The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-09-01

OF organization to secure better prices
Tor tobacco, organization should never
again experience the resistance that
generates friction.
: There has been vast deal said
about rights under law" What about
the rights that the law is as yet pow.
erless to protect? Are all the rights
OF men under our rapidly changing
conditions yet secured to them by the
law? A good definition Of rights"
would be very useful in tho further
consideration of this subject. Order
is good thing unless 1t be the order
of the graveyard-the order of stag.
nation and decay-the loss OF sense
or better things-the loss of the power
of resistance.
Tenants and Labor Have Left State,
Mr.. Clay stated that tenants and
laborers have left the state Inquiry
falls TO ascertain the name and the
/. numbers of these emigrants Ask
levery farmer you meet from whatever
county he may come and learn If you
can to what extent this allegation OF
emigration of labor and tenants is sup
ported by the facts. It Is true, how
ever, that IL pool prices can be kept
up, all will be back that have left and
lothers will come with them.
We don't want farm prices so low
that the tenant can't get out OF the
state If he wants 10 get out.
To Raise the Price Is to Increase
Territory.
The growers in the Burley belt are
! advised to continue to grow tobacco
for the bare necessaries of life because
If the price be made profitable others
will be encouraged to raise tobacco.
Why should the farmers in the old
Burley belt raise tobacco at price so
low that others will not grow it? Must
We keep the price so low that it will
not pay other people to raise it?
Shall we raise wheat at GO cents per
2 busnel to keep other people from rails
ing It?
b The present plans of the Burley To
bacco Society are so to back up their
. organization with capital that the ter
+ ritory will not be extended The
growers within the organization will
sell for profitable price and the
growers on the outside will have to
hold.
2 Pool Did Not Pay.
But after oil the GROWING argument
{ is that the pool did not pay. II did
d not accomplish the purpose Of its or
i ganization. Mr. Clay states that he
y has received clear Of all expenses
o $1,000 on his pooled tobacco and that
a this sum Is to be shortly increased by
} one-tenth which will make over and
+. above all expenses including shrink
D age and interest, Sl199. This is not
e only above the average price that Mr..
S Clay has been getting by his own
c statement, but the best OF It is that
d every other man in the pool has been
o paid on the same basis. Mr.. Clay's
l. average has not been reduced and the
IT general average has been brought up
j. which is q matter that every lover OF
D his kind will appreciate.
Mr.. Clay says that his tenants who
IL did not go into the pool got more than
n hose who did go in. That IS to say
1 tnat those who staid out sold earlier
n On the market made by those who
) went in. But somebody had 70 80 In
. make the market. Ought not al!
10 go in together and share alike? VIII
e hose who staid out last time now take
turn about and make the market for
5 the others TO sell on?
j. Mr.. Clay says he lost the profit on
" Ills 1908 crop. Since the trust paid
lin pool prices before the pool was
formed this may be true; but the man
. who cleared S1199 above al charges
a lid not lose the profit on his 1908 crop
old at trust prices. II the profit on
d. a pound of tobacco sold at s cents is
cent, the profit on a pound sold at II
cents clear of expenses Is cents, and
" by selling one crop at II cents clear
of all expenses the grower made the
profit on four crops and saved his land
and his labor.
While Mr.. Clay claims that he has
"a not been benefited by the pool, he can
ret show that he &c injured, white in
,ead of injuring others Il has increas-
odd their earning power by 100 TO sew
aral hundred per cent and it has en-
hanced the value of farm lands from
Is per cent 10 so per cent. II the les
g son Il has taught tobacco growers that
y they alone are responsible for arbi-
. 'rarily low prices for their product Is
n counted at its full worth, the benefits
O. of the pool can scarcely be conceived
much less calculated.
b Labor Unemployed.
" There seems no well founded facts
% for Mr.. Clay's statement that much
"a abor was thrown out OF employment
and forced to leave. On the contrary
I larmers say that there was more legiti'
nate farming done in 1908 than for
years before They say fences were
- uult and repaired; gates hung, ponds
and pools built and cleaned out,
washes filled up and a general repair
q me and improving done. No one
4 has heard of q specific instance OF I'M
8 Employed farm labor forced 10 go else
q SSH ere to find work.
Largest Buyer Lost.
n Mr.. Clay complains that our largest
d buver has been driven from the field.
{ What do we want with a buyer who IS
"a dictator? What is the comfort in
% being told that the buyer cant take
s. time to look at your tobacco but 70
:. send il In, he will give you what II Is
q worth. Mr.. Clay may regret the abb
o sent trust field buyer; but the average
man takes another view OF f. What
do YOU want with buyer to brow beat
o you?
S Mr. Clay fears lest the giving of
r. orr tobacco into the lands Of the Bur
!. lev Tobacco Society 10 sell for us will
y not develop independence and re-
s sourcefulness. Did the trust field buy