The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-08
RAILROAD AND TRUSTS FOOT
The BILL.

Some years ago, with the determination
of starving and destroying the News and
Observer, which exposed their unholy
schemes, certain Southern Railway bosses
established in Raleigh daily newspaper
called the Raleigh Tribune. 1t openly
espoused Republican principles. Instead
of injuring the News and Observer, that
sheet helped the circulation of this paper.
Seeing they could not publish q paper
openly advocating a party that cannot
read, the Southern Railway bosses decided
TO establish paper which they would
call Democratic, but which would stab
true Democracy in the back. They there
upon established the Morning Post, and
used THE VERY SAME PRESS UPON
WHICH THE TRIBUNE WAS PRINT.
ED AND THE VERY SAME TYPE.
They also employed portion of the same
staff that worked on the Tribune, and
started in anew to destroy the News and
Observer. To that end they gave the pa
per away free to anybody who would con-
sent to take it out of the office and
thought thereby to reduce the circulation
of the News and Observer. When they
commenced the publication of that sub
sidized and Republican sheet, the News
and Observer had less than four thousand
subscribers. Today it has over eight
| thousand subscribers. Thank God the
people of North Carolina have not sunk
so low as to be debauched by pauperizing
sheet, established to permit the Southern
Railway and Tobacco Trust-the main
supporters of the Morning Post
to control their reading. Some good
men permit it to come into
their homes. but the number grows
less. There are many who would no
more let it cross their threshold than they
would wear the yoke of the Southern
Railway and the Tobacco trust.
| Here is the method which that scbsi-
died paper employs to get names to
|
Roanoke-Chowan Times, published oy
that honest ard true man, Andrew J..
| Conner:
| "The Raleigh Post had representa- tive
at Jackson last Monday who offered to
| give the Post, daily or weekly, without
money and without price-absolutely free
to anyone who would receive it. We
| y afro 70 nha- of
on these terms, and saw him take the
names of several who agreed to receive it..
The Times has to depend upon money
received from SUBSCRIPTIONS and advertise
ments for support and cannot give the
paper await has to stand or fall on its
own merits
That is 1.-THE Southern Railway and
Cigarette Trust gang hire men to travel
over the State and beg men to take the
daily or weekly Post without money and
without price, absolutely free" Why?
Because it is to their interest to do two
papers that criticise their wrongs; and 2.
To seduce people from correct principles
by inducing them to take paper print
ed for the purpose of making them think
that political railroad and trust rule
are good things. 1t is done insidiously
and sometimes plausbly, but. In spite OF
the attempt to conceal it, the cloven foot
will stick out.
The Times. the News and Observer, and
la I'm al n
depend upon money received by subscrip-
tions and advertisements for support and
cannot give the paper away" Only pa
pers paid for by great corporations and
trusts THAT HAVE AN AXE TO
GRIND can give away their papers.
The Times viii find that, while some
people will permit the organ OF the mo-
inophes and trusts to enter their homes,
they will vaccinate their family against
it's poison with virus from the Times. OF
The News and Observer, or some other
reputable paper. If it win tell the truth
about the Post, its Shiny trail will not
long injure the Times among its good con.
stituency. The people of North Carolina
viii not follow a subsidized sheet. That
| is why every man of character in the
State shudders lest the Post should COM
mend him. The people look with sus-
picion upon any man approved by that
sheet. They know its mission is to tear
down all independent men and elevate
only the creatures of the Southern Rail
| way and the Tobacco trust.
COTTON Is SOARING.
Yesterday cotton uyent IN like a kite.