The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-18
GET GOOD PRICES
BY UNI TED EFFORT
Bright Tobacco Growers Seek to
Perfect Their Organization and
Make It's Power Greater.

DANv1LLE VA, March IA gen
oral meeting OF the Bright Tobacco
Growers Protective Association OF
Virginia and North Carolina convened
at noon to-day In the Corporation
Court With an dsnseo GROWING OF ing
districts of the two States, when
filled the room to overtowing. The
meeting is held for the purp OF de-
vising some plan for continuation
led some years ago to fight the Amer.
lean Tobacco Company. and to secure
higher prices for the product.
The meeting to-day was sa lie he 70
Inns, the president. Mr. kerns ana
Mr.. S. B. Keeseo and Mr.. Thomas D.
Dickerson. of Halifax county, MADE
speeches before the adjournment for
Power In Organization.
President Kerns welcomed tho dele
gates from North Carolina and VIZ
ginia, and touched on the. ties that
object of the gathering, he said. was
to make the association more per.
manent institution. He claimed that
the present prosperity among the
farmers and the high prices for TO,
bacco were not permanent, and had
merely been brought about through
the cooperation of the farmers.
Present prices" he said. could not
BIO maintained except through organ
ization."
He spoke of the wonderful progress
being made by tho Western farmers,
which he attributed to thorough or
ganization. They have, he said made
more rapid strides than, those IN yir-,
ginia and North Carolina, and de-
clared that while the farmers of this
section had advanced tobacco prices a
hundred per cent. they had advanced
them 400 per cent.
1T has long been said" he declared,
that prices are governed by. supply
and demand. ] now believe this is so,
as the Western farmer controls the
supplN and demands the. prices" thus
economic principle. The speaker did
not, approve the lawlessness in Ken
lucky. lie also spoke of the great
work being done by the cotton planters
as the result of operation.
Mr.. Keessee also referred to the law
lessness being practiced by the farmers
OF Kentucky, and said that where such
lawlesSness existed there could Al.
cause, he said. and the lawlessness will
cease The American Tobacco Com
pany, by paying starvation prices for
tobacco, had made conditions in Ken
lucky almost unbearable. Mr.. keesee
did not commend such violent steps
in order to carry out principle, and
urged that the farmers Of Virginia and
North Carolina do nothing, that was
unlawful,
law he said '.All we have got e to to
do IS, &c, stand together and perfect
Organization BY this method we can
do what is right and Justice in the
long fun Will be melted out to u.s."
Mr.. Dickerson. member of the
board of directors and president of the
Halifax County Association. spoke of
the, outlook for better organization,
which he said was very bright
TO Push Organization.
order at o'clock by S, G. Adams, Of
| Charlotte, Nice-president of the Nir-
| ginia Association, and Interstate or
ganizer. interesting addresses were de-
: Of Eiali..S; Captain A. G. Walters p.
/ NJ, Conner ana William Abbott, of this
county, and c. Gordon, of Mecklenburg.
! MI Adams introduced resolution 10
among tho farmers for organization
purposes, Nearly a thousand dollars
was raised. Mr., Adams urged that in
order 70 make the association sue
cess, mat good and. active men be
always kept in the field. The speak
Ier referred TO the matter of establish
ling pri2eries at convenient points
thrq3ughout the tobacco belt.
~ \ nelieve' he said, that this is
| the opportune time for tile farmers 10
get together and pool their tobacco
He doplorcd the fact that the West.
ern formers had been driven TO what
lsome might term extreme measures
IN order TO get justice and carry out
! stated, however, that he did not be-
4 lieYe that 1t would DO necessary for
ithc farmers of Virginia ana North
! Carolina to resort to any violence, ana
Ishow "A united front,
! a report was submitted this after
noon from the Chatham Business Mems
ASsoeiation offering the association
I sheslal Inducements to establish a
= meeting OF tho hoard of directors
\ 70 DISPOSE Of number of business
matters pending before them was held
\ tp-hleht In the rooms Of MIR. S. G.
ADAMS al the Morgan Hotel.
I THE TEDDY SPRINGS LEAK
AND HAS no he HEtCurD