The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-24
WILL ROBINSON ANSWER I?
A GREAT DEAL OF BLOW AND THE
TRUE CAUSE or THE BLUsTER.
Let's Investigate ali Round---We A.
walt Commissioner Robinson's
Answer.

Let's Investigate ali Round---we A.
walt Commissioner Robinson's
Answer.
Some of our State papers have
made big buster and blow in re-
gard TO the Durham Fertilizer Com
pany, and charged that this company
is intent ON fraud upon the farmers.
A more vile attack was never made,
and in some instances it has been de-
monstrated by explanations made
and apologies for injustice. Some
papers have written and said things
they did not know what they were
talking about.
Mr.. S. I. Morgan, the President of
the Fertilizer Company, has made a
full and frank statement of the facts
concerning the fertilizer, which is
said to be below the standard, and
the tagging business.
The Sun proposes to take hand
now and say a few lines as a disinter-
ested party.
In regard TO the charge OF untagged
guano at Oxford, it is only necessary
to state that it has been the custom
of guano manufacturers to ship goods
and then send tags. II is done by
parties outside Of the State Can the
Agricultural Department deny this.
Yet nothing is said about it. At Ok
ford the guano was shipped and stored
there until the tags came. They were
sent. The party had no right to let
a sack 60 out without the tag, which
he did, and the tags were there ready
for use; but the party handling the
guano never put himself to the trouble
of getting the tags and putting them
on. And for the 81 bags which they
seized there, not only the tags, but
duplicates were there for them, and
the party handling them allowed
them to be taken out, when, il he had
taken the trouble TO get the tags,
could have put them on. II appears
TO us that there il a great hallaballoo,
in regard TO the Durham Fertilizer
Company, and the Raleigh Chronicle
says that Commissioner Robinson is
doing his duty. He il storming the
walls. and when he finds a weak
place hemakes his ammunition tell.
The farmers Of North Carolina owe
him debt Of gratitude.
Do they Let's see about il.
viii Commissioner Robinson tell
, US whether or not he Is directly or in.
directly connected with a fertilizer
company No evasive answer. Is
il so much in the interest of the far
mer as he is 10 see other fertilizers
sell more readily than that Of the
Durham Company, which is endors-
ed by the Farmers Alliance There
are always two sides to every ques.
ton. .s. a.
/ Is Commissioner Robinson an ALI.
ance man We want direct answers
to all questions we shall ask, and
shall insist upon ii until tine Sun goes
down.
| A word about the analysis business
Of the Agricultural Department.
Does Commissioner Robinson know
that at any time during the existence
of that department that water was
drawn from the same well twice,
only one hours time intervening, and
sent 70 them for analysis, and they
pronounced one sample perfectly
pure and the other totally unfit for
usei Let US analyze the analysis a
little. Is il always correcti II
Commissioner RobinsOn's ammuni-
ton is TO tell in weak places lets &c
all round the question.
Will Commissioner Robinson refer
10 his Bulletin Of May and enlighten
US a little on thati In that publica
ton three samples Of the sare kind
Of guano as the Durham. were taken
at Wilmington, Charlotte and Scot
land Neck, guaranteed 1870 per tor
this is the guarantee mind you
Lo! and behold il is printed in thu
department journal, that in the sam
Piles were found, the list, S25.2j-$2.3I
below the standard, the Sd, s26.2S--
81. 32 below. Yet not a word is SAID
: about this. OF course the farmer
: owe Commissioner Robinson a debt
!, Of gratitude for this.
J Another instance: In the sam,
| publication are three more samples
! still worse. They were taken al
, wadesboro, Fayetteville and Raj
eigh, standard guaranteed $500
Found in first sample, $2I.0S-Sl.9'
below; I'd, S2i.sl-$4.iG below; Sd,
, s23.3O-s2.7 20 below. Why doesn't
, | Commissioner Robinson ''storm thes,
!. walls and make his ammunitiontoll'
with the companies we have cited
+, Do the farmers Of North Carolina
; owe him "a debt of gratitude" FOL
q these thingsi We want TO see fail
4 play and equal justice 10 all-al
g round; or well know the reason why
!. We are not q Constitutional lawye
4 but 10 our plain way Of reading th
i English language Of the State Consti
tuition we do not understand how th
Department gets the legal authorit.
: 90 enforce this tag tax ON fertilizers
! Article 5 Sec, 8 Of the Constitution
o reads as follows:
r Laws shall be passed taxing
!. by q uniform rule all real and per
s sonal property, ACCORDING TO II
A TRUE VALUE IN MONEY" Now ferti
a lizers are personal property and Oh
tag tax Is according 10 WEIGHT Pc
!. TON and regardless Of money value
y Can fertilizers be excepted from tn
!; constitutional rule Of taxation undo
Il the broad language of AL real an
} personal propertyi Sticka pin her
" Mr.. Robinson and give the people u
in benefit Of your constitutional analy