The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-09-22
JUSTICE f. c. O'REAR
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the battles of the Revolution, becaust
it was expensive and lasted eight years,
and, therefore, would always be eX-
pensive and always last? (Applause).
Fight Won.
When the tobacco farmers of Ken
lucky went against the largest trust,
with which they had TO deal directly,
financing hundreds of millions of dol
lars by men of success men who knew
their affairs and knew those men who
took the census year by year of every
acre of tobacco raised in Kentucky
and elsewhere, and who owned 1t and
the whole thing; when the farmers of
Kentucky came to a conflict with them
in their declaration of independence
and fought a war of two years, eX-
pensive, wasteful, eXtravagant, in in
stances misguided here and there, is
1t to be supposed that when you have
won that you will always be fighting
your battles of independence? that it
will always take three years to put
pool through? You have your enemy
whipped and at your feet. Treat him
magnanimously, but treat him firmly.
(Applause)
| don't know much about this con-
tract that Brother Ferguson has been
reading to you. | am not going to dis
cuss it, ] am satisfied of one thing 1t
Is a better contract for us than one that
Mr.. Duke could write Oaughter) but if
it comes to the question of trusting in
Ferguson. LeBus, Brown. or people of
that kind to draw the contracts for
the people that are safe for the peo-
pie Of Kentucky to sign, or for the
Trust or the people of Wall street to
draw those contracts, | am going to
give my power and influenceto Brown
and Ferguson. (Applause). In the first
place, they demonstrated last year that
they were the better captains Of the
two; they whipped the other fellows.
always liked it that way. In the next
place, they were faithful over a few
things" | believe it is written that
they shall be made master over many.
(Applause) In the next place. they
are our neighbors. They are right here
at home where we can watch them. II
is a long ways TO Wall street and l am
apt to get lost if ] get there (laughter).
We can watch these fellows and If
they 90 wrong, there is a way to corr
rect them legally. openly and rightly,
for are not the temples Of justice in
Kentucky always omen? And if the de-
PENDANT is present in the state, may
we not pass just Judgment upon his
bad administration of affairs?
People Hold The Power.
They say these folks contemplate a
steal. They contemplate a graft. They
contemplate robbng the farmers. Are
we so ignorant as not to know that in
the laws of this land, statutory and
common law-the law that pervades
the Commonwealth like the very air
that we breathe and the benignant
sun that blesses You day by day-in
the laws of the Commonwealth It Is I'm
possible for them to do that unless you
want them to do so. (Applause). DO
you not sit upon the iuries, year by
year, and term by term. that admins.
ter in your courts? Are you not the
power of the land? Are you not com
petent to deal with question of that
kind.
LeBus Salary.
They say they pay LeBus too much
salary. 7 don't know about that.
know that these fellows with square
Jaws generally get a right smart sal
airy Maybe they are paying him too
much; but IL it comes to voting for a
salary of $4,000 to LeBus or S25.00O.-
non to those New York fellows. 7 am
going to vote for LeBus. cloud ap-
plause). And particularly If he will
bring MS about conditions that will
bring Ms seventeen cents for tobacco
ath fo1
pay us eight or ten. Laughter)
The Right OF Recall
Well they say that this is the mat.
ter with the contract and that is the
matter with the contract and the other
Is the matter with the contract; but
every man in this house knows and
evsry man in this county who grows
tobacco, if he joins this association,
with its democratical form of govern
ment, knows that if one of them does
wrong he can turn him out the next
minute and put in a man who will do
right. Haven't you got men in Shelby
county that can be relied upon to dis
play enough intelligence and enough
integrity 10 protect the interest of the
tobacco farmers Of Shelby county, and
don't you know it And isn't that true
Of every other county?
Profit BY Experience.
And suppose this regulation Is
wrong and that regulation is wrong
and the other Is unwise, can not they
amend your bylaws and articles of
incorporation, IF the people can
amend the Constitution of the United
States, If all the wisdom of our faith.
ers that they experienced was unable
TO formulate a form of government
at the beginning that was sufficient
of Itself, is 1t not allowable that the
tobacco farmers of Kentucky will say.
We didn't know this in the beginning.
but We are learning to govern our
selves why not in your power to gov.
ern yourselves wisely and according to
your best judgment? Do you not gov.
ern yourselves in other particulars?
The Tory's Argument.
All, my countrymen. the argument
they have here is the argument of the
Tory-the lack of confidence I'm the
people for self-government, They say,
IF everybody will Join, we will Join, &"
but everybody won't join. You need
not bother about that. Naughter)
Everybody didn't join the army of the
Revolution. There were Tories from
the beginning to the end, giving aid