Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-05

He makes it pretty plain that there
is little or no evidence to back up the
alleged grievance against the domestic
or foreign tobacco trusts, so-called;
. compared with the so-called to-
bacco trust, the planters trust Is the
more UNSCRUPULOUS, INTOLER-
ANT and OFFENSIVE" The New
York Sun goes further still, and
damns every man who does not con-
denim your association as an idealist
or fool, and says that any man who
would speak good of it, anybody
whose "idealism" goes that far, is
likely to believe the same of the HUN
CHAKISTS or the Western Federation
of Miners. DO you know what the Hun
chakists are? They are band of Ar
menian assassins, who stab men in the
back. and strangle women to death.
MY God! Must / stand it? Must / be
called by name and challenged, this
people denounced as towards, assas-
sins, as strangers of women and as
butchers of men, on such flimsy proof
as that? And / am told that / must
be still. If l were, my father would
not own me; my wife fould turn her
back in shame upon me; my babe
would be taught never to breathe my
name and / ought to go down to the
vile dust from whence | sprung, I'M
wept, unhonored and unsung." Cap
plause).
He says that because of it-listen
here. That is not the worst of it:
Because Of it (this Association men
sit by night with rifles in their hands
10 hof no
cause of it cities have been called to
arms to resist threatened attack and
destruction of property. Because of, it
every night in nineteen counties in
Kentucky and Tennessee men sleep
with bolts drawn, windows barred and
weapons within reach. 1t has created
unrest, suspicion and terror. In a
word, it has driven peace from the
land"
CITIES CALLED TO ARMS.
That's the charge against this or
ganization. And upon what? Upon
what do they base this charge? THAT
cities have been called to arms"
Down here at GAINESVILLE, they put
twenty brave guards to watch some
factories that were in no special dan
ger. Those guards looked so big, so
brave, so fierce. They walked up and
down and said: Just show be a night
rider, by God" Two darkies came up
and sand to these valiant guards:
'Iook here, we are going to tell you
something. The night riders is
coming We hear them. They is down
the road yonder They is conf Ag. "
And, bless Patty, those guards
went to the mayor of the town,
and told the officers, told the sh eriff,
they said, "Oh Lord! The night rid
ers are coming!" daughter and ap-
plause) And they called out two
companies of militia, and when they
got under arms, there those valiant
soldiers stood
'In the dead vast and middle of the
night"
deep into the darkness peering, long
they stood there, wondering, fear
ing"
But the silence was unbroken and the
stiffness gave no token
"And the only word there spoken, was
the whispered word: might rider "
"This they whispered and the echo
murmured back the word: night
rider
Merely this, and nothing more"
(Applause)
Now. for that somebody must be
punished. l speak from the records.
Somebody had to be punished for that.
And do you know what they did?
They took it out on those two negroes,
and the records of the city of Clarks-
vile show that they were fined $50
for breach of the peace. Now, there
are two ways which you can commit
a breach of the peace: one is by strik-
ing somebody, and the other way is
to pretend to strike somebody and
scare him. Now, those two negroes
never struck anybody, and the records
don't show whether they scared the
guards or the militia. applause and
laughter)
Now, my friends, this man gives an
other instance that literally amazes
me. That any man could go so fan
or stoop SO low, or prostitute such sa
cred things to his baneful purposes
am amazed Listen: (reading from
"The Post') can incident that Oc
CURED in Tennessee fairly illustrates
the spirit in which the fight is car
ried on The pastor of a Methodist
church in a certain hamlet one night
called upon a man, not member OF
the farmers association, to lead" the
prayermeeting. (Laughter).
The members Of the congregation in
formed the pastor that he must nc
longer allow him to lead the meeting
And why not?' asked the minis
ter.
He is not one of us-is not with
us-and we will not follow him any
where, not even in prayer was the
response"
Now he says, "the Ishmaelite" ac-
cepted the situation" He says he was
an "Ishmaelite"-and the people sale
he was not "one of them.
He does not tell the other side o
it; he does not name the man, MOI
will /; but there was a man in Ten
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