The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-09-22

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you want II. II represents the dincrence
between barely getting along and tnr'v-
Ing But some one Will suggest tna'
when you do that. there win be more TO-
bacco raised all over the country ana
1, when you raise more tobacco, the price
has got to come down under the law OF
supply and demand Now ] think am
talking TO men Of sense am assum-
ing that these people In Kentucky have
enough sense to know what their interest
is The fellow on the other side won't
buy any more tobacco than he needs
why do you want to raise any more than
you can sell? But you win say that these
fellows out here will raise this tobacco
anyhow. we can not regulate the matter
Maybe you can't II they raise more to-
bacco than the market requires undoubt-
eddy It viii result In reduction In the
price. and when It gets down to where IL
ceases to pay. some OF them VIII quit IT,
But you are not raising any more now
than you can dispose OF.
You tried to put In a monstrous crop
last year and a monstrous crop this year.
How did you get along? You have not an
average crop this year. You are talking
about raising more tobacco Tobacco Is
a thing that you can't get the worms on
OF except with these farm fellows. You
know. It kind of regulates itself. about
three acres to the man in the patch not
much more. II will regulate itself. What
we are working for now, isn't the guam
tity OF tobacco raised nor the quality OF
It, 1t is the marketing OF 1t. The mar
ket conditions have been contracted un-
naturally so far as the buyer Is concern
ed. and the result OF II Is that the la
borer who produces II is an underpaid
man. whether he produces on his own
land or as a tenant. You say. some OF
them make money. Yes. there are some
men who can make money on an island
with nothing but a goat and an ash hop
per. but I am talking about the average
man. You say they make a living.
claim that the man who works in this
country is entitled to more than a living.
He Is entitled to make that, and to make
a more comfortable home for his growing
family and to surround 1t with
those conditions which will make
II an attractive place during the
childhood and during the lives
of these children. He has a right to pro-
vie leisure enough for those children
that they may be kept out of the tobacco
minds and their hands and their hearts
may be trained to make of them the best
possible citizens of the state, and to
make OF them fit competitors of the gen.
GRAFTON north of yonder Ohio river He
has a right TO lay up q competence for
that time against which we should all
lay up, the rainy day, and for old age,
and for decrept members of the family.
Il l.A rfrx l...~ T.
the bank. He has right to expand, he
has a right to grow, he has right to
have hope, fair and just hope. He has
the same right that these other people
have to improve conditions at home. All
that the laws give him, all that the Con-
stitution of Kentucky guarantees him Is
fair, reasonable price for what he
raises.
Arbitrate Disputes.
1t is proposed in the platform upon
which am running to-day for the Office
of governor. and which propose to exc
cute. if elected. among other things. that
in disputes arising between capital and
labor, between employer and employed,
there shall be provided tribunal under
the law for their settlement.
There was time in the history of the
common law under which we live. when
men had a right to settle their disputes
of property or any other matter by what
was called wages of battle; that is to
say. that the two disputants would state
their differences. and the Judge would
say, II can't tell which one of you is
right. | will propose this way to settle
whose horse 1t s. You two fellows get
out in the square field and fight, and the
one that ticks, II is his horse" In those
days 1t paid to be stout man. OF
course. that soon came to be discarded,
but you will be amazed to know that
was once the law. | want to submit to
you my hearers here to-day that this is
such an incorrect and such an unworthy
method Of settling disputes of that char
acter, that IL is unbecoming this enlight-
ened age. Therefore. | take advantage of
this opportunity to commend and to con-
graduate the president of the United
States for his efforts in behalf of the
cause of peace throughout the world,
and in having entered into the treaties
with France and Great Britain, in which
II is provided that international disputes
shall be submitted to a court Of arbitra-
ton. where the differences may be set
tied upon Intelligent grounds and not by
force OF arms.
Not only ought that to be so interna-
tionaly. but 1t ought to be so here. A
tribunal created by the law. sustained
by the people. in which arbitrators, that
Is to say, impartial triers of the fact, are
selected, and where they enter judgment
according to the rights and upon the con-
sciences Of enlightened men, But in these
conflicts between capital and labor. as we
call it, In which there is lockout on
one side or a strike on the other, in which
the rights of labor or the rights of the
employer are supposed to have been
preached by one side or the other, and
In which there Is a third party concern
ed. that Is to say. the whole community.
there Is no tribunal now for the settle
ment OF that kind OF dispute. and so
they night IL out. Strikers have no re-
dress except to appeal to the employer
OF course. the man who has already bro
ken his contract isn't going to give judg-
ment against himself. Or the employer
who locks the laborers out has no re-
dress except TO appeal to them. and they
will probably decide their own cases In
their own favor No man is a ut man to |
try his own controversy. The two forces !
being unable to agree. they must starveout |