Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-11-07


untiring labor. The manufac-
turers reported to the govern
ment a profit OF S45 100000 last
year, and conservative estimate
! ON this years profit will be over
! 125.O00OO0. And vet the tobac-
| co growers. who make possible
thees vast profits for the big man
ufacturing corporations. are fac
ing debt and in many cases the
/ d'rcst poverty.
"Now is the time for the farm
crs To act together in an inteli-
gent and buSincSs-likc manner.
Imagine the merchants and bust
ness men dumping their wares on
one great floor and humbly offer
! ing to accept any price the buy
ers would pay. They would be no
bigger fools than the farmers
who deliver their tobacco at the
warehouses and accept the price
offered by the manufacturers
representatives
we want YOU = take stock in
. the marketing corporation TO the
markctin" corporation to the eX-
! tent OF grow my tobacco. and then
clectire fair, lcvcl-hcadcd dircc-.
tors who wifi have sense enough
to market the crop in an intclli-.
gent manner. The manuiactur-
crs need tobacco. They have to,
have II. or 90 out % business.
Then. the logical conclusion i.
that they will be forced to buy
the tobacco held by the orgaiiiza-
tion II a price fixed BY the grow
crs themselves
AIr. stone said that when IS,
per cent of the crop was signed up
the permanent organization
would be formed with p directors
elected by the growers them
selves to handle their business.
lie said that the growers would
be in charge OF their own business;
and that thcrr would be mo
chance Tor anybody to graft any
thing off OF you" lie said the
tobacco manufacturers were not
actively opposing the movement.
but tl,at they could hardly be cX-
pcctcd to aid it: The growers
would have to do this thing them
selves
Mr.. Stone said lic would have
uo connection with thc movement
ii il took away any mans proper
~ or injured hs Investment. and
iur Chat rason he favored the plan
for the purchase OF the necessary
real estate 10 carry on pcrnan-
netly the marketing business vi
the hurley tobacco growers.
Mr.. Stone explained the plan.
iur the purchase oi rcccivingi
plants II some length showing
that in five wears these plants
would belong TO the grower III
proportion to the amount uf to-
hacco he raised and delivered and
that in the meantime the cost Of
marketing his tobacco would hc
reduced unc-hali from the cost
under the Old system.
Mr.. Stone said the plan iur the
marketing tobacco was no new
scheme. 1t had been in use in this
country. hc said. Tor twenty wears
and had proved Il success. IT had
been = success in Europe. he sal ]
Tor fifty ycarS. and 81 the Ken
tuckN tobacco growers were not
being asked to adopt an untried
or INFESTED plan. but one which
had demonstrated itself To be.
thoroughly feasible and practica-
bic.
T. Declaring that there were
thousands OF men in Kentucky
who not only could not pay their
debts or even the interest on their
debts this wear, Mr.. Stone asked
What are YOU going TO do
about it. il YOU do not do some
thin. to get a better price forj
Your tobacco this year: tell
YOU We shall be in perfectly ter
riblc situation in Kentucky. il we
do not have the good sense to get
together and fix a faii price on
our OWL products.
Mr.. Stone said that in the old
DAYS the producer OF dried fruit III
California got & cents out of each
consumers dollar. Now they get
IS cents. lie said the farmers
III Kentucky now are getting
about ID cents ont of each dol
lar the consumer pays. Thinks
what it would mean" he said. III
that were 4S cents now in Ken
lucky =
But is isn't so much the mon
ey after all" Mr.. Stone said,
that has interested men in this
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