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

the trust than to hold any Office on
earth. would rather be The he
elephant in the Equity movement than
Governor Of any state. And l would
rather have the love and regard of the
bravest people God ever made and
follow mouse-colOred mule around a
clay hillside than to have the follow
ing of every Democratic coward who
is afraid Of the trust. That is my
politics.
started out believing that all the
patriotism was in the Democratic par
~ and all the meanness in the Repub'
lican party, but ! found some Demo
Gratis I couldn't trust and / found some
Republicans / could depend upon.
No Politics In Movement
am here today to tell you there is
no more politics in this movement than
there Is in your church or your bank
and the glory is that you have kept
them out of It. This is not a matter
of sentiment, but a matter Of bread and
butter. And I am here today 70 ap'
peal to everyone of you to join hands
with the men who were brave. the
men who were game. and have no rela'
tionship with the fool or the coward
who quits in the time Of a fight.
Defeat Through Hesitation.
The greatest generals Of the world
have lost the greatest victories hat
ever dominated the destiny Of the ma
tion and the tide Of time, because hey
hestitated, not in the face OF danger,
but by some unaccountable reason
upon the threshold Of complete and
triumphant victory. Had Napoleon adj
vanced after the first nights fighting
at Waterloo, he would have died EN-
peror Of Europe and not a broken
hearted exile upon a barren isle with
his hands behind him. gazing upon The
sad and solemn scene. Had Lee ad-
vanced upon Cemetery Heights and
Bald Knob he would have changed the
destiny Of a Republic. 7 tell you that
today you rest upon your arms amid
the debris Of the camp You have con-
quered with your fresh laurols all
about you, and God pity and help Tie
man who has stood all the heat and
burden Of the day. who has won The
victory. who has actually received the
spoils Of the enemy, If now beguIei
by some silly siren song Of q trust
maintained orator, his heart fails and
he quits HIS brother in such a time
as this.
Planted Standards In Congress.
My friends. you have won a victory
here and you have won victory IN
the councils Of the nation. You have
advanced your standards on the tobac-
co fields and you have planted them IN
the halls of the Federal Congress.
Beginnings az Guthrie.
Seven years ago I knew nothing
about this question II was compare
lively new l had just been elected
70 the Federal Congress. Hon. John
Wesley Genes>and myself received a
request 10 come down TO Guthrie 10
address a little meeting Of the tobacco
growers at the opera house. There
we're two or three hundred OF them
there. 7 came down az my own eX-
pense 500 miles to be with them.
Conditions In Black Patch.
At that time that country was di-
vided up like a checker board. ! will
not take your time TO go into details
now. but I have the affidavit of men
in whose honesty have a special con.
fdence. that they themselves were ap-
pointed by the American Tobacco Com.
pany the Imperial Tobacco Company
or the Continental Tobacco Company
"a the case NAV he 10 hwy Uith!c g
specific area, set off by meets and
bounds, Just like a magistorial district
that they were ordered not 10 20 out
If their district that every other buyer
was ordered not 10 come into that dis
trict. They were 10 buy all of that
tobacco and that tobacco was then m
he put into n pool The English ron.
resentative was 20 take what thoy
needed, the French and Italian buyers
were 10 take theirs, the American To.
hacco Company would take what they
needed. competition was absolutely
eliminated
Not SO Bad In Burley Belt.
In this country. remember, you can
raise corn and hemp, and wheat You
are especially favored; in that cour.
try they are not. II has been my for
tune 10 travel over good part o.
this world | missed my train coming
over here today and | got one Of these
gasoline concerns and made the "trip
in that. blessed are the poor for
they don't have 10 ride I'm automO.
biles." I never started out i'm one of
the blamed things IN my life that 10
didn't begin TO wheeze and cough and
die on the road. But I managed 10
get here in that concern, because |
was coming, boys, II I had 10 walk
through But riding along In that con.
veyance, 7 looked on the scenes that
had gladdened my childhood, and tell
you that since Adam and Eve turned
their tearstained eyes from the clos
ing doors OF the first Eden and babe
farewell 10 the first ~ earthly para.
discs, no place upon Gods green foot.
stool Is 80 blessed as the Blue Grass
region Of Kentucky
Tobacco al Cents.
You are more fortunate than they.
as ! said. There was a country that
for more than a hundred years had
been raising tobacco. were raising Il
before a White Burley plant was ever
heard Of, before man ever discovered
the peculiar growth up here IN Brown
county, Ohio, that you call Burley.
remember as boy never saw q