Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-17
AGENTS
OF THE GREAT TOBACCO TRUST
TOOK NOTICE.
When the Union Tobacco Society
Was Organized in Bowling
Green Last Week.

All the tobacco growers In Ken
lucky and other states have COM
bined to go after the American To-
bacco Company, or so-called trust,
with hammer and tongs, writes the
Louisville correspondent of the Gin
cinnatl Enquirer.
For the first time. they say. they
are a compact body and are prepared
TO deal a blow every time the "octo-
pus" strikes.
At Bowling Green Thursday all
the associations OF Kentucky. lndi-
ana, Ohio and Tennesses were
merged. so far as their fight against
the American Tobacco Company was
concerned. into one organization.
Mechanically speaking, the
combined wealth was enough TO cope
with the great New York interests
which the farmers say have been
grinding them into the dust OF their
own tobacco fields FOR 20 years.
Tobacco men from all States we're
present I'm the Warren county capt.
tai Discussion dealt with the
various problems ~ the association
severally. and II was finally decreed
and decided that there was not an
interest OF one which was not an In
terest Of another organization and
that the common end OF all was TO
combat the trust. From this argu-
ment organization was perfected
with results which will probably fur
nlsh the Industrial world with such
spectacle as Il has never seen be-
fore.
Belief IL general here that night
riding will at once cease Others
maintain that II may burs; out now
and then in the remote portions OF
the state that organized night rid
ing OF the farmers against their
neighbors In the bluegrass and West
ern Kentucky and Tennessee is dead
forever as a result of the Bowling
Green meeting.
One OF the mos; prominent OF the
tobacco men was In Louisville after
the meeting and the opinion was
his:
"The association OF the various so
kcleties." he said. gives sinew and
one purpose to what rs perhaps the
greatest pact OF farmers in the
worlds history. II makes OF Ave or
six somewhS inenectual struggles
against the power OF the tobacco
company one concerted attack. which
will get through the armor even Of
Wall street. I believe.
II may say that when the meeting
Was In progress agents OF the Ameri-
can and the Imperial companies tele-
gnnphed the news to New York at
once and the stir &c caused I'm the
offces there would have conviced the
the right tack.
Farmers, BY getting together.
have. started everything that amount
ed 10 anything on earth. The Amer
lean Revolution wos begun by a
buch OF farmers The French Revo-
luton started with the peasants. We
are not up against anything quite
so serious as either. II Is hardly a
matter Of life and death But u has
BECOME In some places a matter OF
bread and meat"
All the men at the meeting were
optimists But OF the optimists and
Of those who had unlimited faith In
what the farmer OF Kentucky would
eventually do 10 grow his tobacco
and sell II ut his own price was Miss
Miss Alice Lloyd, OF Dover
She is the young woman who
Jumped unwillingly into the limelight
some weeks ago ny contradicting
Governor Wilson on the stage OF a
theatre here and tell former Cover
nor Ruckner that he didn't under
stand the situation of the Equity
| grower
Since then Miss Lloyd has been
| known as Joan OF Arc OF the grow
crs, and when she made n speech NJ
| Bowling Green the farmers and Of
"details OF the association applauded
her until their palms we're calloused.
The general impression is that the
unified action begun at the meeting
will go far toward making the fight
against the trust a successful one for
the growers.
| From Bowling Green Messenger. }