The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-11-10
RAILROAD AND TRUSTS FOOT
TIE 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 a daily newspaper
called the Raleigh Tribune. It openly
espoused Republican principles. Instead
of iniuring the News and Observer, that
sheet helped the circulation OF this paper.
Seeing they could not publish a paper
openly advocating a party that cannot
read, the Southern Railway bosses decided
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
AND THE VERY SAME TYPE.
They also employed a portion of the same
staff that worked on the Tribune, and
started IN anew to destroy the News and
Observer. To that end they ave 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 a 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 subsi-
died paper employs to get rames to
which to send their sheet, as told by the
Roanoke-Chowan Times, published oy
that honest and true man, Andrew J.
Conner:
The Raleigh Post had a representative
at Jackson last Monday who offered to
give the Post, daily or weekly, without
money and without price-absoiutely tree
to anyone who would receive it. We
heard him offer it to a number Of people
on these terms, and saw him take the
names of several who agreed to receive 1t.
The Times has to depend upon money
received from SUBSCRIPTIONS and advertise
ments for support and canno 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
things: /. To break down all honest news
papers that ~criticise their wrong and 2
| To seduce people from correct principles
by inducing them to take a 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 plausibly, but, in spite o
the attempt to conceal it, the clover foo
will stick out.
The Tines, the News and Observer, anc
all other reputable newspapers have "tt
depend upon money received by subscrip
lions and advertisements for support an(
cannot give the paper away Only pa
pers paid for by great corporations ant
trusts THAT HAVE AN AXE TC
GRIND can give away their papers.
The Times VIII find that, while SOM
people will permit the organ of the mo
noplies and trusts to enter their homes
they will vaccinate their family ageins
its poison with virus from the Times. o
the News and Observer. or some othe
reputable paper. If it will tell the trutl
about the Post, it's Shiny trail will no
long injure the Times among its good cor
s~tltuency. The people of North Carolini
viii not follow a subsidized sheet. Tha
is why every man of character in tn
State shudders lest the Post should com
mend him. The people look with sus
picion upon any man approved by tina
sheet. They know its mission is to tea
only the creatures Of the Southern Raj
way and the Tobacco trust.