The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-10-14
Bourbon County Falling in Line.


In meeting marked by the I'M
bounded enthusiasm of the growers
that were in attendance, Bourbon
county set the pace Wednesday look
ing to successful pool of the 1910
crop Of tobacco. Never before in the
history of the pooling movement has
there been such meeting held in this
county. The spirit of harmony pre-
vailed throughout the meeting and the
absence OF dissenters was noticeable.
About two hundred farmers and
growers met at the court house at 80
o'clock in response to call issued by
three of the largest independent grow
ers in the county, who had signed the
new pooling contract last Saturday
and called upon other growers who had
not entered the pool to do likewise.
The meeting was called to order by
President John A. Larue of the BOur-
bon Board of Control of the Burley
Tobacco Society, who in few words
stated the purpose of the meeting.
Mr.. John T. Collins of North Mid
dletown, was the first speaker. Mr..
Collins read the resolution of October
6, which was intr oduced by Mr.. Larue
at meeting of the District Board in
! Lexington, and passed unanimously.
Mr.. Collins referred TO past and pres
ent condition regarding the situation
in the Burley district and said that
under the new contract nc man could
| be hurt
He declared with much emphasi:
| that it was now or never" and that
if the farmer of Bourbon failed tc
take advantage of tn opportunity the
'time was near at hand to step dowr
and out" He said no one-nOt ever
the most pronouncer believer in pool
! ing-wanted weak pool, but it must
be one of sufficient strength in mum
bers, acres and pounds to absolutely
control the market.
Senator Claude M. Thomas then ad
dressed the meeting. He said it wa.
a condition and not theory that nov
confronted evrey farmre and business.
man in the Burley district and that hi
did not blame the hill counties for re
fusilg longer to back up the Blue
Grass counties unless they were will
ing to do something themselves.
The new contract was a Bourbon
county proposition. said Senator
Thomas, and since the meeting of to
day was called the tobacco trust, un
Ger the guise of representing a Louis
vile tobacco wareh )use, had had ennis
saries here securing the country offer
ing l23 cents per poun tor tobacco anC
at the risk, in some instances, of no
even seeing what they were buying.
Senator Thomas said the presen
crisis would measure the price which
farmers would realize for the sweat O.
their brOws and the toll of thei
hands. The pa, amount issue was no
who should be president of the United
States nor who should go to the hall
of Congress. but it was the tobacc,
question, which now concerned ever,
farmer, business man, woman AM
child in Kentucky.
Colonel C.. M. Best of the Millers
burg Military Institute, said he hopet
the proud and wealthy old county O.
Bourbon would rally as one man il
support of the pool and no longer sub
nit to the greed of an arrogant trust
Under the new contract three repre-
sentative citizens of the county woul(
represent the farmers at the meetin,
on October 81 and ''you certainly cal
select three men in whom you cal
have unreserved confidence to carr,
out the purpose for which they ar
SENT" he said.
Mr.. Bishop Hibler, another promi
nent farmer, said he was in one boo
but not that Of last year. He3 wa
convince, he said, that the pool mad
the price he received for his las
years crop. and he was willing to joil
in the fight that meant protection t.
| kn
chilrden.
MIR. j. w. Bell, a farmer and tobac
co grower residing near the Harrison
county line, was loudly cheered as h
scored the tobacco trust from past an,
threatened conditions for the future
Mr.. Bell said he "knew his duty AM
he was "going to do it.
Mr.. Bell called upon the audience
if any man in it had legitimate ex
cuse tor not wanting to pool his tobac
CO, to make it known now. No on,
responded.
i THE man who will rot pool his to
baccO under present conditions is no
desirable citizen" declared Mr.
Bell, land he ought to be sent to New
York to join Mr.. Duke and his CD
pressors. We don't want him in Ken
tcuky any longer" he said.
Mr.. N. F. Brent, who was one OF
the three signers to the call for the
meeting, arose in response to repeated
calls and said that for months farmer.
had objected to pooling their tobacco
because he. Mr.. Hutchcraft, Mr.
! Burke and Mr.. Whaley, the largest
growers in the county, would not sign,
Mr.. Brent said that they pooled their
tobacco Saturday and wanted those
who had refused to do likewise on
their account to now make good.
Senator Thomas then offered a
motion that Colonel E. F. Clay, Mr..
Ed Burke and Mr.. John L. Collins be
elected as the committee of three to
take charge of the Bourbon county
pledges and to attend the meeting in
Lexington. They were chosen by un-
animOuS VOtQ