The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-07-07
BILL ARP TREATS OF TRUSTS.
Tho Sage Of Barlow, Not Pleased
With Them,
HITS THEM HARD llCKS.
trust in The Lord ami do Good" Aboat the
Only Trusts That he Cah Freely indorsr.
lie Quotes Scripture

princes, and II he had lived In Oh
day be would have added nor in mil
lionaires or oil trusts or sugar or
whitkey or tobacco or even in chewing
gum trusts. Trust in the Lord and
do good is the only trust he com
mendel. wonder why these combins
are called trusts. reckon it is be
cauee the combincrs know 1t is a ra
cally business aud they will have to
trust one another to tote fair and di-
vide square, for they cant enfore it
by law. These trusts seem TO be q
modern In~vention-a North American
idea an idea of our northern brethren
to make the rich richer and the poor
poorer. The consumers OF oil and
sugar and such things are not COM
planning Of tho price-nor would they
complain if they got them for nothing,
but these combines are founded on
self6shDess and greed. They disturb
the general welfare. destroy the equil-
brium and pat tbs public in constant
peril. They can raise the price when
they wish to and there is no COMPETE
ton to keep it down. If competition
dares to build up against them they
can destroy it in q week OF q month.
They have no heart or pity or kind
consideration'for their employees, but
can reduce their wages or discharge
them at their pleasure. They defy the
law and bride courts and lawmakers.
Now. it may be possible that the oil
trusts or the sugar trnst sell us those
commodities as cheap OF cheaper than
If there were NO trusts, but We would
rather pay more and have O froe fight.
1t is all a one side business and the old
maxim that "competition is tho life of
trade hos been virtually destroyed.
We old meu have not ceased to la
ment the dest, uctioL Of the hundreds
Of small industries that before the wa
enriched our State and made the peo-
pie happy and contcnted. The tim /,
was when there was o wagon shop and
o blacksmith shop at every CROSS roads
"a hstter's shop and two or three shoe
shops in every village-a lanyard IN
every settlement and little mills on
every creek. But big fish have sval-
lowed mp the little zones. Their prod
ANeC AIN 70 NACupCA uOW, tbut Viz xJAO-
ducers have had to move away or go to
planting cotton. Northern capital takes
our iron and timber and hides aud wool
and after paying freight both ways sells
back to us what we had been making
at home. Iimo was when | wore shoes
that were made ia our ~village-made
from leather that was tanned not far
AVA. Time was when | was proud O!
the WOO, hat that Ben South made
made while | was looking on. [ re-
member that the whipping post WAS
planted Lot far from tho hatter's shop
and how I ran home on one occasion to
keep from seeing white man whipped.
II will meet you at the hsttcr's,' WAS
n time -honored maxim. but it is not
now. Time WAS when Ooce q week I
rode the little bay mare to mill three
miles away and left my grist so az to
have a race back with some other boy.
And there WAS q country school on t
-oad and the boys waylaid US because
ne had dared to cry "school butter"
This remind. me to say in passing l re-
ceived a letter the other day from some
Alabama schooiboy, wanting to know
the origin and meaning OF school
butter. NV father WAS an oldtime
school teacher aud said that in his
boyhood the expression was ''school
better and siSnifcd that "our
school is better than your school," and
it always provoked collision. Some
very hungry boys corrupted it into
"school butter" But the town boy,
/ never 60 to mill nowadays; tho mil
. comes to them. Home made shoe'
nd hats are things OF the past-every