The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-01-21
Mr.. CANTRILL
Rises in His Seat in Congress to
Defend kentucky from LibelOuS
Charges DEFENDS Tobacco Or
carnations Offers Amendment
to Sherman Antitrust Law.

In the House, at Washington, Mon
day, Representative Cantrill, of the
Seventh Kentucky district, rose to {
question of personal privilege to reply
to an article in Sundays Washington
Times severely arraigning the Ameri-
can Society of Equity and the
Burley Tobacco Society. Mr..
Cantrill also introduced bill to amend
the Sherman antitrust act so as to ex-
empt from the operations of the law
associations of farmers and live stock
producers and laboring men who seek
to protect themselves by organizations
The bill conforms to the act of the Ken
lucky Legislature of 1908, known as the
pooling act.
The article in the Washington Times
of Sunday purports to give a thorough
exposition of the tobacco societies in
Kentucky, and asserts that even now a
state of war exists. 1t viciously attacks
the Burley Tobacco Society and the
Court of Appeals.
The article also quotes certain sta
tistics, relative to the price of tobacco,
used by Mr.. Cantrill in his speeches in
Kentucky.
''These figures are declared to be
ldlSc, OuC SVOIy COOdCCO SlOWcI Ill Nell
lucky knows" says Mr.. Cantrill, chat
they are accurate, /" and the gross mis-
representation of his speeches, Mr..
Cantrill says, forces him to arise to a
question of the highest privilege. /" Mr..
Cantrill Sunday night made the follow
ing statement:
st is hard to understand the motive
which prompts the scurrilous and libel
Gus article appearing in the Sunday edi-
ton of the Washington Times relative
to the tobocco pool and Society of Equi-
ty and the Burley Tobacco Society in
Kentucky unless it be part of great
scheme to break down all organizations
of farmers everywhere in this country
and prevent them from securing a de-
cent price from their products. In
recent interview | stated that the far
mers were not asking any more for
their projects than fair price
1.-The Sherman Antitrust law has
hean on the statute books for some
twenty years, but it was a dead letter
until the farmers began to organize.
There seems now a well directed plan
to crush the farmer by prosecution I'M
der this act. Corporate interests have
long oppressed the farmers of this
country, but in recent years the farmer
has been thinking for himself and de-
riving for himself the rights exercised
by all other lines of business-the right
to organize and protect his interests.
eff the farmer is to be crushed by
operation of the Sherman Anti Trust
law then favor its repeal or amend
ment and to place the amendment and
to place the question squarely before
the American people, | will intro
duce in the House the following
bill so that farmers of this great ma
ton can tell by watching future events
which political parties and which men,
bers of Congress are their friends"
Mr.. Cantril's bill amending the Sher-
man Anti Trust act is as follows:
can act to amend an act entitled an
act to protect trade and commerce
against unlawful restraints and mo-
nopolies, approved July 2, 1890, and
being Chapter CAT, Vol. 26, of the Uni
ted States Statutes at Large
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States in Congress assembled, that an
act entitled an act to protect trade and
commerce against unlawful restraint
anu i1iOiiOPOlJ, oPPAOfOA OOJ q, low,
and being Chapter CAT, VOL 26, of the
United States Statutes at large, be
amended by adding to the last section
Of said act the following:
''The provisions of this act shall in
no case apply to any contract or COM
bination in any form the purpose of
which is to secure to laborers or en-
ployes a reasonable compensation for
their labor nor to any contract or COM
bination in any form the purpose of
which is to secure to growers or pro-
ducers of agricultural products or live
stock reasonable price therefor, but
such contracts and combinations are
expressly exempted and excepted from
the provisions of this act.
With reference to the article in the
Washington Times Sunday, Gov
Wilson said:
my belief is that for twenty years
we have not had year in which there
have been so few disturbances in Ken
lucky as in the past year. The article
is almost entirely based on the happen
ings of two years ago"