The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-09-22


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pealed to the sword and by it she had
fallen, and she was broken and weaker
than before, brave and heroic as were
her champions.
Live BY Sword or Fall BY II.
You have drawn swords against the
trust BY the eternal God, men of Har-
rison county, you shall live by the
sword or you shall fall by It. You
will conquer the trust or it will crush
you. You cannot stay where you are.
Nor lay that flattering JUNCTION to your
soul that you can sell out TO the trust
and your neighbor will save you. What
would you think of man in time Of
war who sent his brother out to pro-
tect his own life and family-the man
in time of danger who sulks, not be-
cause he Is in sympathy with the in
vader but because he is afraid to meet
him is a mighty poor specimen OF hui
manity. He is without courage-and
tell you that Harrison county has
raised some good men and she has
raised some bad ones, but she has
never been especially successful in rails
ing towards Do you know that in
proportion to your numbers there were
more OF you in Harrison county who
shouldered your muskets and went to
war than In any other county? The
heritage of Harrison county has been
that her men were brave Are you
less worthy than your sires? Is there
a man within the sound of my voice
who believes what | say and yet is
afraid TO follow? Not afraid Of the
loss of life, not afraid of the loss of
honor, but afraid of a chance to sell
his brother out TO the American To-
bacco Company.
Trust Differed BY Giant Flnanciers.
You have been told that those days
will not come again. You have been
told that the low price of tobacco was
due to over production. If there is any
thing on earth know, It is this tobac-
co question. | have studied it for
years. In 1923 and tobacco
brought least. Taking Kentucky over,
you produced the smallest amount of
the best tobacco that was ever pro-
duced in ten years. At that time the
American Tobacco Company was weak
er in the matter of organization than it
is today You marvel at the strength
of the Standard Oil Company. At the
death Of Mr.. Hartman, you marvel at
that Napoleonic genius who could take
by the throttle every engine that
steams across the continent and could
control a living belt of steel from
ocean to ocean, and could control not
only the transportation of the tray
elers of the world. but could plant his
arrows across the sea, and direct the
master Leviathans of the deep. You
wonder at the power of the steel trust
the most gigantic combination of
wealth in the history of man. From
the day that Croesus brought about
him his few bags Of gold, to now, in
no country. in no cline, In no time or
age has any living human or any as
ISOLATION OF men combined as much
money, or as much power, as is held
today in the iron grasp OF the Con
solidated Steel Corporation OF the Uni
ted States-and yet I have before me
positive proof, that the strongest fin
anclers in the Standard Oil Trust, in
the great railway corporations, in the
American Steel Trust or the United
States Steel Corporation. hold direc-
torates IN the American Tobacco Com
pany.
Who Controls A. T. c.
iOl gtcll > All1h W pEthi z hl III
dictment against the Continental To
bacCo Company and against the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company for Illegal COM
/ bination in restraint of trade contrary
TO the provisions of the Sherman law
Owing. i'm a measure, to that agitation.
the two corporations combined to evade
the law. Until a few years ago the
American Tobacco Company was com
D no 20 Of 20, Coo
turers. Today that is not the case.
+ ] will read you some of the names,
J. b. Duke. A. n. Brady, Thomas f.
Ryan-you know who they are. Those
men are upon the directorate of the
Standard Oil Company, own stock in
Harrimans railroads-they are the
most grasping, the most cruel, the
most greedy financial buccaneers that
ever attempted to command and con-
troll the wealth Of the woodland they
will do II If Won don't watch ont.
Profit BY Removal OF War Tax.
I The Continental Tobacco Company
/ had never paid any dividends on stock
They knew in 1902 or 1903, that the
/ tax that had been put on tobacco after
/ the Spanish-American war had been re-
pealed They knew that the fellow
that bought tobacco would buy at the
same price. They said THAT cents
/ is clear money" They offered to take
every single dollar of common and pre-
ferred stock in the Continental To-
bacco Company that had never paid
a cent in dividends and pay from 6 TO
8 per cent and give the holders gold
bonds as security. To give them bonds
/ payable in gold with coupons. These
fellows made a deal with the holders
Of stock in the American Tobacco Com
pany stock and they issued s30O,000,OO
Of these bonds. The stockholders be-
came creditors and Duke and Ryan and
/ the rest of these bandits became mas
/ ters Of the Amrican Tobacco Company.
The American Tobacco Company is not
controlled by manufacturers Of tobacco.
1t Is controlled by a clique on Wall
street that operates ticker and die
tates the price, not only Of the tobacco,
but the price Of every railroad, of every
pound Of steel, every pound OF sugar
you are fighting the masters of the
world.
DISCRIMINATION Means Ruin.
And all the men of the United
States who ride upon the railroads