Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-05-08

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A. o. Stanley, Washington, d. {
Dear Sir:-In your letter to me o
date April 10, you register a com
plant that while you are busily en-
gagged in the discharge of officia
business. l am making speeches a
crossroads and otherwise prosecuting
a canvass during your absence. Yo'
also invite me to inquire as to an OF
fetal act of yours.
After my reply to your letter wa
published, came into possession OF
the following letter, copies of which
| | find have been sent by the thous
ands to farmers throughout the dis
trict. and as believe it constitu ties
an Offset to your complaint. desire
to amend my reply by postscript.
A copy of your letter follows. 1t
lis enclosed in an envelope with the
following printed matter thereon:
House of Representatives, U. s..
Official Business Free" in the left
hand corner, and the signature Of
"a. o. Stanley" in the right corner
at the top. Following this printed
matter and your signature is the
written address of the party to
whom it was addressed.
A. O. STANLEY's LETTER.
Washington, D. c., April Is,
1909.
Mr.. N. T. Craig, Nebo. KY.
My Dear Sir and Friend:-Having
the honor to represent one of the
richest districts on the continent,
both in agricultural and mineral re
sources, the field of my greatest use
fitness is in an assiduous devotion
to the best interest of the laboring
man and the farmer.
We have been co workers in the
great struggle of the tobacco grow
ers, looking to an improvement in
their condition. 1t is my privilege
and pleasure to advise you that
hope in the near future to do the |
producer of corn as great service as I
l have ever been permitted to rem
der the growers of tobacco.
The rapid exhaustion of our tim
Der supply, and the consequently |
rapid rise in the cost of paper pulp,
has led the Department of Agricul-
ture to make extensive investiga-
tions and researches, in the hope of
finding some possible substitute for
wood in the manufacture of print
paper.
Being a member of the commit
tee on Agriculture, l have watched |
these experiments with keenest in
terest, and you may imagine my de-
light when l found that the corn
stalk at your door and mine, when
properly treated, will produce the
finest paper in the world A ton of
cornstalks will produce as much |
paper.making fiber as a ton of wood |
and is cheaper than the spruce, pop !
lar, and hemlock, ton for ton, from |
which our paper is made today. In |
to the paper-making mater
ial, that same ton of stalks will pro-
duce three hundred pounds of the
finest stock feed
1t is with pardonable pride, my
friend, that write you that l have
the first and only bill yet
presented to Congress providing for
the erection of a plant and other APP
paratus necessary in making paper
from cornstalks. The bill has been
favorably reported by the Commit
tee on Agriculture, and l feel assur-
ed will pass when Congress convenes
IN december.
| hope within the next decade to
see some of the many millions invest
ed in paper mills in New Hampshire.
Maine and Canada, transferred to
the valley of the Ohio, and see the
now wasted cornstalks of our neigh
bors become a valuable and high
priced commodity by virtue of this
newly created market at their door.
| am sure that the report of the
Committee on Agriculture, heartily
recommending my bill, providing
for the construction of this paper
mill in our district, will be of gen.
uine interest to every farmer. 1t is
my pleasure to enclose it under sep