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

we exercise the right that our grand
fathers won for us in '76 and maintain
ed in 1912, or shall we sit idly by and
let this organization fail and falter
and go down and be forever the serfs
and slaves of the Trust from now on?
/ beg of you in the name of Ameri-
can Liberty, in the name of your home
and your fireside, your wives and your
little ones, to stand for this organiza-
ton. Let US stand united and fight 1t
out to another victory.
Don't Have Short Memories.
The memory of man is short some
times. Because we have gotten Is and
II cents, we seem to think we will new
er go back to and 6. What has hap
pened will happen again. have seen
upon the Main street of Georgetown
on a court day like this what looked
like the women's department at the
fair where they were showing fancy
embroidery. Every man who came to
town had a fancy colored quilt. or
blanket. with a sample of his tobacco
wrapped in it, bringing it in to show
to the American Tobacco Company's
agent He would walk out about a
mile TO the depot carrying that sample
as carefully as he would his first-born
baby. unwrapping it and gently laying
it down before the great Mogul, who
often wouldn't take the trouble to
stoop over and take it i'm his hand, but
would kick it with his foot and say:
Five cents: haul it in next Tuesday.
It has only been three years since we
have had that, and it won't be two
years until we will have it again if
We don't stand together. After hav-
ing been engaged in this tobacco bust
ness for about twelve years / will
never so back TO five and six-cent to-
bacco. | will put something else in
my ground.
New Opportunity fer Selling.
You stand today with the National
Legislature to back you up. a thing
you have never h.. before Today
you have free trade on Leaf tobacco.
The tobacco growers Of Kentucky in
the Burnley district, in the stemming
district, Mr. Ewing's organization. had
been trying for years-four times -Ilu
National House Of Representatives has
passed the bill. They passed it again.
It had been defeated three times in
the United States Senate. Mr.. Al
drich, who represents all the great
trusts in the country, had put that bill
in his pocket. but this time the Ken
lucky delegation in the House saw
that this bill was incorporated as {,
part of the tariff bill, and there were
too many things i'm the tariff bill FOG
Mr. AldriCh to sick in his pocket, ne
cause he waved some of them. The
result was flat when we went out i'm
II. l., Il
Democrat and the other Republican
we put the bill through the Senate
and it passed. 1t was won by one OF
the hardest fights ever made in the ma.
tional congress. They did everything
that they possibly could TO defeat il,
but T. vas finally passed and YOU have
got , today where your tobacco has
fir trade.
ORGANIZATION Can Sell 10 Consumer.
You and 7 as individuals can take
advantage of the legislation only in
a limited way, but when you have this
organization. when YOU put mp the 10
per cent To do business on. then If you
don't find a buyer you have the right
10 go out on the market and sell your
tobacco Aud the question that ! am
going TO ask you, is after winning
this fight are You going TO lie down
and throw mp the sponge and quit
Position Stronger Than Ever.
You are i'm n stronger position than
you were ever In. When we pooled
the tobacco in 1906 we knew that
there was a surplus They told us;
We have five years supply, we will
never have TO buy your tobacco Re,
fore we sold it we nearly came to
the conclusion that they were right.
But II did turn out that they had two
years supply and We knew that when
we pooled the 1906 crop. We knew
they would never buy a pound of our
tobacco until they had bought every
pound outside of the pool, and we
would have to starve them almost to
death. Yet we pooled in 1906 and
1907 and won out. We come now TO
the third year and rY-7e of us want
to quit.
No Surplus Now.
With not a pound Of surplus tobacco
they are ready now TO go out to the
barns and take this tobacco that is
only main cured ana strip il out ii
you give them a chance. Nobody has
any Burley tobacco except what you
farmers have got in you banrs and
fields. If every tobacco grower in the
Burley district would pool we could
sell every pound the first of Decem-
Der i'm winter order at whatever price
was demanded, because they have got
to have it. You will never see the
market again in the shane that iC is to-
day, and shall we be carried away by
idle talk that tobacco will bring a
good price without the pool? | beg
and urge, and appeal 10 you to come
up here today and sign this contract
Hunt up your solicitor, this thing is
for you as we'll as the solicitor. I am
here because the tobacco growers have
helped me and am tobacco grower
and want to help myself. This is the
opportunity of your life.
Fight for Better Conditions.
As We stand today we are fighting
for the greatest principles that ever
actuated an American citizen. We are
fighting for liberty. We have only
three weeks longer. We must work
fast and J appeal TO every man to put
his shoulder 10 the wheel. Sign the
contract Go to your neighbor and get
him to sign It, Let us bury our diff
ferences. Let us be big men and big
Kentuckans Let us hold up the bea-
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