The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-16
DECLARES GEN. J. S. CARR
THEY SECURE DIVIDENDS BY
ROBBING THE WORKMAN
AND THE CONSUMER.
TRUST TAX IS THE BADGE OF sERWTUDE
There is Remedy and It Only Needs thai
Brave and Honest Men, Who are Clear
Headed, be Placed in Official
Position to Win Victory,
Position to Win Victory,

On Independence day at High Point,
memory of those who fell in the Confed-
crate service was unveiled by the Junior
Order of American Mechanics, General
,Tulian ). Carr, of Durham, delivered an
address. After an appropriate tribute to
the deathless valor of the Confederate
soldier, General Carr discussed the
mightiest evil Of to-day-the trust. He
said in part:
1T may be that within the thirty years
that have elapsed since the Civil War the
vast accumulations of wealth have be-
gun to evolve class in this country
that ..toil not, neither do they spin.
But, possess your souls in PATIENCE, that
class can never be the final rulers of
America. Labor has not yet said its
last word It's organization, by laws as
unyielding as gravity, will become most
perfect; its rights will be better under
stood, but what is higher and grander,
labor itself will comprehend more per-
fectly its duty. Since it is to have the
weight and power of society, that power
to be benefcient must first be truly in
telligent.
..lhe man at the plow, the loom or the
forge must work little harder. If need
be, to keep all the children at school. Not
to take them away from labor, God for
b.! but to give better force and direction
to that labor itself when they return
to it.
.Statisticians predict rapidly coming
era Of wealth for the South. That is
we'll, for labor and capital are best Of
friends when tney work together for the
common good. Step, by step, if slowly.
the world does advance to better things.
Our ancestors achieved Independence
of feudal laws and slavish burdens; again
the wheel revolved, and domestic inde-
pendence against foreign aggression,
more than century ago; but of our
four years struggle our diverse labor
systems passed away, and by wonderful
revolution of thought, the Independence
Of States within their spheres has been
settled. Who shall say what shall be the
next uplifting of man, for upward it
must be, as he finds his brother, and II
he hearkens to his God. There are
clouds to-day; mems hearts failing them
at the spectre Of commercial and financial
giants to whom the revenues of king
donls are as playthings. But the phil
Osopher says, every revolution was first
thought in one mans mind. He who
knows that power is in his soul, and
throws himself unhesitatingly on his
thought. rights himself and works
miracles.
'''lhere was a time when WilBerforce
arose in the House OF Commons and told
EnglishmeI that they had so little mercy
upon the labor that made their country
and SO little pity in their hard hearts that
at that hour children of tender years,
girls. naked as when their mothers gave
tnem birth, with chains about their
growing waists, in the bowels Of the
earth were dragging cars of ore through
passages in the mines too narrow and
low-arched and tortuous for man or
beast; children. the unhappy little ones
of labor, whose blue eyes saw the sun
sn,ne only as holiday, whose tender
white flesh bore the marks of the thong
and the chain Imprecation and denial
and menace filed the air about him;
then inquiry came: then truth conquered
and labor had gained once more victory
for humanity.
''Organized labor if it would preserve
the freedom acquired by centuries OF
struggle. has yet before it the most mo-
mentous battle of ala combat with
principalities and powers of darkness.
THE greatest evil, which is growing
and daily assuming large proportions. is
the formation of trusts. Like IL gigan-
tic octopus, the immense aggregation Of
capital in the East is spreading out its
long, mOnied tentacles, to gather in and
feed upon all the sections Of our land
IN defiance of the people, the law and
the constitution of our common country
In the South the farmer is largely the
consumer as well as the producer, out OF
whose pocket must come the tribute, and
from the sweat of whose brow must be
wrung the increased dividends, enlarged
by wealthy stockholders, in these modern
trusts. Some of the most important COM
noditles needed on the farm are goin,
upward IN price by leaps and bounds,
while the great staple products uf the
farm are falling below the cost of pro
duction. When the necessaries of life
are high in price. and the products of
the farm are sold at loss. agriculture
the strong backbone of the country
must groan and bleed beneath the double
burden imposed upon it. These trusts
are .1lnquestionably responsible for much
of the trouble with which we are now
afflicted. just where this growing evi