of tobacco that they
handled, or to the Vaccinations of
this trust; was tried out in solemn
court by sworn testimony.
That question was tried before the
Committee on Ways and Means, was
it not Mr.. Flack? addressing man
in audience) (Mr Flack an
swers yes.) Mr.. Flack attended that
trial, r. e. Cooper attended that trial. |
Let me read you the witnesses, Jo- |
seph Washington, for ten years a rep
lresentative in Congress from Ten
nessee, Charles Fort, the President of
this Association and God bless him, |
the grandest man and the most Iowa
bic fellow that you could put in that
place. (Vociferous applause) r. E. (
| Cooper, the tobacco broker of Hop ,
kinsville, whose word no man will !
question; John Cunningham, the .
President Of the Tobacco Growers /
Association of North Carolina; c. p. l.
Warfield. of ClarksWlle, I believe, /
and j. E. Justice, Of Ashland City,
| Tennessee.
| ,,,;11 -bor,. ,-o,, +t,o+ hofo,o +Io+ |
| committee also were dozens of other /
men whose names I will read.
| | have the hearings right here; i
| (halding up volume containing hear 1
ings before Ways and Means Commit \
tee) you cannot contradict this sort
of testimony, call me a liar as
much as you please. A stem
Ographer like these stenographers
here (pointing to stenographers
at front of stage) took down
every word of it, Who were \
the judges who heard the proof? John
Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, now a mem
Der of the Committee on Rules and
probably the most powerful Republi-
can in the House except Speaker (
Cannon; James Tawney, now chair
man of the powerful Committee on a
Appropriations Victor c. Metcalf,
shortly afterwards a member of the
Presidents cabinet Claude Swanson, I,
now Governor of Virginia; Hill, of 4
Connecticut Champ Clark, of Mis-
souri,; John Wesley Gaines, of Ten |,
nessee; Ollie James, John Rhea, ID.
H. Smith, d. Lynn Gooch South Trim
Bile, George Gilbert, ]. N Kehoe and /
Frank Hopkins, all of Kentucky.
These are the judges who, either as
members of the committee or as
members of the house. tried
that question, and who tried the other I
questions, which he says are so ridic-
ulous and absurd, both as TO a
collusiOn between the American
Tobacco Company and its cohorts in
plunder and as to the division of my
country, a free country hitherto,
among the petty principalities of
Europe, to be henceforth held In
worse than Russian serfdop,