The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-04-10
PEOPLE
DISAPPR0VE Plan
To Form Organization indie
pendent of the A. S.Of E.
Independent and Home Ware
houses Are In Favor
OF Ii.

The regular A. s. of E. men are yet
the uncertain quantity in the matter
of forming the new organization says
the greensboro Inquirer. The dis
trict meeting of this body held on
Thursday of last week suggested sew
eral changes in the proposed consti-
tuition and several of these were con-
sidered good by the conference of
Friday and were accepted but the one
which provided that the new organiza-
ton should have added to its name
the word Branch of the American
Society of Equity was rejected. There
are many who are unwilling to give
up entirely their A. s. of f. organiza-
ton and they feel that they would be
doing this in taking a new organiza-
ton without any phase of the re-
spected name under which so much
has been gained. Others are just as
free to admit that the proposed Equity
addition to the name would be only a
subterfuge and that the new organiza-
ton would not in reality be, as its
name would purport, a branch of the
A. S. of E. and that the name would
therefore be a sham and only for the
purpose of decieving some into greater
loyalty to the A. s. of E.
S. B. Lee national secretary of the
A. S. of E., tobacco growers associa-
ton said on the subject, II am hearth
ly for the new organization. 1t will
benefit rather than injure the A. S.
of E. The organization is sure to be
formed. At least large part of the
A. S. of e. will go into it just as
many A. S. of E., men sold their to-
bacco through, the home warehouse
pool the past winter. The independents
are even more certain to join the new
organization and almost enmasse
Practically all the home warehouse
people will go into it. What will be
the effect then, if part of the A. S.
of E. should remain out, | think it
would prove disasterous to the body
locally. If it goes in there will be
better feeling and the A. S. of E. princi-
Piles will become better known and
more generally adopted. There is not
anything in the new constitution that
is not consistent with equity. Is it
not better to have the principles
widely practiced and inculcated with
out the specific name than to have
the name preserved and the principles
sacrificed or hazarded? l think so.
There is one other matter worth notic-
ing in this connection. That is that
heretofore it has been said that the
people were anxious to get together
and would do so IL the leaders would
only permit them. Now the leaders
of the independents and Of the A. S. of
E., have agreed to get together and
the people are invited to do so and If
they do not 1t will be their own fault
The conference did not agree on any
argument or set of arguments to be
addressed to the people but merely
agreed to invite all to the mass meet
ing to be held on April IS. The con-
stitution proposed for the new organi-
cation is of course only suggestive
and there will be no obligation on
those who will assemble on that date
to accept the constitution as pro-
posed. Any action desired by those
who assemble on that date may be
taken though there as tacit under
standing that the constitution as pre-
pared will be accepted.
At first 1t was thought that the A.
S. of E. men might object to Owens
boro as the place for the mass meet
ing to be held but as 1t is district
meeting the A. s. of E. men who out
number the other elements five to one
in the district will have the distinct
except that some of them
have to come an inconvenient distance
to this city. There are only about
two or three hundred stockholders
in the home warehouse company and
there are less than fifty of the So
called independent growers.
1t is expected that when the whole
situation is carefully gone over by all
the elements and when the thinkers
among these elements reflect on what
has happened in the past weeks and
on what may happen in other parts of
the state before the date for the as
sembling of the growers they will