The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-01

ouiiuing . cotton FACTORY Wh1cl
will give hundreds OF needy pee
pie steady employment. He ha
given out the contract, we ar
told, for the erection Of on
hundred dwellings, and is
right that q little upstart, VIII,
is 50 narrow "that a mosquit,
could light on his nose AM
scratch him in both eyes,
should cripple this great indus
try? And yet the infamous bill
that he would impose up us i
he could has assumed a serious
aspect. The stroke seems to b,
aimed at the Dukes alone. The
Dukes are upright public-spirit
ed citizens, and their generosity
has no narrow limits. Trinit,
College, oaeof the best equipped
institutions in the South stand,
as a monument to their liberal
ity.
We learn that Mr.. B. L. Duke
who furnished most Of the mon,
ey for the erection of the new
cotton factory had an under
standing similar to this: THAI
all operatives employed in his
factory should receive compcn.
sation for their labor sufficient
to enable them to make some
clear money 50 that they can
supply themselves with food
and raiment and lay by a little
for rainy days. The money
spent by the Dukes is not con-
fined strictly to Durham, but it
is being put into factories,
banks &C., in other town in
our State. The Dukes are friends
TO the educational interests of
our State and have shown it
conclusively by their liberal
donations in that direction. No
better men live in our State.
The narrow minded gentle
man, "Sin watson, from For
syth, has been honored by a
passage through Durham, and
not being entirely blind he be-
held some Of our mammoth
buildings in which goods of
various kinds are manufacture
cd, and his little heart became
jealous. So, he sets about a
plan to bring us down to his
level. We advise him on his
return to his home, if he does.
not burst before he leaves Raj
sigh, to 90 back by way of San
ford, which route will not give
him so much to swell about.
If the Dukes have gotten rich
by energy and push whose bust
ness is it but their own? Ali
classes of people in this COM
and many out Of it,
have been benefited by their
success. They have opened a.
good market for all kinds of
produce raised by the farmer.
They have given steady EN-
ploymsnt to hundreds Of young
girls, who otherwise would have
been idle. It would be unjust
to legislate against them when
by so doing thousands Of others
would suffer. :s-.
We have no personal aequain-
lance with Mr.. Watson and we
dent care to know moro Of him.
We do not like TO see = little
somebody trotting
along and trying to stop the
wheels Of progress at every
turn they make. Our country
has suffered greatly in the past
because Of such pests, aud just
It the tins whom ws can b,gi n
. SEQ the daHuing Of progress,
Ioms little narro S.minisi, nit.
ieaded upstart cones along aud
,uts himyelf in the way ani the
wheels are stopped. Forsyth
needs a rsfornatory for
Isl" Watson's special benefit,
md IL is the desire Of tn. people
It large, that some intelligent
gentleman introduce a bill to
hat effect. There would be no
loubt as to its passage. Tbs
ruth Of the whole matter is
oalousy, and Mr.. Watson 10 not
'ntIrsly alone in this move, but
10 Is ussd A. a tosl by two 9TH
II wise heads y to bring dis.
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