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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-09-22
"WHOM WILL YOU SERVE

Ii is yours to decide. NJ Tobacco Grower. If is H..
to You to determine which has been your best friend
The Bulley Tobacco Society those who advise YOU
not to pool.
With an mtried path to blaze through a Jungle Of
doubt and prejudice, with skilled enemy building
barbed wire instructions your line of PROGRESS
The Burnley Tobacco Society has led Won to glorious
victory against the most powerful combination the
world has known
You carry the evidence of its success i'm your peck
three times the price you could have reasonably eX
pected without the pool.
Powerful forces are at work to induce YOU to aban-
Will you cast your lot with those who have proven
their interest in your welfare by giving YOU even more
for your tobacco than promised will You listen to the
siren song OF those who expect to profit by your down
fall?
1t is for YOU to determine in your own mind who
are your proven friends and who attempting to lure
You to destruction for melcenary purposes
You have never been betrayed by the Burley To-
bacco Society then why lis ten to the advice Of those
whose only interest lies in the profits they expect to
reap by the disntegratiOn Of Your organization.
Trace the motive of the man who advises YOU to
fuse to pool and YOU will find hidden behind that motive
selfish AIM either for personal gain for the benefit
of the corporation or warehouse combine he is hired to
represent.
He will be found to be hiding behind an assumed
friendship to stab You in the back
No true friend III the grower will advise against
pool.
Put that down ndisputabc fact and act ac-
cordingy.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-09-22
5O,672 ACRES POOLED.
GREAT INCREASE NEEDED

The report from the various counties at the last
meeting of the District Board Of the Burey Tobacco
Society shows that 50672 Of tobacco had been
pooled up to September 49, 1909.
The board has not yet accurate statement of the
OF Burey tobacco grown this year But the grow
ers have general idea of what the acreage and it is
clear to all that greatly increased number Of acres
must be pooled in order to make the pool effective.
In view Of the profits on manufactured tobacco and
the profits made by the Trust last year after paying
cents for tobacco, why should not get good bet
ter prices for the 1909 crop, if all growers will pool
their tobacco and demand it!
Whether or not there is 1909 pool depends upon
YOU, the GROWER. There must be active and earn
est effort between and October or we shall again
be entirely in the hands Of the Trust.
Your action decides that millions shall be paid into
your State or allowed to pile up in the Golfers Of the
Trust
The pool to guarantee YOU good prices, will not
be made in mysterious way, but by the common
action of common people.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-09-22
Justice EdlOdrd {. O'Redr:
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Masterfu Plea For Cooperation Among Farmers By
Jurist Who Looks To the Good of the Whole
Commonwealth - Appeals ToPublic Spirit, Patr
otism and Business Sense of Tobacco Planters
September IA. 1909.

SHELBYVILLE, Ky. Sept. H.
Judge Edward c. O'Rear spoke in part
as follows:
My fellow citizens: Sitting here
Listening to the address of Mr.. Fergu-
sen, a Kentuckian, a farmer, a gentle
man, a man of integrity and of char
acter, was impressed with this truth:
Are we not, men of age as we are 60
ing to school? We send our children
t. school, where they are taught eco
Monies, the fundamental truths, taught
in that subject to the practical affairs
of their lives when they become ma
trre? Would it not be idle and a
: a3te of their time and our means
and energy to teach our children eco
Monies, unless it were reasonable to
suppose when they grew to maturity
that they would apply what they had
learned TO their betterment and to the
betterment of their State? And here we
are, gathered to learn lessons OF
economy, lessons OF commercial busi-
ness economy as yell as of political
economy.
BY The People-For The People.
am impressed, furthermore, tnat
here Is an earnest audience of Ken
lucky men, gathering together from
the body of one of the best informed,
most progressive counties of the Com.
monwealth, gathering in a public hall,
gathering of your own volition, gath
ering in the day time, discussing open
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-09-22
1T is UP TO THE
GROWER TO DECIDE

AS announced in the Pledge the pool VIII be on I'M
less declared off on or before October l.
The precinct solicitors will continue to pool tobacco
up to October l. 1909
Wednesday, September %, they will at O'Clock,
each and every One turn into his county chairman the
number of pooled and the number of acres I'M
pooled in his precinct.
Each county will then wire or telephone the Win
chester office the number of pooled and the num-
Der of acres unpooled in his county
The Winchester Office will then tabuIate the re-
ports from the counties, and by o'clock a. M Thurs
day, September 30 wire or telephone each county
chairman member of the District Board the number
of pooled in the entire district and the number
unpooled.
At 10 o'clock Thursday, September 30 each man
who has pooled his 1909 tobacco will 90 the county
seat, or to place designated by the county chairman
and with this information Of the acres pooled and I'M
pooled vote whether not the pool shall be declared
off.
AT the close of the voting September 80 the County
Chairman will wire telephone the Winchester office
the result of the vote of his county.
On October the District Board will meet in Win
chester and count the vote of the counties. The vote
will be by counties according to the acres represented
majority votinG against the pool will declare the
pool off.
Thus the matter of declaring the pool off will rest
entirely with the growers who have pledged their to-
bacco
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BURLEY TOBACCO
SOCIETY
September IA, 1909.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-09-22

Elsewhere in these columns Is
statement that on September Is. 5O,672
acres of tobacco had been pooled and
mat greatly increased number must
be pooled by October first in order to
make the pool effective.
Certainly the growers have not for
gotten the days of seven cent tobacco
and the cause Of seventeen cent tobac-
co? As KenJuckians we cannot afford
TO be inert in this matter expecting
that somehow it will work out. Drift
ing vessels rarely reach safe harbor;
they are more apt TO strike on a rock.
Kentucky Losing Rank.
In 1870 Kentucky ranked seventh in
wealth among the States of the Union
today she ranks seventeenth. IN the
valley OF the Mississippi two States
alone exceeded her splendid showing,
ana there was no State between the
rather of Waters and the Golden Gate
TO rival or question her supremacy"
Today one by one other States have
passed her In that proud procession Of
contendiDg sovereignties Ohio. In
diana, Illinois, Michigan. Minnesota,
Iowa. Missouri, Negraska, Kansas,
Texas and California have each out.
stripped Kentucky.
Causes Of Economic Loss.
The Kentucky farmer buys in a.
market from which competitive
products are dosignedly excluded by a.
protective tariff, while he sells his
chief money crop. crop too in which
he has natural monopoly, to a com
bination that excludes competition by
organization.
Both in his buying and in his selling.
the farmer Is M enormous disadvant-
age. The manufacturers combine 10
keep down the prices of raw materials
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ly before the world problems that con-
Germ you and your neighbors and your
State. After all, gentlemen, is it not
true that under our form of govern
ment, where 1t IL by the people and
for the people," that the people must
solve the problems that are presented?
Not merely the political problems, but
all the problems of economy that go
to make up prosperity or failure in
your experience as individuals, and in
the experience of the State as an in
tegral part of the Union. Here you
are, gathered soberly to consider these
questions.
Let Us Reason Together.
Once upon a time Jehovah said to
his people, Come, let us reason to-
gether." No higher tribute to the In
telligent and to the character of man
could have been paid than that compli.
ment of God, when He assumed that
man was not only capable of reason
ing out for himself his own welfare,
but when his reason pointed him to a
conclusion that his integrity, would
lead him to carry it into execution
Here we have come together as fellow
citizens, to reason together about what
| regard as one of the gravest lues,
tons of public concern that has en-.
gagged the attention of the people OF
Kentucky in my day and generation.
Courage And Fixity or Purpose.
few days ago there died in New
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-09-22
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT LIE BUS
TO THE TOBACCO GROWERS
Fellow Tobacco Growers:

Fellow Tobacco Growers:
In order show my faith and interest in the pool
of helping all tobacco growers and to assure
every grower that my for the pool greater
than any consideration of salary here and hereby
cheerfuly waive my right to the $4,000 bonus voted
by the district board June 9, 1909.
Compared with the benefits to be derived from the
pool the involved is tre but if this considera-
ton has been in small obstacle in the
way of solicitors, gladly remove it.
Nothing of less moment should be allowed to stand
in the way of strong pool that so much every
one of us and to the entire State
strong pull and pull all together assures
Yours for strong pool and good prices
Faithfully, CLARENCE LEBUS.
Lexington, KY, Sept. 16th 1909.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-09-22
Stop Kentucky's RetrOgrade
Mo0ement by Realizing
WhdtiS Due Her on Tobacco

Which the farmer sells. while they are
protected against competition in the
sale Of the manufactured article which
the farmer buys.
Evidence Of Unfortunate Results.
Evidences of the unfortunate results
of this unequal economic system and
that farm life is not holding its own in
Kentucky may be read by one who
runs.
The brick houses with Greek
columns. once the center Of the best
culture and social life that now have
grained stored in the parlor. harness
hanging i'm the front hall and the
porch ornameuted with griudstoues,
iools and implements, the lawn grown
up In weeds and underbrush, while %
general air of deterioration pcwadcs
he whole place attest the change that
is going on The former owners. or
their children. have gone into town for
advantages that they could have bad
in the country if farm product had
brought the proper returns
Restoration Movement.
The first movement that was
ever made 10 restore Kentucky t0 her
rightful place i'm the sisterlo1l of
States is the tobacco movement Toe
bacco is our chief money crop and we
have for years sold it below me cost q.
production, while our lands grow less
fertile
Main Industry Preyed Upor
Did any other people ever allow tucir
main industry of which N Iad
natural monopoly, to be SOD. we'd upon.
by parasites and organized 5reed2 so
that with all our natural advantages
with all our arduous toll we constant.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-09-22

But Mr.. Cassius NJ. Clay, than whom
there is not more distinguished Ken.
uckian, a man of character and of
ability, man of liberal education and
extensive fortune, man Of years and
a man of wisdom, who is opposed TO
this pool. recently promulgated in a
public speech IN Paris to his fellow
citizens some figures in which it was
shown. according to his calculations
and | do not deny any of his premises.
or any Of his figures,-it was demon
strated that the farmers who were not
in the pool got about as much as those
who were in the pool. and that the
reason of it was that in Bourbon coun.
ty the expenses of conducting the pool
were enormous. My countrymen, Is
that an argument why Washington and
the patriots should not have fought
Continued On Page Tour.)
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-18

used for the purchase of the private
property.
Likes Holiday Pay Bill.
Like jumped to the front as a great
man by presenting a bill providing
fhat ali public laborers ssshall receive
their pay on legal holidays ;, The
intention Is to pay laborers on those
days declared legal public holidays not
20 make holidays pay days. The ques-
ton arises: Are Sundays legal holi,
days9
W. G. T. U. Petition.
The Woman s Christian Temperance
Union presented d communication
through Hubby, protesting against the
shortening of the compulsory school
age and the lowering of teacher s sala-
RES. The communication said, in part:
There is direct ratio between
crime and education. Reduction of the
public school is inevitably followed by
the expansion of the prison and the
poor house.
Social progress and political well
fare both stand in a direct ratio to
the length of the school life of the
child and to the efficiency of the school
system
A Fool Bill.
House Bill 13s, bill probably in.
trodueed because it had not been
considered before introdue-
ton, provides that "No person shall
expose or offer for sale, or shall sell.
or cause, or allow to be sold any fish
or product of the sea stored in cold
storage other than Ali. Hapuupuu,
Koa e, Kahala, Mahimahi, Ono, Opaka-
paka, Uku, Ulaula, and Ulua in any
public or private market within the
Territory of Hawaii.
Punishment. Any person who shall
violate any of the provisions of Section
l of this Act, shall be liable upon con-
viction to penalty of not less than
ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars
with the court.
AS this bill deserves, it will doubt
less get it in the neck in committee,
where it was sent yesterday.
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STRANGER MAY
HAVE A CHANCE

The following communication was re-
ceived from the owner of Stranger yes
terday. The noise he makes is that of
a live one and it looks as though this
match would come off on April IS as
he suggests:
In answer to Sonny Gays reply
to my challenge, / want to. say that
his terms are most satisfactory; except
the length of time that he wants for
training
81 am willing to put hundred or
more as a forfeit, at any named time
and place, providing that the owner
of Sun Rise agrees to run the race on
April IS, that is giving him one whole
month to train his horse; which think
is plenty enough.
According to the purse, the amount
that he stated is o. K, only I would
let him know that he can It scare me
with his big purses, and that if he
comes to my terms, he viii find out
that there is pretty near as much
money out in the country as there is
in Honolulu And If he thinks that
this is only bluff he can make the
purse little higher
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Douthitt made strong speech In de-
Tense of efficiency in government and
exchanged repartee with Rice in the
course of it.
Sheldon moved to split the difference
and insert an item for clerk at $75.
The amendment was lost. On a mo-
ton to put the figure at 1925, Sheldon
stated that this was piece of foolish
ness, that plenty of competent young
men could do the work at $75 month.
Rice said that there was bill be-
fore Congress cutting out the Office of
High Sheriff and it was up to the Leg
islature to cut out those places where
Territorial and county government
overlapped He suggested cutting out
all reference to a High Sheriff in the
bill and deal only with the warden of
the penitentiary.
The High Sheriff said the Legisla-
ture could not take away his duties as
High Sheriff He could resign and be
appointed warden, but someone would
have to be High Sheriff as required by
the Organic Act.
A vote to put the figure at 1925 was
lost
Single amended to put the salary at
800.
This carried.
Single then moved to reconsider
the salary of the High Sheriff, and
Waiwaiole wanted the High Sheriff ex-
eused during the trying moments. The
Sheriff was not excused.
Single then moved to put that Off
cial S salary at 5000 month, just TO
show. he said, that he meant business.
Kaniho moved that it pass as IN the
bill and was ruled out of order by
Chairman Cohen. who emphasized his
ruling by pounding with his big stick
He failed to shut off the Kohala orator
however, who fiouted the ruling and
talked in support of his motion.
Rice suggested amending the Homo
lulu charter to cut the salary of the
Oahu Sheriff down to 800 month and
leave the salary of the High Sheriff
alone. if the High Sheriff had to do
the Oahu Sheriff s work.
Alfonso favored the cut. Every mem
her cried retrenehment and had his eye
on the treasury for special approprIa
tons for his particular district. 10
have money to spend on puoile VOL NJ
salaries must be pruned, however IN
pIeasant the work of pruning might be
The motion to cut the salary was
lost.
A motion to rise and report was
lost. r,
deputy Warden, Honolulu jail
$4,000. y
Alfonso moved to strike out the item
The motion carried.
The items regarding jail guards and
maintenance of prisoners were de
ferred the High Sheriff being unable
to state Just how much would pc need
cd for peHitentiary alone.
The House rose and resolved to meet
n committee of the whole every at
tarnoon of the week except Saturdays
Cehen. in asking this. stated that al
the present rate Of progress the oiil
, would outlast the session.
Kealawaa tried to present a resoiu
ton after the motion TO adjourn wa:
| put. He waits until today.
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Honor to Kamehameha III.

Like introduced the following reso
luton, which passed:
'.Be it Resolved by the House Of
Representatives of the Territory OF
Hawaii, That when the House do ad
journ it shall be out of respect for the
birthday of Kauikeaouli, King of Ha
wall, the late Kamehameha III. y
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! Sports !
4
MAkIKI WILL BE
LORDS TODAY

A combination cricket team from the
Flora and Cambrian viii play the local
willow-wielders today at Makiki field.
1t IS hope that there will be time in
which to play off two full innings so
the game will start promptly at noon.
Providing that the weather be fine.
and all indications point to a fair day,
the match will be very much on the
order of a society event among the
local English people and Makiki field
will be transformed into miniature
" Lords for the time being.
just how used the visitors are to a
mat. it IS hard to say. They may have
played on cocoanut pitch and they
may have never even seen such a thing
but, whatever their experience. they
will find the manufactured pitch very
fast one and it may well be that some
of their best batters will be fooled bv
the sharp angle the ball makes with
the mat
The lineup will be as follows:
Cambrian-Flora team Cambrian
players: j. L. Pearson (capt), f. E.
Sutcheliffe, DR.. Bourdas, K. Mcleod, T.
Spalding, G. Cavanaugh. Flora play
ers: A. Stanley, A. Cooper, DR.. W.
Archibald, A. Worth and W. TAFT. All
players from aft.
Honolulu c. G. team-Boo Anderson,
J. K. NJ. Maclean, j. C. McGill, DR..
Vans Agnew, w. Lamb, w. Brown, R.
A. Jordan, D. L. Wilmington, J. Egan,
J. Douglas, F. c. Maxwell, H. Bailey.
W. c.. Weldon, umpire.
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Wharf Vote for Maui.

Hihio presented resolution calling
for vote of $4,000 for a new wharf
at Honokohau, Maui.
d. FL. Kahaulelio presented his
resignation as assistant clerk on ac-
count of his health. The resignation
was accepted and L. A. K. Evans ap-
pointed in his stead Evans was for
merly bookkeeper in the Honolulu
Road Department.
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Sport Notes

S<S& zNg<<Ss>@xk~sSR>.s ~ III <Sk> <Se<~Se
Harry Murray was down to see the
Hilonian come in yesterday and the
reason was soon made plain when it
was seen that he had his eyes on a
group of big packing cases containing
automobiles. There were three Of
them. A Kissel Kar 40 touring for
Hon. J. Fl. Coney, the latest thing in
Chal1ners-Detroit; passenger forties
for Frank Woods Of Kohala, and a
dainty little Franklin roadster for
Harry Baldwin of Maui.
There is bunch of real sharpshoot-
ers up at Leilehua >and the suggestion
has been made that lehman shoot
be brought off, The Fifth Cavalry
boys are modest enough about their
proves but they state their Willingness
to put up a ten-man team TO shoot
against a representative Honolulu
team with any arms at any distances.
The n. G. II. may take the matter up
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CAMBRIANS TO
PLAY KlDDIES

The Cambrian and Aliiolani soccer
teams will line up against each other
this afternoon. The game viii be call
ed at two clock and will be on Alii-
olani campus. The Riddles are in ex-
eellent condition and may be relied on
to give the sea-legs good run for their
money.
After the excellent showing that the
Kaimuki lads made in the interscholas-
tic soccer series, they ought to be able
to do something with the British visit
ors. Some of the latter may get bit
of a shock when they find that half
their opponents wear no shoes or stock
ings.
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Cutting High Sheriff.

Cutting High Sheriff.
The committee then went after the
High Sheriff S department, Rice NOV
ing to cut out his title as 'fJailer Ho>
nolulu Jail. - After some long explain
atoms the title went.
The salary of the High Sheriff at
1925 month passed.
Deputy Warden, Territorial Prison,
$4,000. y
Single moved TO strike out the item
but withdrew his motion. Long asked
that the High Sheriff be sent for before
his estimates be gone into further.
The High Sheriff was escorted in by
the Sergeant-at-Arms. He explained
the peculiar relations between the peni-
tertiary and Jail, one cook serving
both, one physician serving both sets
of prisoners and the same men being
in charge at different times. Federal
prisoners were also kept In both insti-
tutions. A deputy warden was abso-
iutely necessary.
The deputy warden, Territorial Pris,
| on item, passed.
! Coney moved to insert a new item:
Deputy High Sheriff and clerk, $115
-$2760. +" He said the amount could
be saved otherwise, and the official was
necessary.
| Rice opposed. The official would not
:; be needed if the counties managed the
| iails. There was no need for the High
| Sheriff to do the work the County
| Sheriffs could do He moved the item
| be tabled The motion was lost
The High Sheriff explained how nee
essary a Deputy High Sheriff was 10
carry out the work of the office. Papers
! had to be served, juries eGpaneied
, and such.
| Single quoted the Organic Act and
Revised Laws to show that the High
Sheriff, if only required to sit on the
| lid of the penitentiaTy, could wrlggle
| through without deputy.
/ Rice saw the finances of the Terri
tory demanded that it be tried. h
saw no reason why the Territory
should pay man to do on Oahu what
/ the Oahu Sheriff ought to do. He
| thought it was high time that the
County Sheriffs be made to do their
duty. Because the High Sheriff was
competent and the lawyers preferred
! to do business with him was no rea
son why the Territory should have to
| pay Let the counties elect competent
officers and not expect the whole eoun-
try to pay for it if they did not.
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TENNIS DOUBLES
AT PUNAHOU

In the tennis doubles played at the
Tenney courts last week between Jack
Guard and Will Hoogs of Punahou, and
Elmer Doris and Herbert Dowsett of
the High School, the Punahou pair ran
away from the McKinleyites in two
easy sets, 6-2, 6-3. The tennis enthusi-
asts are hoping that tournament in
singles and doubles may be arranged
between the two schools after the
track meet is over.