The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-21
THE wEEKLY's THIN AR
GUMEMT ON THE PRICE
OF CUTTERS.

HE nECOkDER uoes no6 pioposO
10 notice the billingsgate offered as
argument in the Dollar Weekly's
article, but shall show that the
prices of Cutters on the Durham
market average higher than they
did last year. Our former article
was confined wholly to the price OF
Cutters on the Durham market. Oar
assertions have not been contradicted,
they cannot be disproven. He
tried to get proof to the contrary
but utterly failed. He then rushes
off to other markets and secures
testimony of a few spectators
and plug manufacturers that Cut
tiers have declined on their market.
Our object in noticing his vile mess
at first was to show that the Dukes
were paying good prices on the Dur
ham market, and that w. Duke was
the best man that eyer lived or died
mn. C. That our market was
Just what we have always claimed
for it, the most uniform and best
market in the world. Webster Of
fered testimony and proved that as
to Reidrville, Winston and Dan
vile, our assertions were correct.
Come Webster, don't be hypocrite
any longer. Come out like an
honest, truthful man and advise the
farmers to sell their tobacco in Dur
ham where there is no decline,
where prices are uniformly high
He has utterly failed in his hall
page stuff to contradict single as
aertion we made.
Even for argument sake, we ad
NIT that Cutters have declined OIL
all the markets. Nothing woul'
have been more natural since Their
was fully one fourth Of the 1888
crop Cutters. No grade Of Tobacco
ha. ever held up in prices when ther
was such an abundance of that grad
produced. Buyers always regulat
prices BY the supply and deman'
There is no other safe rule to 60 b.
Then it is q remarkable fact th'
Cutters should have renamed
high. A leading Richmond speel
lator informed US that prices Q
Cutters had held up remarkabI
well. He has bought hundreds
thousands uf pounds.
Mr.. w. L. Walker, whohss be-
in ksheyille the past season says,
il the opinion of the AshsVille des
srs that Cutters have sold higher
that market than usually. /
has bought over 100000 pounds
Cutters.
Webster's attacks on Mr.. DuI
are too malicious to call FOR any e
tended notice. Dukes reputation
so far above the attacks OF dem
gogue that it cannot be harms
Below we give some testimol
on the Durham market. We ha
heretofore confined ourselves
prices on this market, and asse
again that our facts have not a
cannot be dispruven.
CAPT. ". A. LEA,
OF the Parrish Warehouse 20
panv savs: II have been in
warehouse business in Durham
years and farmers are better sat
fled with prices on Cutters th
they have ever been. Eotwit
standing fully one-fourth Of |
1880 crop were Cutters. the pri
since the beginning Of the tobat
year have averaged higher than
any time since | came to Durhsm
A. compared with other grades
tobacco Caters are much higher
proportion, except prices on VIZ
psrs.
have recently visited many 4
tons in Chatham, Alamanoe,
apg., Caswell. Person, Granvi
Wake and Durham counties,
hare heard ne complaint agai
the cigarette manufacturers,
Duke Sons L Co, and the Ameri'
Tobacco Co. Being engaged in
warehouse business, the farm
would naturally have complained
me had they been dissatisfied;
on the contrary, they frequently
me that Cutters are better looked
Ter than any Of the other gra'
that il they are better pleased "
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