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

portunity such as you never had be-
fore in your lives, as far as tobacco
is concerned. 1t Is as free as air that
you breathe You can sell 1t just like
! you can sell your wheat or your corn.
and the man that you sell it to can sell
II just like he can sell your wheat and
your corn. You are no longer In the
service and under the control of any
body, as far as the selling Of your to-
bacco is concerned. You have never
/ had such a prospect before, and you
have got this society here-these diff
/ ferent societies-and If you all stand
| together so as to protect yourselves
against the trust on that side, with the
rights Of the Government with you on
| tho other side. you have an organiza-
/ ton such as you have never had be-
| fore.
| Now, did not come up here TO ask
| you to help me. | have been helped
enough already. | never expect to
want another Office as long as | live. /
will be sixty-eight years old if | live
until my time Is out. and when a man
| gets that old he ought 10 be knocked
/ in the head If he goes out begging for
office. He ought to get out of the
way and give the young man a chance.
A man can't expect to hold office
always. am not asking for any favor
none on eartF-and | have agreed
with these gentlemen they came and
asked me to help them. | said to
them, Il will make one speech for you
! in Garrard county, ecause ! was born
in Garrard county, because | was born
/ people better than I love any people
on earth. | will make one speech for
! them
well" they said Nov. here, can't
you cross over and go into Madison
and make us one more?"
We'll" I said. 81 don't know. 7 am
sorter like my friend (Mr. Smith; |
have always had an idea that Madison
county and Garrard are good counties.
and, I said I reckon l will go up
there
Now, they are begging me to go all
over the country. which I am not 60
ing to do, because ] am so sick today
I can hardly stand on my feet. and had
to call 2 doctor today, and can not give
you such a talk as | should give you,
and ! would be glad to give you; but
! had to come and say something TO
you because you are r1y old neighbors
and my old friends. and even those Of
you who fought against me are the
cleverest sort Of people. ! never had
any objection to you in my life except
that you are foolish i'm the way you
vote
Farmer His Aim.
am here simply 10 try to help YOU,
and I expect to try to help You in the
Senate Of the United States in every
. k,t Oh f...tr 10
a Senator of the United States is not
so much to get up there and try to
make great speeches and get a great
reputation as an orator. OF course. /
would like to have that, but my idea
Is that the way to serve my people is
/ to try TO get such legislation for them
as will build them up in their mate
rial interests. Consequently. ! have
fought for this tobacco. I fought for
the hemp farmers Of Kentucky.
They have gone on i'm this genera
ton under this system of affairs until
/ they have driven hemp out Of every
State in the Union nearly. except Ken
tucky. There are only 5000 tons Of
hemp raised I'm the United States in
one year, and G,ooo tons Of those were
raised in Kentucky. | didn't Go what
| wanted to do. but 7 did get the duty
on hemp-on foreign hemp-the duty
increased $500 on the ton, That
helped some.
Down in the Western part Of the
State they have fluorspar, which IS
used In fluxing steel. which has turned
out 70 be a very profitable business.
Down I'm Southern Illinois they have
/ 10 establishments The English found
out that II is valuable, went over TO
the old dumps I'm our country that have
been put away for years, and shipped
Il here as ballast. They shipped II TO
our coast and offered 90 sell II here I'm
our cities for what it cost our people
10 dig huor-sDar out Of the ground |
induced the Congress Of the United
States to nut $500 a ton ON that nuor-
SPAR so that when the follow comes
here from England. before he can sell
his nuor-spar. he must paw 10 this Gov
ernment $500 a ton for the privilege Of
selling It. and by the time he does
that our people here NJ home are max
ing a lawful profit. So that issue has
been saved.
Protection OF The Country.
7 saw Ia Won friends that nevar m
III went to the Senate did I appre-
Ciate the wonderful possibilities Of this
country. and / never would have seen
# so plainly except when there was
q tariff clause in all these different
bills. and all these different sections
were represented. and millions of dol.
lars that our people are making In
these various avenues Of trade, and
the great necessit.lF thcre was for
a bill for the protecting Of different I'm.
terests Of the country, and ! wanted
TO see the country protected In every.
thing ! wanted 10 SEQ Kentucky pro-
tected in everything, for ! know that
Kentucky Is the best state on earth,
with all her faults.
Now, my friends, ! would like 70
talk 10 YOU longer, but | am scarcely
able TO stand on my feet. ! am going
to ask you to excuse me. You have
heard me when / came here 10 talk
about politics, but now. I thank God,
nm able to talk TO you about some.
thing that ] hope We will not disagree
on. do talk sometimes TO people
when there = no politics I'm IT,
We have too much polt-ics in this
country, If we had more business and
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