The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-04
GETS IN HElLISH WORK
How the American Tobacco Com
pany Robs the Farmers
SEeia, Women and Children Wearing
Their Lives Out While Their Heart
Blood is Transmitted Into Gold to
Fill the Golfers of the Trusts.
(CasWsll Sentinel.) }

(CaSWSII Sentlnel.)
We are informed that the curing Of
tobacco throughout the county has
steadily progressed during the past
month and the crop is now practi-
that the concensus of opinion gives us
a crop that is below the average
Our farmers have labored hard to
produce this crop, and owing to the
scarcity of labor, the little children
have, in many instances, toiled with
all their strength to help share the
burden of their parents and when this
is all done; when the father has bent
his honest back with steady toll and
devoted and uncOmplaining wife has
wasted her uttermost strength and
the little children have worn their
young lives almost to a finish, yes,
when all this has been done, then that
monster of iniquities, the American
Tobacco Company, gets in its hellish
work. The price Of this expenditure
of nerve and energy and life is placed
at mere song by this, the most
blood thirsty organization that ever
wearing out our lives and the lives
of our children. We are driving the
rose bloom from the cheeks of as pure
WOmanhOOd as God ever created ;;
while the heart blood of our children
is being transmitted into gold that the
officers of the American Tobacco Com
pany may pile into their almost burst
ing Golfers, more and more gold. Such
exactiOns make our blood boil But
the decree has gone forth that we must
accept for the price of labor just the
mere pittance which this monster
will allow. And when we try to or
ganize to save ourselves, our wives
and our children, the henchmen and
camp followers Of the orga nization
point the finger of scorn in our faces
and say "the people be damned
Men of Caswen county, you who
have never faltered in the presence Of
an enemy, how much longer Will you
submit to this wrong against which
the very stones are crying out?
They laugh at us in derision and say
You are butting your heads against a
stone WALL" but if we, striking blind
ly, in the name of all you hold dear,
in the name of your precious wives, in
the name of the sweet childhood Of
tasWell county-yes, in the holy name
Of Justice, LET Us KEEP ON STRTK-
1NG-all of our blows will not fall at
light of eternity breaking into his
heart until he seemed to have caught
the wisdom of heaven itself and tow
cred, half human and half divine from
this emnence." saw the approach Of
the countless hosts of mercenaries
that fatten on the crumbs which fall
from the tables of the trusts ITO
YOUR TENTS, O, ISRAELI"
1t seem to us that the part of wis
dom calls for organization. Let us
encourage that spirit which is sweep
ing the land today, looking to the bet
terment of those who toll and strug-
gle and earn their daily bread in the
sweat Of their honest faces. The
Farmers Union opens wide it's doors
to the determined and the worthy.
This organization gives our people an
opportunity, such an opportunity as
comes but once in a life time.
Farmers of Caswell look we'll to
your rights. THE AM ERICAN To-
BACCO COMPANY MUST BE De
STROY ED.
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