Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-11-02

John Rhoa. ID. III. Smith D. Lynn
Gooch, South Trimble, George Gilbert
J. NJ Kehoe and Frank Hopkins, all
of Kentucky
These are the judges who, either as
members OF the committee or as mem
bers Of the house, tried that question,
and who tried the other questions
which he says are so ridiculous and
absurd both as to a collision between
the American Tobacco company and
It's cohorts in plumber, and as to the
division Of my country, a free country
hitherto, among the petty principals.
ties of Europe, 10 be henceforth held
in worse than Russian serfdom.
And with all this proof literally
blazoned before his eyes, as | will
show you, squarely contradicting him;
this man Beach, with hypocritical
smirk on his face pretending to be
the friend Of the farmer, proclaims
this utter falsehood to the world
4, tremendous applause) And !, whom
you this day have asked to protect
this association, am damned as an ass
and demagogue because l deny it,
(Applause) That don't bother me.
(Laughter.)
He prefaces his subtle plea for the
trusts by stating that there was no
real cause for complaint any way:
that Prices were low in 1903, but
that they had been as low in other
years, WHEN THE AMERICAN To-
BACCO COMPANY HAD NEVER
BEEN HEARD OF in the dark tobac-
co district" Did you ever think
man could write a thing like that?
Voice in audience: mo, sir,
did'ntO Let's see whether the loss
IN QUALITY in tobacco would cause
the fall in price.
Statement Of E. M. Flack.
have here a statement from one
Of the best judges to tobacco in the
world. z. NJ. Flach. a Hopkinsville
broker. Let's see what he has to say
about It: THAT is the very thing we
are after now" says Mr.. Flack, speak
ing of the quality Of the tobacco.
1.-THE people are suffering very much.
They are not getting enough to live
on. At present the price of tobacco
Is LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE.
In fact It is at about STARVATION
POINT" And this miserable man
Beach says the American Tobacco
company had nothing to do with this,
and the wooden-headed farmers got
mad and tore up the country.
Dorlty.
"a. o. Dority states that he Is a
resident of Pembroke, Christian coun-
ty, Kentucky, and lives about ten
miles from Hopkinsville, KY. He
states that he is now and has been
engaged in purchasing tobacco contin.
ually in that section in and around
Pembroke for the past twenty years,
and that prices for tobacco were
never as low during his experience
as they were in the year 1901, 1902,
1903 and 1904, or anything like as
low; that the prices prior to that
time ranged somewhere near 5000 all
round"
Hear what the Solon of Hopkins
ville's ruined brokers has to say about
this usual thing Of throe-cent tobacco:
chas. r. Jarrett's Statement.
Charles F. Jarrett says that he is
resident of Hophlnsville, KY, and
was, prior to 1902, for % or 80 years,
engaged in the tobacco brokerage
business. bought for q years for
the Italian Reggie and also for the
French and Spanish Reggie. bought
from three to seven thousand hogs
heads a year, and I know that for IS
years prior to 1902 and 1903 the prices
for tobacco were never so low, or
anything Ike so low.
I'VE paid generally from eight to
twelve cents for the leading Italian
tobacoo-for the leaders, leaf and
everything"
Am / doing right, my friends, er
wrong, by making the statement that
the American Tobacco company and
the Regies had something to do with
It and that the people were never so
filed with misery and despair as
when they had dominion over us and
that they alone we're responsible for
it, and that while they held as by the
throat it was the saddest period in
the history of the South. (Applause)
Collision Between the American To
bacco Company, the imperial
Tobacco Company and the
Regies Of Europe.
Now, boys. wait, want you to get
your stomachs settled. am going to
read some more from Mr.. Beach.
He says: "In 1903, too, the practice
of buying tobacco of farmers at their
barns instead of through the ware
houses was commenced by the italian
Reggie, and the farmers insist that this
was done for the purpose of eliminat-
ing competition in buying. The Reggie
was practically forced to buy of the
individual farmers" And he goes on
to tell why. And then, my friends,
he adds that this going into the coun-