THE GREAT TOBACCO
Revolt of Farmer In tha Blue
tlrass State Again, the
Tobacco TruiL
HAD MANY TRAGIC FEATURES.
How the Fight Wu Forced on the
Grower Night Riding and
It Crimea.
Kentucky Is the tobacco Stat. While
hp produce hemp, wheat, corn, horse,
bog ml cattle In abundance nml with
'profit, tobacco Is her great eash prop.
Of, the 110 counties ( moimtaln. lln
grass ami Western! there are few If
liny which do nut consider the plant a
staple. It Is the crop which posts the
most to produce, calls for the greatest
amount of labor, most rnplilly debili
tate th will and. mi li'r normal eondi
ions, bring the greatest returns.
Kentucky may be divided Into four
large districts, with four separate anil
distinct types of tobacco, none conis-t-
Ing with I tit other. In the extreme
western part of the State In the dark
tobacco district (which Includes about
twpnty counties In Kentucky nml ten In
TenncKsop). There the growers ar or
ganized into what Is known ttie
Planter' Protective Association, with
beatliiuarter at (iuthrlp. Thp tobacco
grown in till district ha a very large,
almost black leaf. While oine of It I
used In domestic manufacture the bulk
of the crop la exported to England.
Then comes the stemming district of
even or eight counties, so called be
cause the stem Is removed from the leaf
before marketing. Nearly the entire
crop is exported to England, Kramv
snd Italy.
The Green Klvcr section Include six
or seven counties anil produce to
bacco midway ttween the dark tobao
so and the white hurley. It Is u"d in
iKtth th? domestic and export trade.
were hammered down and farther
down until the dark tobuceo wa bring
lug S wnt and the white hurley ll
cent. Such a reduction meant ruin
for the farmer. The actual cost of
production, reckoning a man' lidor nt
Jl per day and a team' service at Ml
cents, would be Just nbout this figure.
There wa no allowance for the torrl-
bio drain upon the land Itself, for the
fact that In the rush aeason the farm-
'era were forced to hire extra help at
H.'JO to J per day, or for the fact
that the work I the hardest and Jiist
exacting of all farm labor, and that
much of It must be done In the moat
Inclement season.
The producer had nothing to ay a
to the price. The trust made It otter
and It wa a case of take It or leave It
alone. The farmer were rapidly being
reduced from an liidoienden and pros
perous condition to one of almost servi
tude nd with actual want taring
them In the face.
Finally the dark tobacco growers or-
gnnln.il a the Planter' Protective As
sociation and pooled their tul.aeco.
They held out for two years before sell-
Ing a pound. Then the raw material
iu the market became exhausted ajid
the trust was forced to come and buy
at the pool prbe of 1 wills Instead of
Its own price of 3 pent. Thewe organ-
teed producers and the American To
bacco Company are now working un
der a fairly harmonious iigrvuieiit and
have been, for two years.
With this splendid example of the
power of union before them the op
pressed and Individually helpless farm
er of the groat white hurley district
In November. V.HSt. organised as the
Kentucky rnjon of the Society of
Equity. Each memlier agreed to mi1
III crop with the others and to sell
only through the officer of the organl
in tlon. Warehouse were purchased or
erected In various place. The ooled
tobacco was either brought to these
warehouse or tored In the producer'
barns. At Winchester sample of a'l
tssded tobacco were kept and the Equi
ty farmer demanded that the pur
chaser. Instead of going to the farmer
or having the farmer come to htm.
should purchase by sample of the Equi
ty officer. At the beginning the Equity
l-ople, when the Trust price was fl or
ti'i cents, made out a price list which
would make the average price on all
grade of an average crop 13 cent,
some higher and soiiip lower.
forward ami Iwnignt,
r,.. tastlsl vM
trust ha. rome - , .',,,., u.yle. at tb Author'
l.lHHUHHl pound or Pooum .ii,,.,.,. In Umdon, re-
.. , ...i.u- nml IIP lllllopciim-Mi (lull 1 nriwiim"
In America some
..u.kIh the reaiivai oi
' 1..; 1, .. . huvlng H"1"- I !
,mrl"y T"Z .Nt wo , I .;.'.n.o.' ! , ; heir .locking, at nl.hi. 0
grower decided that h i h im , he
vhwhl to increase the .lore I ' " ..' ?.!. L,slr. In h morning
....... r.,..i rron to " "'" " - . .
. . . ., i.. i,
to i.ttrehase what I" mien..,. .
trust
simi.lv
. 'ci,ti ..Lftiii i.ecs.i"'
co ,.MP for UK'S." and it I "
,o enforce thl uiandate m- ' "'"
Her and upon other grower, which ha.
resulted In the night rhlmg which bar
attracted so much attention.
The Equity owner recognl the
hardship which would I Incurred by
cutting out the crop of IWW. but M7
agree that It Is better lo receive la
rents a pound for to years' crop ""
to ls forced to a.vept about rt cent.
lie
"No tobae-
Meantime Ibej
other
zr- irmi.Tr- v
1 IMX1
OK
for three years' crop.
i.i ,.,- tiw.lr at tout I.'" to
.,...
crops and. best of all. give their laud
a rest.
The sympathy of the great m'S
the people Is with the farmers In their
effort to force the trust to pay re
sonable and remunerative prl.-e f-r to
hn.i-o. tvfeal means slsrvallon prbs
..mi .H.nilniie.1 s. ar. lty of money. i
tory mean pr.perlty for grower ami
..in,., lr Ihl ira"li lbs
1. 1. -I .U..M HUB" -
merchants are straining every n-soiir..
to carry their tol.a.in growing custom
ers on their iNH.ks and the farmers ore
ciittlu exisMidltures to ine !.-. i
slhU. limit. It Is a struggl
' . .. .. .. ... k..l
plle,li "I - u 0"W' tM W
pant r '"""
W.ll-r W-rfc.r.
In tlie South of Krne one in ,
t the Hill wy.lde itlu.. women
..,.,,.11,, h. the signal, of the half do'
en dally Iraliu: while t r"iopsu.
regularly .ioml at the level cr.-s
lug. by employlM feuml labor. The
husband 'n be seen at work t hi
vine uH.ii the hillside, while the wife
wave the green ring 'l keep the cbtl
dren nlt,.-lwn.H SefTrll
Wh.0 Mr. l'rrl she bi ! '
nuii. bifgt : .
Sh. took b.r I ',', lun' "
b It " '
Hut If htiW-T'. )-' "'! ' "'
to hr ell
Hk en Jsr him 'b ' f'Xt
tli. iir o tb
fhl.sgu Tribune.
We Tml
Doctors
If you are lurTerlBti...
Impure blood, ihla blond .
blllty, nervousnew. tSZ
Hon, you houldbtiBt0tei
wlch Ayer'i Sinioirii!, .
Sarupirilli you hmlsT.
II your life. Tfourool
UnOWl 11,100. Alaftlmibourt,
f Ml M.H4I Iw4l wmi tflM Hm
kiwt is. -... i ii,.JTS
tmm4, mwIm Iwtett ""-iu.. "
rliui !." M h. taTiJlT!
1m ri,i.
I '
.yers
MlMl
(tanic)
Tm flsl.
"Nr.h.- U b" '".
ii..i if in.'a .. " ";
Jr..,- Ii.lo lh. kl..-h. I "'
.. ..!. bu. i rur '? Z
In which Lining .u.-h l'l" " "
practlailly all of Kentucky has a vital l.-km M.
l..t..r..t Kvervwhere one g'"-s lie near., ....
tMitrlr .(,
"A word (o the Is isS..
remarked the UmIM auk tk (twi,l
htlt.
"Wruttt again, rJ..iHM ihs
wrn "A word (u tb iw
ranary
PUOCHSSIUN
NltillT ItlUEItS IN KK.NTI 'KY.
I!y far the liirseNt district Is Unit
where white hurley is grown. Tills In
cludes from forty-two to fifty-five coun
ties and. roughly sM-nklng, emtirno-s Ml!
of the State east of Louisville, Mays
ville and Mt. Sterling. Two iimntle-i In
Indiana and three in ol.lo also pr.lii'c
white hurley tolniein. This is-cullar
grade can tie grown nowhere else In the
world. It Is used almost entirely In
domentii: trade and from It the very
highest typ of plug chewing tobacco is
made,
The tobacco producers "f the tcni
mlng, (Jreen Itlver and while hurley
districts ore very generally orcnnlwd
under the Kentucky I'iiIoii of the
American Society of K..iiity.
The American Society of Equity Is a
national organization of farmer. Its
object Hre the Improvement of meth
od of agriculture, the liitnsliicllon of
new aud Unproved seeds, social Inter
course, and, more than all else, the se
curing of fair and equitable prices for
farm product. In many resects tt I
to the farmer what the trades union Is
to the craftsman.
The American Tobacco Company,
otherwise known as the Toliwvo Trust,
Is an organization of capital which well
nidi controls the manufacture of tie
bacco In thl country, which Is gradu
ally Invading the retail cigar and to
bacco trade, and which lias such
strength tind Btifh extensive ramltlca
tlmi that It dictates the price of raw
material lo the grower.
So much for the fundamentals of a
condition which has produced the pres
ent tobacco war in Kent in ky.
When tho tobacco market, wn an
osn one that Is, when there wns op
Ksltlon among the bidders for the raw
leaf the price of white hurley was
about l!i cent per pound, and of the
dark tobacco about 8 or 0 cent. Then
came the Tobuooo Trust. Opposition In
bldr" eliminated aud price
word of commendation for the Equity;
ttie only condemnation I. for the ex
oesse. to which the night rider. hv
gone.
Hut there Is an exeue IVr the nlghl
rider Their mildest action I. f
course. Illegal, but It I. tinderstard
able. The law I .low. In every com
mutilty In which there I. grest Strug
gle for betterment, with consequent de
privation nd sacrifice, there re l
wy tin whose cupidity prompt,
them to tike advantage of ttie situs
tloii and reap a personal benefit, even
at ttie cisit of aiding the common etie
my. These Individual, though trlct
ly within their legal rights, re he-e
sarllv not is.pular with their neigh
bor, and to an extent thce t-lghtir.
are excusable when, persuasion falling,
n ii'iil I made to coercion. There
I the lw of the statute book.; there
I also the law of tlie iiiiumuntty In
fraction of the one may ! puulstie.1 In
the courts; defiance of the other l
more difficult of correction.
So long a. Hie ulglit riders cotitlm-..
themselves to the raking of tha-oo
lusts there was little crltliim When
valuable warehouse were t.iirnel there
was a general expression of Indigos
sll r-nght.
m m," "id Nar.k
CASTOR IA
Tor Infant and CUUltt,
Hooi.i.r 1 Tbi Ibi You Han Altmlr
h Y ..ml "I
i. arete
m Mouth Afrl.-. wtiert
ttonu. r trMw. i.o..is
i.,u uf ir..m!.ue ad blue
ftsme. .ietlnie Bring bulldlai. j 81VI ol
lle.l to t.!.y N.ut .urn iro.- ,
outcropping to or tliw "wir nr j tu A-
torai f -Ho., m. . Kmk 13
-if-- .rIl K.die "Is th t """ Stisai
must forgetful woro.n "
tr mildly liwiuir-1 tb pdlt vis
itor.
mill thai' funning silk u life
Ttxlr whe.1 kwp rt, N si
4o t lur ml .y M
"te. h ra eever rmeitf IB th ' ltWl.
morning where I left mt pip lh nlghl Th b Vii u ht
if.,- " IMill.Irttjhls hM ! Ikrml.h tb . fl. tl
re.... I - im !'. ull SWUM '
"Wig. went out till, moruing ei ,j - M a(i) tt
eff th. Iiw" j I'r kik k. mtnimm
-Ve ! mrnuom M "t!"
"Every two ailnnte b'd rus I th mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
boue to w.rm up "
'l:d he !" fT the T
lie fln.IIy i lesne l ofT tlw little ttl.t
!. b.dirt ..rnl imo tt-. b-m- on u,;j( ,I.I. THE ttU
' U U eutu lUCI ftAMtlW
I0TEL MOOFi
Csrtltti.l W..lfc ba-l f a I ,-
Tyf liwlfM
i n .
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lor
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Of course, by no means all of the
glowers nunc Into ttie pool. .Many re
filMil and continued to sell to the trust
at the bent price obtnlnal.le. Hut.
owing to the pisiled and stor.il totmcco
making a scarcity In the innrket. the
trust was forced to raise Its price from
tl to 10'i ceiiis aud IM cents. This was
highly tmtlsfaetory to the mm Equity
grower. They were loud In their
praises of the organ I .at ion which had
Increased the price, but they neverllie-b-s
preferred to take advantage of the
situation without Joining In the strug
gle or making any of the sa.-rlflce
The Society of Equity kept bard at
work and dally added new r.-crulls to
Its ranks, so that a much larger pro
portion of the prop of 1!H7 was pooled.
Tlie annua! crop In the while hurley
district is from I.:f,ooo.i lo 1 K.
iski.ikki pounds, of the crop of I'.sh;
the Equity has now on hiiiid about
".O.ltfiii.OtSl mid of the crop of 1IKI7
lllsillt 1 III.ISKINKI pounds. I'l'llctleiilly
all the non-pooled tobacco bus been
sold. Within the past few weeks the
.-esses must Is di.o.-rrl and pun
ished.
It Is not dllti, ult to a coo tint for nfw!
riding In Its In, Ipl.-u. y And from tb;
basis perhaps It Is eiiy I,. tin..-r si .m,l
how Irresfiotisible, dare.lexil youtiif '
men, , roinpt. s ,y a love ,f rough ! j
lentiire and oerninmtly ,y H.rson.it
f.lte, f.H.k n.tviii.lai;.' of .-oit.lill.,iis tw j
commit e.--sM,- i.nil oufr.tges
Aei-ompuuy lug the night riding td :
lias l,is-ii sin-ti nn unfortunate f.-atui"
of the tohu.io prislu.f-rs' light agiiUist;
the trust there tins hecu Here tlinu on-tragi-.lv,
hut the one hl, i ultra, ted
the most alt. nil. hi and ircjii.-.t the
great.-st Indignation as the killing of
Illr.'lUl lledg.sl hi some inelliUr of u
miisketl mot).
Ilc.lgi was a hard vtorkiiig. Ih.im-si
tn it i for whom It luis been a long strug
gle to supsirt his numerous fiimlly. II.
was a man of dts-ent inornls. was . ..iint
e.1 a g.Hsl neighbor and was not known
to have had an enemy, I.Ike all farm
ers In his part of the Slate, he was a
tobacco grower, hut in a small way. In
bis Immediate hclghhorhoil there lind
Iss-n very little organizing among the
funnels ami lie was not an Equity mm.
One night be ns visited by a ui,,l, ,.(
shout seventy "ve men, culled to lli.
door. accused of planting (otnin-o, ,m,
In the presence of tils family vtim r,
died Willi shot.
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S STIFF, YES?
WCT AND DAMPCAUSl
COLO IN TMC JOINTS
S1 JACOBS OIL
TAKtfl OUT TMC CAIN AT
ONCt.RCMOVCSTHC 6Tirr
NESS. PREVENTS ITS
HETURN, TOO. FINE fOR
BRUISES, SPRAINS AND
SORENESS.
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a at
5
W sf.
(IrifiBioillllly 11 deteitUe Irle. lo
guise Ills breiilh with a clove.
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WOMXN. MISSIS N0 CMItDRtN.
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Tlwro la Only Ono
"Bromo Quinine"
That la
Laxative. Bromo Qulnfa0
UMtO rWF WORLD OVOt TO OUR A OOLO M OM 01'
Alway, rememlmr th (nil nam. l.ook
lor tl.i. .igaaturs on evry boi.
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