The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-13
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manufacture Of fertilizers. Since that
combination, the prince of fertilizer has
increased to the tune of $500 ton
The only skilled labor needed is 10 have
a man to tell the convicts how much
phosphoric acid and other things to rut
in. If We are going to put the convicts
to work at anything, it ought to be at the
stinkingest work there is, instead of
making cotton shirts that any of these
ladies in the gallery could make. The
farmer will get the very best fertilizer for
his money. for it will be to the interest
of the State chemist to act fairly. We
would act fairly and squarely by our own
people
1t would save money to the farmers in
various ways, especially in taxes on fer
tilizers We have to pay now zoe. per ton
They say the manufacturer pays that
but don't you know the manufacturer
takes that tax into consideration when
he is putting the price on the fertilizer?
The number of tons sold in 1900 in North
Carolina was 276, 23Sh. OF this amount
900 was sold by North Carolina COM
panies, and the rest by the Va.-Carolina
Chemical Company. i see manufacturers
fighting me, when they ought to be stand
ing by me, saying to the Virginia Caro-
lima Chemical Company: Stand aside
If the bill is passed we will save at the
very least s2.Q0 ton. and it is really a
great deal more than that If YOU have
been buying ammoniated fertilizer hereto
fore stop it. Buy your cotton seed meal
buy your phosphoric acid mix your own
fertilizer and ;-ou will save something
but you will save still more if YOU let
the convcts make it. We can save in
one year, at the rate of $500 a ton
$685. In ten vears, the time of the
proposed bond issue. we would save
$5,524.77O The farmers do three fourths
of the voting, and pay, it is said. one
tenth of the taxes. and it would seem
they were entitled to some considera-
zion.
say to YOU private manufacturers that
you ought to stand by me. The time will
come when vou will wish you had helped
my bill They say it is not fair I say
is it not as fair as for the State to raise
peanuts or any farm produce? They say
they are opposed TO all of that. | am will
ing, as a farmer. for the State to raise
all sorts of produce. If II can make a
profit out of e. l don't look at things
in such selfish wav as that. But l
don't want Il to be considered as crush
ing out all the manufacturers in the State.
/ only ask for one plant. in order that we
might hold a stick over the heads of those
big corporations, to make them do what
is right
/ speak for class of men that work
from sun up to dark and often after that,
and when the year is over have not
enough money left to buy a dress for
their wives or rair of shoes for their
children
it is argued that We could not get ma
terial. that the trusts have it ALL / say
that there are Il companies in this State
that claim they are not in the trust, and
they get their material. Moreover, We
have our own material. When Mr.. Nor
gan, President of the Virginia Carolina
Chemical Company, was asked short
time ago why the price was raised, he
said It was because the price of the ma
terlal had gone mp. That shows they
didn't have quite all of it. We have our
fish crap and cotton seed meal
1t is objected that it will hurt and Grip
pie our private manufacturers. While
cur private companies regulate their
prices by the prices charged by the Vir-
ginia- Carolina Chemical Company | am
as much against them as against the big
corporation. Then It is said that it will
drive capital out of the State. ] say. if
the capital is doing no more good than
the capital used in making fertilizers now,
let it go | wish it God-speed.
1t is argued that it win cost too much,
x,.;n h,
aenses. Ny bill does not state any
amount | think the authorities of the
prison would conduct the work in the
most economical way.
This bill will benefit the farmers. three
fourths of the people of the State, the
merchants. | say it will help the poor
fellow who have to mortgage their farms.
1t will help the lawyers. the doctors. the
railroads, the public schools of North
Carolina Put the farmers on a good
basis and we won't have so many of
them having to get help from the State.
You have promised in your platform
that YOU were against trusts. ] bring you
bill, today against combinations, and /
ask you how you are going to face your
people when you get home, if you would
so on record against this bill. Let this
matter come to a test here today.
Mr.. Whitaker. of Forsyth: 1t is with
regret that | rise to oppose a bill that
is so near the heart of the gentleman
from Scotland. But the bill encourages
the idea of convict labor in competition
with The honest labor of the people. Now
we find the farmers of the State are feel
ing the shoe pinch, and we have bill and
petitions before us from the farmers ask
ing that the State stop raising peanuts
There has been a great deal of talk of
the one gallused man, If this sort OF
thing goes on, there will not be any one
gallused mar. for the Door men will not
even be able to have the one galluS. It
will cost us more than it will save the
farmers, and what good would it do il it
did not save anything We would have
10 compete with the corporations. and
furnish the fertilizer at as low rate as
they do, and sell at long credit.
| do not stand here in the interest Of
any trust. / am the last man to do such
a thing, but / do stand here in the in
terest Of private enterprise, and against
bringing convict labor into competition
with the labor of the honest men.
If .or sell fertilizer at no more than
the cost of production,will you moi be
establishing a trust greater than any now
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