The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-13

Legislatures to regulate charges. Thai
has been undertaken in regard to tele
phone rentals, but the telephone com
panies have generally been able ln
some way to circumvent or defeat any
such attempt wherever it has been
made. What can be accomplished by
a monopoly n dealing with planters
is illustrated by the control Of the cot
ton seed market"
That this company will have ample
opportunities to become a great mo,
nopoly il it's preEent schemes are sue
cessiul and that it adopts no plans
which are antagonistic to this great
purpose, no one denies. And if any
one expects that, when the cotton
planters of the South are left to the
tender mercies of Sugar Trust Saarles
and his allies, they will be treated
with distinguished consideration we'll,
such reople are hardly outside OF the
asylum end we will not argue with
them.
But our object in writing this article
is to point out the latest scheme OF this
combine.
Its nothing more o less than to
buy up all the purchasable Southern
editors-and all who, if not purchG S
able, are ignorant of it unholy
schemes. Last week The Progressive
Farmer was offered a snug little sum
for il inf renee, but though of courC9
We promptly and firmly refused, it
seems that similar offers have been &C.
capt.d by other papers come Of them
here in North Carolina.
We have on file in our office the &c.
ries of articles endorsing the methods
of the american Cotton Co., for the
publication Of which as original mat
ter we were offered a neat little sum.
Among the papers which have already
published one or more of thee articles,
IN the petition and manner called for
by the offer made us are:
The Raleigh News end Observer,
G oldsboro Headlight, scotIeud Neck
Commonwealth, Laurinburg Ex-
change, Graham Cleaner, K'ns5on
Free Prc, g end Greenville, S. Q, Cot,
ton Plant.
We do not cay and we do not believe
that these papers sold out" but the
fact that they have evidently made
arrangement to publish not as ads. or
the claims made by the company-but
as original or editorial matter, articles
prepared by this scheming syndicate,
show that they are, to say the least,
very careless end thoughtlees. If they
al once discontinue the publication of
thGc3 articles they should be excused
and their act attributed to careless
ness; if they do not, - Most of
these papers are continually fighting
trusts" let them prove their faith by
their works.
The first article in this series in
which the trust pays the wretched
editor to endorse its methods is a clip
ping from the Commercial Appeal, of
Memphis, Tenn, with the title:
Likes THE AMERICAN COM
PANY'S PRE- 49,"
AN ARKANSAS FIRM USED IT LAST
SEASON WITH GREAT SATISFACTION"
The second article in which the trust
makes the paper say many highly
complimentary things regarding itself,
bears the title:
THE ROUND LAP BALE"
IAN IRRESISTIBLE DEMAND EXISTS For
COTT N PACKED IN The NEW Way"
ETC ETC
The third article which starts off
with the statement that for once the
planter has an ally among the
great corporations" Get us pray y is
entitled:
"ROUNDLAP COTTON BALES"
ITO SATISFY THE DEMAND THE ENTIRE
CROP WILL EVENTUALLY BE so
BALED."
And the other articles are like unto
these.
Now, no editor could be accused of
improper motives we're he to place this
ad among other ads. with an advertis.
ing head, state that such are the claims
made by the Company and reserve
the right to say what be pleased re-
garding the Company himself. But
such is not allowed. It is a condition
of the order that the editor must IN
cert the ads, not as advertisements
but as editorial utterances-must make
his readers believe that out of an hon,
est desire to help them he says these