Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-24
THE OTHER SIDE.

TIE VII TGn OLE.
 A great wrong does not justify law lessness or the outrages being com mitted by the Kentucky night riders. but the public is entitled to under stand the proyocation for those out rages and the Houston Post gives the following interesting outline of the trouble:
 In replying to speech condemn ing night riding, recently delivered by Senator Depew of New York, the chosen representative of the party chiefly responsible for the provoking cause of all this lawlessness. Senator McCreary of Kentucky, gave some sideEghts on the sitpation to which the public is entitled.
 After explaining that the officials of Kentucky were doing everything in their power to suppress the law lessness, he said: The trouble among the tobacco growers has been very serious because of the expressions of the American tobacco trust. There are hundreds of trusts in our country, but the three greatest and most ty- rannical and injurious are the Stand ard Oil trust, of which Rockefeller is the head; the beef trust, of which Ar mour is the head and the tobacco trust, of which Duke is the head, and the last named is the. most oppres- sive and injurious of all. Kentucky not only produces more tobacco than any other state in the union, but she produced last year two hundred and thirty-eight millions of pounds of to- bacco, which is over one.third of the seven hundred millions of pounds of tobacco produced in the United States. Naturally, Kentucky tobacco growers are hostile to any moyenlen; which uniustly and improperly inter feres with their production. A few years ago the American Tobacco com pany acquired four-ffths of the tobac co factories in the United States, ant  also about one-half of the retal stores, for which less than s10O GOO. 900 were. expended. The American Tobacco company then ca italized af s5O0.0OO,O0o and then arbitrarily con trolled the buying and selling price: of tobacco They only allowed tht producer 6 to 8 cents a pound for hi. tobacco, while they sold it after ] was manufactured for 40 and 5i cents a pound The tobacco produe CTS were made slaves of the American Tobacco company, and after laboript for years without profit forbearane' ceased to be a virtue and the farm CTS who raised tobacco organized il their own defense and put the tobac co already raised in storehouses ant held it, and would not sell it to tn American Tobacco company withou a fair price, and. as further effort t destroy or control the American Tc bacco trust, many of them resolves not to produce any tobacco next year Of course, there is friction among tn tobacco producers, but the sympath of all men who understand the situs ton and who know the hardships an tyranny of the Amerlcan Tobacc company will be with the farmer wh peaceaBly and honorabIy is doing al he can to get rid of the trust tha has been a curse to the tobacco prC dn.ers of Kentucky. If the tax of
 cents per pound on leaf tobacco va removed a great and beneficial maj ket would be furnished to tobacc producers. The farmers would se tobacco by retail to thousand of peC pie who would use it, and this woul help to destroy the trust, because would force the trust to pay the farm CT a living price for his tobacco
 He then told of the efforts mad to secure a repeal of this tax. tn only thing grown out of the earth b the farmer which he is denied th right to have sold without first pa!