Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-05

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That tobacco was infinitely better
B han the present crop"
r. e. COOPER
Here is a statement from Mr. r. r
. Cooper: eve sent to Bremen, whicf
lad been an open market heretofore
Until last year, a quantity of tobacco
b sell it on the open market there
fhis year the American Tobacco Co.
svhen we shipped our tobacco to Bre
men, TOOK FROM THEIR RESERVE
IL QUANTITY OF TOBACCO AMI
PUT 1T ON THE MARKET AT
lCOST | WAS ONE OF THE UN-
pFORTUNATES. We put our tobacco
'sn the Bremen market, expecting to
have a sale for it, but instead the
american Tobacco Company put its
obaccO on the market there in op-
Position, and sells it at prime cost
y iere-just what it cost, without any
4 Freight or expenses: and it cost us
M 10 cents a pound to ship tobacco
nd sell It in Bremen, to pay the eX-
4 enses of il. The American Tobacco
company threw their tobacco on the
market and just knocked ours out
ntirely-at a tremendous loss to the
american Tobacco Company, Of
curse. but while they can stand the
4 oss, WE CAN NOT. We have
bur tobaccos in Bremen today, and
/ We cannot sell them.
have the statements here
nd have no time to read them
of a dozen men who suffered at
his time and place through the ma
hination of the American Tobacco
company, stalking like a huge giant
cross the borders of Kentucky and
tennessee, taking the fair city of Hop
insville in one hand and the fair city
( GAINESVILLE in the other and strang-
ng them to death. (Applause) Oh,
lay friends of Hopkinsville, and
'larBsville, many things the Associa.
ion does may not please you, but
yere it not for this Association.
ill tell you that the American To
accO Company would not have dis
lantled all your industries (great
pplause) and the grass would grow
your streets prolonged applause
l wish to say right here, that moth
lg would grieve me more than to see
NY hard feeling between the city of
Iopl1insville and the people OF
III ioIlclu NOulbys GO WIN lliS
rom here to Clarksville, where
used to go to cut wheat for nd
ones; ride over that country with
he, and 1 tell you that there is
o Eden, no vale of Cashmere, no val
~ of the Nile, that is richer or faIrer
r more blessed with fairness; it's peo-
lie live like princes, and many of
lem-I don't see how they could
ave such a place-have left this fair
arden of the land, and have moved in
ID one Of the handsomest, one of the
lost enterprising, one of the most
Prosperous cities in all the land.
Cheers.) And so the City of Hop
insviie and the County of Christian
like have reason to be proud; their
lterests are all intertwined; it would
, folly, it would be worse than folly
Jr any man in the county to feel hard
)wards any man in the city, or any
AN in the city to Ieel hard towards
ny man in the county. But they
III me that there are a few persons
ere that have been abusing you.
Oppose there are? Do you ever read
/. Our Bibles? Is Hopkinsville as bad
) Sodom? Not quite. Don't you re-
,ember the Lord said he would save
odOm if there were ten righteous men
i it. Would you reverse the rule laid
own by the Lord? If he would save
wicked city from harm if there
ere ten good men in it, would you
arm a good city because there were
dozen bad men it? That is me rule
3 lat is applied to the Association
here may be a few men-compara-
Z vely a few-in it who have commit
I'D depredations or acts of violence,
Rad for that they are condemning the
HE whole Assoeiation-and l protest.
10 the same way / would not counte-
ance, I would not encourage any feel
& Of i'll will or hostility between the
pod people of the town on the one
and, and the good people of the coun-
on the other; / have lived in the
own and in the county, and the only
Inference between a town man
nd a country man is, that everything
country man gets he puts in his
lslly and everything town man gets
IL puts on his back. (Long and con-
nued applause and laughter.)
ollusion Between the American To-
bacco Company, the Imperial
Tobacco Company and the
Regies of Europe.
Now, boys, wait, l want you to
ct your stomachs settled. I am go
lag TO read some more from Mr..
4 each. He says: GIN 1903, too. the
Practice of buying tobacco of farm
IS at their barns instead of through
he warehousemen was commenced
N the Italian Reggie, and the farmers
isist that this was done for the pur-
4 Ose OF eliminating competition in
suying. The Reggie was practically
\ ,rced to buy of the individual farm
3rs." And he goes on to tell why.
nd then, my friends, he adds that
3ais going into the country was no
4 violence whatever, none in the least,
tf any collision between the tobacco
A ompanies.
want to read this to you; here is
Il he issue that is Joined between Mr..
4 each and myself. And right here J
q SIX your polite and kind attention, be-
3 ause It is the main issue between
4 each and this Association, 1t is the
Main issue between the American To