Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-05
IN TIE CIRCUIT COURT OF
UNITED STATES FOR THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT
OF NEW YORK
THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA, Petitioner
AGAINST
THE AMERICAN To-
BACCO COMPANY
AND OTHERS, DEFENDAN,
ORIGINAL PETITION

OhlGiNAE PETITION
This collision was proclaimed
to the world by the solemn filing of
this petition of the United States of
| America against the American Tobac-
co Company and others, and in which
petition | find the following state
ment, at page 70:
"The defendants Chat is the Amer
lean Tobacco Company. the Imperial
Tobacco Company, and about ninety
others) OBSERVED, ARE OBSERV-
ING, AND INTEND HEREAFTER TO
OBSERVE and conduct their business
according to the terms of the contract
dated September q, 1902, whereby
they agreed, among other things, TO
A DIVISION OF TERRITORY" And
yet two months after the solemn fill
| ing of this startling and sensational
document, he says there was no collus-
ion between the Regies and these other
companies and the American Tobacco
Company.
l read you from this same petition
filed in the Circuit Court of the Unit
ed States for the Southern District
of New York-that isn't the noisy
vaporing of a demagogue, it is Uncle
Sam with a sharp stick in his hand
| prolonged applause.) (Reading):
During the year 1902 the Imperial
| Tobacco Company resolved to under
| take the manufacture of tobacco pro
ducts within the United States, and
begun the necessary preliminaries
therefor Accordingly, the defendants
| (ninety-two of them, the Imperial,
American-all of them) entered into
| CONTRACTS, COMBINATIONS AND
CONSPIRACIES in restraint of in
terstate and foreign trade in COM
merce in LEAF tobacco and the arti-
cles manufactured therefrom, and to
MONOPOLIZE, or attempt to MO
| NOPOLIZE, parts of the same, all of
which have continued down to the
present time, to which ALL of the
defendants are parties, and in pur-
suance thereof they have done or
procured to be done among other
things, those hereinafter described"
| have here, in addition to that
statement after MISUNDERSTANDING
the contract itself.
THE CONTRACT ITSELF.
And in the face of all that this Mr.
Beach proclaims to the world that
you are a lot of ignorant, wooden
headed hoodlums who are scraping
plant-beds, because you have a fool
ish notion that there is a combina-
ton between the American and I'M
perial Tobacco companies and the
Regies, and that the Federal Grand
Juries can't find it out; and they tell
me / must keep my mouth shut, when
this petition charges it; they say l
am a visionary; the biggest newspa-
per in the western world today makes
that charge against me. Reading
from editorial in the New York Sun:
IF Congressman Augustus o. Stanley,
of Kentucky, is right there is no dark
tobacco district "war" in Western
Kentucky and Tennessee. There is
no "night-riding" and none of the 9TH
er depredations which have been al
legged against the planters of this re-
gion nothing but sensational fictions
emenating from trust quarters fot
malign purposes. If this is so then
an article printed in the current issue
of the Saturday Evening Post about
The Great Tobacco War is magma
tive writing'-Do you think it imagin-
alive boys?-but it is full of veri-
similitudinous details which incline
one to think that Representative
Stanley is not as cognizant as he
might be of all that has been going
on in his bailiwick, part of which is
included in the battle-ground. The
article does, as will seen, call for a
considerable stretch of the magma
| ton in a certain respect, but ii seems
| to be sufficiently weighted with what
look like facts to suggest that even
Mr.. Stanley would not care to char
acterize them as counterfeit present
ments." Counterfeit thunder!
characterize them as infamous false
hoods prolonged applause and
cheers)
And the strange part of it is
that when the two greatest period
icals in the nation assail my people
and this Association, when yonder to
ward the east these vast condors of
corruption spread their black and
blighting wings and split the heavens
with their shrill and angry cries, and
| in my poor way, as best / can. try
ito meet these mighty adversaries, /
hear the feeble twitter of a lot of lit
tie literary tomtits and journalistic
pee-wees chirping, don't you say a
word about it, don't you answer the
New York Sun, don't say anything
about the Saturday Evening Post, or
we will call you an anarchist; don't
speak, or we will call you a dema-
gogue." Speak! when these malign
defamers, calling me by name, chal-
longing me to deny 1t. would speak
Though hell itself should cape and
bid me hold my peace" CHEERS and
cries of "a. o., pull off your coat
and go after EN-" Here the speaker
removed his coat)
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