The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-07-06
BILL ARP TREATS Of TRUSTS.
The Sage Of Barlow Not Pleased
With Them.
HTS THEM HARD llCKS.
Trust IN the Lord and do Good About the
O1ly Trusts That he Car Freely indorse.
lie Quotes Sculpture.

David saith "Put cot your trust in
princes" and IL be had lived In onr
day he would have added nor n mil
lionaircs or OIL trusts or sugar or
whiskey or tobacco or even in chewing
gum trusts. Trust in the Lord and
do good" is the only trust he com
mendel j wonder Why these combins
are called trusts. Ireckon II is be-
cause the combiners know II il ras-
calIy business and they will have TO
trust one another TO tote fair and d.
vide square, for they cant enfore 1t
by law. These trusts seem to be .
modern invention-a North American |
idea-nn idea Of our northern brethren |
10 mako the rich richer and tho poor |
poorer. The consumers OF oil and !
sugar and such things are not COM
planning OF the price-nor would they |
complain IL they got Them for nothing,
but these combines are founded on
selfGshncss and greed. They disturb
the general welfare, destroy the equil.
brium and put the public in constant
peril. They can raise the price when
they wish to aud there is no competi-
ton to keep it down. II competition
dares to build mp against them they
can destroy it in week or a month.
They have no heart or pity or kind
consideration for their employees, but
eau reduce their wages or discharge
them at their pleasure. They defy the
law and bride courts and lawmakers.
Now, il may bc possible that the oil
trusts or the sugar trnst sell us those
commodities rs cheap or cheaper than
II there were no trusts, but wo would
rather pay more and have free fight.
IL is all one.side business and the old
maxim that competition is the life Of
trade" las been virtually destroyed.
We old men have not ceased to la
ment the destruction Of the hundreds
Of small industries that before the war
enriched our State and made the peo-
Pile happy and contented. The tim,
was when there was o wagon shop and
blacksmith shop at every cross roads
"A hatter's shop and two or three shoe
shops in every village lanyard in
.very settlement and little mills on
every creek. But big fish have swsl-
lowed up tho little zones. Their prod
ucts may be cheaper now, but the pro-
ducers have bad to move away or go to
planting cotton. Northern capital takes
our iron aud timber and hides aud wool
and after paying freight both ways sells
back to us what We had been making
at home. Time was when wore shoes
that voro made in our village-made
from leather that was tanned not far
away. Time was when was proud OF
the wool hat that Ben South made
made while l was looking on. I re.
melhber that the whipping post was
planted not fur from the hatter's shop
and how l ran home on one occasion to
keep from seeing awhile man whipped.
81 will meet you at the hstter's," was
n time-honored maxim, but it is not
now. Time was when once a week
rode the little bay marc to mill three
miles away and left my grist SO as te
have race back with some other boy.
And there WAS country school on the
road and the boys waylaid us because
We had dared to cry school butter.
This remind, mo to say in passing re
ceived letter the other day from some
Alabama schoolboy, wanting to know
the origin and meaning OF schoo
butter. My father was an oldtim'
school teacher and said that in hi
boyhood the expression was ''schoo
better" and signi6ed that "ou
school is better than your school" ant
IL always provoked collision. Som,
very hungry boys corrupted it int,
''school butter" But the town boy
never 60 to mill nowadays; the mil
comes to them. Home made shoe
and hats are things Of the past-every
thing comes from the north. and i
now made by trust; and on almos
everything we use or consume there is
duty or tariff, and we pay our part o
it to keep up the government expense
and pay the pensions and fight tn
Filipinos. Talk about the trusts--ths
pension trust is the biggest trust OF all
and the most corrupt. How the mort
stands il cannot understand. Owe
$4,000, 600. 00C have already gone tina
way, and John Browns soul keep
marching on. Ohio gets $13, 900. 00'
this year, and Geogia has to pay he
quota Of the Sl60. 200. 900 and get
nothing. Yes, Geargis pays abou
$4,000, 900 a. nually through the opera
tions OF tho tariff. bought poke
knife to-day for so cents that coul
have bought in London for half th
money. just think of it, my brethren
$4,000, 900 in tariff taxes annually I
support n million pensioners, on
tenth of whom are entitled to il unde
the law and nine tenths are frauds
This scaudalous trust is backed by til
q. A. Rs, and they ore backed by tn
Republican party, and that party
backed by the cohesive power OF rat
lie plumber. III this was all .nat Geol
Ola paid We would be happy. but nu
State has to pay her part Of $500. OOt
900 moro that it takes to run the ma
tional machine. Altogether We pa
not less than $40, 600. 900 annually fc
the privilege OF remaining in the nj
ion--How is that for oppression? i te
you, it takes vast amount of patrio
ism for a southern man to love his 60
ernment and fight for it. The onl
way to be a patriot lie to shut one
eyes and 60 il blind. II would not
to think about our grievances. for the
interfere with our digestion.
Besides all these troubles there is
long. dry drought upon us and o,
gardens Fave dried up AID the mon
has given out, and the cook 10 81
AMI have to hunt up kindling wo
and fire up the stove before sun,
and 60 to market, aad there is a p
mic on hand tomorrow aud one OF I
little grandchildren got hurt on I
Jogging board. 1t tore the flesh frc
her ankle. and / almost cried; and O
dog aud another dog got to fight
night over another little one Q
knocked her down AID scared her il
lite, and couldn't run to her % Il
n IL I'll L.. l.