Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
WIGS ADVICE
A Bowling Green Farmer Has
Friendly Chat With To-
bacco Growers.


A writer from Bowling Green, who
signs himself w. c., sends this letter
to the Farmers Home Journal:
Mr.. EDITOR: - Please give me
space to have little chat with our
friends, the tobacco sgrowers of our
State. We, as producers, have come
to our own. We have the pricing of
our own products. The time has
come when the natural rule is in
force that ut takes more one man
to make trade" The greatest good
that has come to the farmer in all
this tobacco business is, the farmer
can and will do business as the peer
of the trader. The farmer has learn
ed to be free and equal with his fell
low. Let him stand to his colors
and defend his God given rights, and
| it will be best for himself and the
world. Warren county started out
right in this tobacco business and
she is right now. We have had no
night riders or bed scrapers, and
don't expect to have any. We start
ed out by taking all into the fold
and all become full members of the
union, rich and poor, black and white.
mean and good, are on equal terms,
| Just to have peace and show them
all what good thing we had, and
if they could see it and appreciate
lit, they come in and share our for
tunes. But this rule won't stand
always. The rule adopted for next
year is that only members can pool
and share the advantages Of the Sc
ciety, and all who fail to fall in ranks
will be left out the wall and in the
ditch to crawl out the best they can.
i Our people have sold every pound OF
tobacco in the county and some from
4 adjoining counties, and whenever q
1 load is put on the scales, as soon as
lit comes off, the pay money is hand
ed to the planter. He don't have tc
wait ten minutes for his pay. This
lis business, and the kind we are do
ing now every day in Warren coun
/ ty. Our farmers are getting money
in their TANKS and it makes the mer.
chants glad, for their shelves are
growing lean but their cash drawers
are getting fat. Let me say here
good farmers. much sunshine ere
| ates a storm. Over feeding is liable
to kill the goose, as we'll as starva
| ton. You have the bit of the bust
ness under your control, and the
other fellows have lost the lines.
i Have prayerful care that you
don't over crop or over price. Rec
ollect tobacco is not like wheat and
corn, pork and beef or cotton and
cabbage; these things all people use
to live, but tobacco has only limit
ed use, and is not necessity but on
ly a luxury, that the world could
do as well without as with.
The world can consume all fooc
Istuffs, let them be ever so great, but
mot SO with tobacco. If the weed is
overproduced the price goes down
and if underproduced, other states
will take up the business and leave
us out in the cold. So, good people
have care and be wise in your in.
terests.
| A few more words. Stick togeth-
err. Only in union is strength. Dis
! agree and fall out and disrupt, and
you will again go into bondage and
raise tobacco for zone and FIVE, =
and wear hats with hair sticking out
of crown and toes peeping out OF
your shoes.
| None of us can have our own way,
and even can't always please our
selves. Human life at best is COM
promise; and he is lucky who gets
the longest end of the string.