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

controversy upon which there Is no
compromise" And there is none.
And now listen. He adds: mo TAN.
| CHILE PROOF EXISTS ON EITHER
SIDE" He adds further that the
most searching investigation on the
part of the federal grand jury has
never established It, My friends, for
startling, barefaced mendacity, that is
the blacklist statement ever made.
hold before you enough proof Of collu-
sion to damn hundred thieves like
the American Tobacco company. CAP
plause) I have not time to read 1t all.
John s. Cunningham.
Here is the statement of John Cum
ningham, the president of the asso-
citation Of North Carolina, that they
were in collision.
John G. Cunningham, North Caro-
lima, states: "As / stated few min
utes ago, Mr. Chairman, competition
has been absolutely destroyed in the
tobacco business. OF course, those
foreign nations, the continental ma
lions OF Europe, want to buy our to-
bacco just as cheap as they can, and
they come here and buy the farmers
tobacco BELOW THE COST OF PRO
DUCTION, and these countries are
making millions and millions of dol
lars year off the manufacturers OF
this raw material and the tobacco pro
ducers of the United States are max
ing nothing"
John Wesley Gaines.
John Wesley Gaines in that COM
mittee, as we'll as in the house, stated
These combines and foreign states
send their representatives to our to.
bacco markets where they set the
price OF tobacco, oftentimes below the
cost of production, and pay what they
agree among themselves"
Here is a pathetic statement speak.
ing Of your dismantled factories and
warehouses. of the utter helplessness
of the people, and signed by the great
est Moses of his people that has ever
risen in the South, F. G. Ewing (pro-
longed applause), r. e. Cooper, F. w.
Dabney w. F. Flowers, c. c. Rey-
nolds. ]. W. Dunn, now secretary OF
the executive committee of this or
Panization, and G. p, Warheld:
1--WE. the tobacco growers and deal
ers of Kentucky and Tennessee, in
convention assembled at Guthrie this
2Sth day of January, 1904, do hereby
petition and most respectfully repre-
sent, that he (the grower) has no one
else to sell his crop to except the COM
bined agents (of the trusts; that
there is no longer competition in buy
ing, leading tobacco markets of the
world have been abandoned by the
army Of buyers and agents from
| abroad. who sat daily around the to-
bacco board and bid against each 9th
er; that auction rooms are dismantled
and abandoned; and where activity
and prosperity once reigned is now
desolation and emptiness; that a few
buyers and corporations, ALL IN
COMBINATION, alone remain to fix
the price and take as much or little as
they wish: there is no one lese to
whom they may sell-no exemption.
no rivalry-and the result is that the
prices are barely above the starvation
point"
And in the fact this proof, publicly
taken in the nations capitol, with
Gaines, and James, and Trimble, and
Kehoe, Hopkins, Flood and forty 9th
ers laundering it to all the world, with
this poor resolution of mine printed
in flaming headlines in every news
paper in the United States, this miser.
able, mendacious traducer of my peo-
pie comes before you and says there
never was any collision between the
Regies and the American Tobacco
company, and I, forsooth, am an in
cendiary and a damagogue because !
deny it. (Applause,l
"slack Patch" Divided into Districts
! by the Trusts.
No di''ision Of territory; no evil
dence before the federal grand jury
that they in a back room, have form
ed hellish conspiracy to fasten
chains and letters on all OF you.
Do you know Prof w. H. Hook?
Let me read this to you: He says he
sold a crop of tobacco planted on two
sides Of the road. The italian Reggie
bought half OF it and wouldn't buy the
other half of it because it wasn't in
his district, and the most amusing
part of it is that that buyer was Ben
Sorry, whom this man Beach paints as
the most lovable, tender, sweetest of
men, terror to a regiment of night
riders, and that he has never been
bluffed much or twice" And this
man, who goes all over Tennessee and
Kentucky to get the history of Ben
Sorry, couldn't find out that Ben Sorry
knew that a combination existed be-
tween the Regies and the American
Tobacco company.
have the statement Of Mr.. Charles
Fort, the president Of this association.
oh, it is pitiful appeal. He says:
This thing has gone on down in
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