The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-06
HARMONIOUS
Meeting of the Green River
Tobacco Growers ASSO-
citation at 0wenSbOrO.

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last Friday:
A called meeting of the Green
River District Tobacco Growers asso-
citation of the A. S. of E. was held at
the court house yesterday with all
counties in the district represented.
About fifty delegates were in attend
ance
The meeting was on the whole, I'M
usually harmonious. There were
some differences of opinion on sever
al subjects, but there were none of
the heated discussions that formerly
marked meetings of the district body,
as we'll as of the Daviess county UNI
| ion. The fact that several important
matters were considered inthis spirit
| indicates that factionalism in the dis
trict has been eliminated and that
united fight will be made on the 1907
crop.
1t was decided that there are to be
no more newspaper discussions be-
tween members of the society. News
paper articles contributed on Equity
subjects hereafter are to be limited
to official announcements and such
other general information as it may
be necessary to promulgate by that
means. Questions of warehousing
and finance and all other discussions
are barred.
The resolution to prohibit such dis
cussions was introduced by Henry
Berry, president of the Daviess coun-
ty union, and met with the support
of all delegates. These letters,
said Mr. Berry, ARE not arguments.
They serve no other purpose than
merely to incite one man against an
other. We think we are fighting the
trust, but we are pounding one an
other to death, and when we have
worn ourselves out fighting our
friends. the trust will kick us out of
DOORS
Major Joseph Haycraft said that
Mr.. Berry's suggestion was offered i'll
the best spirit, and that every MEM
Der of the organization should abide
by it.
Another important matter was the
passage of a resolution instructinS
the executive board to advertise for
propositions for the financing OF the
1907 crop. BY this means it is be-
lieved that the best results will be OBJ
tanned, and that plan of financing
will be secured on which all Equity
men in the district can agree.
"A pledging contract was drawn and
adopted. The committee which draft
ed the pledge was composed of John
p. Foster, e. b. McEuen, J. II. Burney
l.. n. Robertson, G.. S. Wilson andJoh
E. Minnett.
The pledge conforms closely to the
one adopted short time ago by the
Daviess county union. There was
considerable discussion of various
phases of it, particularly that prohib-
iting a land owner from assigning his
allowance of 10000 hills to a tenant.
David Moreland, of Ohio county,
president of the state organization,
favored this feature of the pledge.
Il have tenants" he said, but |
want no unfair favorism. This
thing of allowing a man to transfer
his 10000 hills to another man is not
justice nor is it Equity. You men
who want tobacco should raise 1t. Do
not sit down in the shade and allow
tenant to raise his allowance and
your 10000 hills, too. This provision
is for the protection alike of the
landlord and the tenant and of the
society generally"
The pledge finally reported and
adopted is in full as follows:
I'VE the undersigned, hereby pledge
our honor that we will not plant or
have planted on land that We own or
control for the year 1907 more than
1O, 900 hills of tobacco to the hand or
5000 hills to the half hand. Every
person who is sixteen years of age or
over on the first day of September,
1907, shall be counted hand, and
every person who on that date will
be twelve but less than sixteen shall
be counted a half hand. This applies
strictly to those who labor in the to-
bacco field. no one being allowed to
transfer his allowance to any other
person. Binding ourselves under the
penalty of having our names publish
ed to the world as persons of dis
honor should we violate our pledge,
and that every member violating his
pledge shall forfeit his membership
in the A. S. of E."
A resolution was introduced by