The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05

and conservative way Indeed their
business has always been conducted on
most conservative lines. Fhey have
been cautious and careful from the
| very beginning of their business, and
/ are none the less so now that their bus
4 mess has grown from a few hundred
/ pounds into the millions.
| The success of these gentlemen is
another illustration of the truth that
/ most of the successful men are cOun-
| try-born and country-bred. The life
and vigor of every city has to be re-
\ cruited from the country. 1t is not
\ only so with cities but of
villages as we'll The men who
have made the greatest suc~
cess in manufacturing tobacco in
Winston have not as a rule been ma
tfves of that place. They have rather
been the sons of sturdy farmers,
brought up to toll and to live economi-
cally, their ambition quickened rather
by what they heard of the great opera
tions of great business and manufac-
turing establishments than by what
their eyes had seen.
And not only has it been the country
BOYS who have succeeded best in Win
ston, as everywhere else, but so far as
Winston is concerned, a large proper
ton Of them have come from the little
county Of Davie, the home of the
fathers of boa p. ii. and JnO. W.
Hanes, and the scene of their youth
and early struggles.
That good county has contributed
many strong and useful sons to the
State, to public life, to the ministry, to
the bar, and has kept many, but Of all
the successful and useful men who
have gone out from Davie county
homes, none have reflected more credit
upon the county of their birth than
r. Fl. and John w. Hanes. Their lives
illustrate the best phases of the
tutelage that is given to the youth of
that splendid county-rich in soil, rich
in character, and rich in noble men and
women!
One reason-and a chief reason
why, with her fertile soil and great
stores of undeyeloped wealth, North
Carolina has not grown as rich as
some other States is that she has been
content to raise the raw material and
sell it at the low figure that raw mate
rial always brings. Our cotton, until
recent years (now we spin virtually
all our own cotton), was mostly
shipped to New England and Liver
pool; and from thence, after being
manufactured, sent back and resold to
the men who grew it on their farms
In our early history all the tobacco
was shipped to points North of us,
and what we smoked and chewed was
bought from parties out of the State.
Dating from 1870-the year that Mr..
p. III. Hanes began manufacturing to-
bacco i'm Mocksyille- this has changed,
and North Carolina is every year
more and more tobacco
and selling it to consumers in terri
tory that constantly widens. In this
new departure departure that
makes great things possible in North
Carolina. FL Hanes g. Co. were
among the pioneers i'm the plug BUSH
ness. Now, instead Of getting only the
price for loose tobacco, North Caro-
lima gets much of the profit that is
attendant upon every manipulation Of
the weed-from the field to the con-
sumner. We might have continued in the
way, if we had not had such natives as
p. TIL, and John w. Hanes to blaze out
the way, and to make a great industry
out Of small beginnings.