The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-03-01
RETrER BEAR THE ILLS WE
HAVE.

cooa cause can be permanently au-
~ anarchy. The laWlessness
nv the tobacco trust was the ~
c,,rsor and parent of the nlght-riuliis
cS,ese The trust committed us
Nv secret combinations and es-
canad nunishment by the ways known
to MONOPOLY. The night-rlccrs dlSo
committed their more brutal, put hot
more damning crimes, uhoef TIC
cover of darkness. TINS paper liao
deplored and denounced both, ana mas
URGED the tobacco farmers OF North
Carolina to make their fight for JUS
tice in the open.
The news came some days g that
nieht-riders we're organizing III ROCK
ineham and CasWell, but no paftlcu-
lar act was given, and the pubiic
hoped there was no foundation LOT
the report. In its last issue the CAS-
well Democrat prints Il communication
from Mr.. s. 6. Woods, who says that
on the night Of the 22nd, there was
attached to his front gate a paper as
follows:
Fair Warming"
A few hundred of us farmers nave
been pooling Our tobacco. for the last
three wears. and have used every ell
fort in our power to urge aud per
suade others to pool their tobacco, as
a protection to themselves. u there
fellow farmers. but have decided that
there is no way TO get the FARMER 10
do his duty and pool his tobacco but
by force. and there are enough OF us
to compel the others. and unless you
pool your tobacco at once YOU Will
have to abide b. the consequences.
We mean strictly business.
Night Riders.
Mr.. Woods in his communication to
the Caswell emocra says:
The above may be d Joke or 1t
may be an Expression. or II
may be the u~nbosOining of a hcndlsh
and damnable undermining undertake
ing Of some. cur pup of low degree,
too coUardly to come out in the day
light, but sneak around in the cur
tain of darkness to stick up notices..
and if these notices are real intentions
Of the deeds they may commit, a hu-
man mind cannot imagine the depth
of degradation shame and disgrace.
Any individual, or individuals, who
are towards enough to stOOp 50 low,
as to sneak around in the darkness
to do tiendish acts as ~insinuated, civil
liZations would blush with shame, to
own such characters within the linn :
its of citizenship. Just here, | wish
to say that if the one who stuck UP
this notice, had in his mind to carry
out acts and doings Of other states
and sections, who sign themselves
Night Riders We simply ask that
they give us an opportunity to pro-
tect ourselves, by notifying us the
exact time, they may make the effort,
and we Will try and make it interest
ing for them. / was in Yanceyville
on the 23d, and several people told
me on that day, they had deposited
tobacco in storage warehouse, of the
r crop of 1908, ard as Yet had not been
able to get a settlement for same,
; Others say who had put their to-
5 bacco in the storage warehouse, that
they did not get a settlement. what
the tobacco would have brought them
at auction on the warehouse floor the
l day it was deposited.
One man publicly announced that
. he knew he lost forty dollars in one,
t~wo-hOrse load of tobacco not ex-
ceeding 1000 pounds by putting it in
: storage instead of selling that day
Y at public auction on the warehouse
, floor. / know our tobacco is not
VI 81 1IicdSh I1otltN II 1opoI JlOI
, to other products to justify to grow
it. | know, 90, hat rings, com
e bines and trusts are responsible for
the low price OF tobacco today grown
in the Piedmont belt, having cut out
the competition OF the small dealer
and m~Onopolizing the tobacco bust
ness by the large capitalists and
h. Woul willingly and cheerfullv. in 2
, heightened, manly and gentlemanIN
!! way. lend assistance TO helm on,
brother and ward off Gepre-
dation and ~disgraceful shame that is
now being heaped upon us, bv the
heartleSS and cursed intruder who i
today. stealing the meat and bread
actual wants and family needs of The
many thousands of poor people in on,
sectloh, out do not concur With thu
d idea or unlawful doings, and sneak.
6 ing and undermining acts on the mar
n OF individuals TO force people int,
! measure III their way of thinking