The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-02


controversy upon which there il NO
compromise And there IL 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. ZAP
plause.) ] 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 collusion.
John c. Cunningham, North Caro-
lima. states "As I stated few min
utes ago, Mr.. Chairman, competition
has been absolutely destroyed in the
tobacco business. OF course. those
foreign nations, the continental ma
tons of Europe, want to buy our 10
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 tpro-
longed applause), r. f. Cooper, f. w.
Dabney, w. F. Flowers, C. c. Rey-
nods, ]. w. Dunn, now secretary or
the executive committee of this or
ganization, and C. p. Warfield:
I'VE. 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 dismanued
and abandoned: and where activity
and prosperity once reigned is now
desolation and emptiness: that 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 Numbering il to all the world, with
this poor resolution OF mine printed
in flaming headlines in every news
paper in the United States, this mser-
able, mendacious traducer of my peo-
pie comes before you and says there
never was any collision between the
Reyes and the American Tobacco
company. and |, forsooth, am an in
cendiary and a demagogue because !
deny it. tApplauseD
"slack Patch" Divided Into Districts
by the Trusts.
No division OF territory: no evil
dence before the federal grand jury
that they in back room. have form,
ed a hellsh conspiracy 10 fasten
tidiIo anu iEAltlo vi al vi !bh.
Do YOU know Prof. W. II. Hook?
Let me read this 10 you: He says he
sold 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 Rem
Sorry, whom this man Beach paints as
the most lcvable, tender, sweetest Of
men, terror to a regiment of night
riders. and that he has never been
bluffed muHh or twice" And this
man, who .es all over Tennessee AMI
Kentucky to get the history Of Ben
Sorry, could1't find ont that Ben Sorry
knew that a combination existed be-
tween the aegies 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
our country until" - and Charlie
voice trembled when he said tive
have only one or two huvpra there