The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-04-26

Riders are trying In the best manner
they know how, to down the Tobac-
co Trust. by burning the neighbor's
tobacco, killing and whipping many
who want to sell their tobacco for
the price the Trust offers. and get
out Of the tobacco business, and go
away somewhere that they can have
a quiet life. The condition is not
cheerful. and our old Kentucky
Home Is having troubles OF her own
Judges are charging grand juries that
they must get a move ON and stop
Night Riding, murder nccndarism
and anarchy; giving opinions from
the bench that times are i'm worse
condition than they were during the
war, the governor is trying to stop
the trouble without calling out
troops knowing that a million troops
could not prevent a man with a par
lor match from setting fire TO a tObac
co warehouse. II is a sad case for
ncighbors in such grand state 10
/ be- ON such terms with each other
that families feel that not only their
| property is liable 10 be burned any
night, but to 70 to bed feeling that
they may be killed before morning.
Raising tobac 10 or any farm produce
is no easy business, but when crops
are planted and tended all the year
| and when ready for market, are de-
stroyed in an hour. II is no wonder
the farmers feel like hitching up the
old team, loading In the family and
going away from their home before
It is too late. We Of the North can
hardly realize such condition, viii
our communities so "chummy" that
they visit together and never thinl
that neighbor would do them tn,
least harm. The road that leads ava,
from home is going to be the sor
! rowful road that many good familie
of Southern States will take II tn
! lighting OF one trust is to set neigh
u'lo bN 'aio' anu yet many p''ll
l will apologize for the fighters 2glins
q the American Tobacco Company
I They say the farmers are grouu
D down by the trust, and when the
y buy a two ounce bag of 'oDa,co ia
n l5c, made largely of stems OF thei
y own tobacco, that they have sold f.
l. lOc pound, they get hot under tn
q collar. and who can blame tnem iC
S becoming heated?
II Then, the ever present pro Ditto
J. wave is making the people tired, an
g there you are 1t is over thirty yeal
Il since the first town in Kentucky, tn
IL town Of Mayheld went dry, and the
II tell me there has never been a ua
during all those thirty years when
l- man could get drink in Mayho!
IS but pious politician started the Ma
k field dryness, and the ball has Dee
Is rolling ever since. until now there al
n only l3 counties in the state tha. a.
'r not dry. Farmers who formerly ra,s,
e corn and sold il TO the distillcr
r In many parts OF the state, quit raj
$, ing corn, except what was needed Il
,e home consumption by mooushiner
n and started raising tobacco, and no
: that II is smoked up by the Nigl
Is Riders. there is gloom and dispal
a and revenge on too many faces +
pr cry county that is dry gets liqu,
N somewhere, and men that have tai
N ed with today. say there is mo-
"a drunkenness in many dry towns
m the country than there is in dear o
5 Louisville, which is about as wet
ID any place YOU can find, except Su
D. days On Sunday, they say, you car
rs get a drink TO save you, but / sha
81 be In Tennessee next sunday, whe
le IL is dry some, but not so allft
h dry | talked with a man today WI
IA had lived in a dry town in this sta
j. for two years, and he said he wou
10 not go through the experience aga
" for million He believes in person
e, liberty, takes a drink II he feels III
Il IL, As We do In Milwaukee, and Nh,
d. the fight was on, he voted wet" al
NJ talked some on the subject, perhaI
le too much But when the dry seasol
NJ actually came he lived up 10
.e though he had a bottle or TWO IN q
'a house. He says the whole dry par
le became spies on him and other form
IN vets. and acted like hired sleuth
c, and he WAS a marked man. The d
n. town was divided as much as a TOW
he was ever during secession days, al
OF his dry enemies would shadow hi
y looking m his windows AZ night. d
AZ wife was ostracized and his childr
e, We're insulted at school He said
k, tried 10 be jolly and spoke pie,
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