Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1919-11-28

tonic The formula is just the same to-
day. and you can get it from any drug
store. Coo per bottle.
were profiteering as to war-ridden
foreign consumers by receiving
double the price we will receive for
tobacco. Those corporations, either
now or formerly the American To-
bacco CO. subsidiaries, and Reggie
buyers foreign governments)
which monopolize the tobacco bust
ness of their respective countries
will reap a golden harvest whether
prices paid our government are re-
stricted or consistently reasonable. 1t
is an old story of an extremely pow
full middle man UNLIMITED capital).
The grower, with full knowledge
that consumers prices for our to-
bacco in foreign countries are
simply sky-ccraping who does not de-
mand an equitable share of profits
of products of his own industry is
simply sleeping on his duty, either.
thoughtless or Indifferent to the pro-
gress and prosperity of his own house
hold and his own country. 1t is use
less to complain of avaricious ag-
gressiveness of bying interets when
growers have the opportunity for
protection which ample information
offers by declining to accept less
than a consistent price. Of course
this would tie up the market for a
time, buying interests would give
growers time for needing money
painfully, so would any other BUSH
ness in the world under like condi-
tons and circumstances. But there
is no possibility of success in any
line of business without sacrificing
and without availing of stragetical
opportunities such as growers would
find quietly awaiting consistent
prices would prove to be. In COM,
mon sense why should growers be
expected to accept last seasons
prices rather than do our own think
ing? See what cotton growers are
accomplishing in the matter of
prices. They have gotten into the
current of higher prices and appar-
emily intend remaining in the chan.
mel so long as prices of everything
which they buy soar. We have suf-
ficient practical sense to compre-
bend that every man having tobacco
to sell should feel genuine obliga-
ton to himself, his family, his in
dustry, and his country to promote
progress, manhood, and civilization
itself by declining prices which do
not accord with the lower purchas-
ing power of dollar, with the adj
vance in the price of everything we
have to buy, or Of supply and de-
mand. Moreover it must not be
forgotten that notwithstanding an
advanced price in everything we buy
is greatly inferior in essential
characteristics to our purchases
of few years ago, 1t will require
active sympathetic interest on the
part of growers one with another
making determined front and this
we should evidence unfailingly. In
the distant past the great menace to
fair prices was the seclusion of the
grower to the so-called barn buy
ing" No grower can afford to re-
noc'n quietly at home, accepting
overtures of buyer who consistent
" bends his effort to buying as low
as possible. Our interests demand
that we mix with fellow growers,
and with tobacco handlers whose in
terests are allied with our own, to
acquaint ourselves with POSSIBLE
ties of selling advantageously. 1t
becomes, in LIST analysis, a ques-
ton of whether the tobacco grower
determines to progress, doing his
best by his dependents at home, or
by Indifference, thcughtlcasness and
in activity aiding in the progress and
immense success of buying interests
which are either a corporation of
gigantic wealth or a foreign govern
ment. Agents of buying interests
often work insiduously, securing one
crop here and another there, and so
on until a number of such crops