The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-10-11

man going over TINS country a-1ras
the demagoguel O'Rear wen. down
TO Glasgow the other day, a great TO.
bacco growing country, and in his
speech there, and he had great
number of tobacco growers around
him, he said:
There are $4,000 tobacco rails
ers in Kentucky. They raise pos
sibly 400,000000 pounds of to-
bacco. The difference between 6
cents and ~ cents pound is
$24,000,000 a year to the farmers
of Kentucky. and II am COVER
nor of Kentucky and you have
any 12-cent tobacco to SELL you
don't have to take cents Cor II
II you DON'T want to-"
That is a wonderful statement! He
says the law is ample, and that law
was made by Democrats! Il is am.
pie to meet the necessities What is
the use Of amending It, IL Il is al.
ready ample? That would be waste
Of time. Just there | want to turn
back to one more thing have not
read the speech in which he is alleg-
ed to have said it, but they tell me
that he said he was going to keep
the legislature in session for four
years. or until they passed a county
unit law. DO you know what it would
cost the state of Kentucky to have
legislature sit for four years? At
81 900 day, for 500 days, e would
amount to 81 800 600. Where in the
name of common sense is the money
to come from. except out of your
pockets? That burden you will have
to pay. if he be elected, and he car
ried out his threat. But IL he is a
man of half the intelligence that he
oe;s credit for being, don't you know
that he can find out in less than four
years whether the legislature is 60
ing to pass the bill or not? If he
does not know in less time than that
| know that you do not want him for
| governor.
But, getting back to the Glasgow
| speech, he says that the tobacco trust
is taking S24,O00,OOO dollars every
year from the pockets of the tobacco
is not entitled, or, in other words,
they are robbing the tobacco growers
out of S24,OO0,O0O a year. | wish to
ASK Judge O'Rear this question: If
he has known during all the years
that this has been going on. or, at
least, during the four years that he
has been undertaking to make the to-
bacco growers believe that he was
their friend, ! ask him the question
If he has known for at least four
years that the tobacco trust was rob-
bling the tobacco growers of Ken.
lucky out of $24,000,000 a year. and
in four years that would amount to
nearly S1OO,OOOO00, if he has stood
idly by with a law sufficiently ample
to cover the case, and he has done
nothing to give these people relief?
What O'Rear Saw and Did.
He saw the father at first able to
provide for his wife and children;
he saw the price drop a few cents;
then he saw that dutiful husband and
loving father increase his acreage
the following year, and with this in
creased acreage he saw this striving
farmer bend and grow weak under a
task he could not perform; then he
saw the son taken from school to
help the father raise more pounds in
order to Offset the still declining
price: next he saw the daughter driv-
en- by stern necessity from the school
to the tobacco patch to give her
feeble efforts to her father and broth
err in their fight with the Republican
protected tobacco trust; next he saw
the mother driven from her humble
home to the fields, place her baby in
| the fence corner and take hoe now
to fight starvation then at the door.
All this, and more, he saw. He pro-
claims from every stump in Kentucky
that ne saw these same people-half-
| fed, f-clothed-robbed of 800, 000-
900 by one of the richest trusts in all
| the world that he knew how to pro-
! tect them from this outrage; that he
| knew how to save these hundred mil
lions of dollars to them; that he
knew how to prevent the trust from
ever putting the price of tobacco be-
low ~ cents; that he knew how to
put the impoverished child back to
school, that he knew how to send
the haggard mother from the field to
the hearth stone; that he knew how
to take the pale-cheeked baby from
the fence corner to its cradle; that
he saw 10000 families both hungry
and cold; that he saw father here
a mother there, promising boy,
once rosy-cheeked girl, go from plen-
ty to poverty; that he saw many a
little white coffin carried with tender
hands, followed with swollen eyes to
the cemetery-the work of the to-
| bacco trust-which he knew and
knows now how to curb, but has not
All this he has seen and has not
remedied. He says the law is ample
but that only he knows how to ex-
ecute it, II he were human; If he
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