The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-07-19

for protesting against the attempt of
the Duke tobacco trust to control Trim
ity College, by giving to it unclean
money, and made nc attack whatever
upon christian education" To the
defense of this Duke tobacco trust,
therefore, the Biblical Recorder comes
forth, with stinging epithets of rebuke,
(while ~deprecating all asperities in
such discussionsD Let US see what
manner of thing it is that the Biblical
Recorder defends and encourages.
The Duke tobacco trust is a combina-
ton Of men and money, entered into
solely to control and m~onopoIiz9 the
tobacco business throughout the entire
country. It buys leaf tobacco from
the farmers who produce it at what
ever price it chooses to pay them for
it; and it sells it's manufactured prod,
ucts to consumers at whatever price it
chooses to charge for them. This com
bination was formed in defiance OF the
laws; and it exists to day, and does its
work of robbery and pillage in def
snce of the laws. 1t has been declared
to be an unla wfuI combination by both
the Legislature of North Carolina and
by the Congress OF the United States.
This Duke tobacco TRUST is engaged
very largely in the manufacture o.
cigarettes. To the use Of these cigar
cites has been traced a long list OF the
fell diseases that sap and destroy the
young manhood of to day. Il is q
most alarming fact, that a very large
per centage of the young men who
have been called into the service OF
their country in the present war, an0
who have been rejected as unfit for
that service by the examining u
geons, we're found to be suffering With
diseases entailed by the using of these
cigarettes.
1t is true, also, that this Duke to
bacco trust used to put semi nude and
indecent pictures in the packages Of
these cigarettes to increase the sale of
them; and they continued to use these
pictures to help the sale Of their cigar
cites and to debauch the morals of the
young, men, until they were stopped
from doing 80 by the passage of a pub
lie statute prohibiting such action.
Here then we have an lawful trust
that is engaged in robbing the farmers
OF State and country; that is engaged
- h,,~1oninn tho oono11poo~c ~ fohoaoo.
that manufactures and sells an article
whose use saps the physical health and
destroys the manly strength of our
young men; that formerly used de
vices to extend its trade which cor
rupted the morals of the people, com
ing to the fore, and evidently seeking
to control a great educational instluu
ton, by pouring it's i'll gotten thousands
into tie treasury. And when one dared
to protest, and The PROGRESSIVE FAR
MER dared to approve and commend
the protest, here comes the Biblical
Recorder, with epithets Of stinging re
buke, to the support of the trust, and
to the condemnation of the protes
tants.
The Biblical Recorder does, indeed,
try to disguise it's real purpose to de
fend the trusts by calling to
the fact, that it and Dr.. KIgo are
champions of christian education "
But the disguise is o thin. There is
not one single soul in North Carolina,
that we know anything of, that has
any objection to ''OhristIan education"
We go further and say, There is not
one soul in North Carolina, that we
know anything Of, that is not heartily
in favor of Christian education.
The Biblical Recorder is opposed to
the University; it Is opposed TO the
Agricultural and Mechanical College;
It is opposed to the Normal and Indus
trial Col eye for women; it is (st least,
we q nothing to prove that it is noI)
in favor of allowing the trusts to take
quiet possession Of one of the denomi
national colleges. And it serves notice
upon all alike, that, if anyone dares to
lift up his voice against Gh's mounpt.
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