The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1911-09-21


Judge o'Resr. TIES. or an sutom ,biie, q
you want a. n represents the difference
between barely getting along and thirty.
ing hut some one win suggest that
when you DO that. there will be more TO-
bacco raised all over the country. and
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 % sense. ! am assum-
Ing that these people In Kentucky have
enough sense to know what their interest
H. The fellow on the other side won't
buy any moro tobacco than he needs
Why DO you want % raise any more than
you can SELF But you win say that these
fellows out here will raise this tobacco
anyhow. we can not regulate the matter.
Maybe you can't n they raise more to-
bacco than the market requires. undoubt-
eddy II viii result IN a reduction In the
price. and when II gets down 60 where n
ceases 20 ray. some OF them will quit II.
But you are not raising any more now
than you can dispose Of
You tried TO put In a monstrcus crop
last year and a monstrous crop this year.
How did you get alongy You have not an
average crop this year. You are taking
about raising more tobacco. Tobacco h
a thing that you can't get the worms on
OF except with these farm fellows You
know. II Kind OF regulates Itself. about
three acres to the man In the patch. not
much more n viii regulate Itself. What
we are working for now. isn't the guam
THY Of tobacco raised nor the quality Of
II. ~ n the marketing Of IL. The mar
ket conditions have been contracted un-
naturally 30 far as the buyer IL concern
cd. and the result OF II Is that the Ia
borer who produces 10 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
county IL entitled TO more than living
He Is entitled TO make that. and 90 make
more comfortable home for his growing
family and to surround Il with
those conditions which will make
II an attractive place during the
childhood and during I the lives
Of these children. lie has q right TO pro-
VIE leisure enough for those children
that they may be kept oct Of the tobacco
patch and put In the schools where their
minds and their hands and their hearts
may be trained to make Of them the best
possible citisens Of the state. and 20
make Of them NJ competitors Of ths gen
GRAFTON north OF yonder Ohio river lie
has right to lay up a competence for
that finn. ar.in.f vrht,h -. .h...ia III
lay up. the rainy day. and for old age.
and for decrepit members of the family
He has a right TO lay by something In
the bank. He has right to expand. he
has a right 20 grow. he has a right TO
have hope. fair and just hope. lie has
the same right that these other people
have to improve conditions at home An
that the laws give him. all that the Con-
stitution Of Kentucky guarantees him Is
a fair. reasonable price for what he
raisea
Arbltrate pispussa
II Is proposed In the platform upon
which l am running to-day for the ONCE
OF governor. and which ! propose TO exc
cute, II elected. among other things, that
In disputes arising between capital and
labor. between employer and employed
there shah be provided a tribunal under
the Law for their settlement
There was a time In the history Of the
common law under which we live. when
men had q right to settle their disputes
OF property or any other matter. by what
was called wages Of battle; that Is 90
say. that the two disputants would state
their differences. and the Judge would
aaN ~. all xukl
right ! viii propose this way to settle
whose horse II is You two fellows get
out In the square field and fight, and the
one that ticks. II Is his horse" In those
days " paid TO be a stout man. OF
course. that soon came to be discarded.
but you win be amazed 70 know that
was once the Law. want TO submit 10
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 II Is unbecoming this enllght-
ened age Therefore. take advantage Of
this opportunity 10 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
IL In provided that International disputes
shall be submitted TO 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.
tionaliy. but II ought 10 be 30 here. A
tribunal created BY the law, sustained
by the people, In which arbitrator. that
Is 10 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 II. In which there Is a 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 a dispute and 30
they night II out. Strikers have no re-
dress except to appeal 10 the employer
or course. the man who has already bro
ken his contract isn't going 10 give judy
ment against himself. Or the employer
who locks the laborers out has no re-
dress except TO appeal to them. and they
win probably decide their own cases In
their own favor. No man Is a ne man 10