The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-25
GEN. CARR ON xkTSTS.

Within a few weeks there have been
so many speeches and addresses made
in North Carolina, and so many docu-
ments of a political and other kinds
have been distributed that it is diff
cult for one person to keep we'll up.
On the late 4th of July a celebration
was held at High Point, and the speak
er was Gen. Julian S. Carr. He was at
his best, and his theme was the
Trusts" He certainly spoke freely
and boldly and denounced the accursed
enemies Of the people as thieves and
robbers" He sold his very profitable
factory, or his large interest in it, ra-
Their han belong to a trust conspiracy,
bent on robbing and depressing the
people, and particularly the farmers.
II was mainly a self-sacrifcing act on
the part of this honest, true and most
benevolent North Carolinian. His
speech was not only appropriate to the
Day celebrated, but it was we'll con-
ceived and vigorous and happy. He
has never spoken more wisely or more
f~elicitously, and his address coming
from SO prominent a capitalist and so
thorough a North Carolinian deserves
to be read generally, and Of purse
with approval. OF all the cruel and
cunning schemes of oppression ver
designed by man, or suggested by the
devil, we verify believe that the trust
leads. We can only give a few en-
fences taken here and there, but the
samples are not better or more posi-
tive than the whole address. Gen. Carr
said:
E.Orooni1od 1ohnr 80 - WOULD ma
serve the freedom acquired by CEN
turtles of struggle, has yet before it
the most momentous battle of all a
combat with the municipalities and pow
ers Of darkness.
THE greatest evil, which is growing
and daily assuming large proportions,
is the formation of trusts. Like a
gigantic octopus, the immense aggre-
cation Of capital in the east is spread
ing out its long, monied tentacles, to
gather in and feed upon all the Sec
lions Of our and 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. = OF all human ills, what
| at this hour portends most evil to an
otherwise free and happy people,? What
| power closes the busy factory and
| leaves the machinery to rust in idle
| ness, the crowded rooms to hang with
| cobwebs in solicitude, and the cheerful
| village near to melt away; wives and
| children to suffer hunger, husbands
! and fathers to toll for a pittance in
long hours at new and dangerous trades
in order to live at all, or else to join
| the army of tramps recruiting every
| day? What poisonous blast breathes
! upon struggling enterprise and withers
! it, unless it slavishly obeys orders from
some distant tyrant behind his money
bags, waving nets for flies, in his den,
like some bloated, venomous creature
of the tropics? - 1 deny the whole
Cain slew his brother coming with the
fruits Of the earth, but short was his
triumph, and he went forth with the
murderer's brand upon him. Criminal
trusts on a great scale, that sweep the
land like Attila the hun, or those who
only plumber and rob a few like Jacl
| Sheppard OF Hounslow Heath, are en-.
emies OF the human race and will mee1
their fate. Come what may, fol
one, I take my stand by the man with
the hoe. As I vas glad to serve in the
ranks as a private by your side, / ash
no higher privilege to fight with you
to demand you, the rights OF American
Ffeemen against the dominion Of thu
trusts. God being my helper, / an
; with you until the day Of redemption