Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-09-01
CANTRILL TALKS
TO MASON GROWERS
Urges Adoption of Cooperative
Selling Plan-Over 100000
Pounds Signed Up

| Maysville, KY, Sept. Con
gresham ]. Campbell Cantrill
addressed large crowd of hurley
tobacco growers here and made
one of the best speeches heard in
the campaign When chairman
Stanley Reed called on those who
desired to sign the contract to
stand up, only few stood. When
he asked that all who had already
signed the contract stand up,
most of the crowd arose.
Quite number of women were
in the audience and Mr.. Cantrill's
speech was interrupted frequent
jly by applause as he explained
the advantages of the new plan
for marketing. but said it was
simply the old Kentucky idea
considerably improved.
AT the close of the meeting it
was announced that about ESQ.,
900 pounds had been pledged and
that Mason's total in the pool
to date was about 100000
pounds.
Mr.. Cantrill was introduced by
Hon. Stanley Reed, formerly a
member of the Kentucky General
Assembly, who explained the rea
son the tobacco organization had
been asked to send Mr.. Cantrill
to Mason was the fact that Mr..
Cantrill was the man of all the
men in Kentucky who had the
absolute confidence of the imam
in the patch" He recOunted the
service performed by Mr.. Cantrill
for the growers in the past. not
the least Of which was the Can
trill tobacco bill. under the pro-
visions of which the manufacture
ers were compelled to report four
times year the amount Of to-
bacco in their hands
Mr.. Cantrill referred to Mason
as the oldest or among the old
, est of the hurley tobacco growing
counties of kentucky' and told
OF its loyalty to former pools. He
declared the farmers OF the ma
, tons and of the South in partic-
ular were confronted by a crisis,
the magnitude of which was little
realized by any. He said it was
the worst crisis the South had
faced since the Civil War. but
that there was d bright lining to
the cloud and that WAS the pros
pcct OF release from war and mis-
cry thru the contract of the Bur
ley Tobacco Growers Coopera-
tive Association.
Mr.. Cantrill recalled the adj
vantages which he declares the
present pooling movement has
over previous efforts OF the kind,
in the shape OF four great federal
laws which included the ware
house banking act. the federal
reserve banking act. the Cantrl
tobacco bill anG the recent extern
sion OF the financing work Of the
War Finance Corporation SO as to-
place 81 ,3OO,OO0.OOO at the dispos-
al OF the agricultural interests of
the country.
whether we have living
price for tobacco he said. de
ponds simply upon yourselves and
upon no one else. If we get to-
gether in this contract. pool Is
per cent of the crop and adopt
the marketing plan presented t0
us. we shall be able to fix our own
prices and get it,
Mr.. Cantrill pointed out the
fact that the organization was
thoroly representative and that
the grower chose his own men to
handle his own crop.\ He said
the IS per cent was the keystone
of the system for no pool could
succeed if it contained only IS or
40 per cent of the crop and he
would not advise his friends to
go into a combination with less
than IS per cent of the crop in it.
Mr.. Cantrill told of the capitu-
lation of the manufacturers after
the cutout and said they would
capitulate again if the growers
took their tobacco off the market
and put it into the hands of a
selling agency, which he declared
would be the same as cutout.
"The difference between the old
system and the new" he said.
simply means the difference be-
tween want and misery. on the
one hand, and peace, happiness