The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-04-24
INDEPENDENTS BUMPERS
DUPES And DUPESTERS.
OF DavieSS County Constitute the
New Association Says
Taylor.

My dear Equity brethren of Ohio
county:-Allow me to introduce to you
the Green River Tobacco Growers AS
ISOLATION of Daviess county, Kentucky.
An association composed of the indie
pendents, bumpers, dupes and dupesters
of Daviess county, Kentucky. An as
ISOLATION that hasn't promised to do
anything nor never will do anything
except to make a schedule of prices
that will starve the poor farmer and
his family TO death. An association
if l mistake mott that has behind it,,
and in it the power of the trust; an
association that is as utterly destitute
of Equity principles as Hades is of
religious spirit. We have struggled
for four long years to bring about con
ditions whereby the tobacco farmer
could be decently compensated for la
Dor expended.
We have organized local, county and
State unions and maintained them with
out the assistance of any bumper or
Independent tobacco grower. Ken
lucky bieng a strongly organized State
in the American Society of Equity, we
had hoped that its influence would ex-
tend to other States like Illinois and
Iowa that produce heavily of live stock
so that they might become more eff
fectually organized so that eventually
those who have been so Jealous in the
cause of Equity in Kentucky (that are
not producers of tobacco) might be
partially compensated for their labor
and expense.
But the tide seems to have changed
That spirit of selfishness that is in
all mankind seems to have asserted it.
self TO such an extent that we fear
that the poorer class of people in the
Green River district of Kentucky will
be reduced TO restitution and serf-
dom. If the new association did not
contemplate damnahle rascality, why
did it not recognize the American So
ciety of Equity and base the repre-
sentation on the membership of that
society in place of on the amount of
tobacco produced? You Daviess coun-
ty fellows may be superior to us in
point of wealth. You may be superior
TO us in point of intellecr and shrewd-
ness, but we think we nave been dug
up out of these hills and hollows long
enough to know pure and unadulterate
gaul when we see ii. We know that
there are some just as good Equity
men in Daviess county as there are
in existence for we are personally ac-
quainted with some of them, but the
power that dominates the new assO-
citation is the power of the devil, as We
see it. Now 10 the remainder of the
Equity in Ohio county, lets ask our
President TO call a meeting of the
County Union and SO far as we are
concerned repudiate this whole affair.
Let's be loyal to the organization that
made it possible for us TO obtain good
prices for our tobacco; and stand by
it until it is as dead as cock in a
pit, even If 1t does have TO die by the
strangulation process. We had much
rather of course it would die instan-
taneously but we find that she is a
hard animal to give a dead shot, es-
pecially when you shoot her in the
stomach altogether.
We bid our friends in Daviessc oun-
~ farewell and hope success will come
to them, but we do not care about hav.
ing any of them to handle our to-
bacco in Ohio cuonty so long as we
have men that understand the bust
ness. Truly,
WATT TAYLOR.
Matanzas, KY, April 22,190S.