Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-13
triment and injury.

let it be thorough and sweeping, with
no favoritism or white-wash. for any
man, even if it puts every prizer in
in the county out of business, and
we will either get the men to prize
our tobacco. who have never been
identified with the buying interest,
or prize our tobacco ourselves.
Butt is remarked by some, that
in the event of these prizers are
found guilty and their contracts are
cancelled, that they will kick out of
the traces. Well, if they are going
to kick out, because they are not al
lowed to serve God and Marmon too,
let them kick.
1t will only show, that they
had but one foot within the
traces any way, and on the flimsiest
pretext in the world could knock
that out, and would do it. AT least,
one of these men is not of that kind,
for he made manly statement to a
full house, and gained the sympathy
of every one who heard him. He
made the statement that he would
be as true member after the con-
tract was cancelled as he had
ever been before. AS far as / know,
he has always been considered
true member. But this is not all
| that is going to be done.
AS there can be no buying of to-
bacco without some one SELL
ing tobacco all the blame cannot
attach the buyer alone. The SELL
tr mustebe Fackoned with and that
is going to be done just as thorough
and sweeping, and devoid Of white
wash as in the case of the buyer.
In all cases of business transac-
tions we all demand that the men
we deal with keep their contracts.
The affairs of the association. must
be conducted along the same lines.
If we succeed at all, it must be along
the lines of comnon-sense business
principles. The stock of novelty
and sentiment is about exhausted;
we must build on reason, common
sense and intelligence. IF the right
eye offends, pluck it out" All de-
partments of labor, trade and COM
merce are closely organized and
managed by the very best intelli-
gence. We must meet organization
with organization, intelligence with
intelligence or else go down helpless
at the feet of other organizations.
If thy right arm offend thee, cut
it off. " Our management has
the intelligence and in this evil
movement is as brave as Couer
de Leon and like the white plume of
Henry of Navarro, they are waving
the banner of our cause in the fore
front Of the lines of battle, and their
clarion notes can be heard to press
the fight all along the lines. They
are refusing to make any compro-
misses and their martial spirits spurn
the idea of retreat, much less sur
render. Shall cowardice keep us
from the front? Shall we play into
the hands of the buying interests by
selling our tobacco out of the asso-
citation or patronizing warehouses
not properly bonded, or letting men
prize our tobacco who are pretenders
and counterfeiters. My, my! What
are people thinking about, that they
are not aware of the injury that they
are doing themselves and the organ
ization. But it has been suggested
that we pull the brides off all priz-
ers and let them buy all the tobacco
they choose. Yes, and a poor sys-
tenn we would have then. sure
enough. Ihave no hesitancy in say
ing that man, who would not keep
up the plain letter of the contract,
willingly entered'into, upon his part,
would not scruple to substitute his
low grade bought tobacco for my
high grade association tobacco. The
finite mind cannot conceive of the
} lengths and depths to which these
buyers would go in wire-working
and smuggling tobacco out of the
channels Of the association. Why
even believe they would bootleg it,
at least that is the way it looks tC