The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-13
u IT. GILL
Raleigh, N. c.


of Lexington near the warehouses. The
first night Of security for weeks was
known in Galloway county. The beat
ing Of farmers ceased. A militia boy
found it difficult to meet Up with q
Night Rider.
The torrent Of Indignation that over
spread the land was intense. Taunts
and ~indignities greeted the soldiers
everywhere. Merchants in Bracken
county were warned not to sell to
them. a judge at O~wingsville demand
ed a thorough investigation of the
sending of troops. He instructed the
grand jury that it might indict even
Governor Wilson.
Now as to the results Of the, 1908
crusade. There was Burley grown.
despite Night Riding, but any estimate
OF the amOunt-is uncertain, because
much of it was grown under guard
these were called Shotgun Crops
and hidden afterwards. Thanks to the
partial famine created by h self-sa-
crificing Equity men, some of these
independent rover sold their crops
during the summer and early fall OF
1908 at high hgures. The record price
in Lexington was thirty cents. About
the lowest quotation was twelve cents
tobacco had been under the
nuzzles of-guns from the. sowing of
the seed until its delivery at the store
houses. Planters hired sharpShooterS,
DR.. Samuel HALEY, one of the few to
grow 19OS tobacco in Fayette county.
Installed a s~earchlight~ and raised q
bumper crop. His cousin HALEY
Lisle, got, protection from the county
judge and the adjutant general.
In such ways independent farmers
succeeded in raising crops. But pub
lie sentiment was SO intense, the hatred
Of their neighbors manifested itself in
| SO many ways, that many of these in
dependents have been forced to leave
The State, and many others are arrang-
ing to do SO. The situation is one that
an outsider cannot hope to under
stand. State was arrayed against State
in the Civil Wal :; in the tobacco war
it is neighbor against neighbour, and
the intensity of the feeling is indie
scribable.
Picture to yourself, if you can, the
amount Of pressure necessary to COM
pei a farmer to sell his property and
move TO a new State to found a home;
then multiply this many times, and
you Will have an idea of conditions.
Farms sold in such manner and dur
ing such times, do. not bring good
prices. So that an element of depre-
citation in farm values must be taken
into consideration here.
One Of those who has moved away,
Charles H. Stoll. of Lexington. relieV-
ed himself in bitterest terms: Il doubt
il Kentucky will in fifty years recover
from the effects Of the outrages that
have been perpetrated in the. last
year. he said. Z believe hat Ken
ucky is infinitely. worse off today, re-
latively speaking, h h was at the
close OF the war in 1855
: Probably the Burnley crop in Ken
lucky was cut down by half. One es-
innate places it at twenty-five million
pounds in 1908 as against two hundred
twenty millions in 1907 The cru
sadie had achieved at least the resefn-
blance to a famine. MIR. lie Bus felt
at last hat he was adequately armed
for another battle with r. K. Smith.
AS early as August, 1903. the talk
of negotiations began. Banks We're
pressing the growers for money loan
ed on their tobacco certificates. Ihe
county banks were at the end OF their
resources The hants could Dor
row no money. The city banks felt
the 1 stringency. Louisville BANKS
alone had $~4,0o0,0Oo out on tobacco
paper. Tobacco was the n word on
every tongue in Kentucky. h same as
n is in New York. Fhe Equity
growers fretted. rebelliously. against
their leaders. = But months Of hard
ship lay before them yet:
LIE Bus and Smith did not get TO
eether until November. Each, with
his henchmen, met at the Lou1svlile
Hotel in. Louisville on Friday the 18TH.
Tobacco certificates We're
UP right. and left through n Burley
district. Anything under sixteen cents
a Mound found q aker.[ In Bourbon
count for instance, at least hall the
pooled, tobacco passed from the ffands
of the rowe to the spectators.
on November 18th Mr.. LIE Bus and
Mr.. Smith held their final meeting,
at its close. issued he
statemtnt:
THE AMERICAN TOBACCO CON.
PANY HAS BOUGHT
EIV CENT. = OF THE 1896
pc,c,I, TOBACCO AT SCHEDULE
PRICES AND SEYENpY-EfvE PEh
OF THE 1907 To
RACCOs AT GRADED PRICES I'D
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