Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1912-04-11
To the Tobacco Grower.
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in measure hurt and harm and financial loss to tobac
,rowers selling petition, confidently affirm that the
ge pce realized by the Stemmng Association the 1871
was from to 81 hundred higher than was the
RAGE realized by all the pools and all the bumpers this and
ether side of Green River The average we mean
The Association has been and admittedly so by all armnded
acquainted with the facts brace support and prize TO and
ces on sold throughout this district by members
Ee poolers the other hand these nonmembers and lit
nooers have been dead weight Association and
been many clubs in the hands of the tobacco where
members sugged acquescence prices than
20 reasonably demanded by the Association.
All know this had twelve average for
lQ crop if growers had been practically unanimous in
operation.
Farmers cooperation is dream The practical benefits
loved by tobacco of this district and
mbe alike with only partial and Inadequate cooperation
yey demonstrate to the world that farmers cooperation
BIZ sane and feasible.
Had all the growers the district joined the Stemmng AS
citation six years ago they had realized average and
M distributed the Of the district three four million
liars more of the millions actually distributed An
ous loss and wholly lost if only farmers will profit
\ the lesson.
The Association present constituted"
By that clearly the Association with its present
membership For known it is to all members that the will of
me Of the present district board be chang
August and the newly elected board on the first Sat
ay coming September at its option retire Manager Ell
oft Secretary Thompson and Press Agent Banks and elect others
their stead the other hand ALL Of the
board and general officers may at the pleasure of the
Members be reelected
With then present membership the compulsye force of
he Association legally violently. applied sufficient
train monopoly render tobacco reasonable equiv
lent the product of their labor?
No. emphatically The Association failed to command
air equivalent for the 1911 short What then be appre
ended in time OF normal o a biz crop?
Chaos and gorged monopoly python
But il may said numerically the membership of the
dissertation auctuatng Elastic the boundaries Of the AS
socaon Within those boundaries be included in this
I 1912 fully of the semmng type Of tobacco What
then
Why then the Association would nfaibly irresistible
The inherent ompusve force Of the Association then would
the trust TO reasonable price for the product OF the
farmers labor.
The membership of the Association has been ucuatng with
limits But the Old Guard have been the strength
and mansy of the Association Courageous and combave and
firing line fighting for the battle of all the to-
unsupported and unenorced by onmembes and
little pooers the Old Guardwha wonder? Is fast growing dis
outraged rcsentfu and reckless.
The membership of the Association is uctuatng and with
the Old Guard discouraged and dsheartened the membership is
likely uctuae downward Many of the Old Guard declare
weary and and protest they but to
lay down unless their brother farmers will enlist under the CO.
operative banner.
IMPERIAL DIVIDENDS.
Illuminating the subject under discussion and boadhg the
vision the report the Imperial Tobacco Company for
the fiscal year ending october. 1911.
The capital stock of the Imperial Tobacco Company Ltd lo
Britain and Ireland hundred million dollars On that
capitalization the Imperial declared dividend for the fiscal year
ending last October of thirty per cent.
In other words the Imperial Company made total distrput
earnings fiscal year ending last October of thirty million
dollars.
The significance of this showing of enormous and excessive
earnings growers the five counties embraced IN
the Smmng from the fact that the Imperial Com
ny with the Tobacco Company and the Reggie buyers
annually fixes the price the tobacco product in these ve coun
ties
Annually taking the tobacco produced in these hve counes at
price below the cost of production contributed to the mperas
ungody dividends
HAVE RIGHT TO GROW TOBACCO
The farmers Kentucky have naenabe right TO produce
tobacco The and soil here peculiar adapted 10 the pro
ducn high special purpose and general purpose TO-
bco The farmers Kentucky have been growing tobacco o
one hundred and yes and known the worc over
specialist in tt production of tobacco The farmers
Kentucky have right y grow tobacco and entitled to legal
protection for the product of their labor These simple
elementary truths are recorded here that