The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-08-04

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some gain Ia The eouniy - . waole-
You remember. ne carried our coun-
- IN the last .iewsscn-
hold Ia my land = copy of the
Greensboro Daily News of Saturday.
Jane 18th. whieh publishes = letter
from = eotton-aniII man. - reply so
one Of the cotton-rulII men quoted b.
Mr. Webb. ~hach II a. follows
why = Ani Man VIII Vote the Ee-
publican Ticket.
To Editors Of Daily Ne~s
Having seen two letters IN the
News and Observer Of June sth. grit
ten in regard 10 the textile Industry
cf this State and complaining of the
mills running short time and shut
ting down. signed by a Mr.. I.atti-
more. beg space 10 make reply
MIR. baltimore said he wrote be
cause he had nothing else 10 do If
he Is out of Job. let him come 70
the Henderson Cotton Mill. and he
will get one: also any others who
may want 10 work. OF whom he says
there are many. Mr.. baltimore tries
TO show that the Republican party is
responsible for what he misterns lack
Of employment
Let me say TO you, Mr.. baltimore.
that the Republican party is not re-
sponsible for the mismanagement OF
the mill business. ut the Republi-
can party by its policies has, and
does, provide work for anybody who
reasonably wants work. Please look
in the Mill News and see the adver-
tisements every week for thousand
of hands. and those mills running full
time. All you, Mr.. baltimore, or any
body else. have to do is TO go to them
and go to work.
Mr.. baltimore, the Democratic
Congress under the Cleveland admin
istration of 1893 is what drove me
to the cotton-mill business. We were
getting four and one-half cents per
pound for cotton, and when / got TO
the cotton mill I got twenty-five
cents a day, but | VISA merely a boy
then; my father and my grown broth
er fot forty and fifty cents per day
Since the G.. 0. P. has resumed the
direction of the Government affairs
my father has gone back to the farm
to raise 15-cent cotton, and | am in
the mill getting $50 per day. And
there are plenty of boys that get any
| where from $1.75 to 1925 per day
Suppose We don't work but four days
of the week We get as much now in
one day as we got in week in those
| good old Democratic days
But you may ask: What was
the price of meat and flour them
I don't know; l didn't have the
money to buy them then, so there
fore 1 didn't ask.
You seem to think that you can
fool we mill folks by telling us that
the Republican party is the cause of
all the mills not running full time.
We we'll know that there are mills
all over this broad land of ours that
are running full, and some overtime;
they are advertising for help in this
weeks Mill News. and see for your
self, Mr.. baltimore.
eff the voters in the country are
like those in the mills, you can bet
Mr.. McNinch will be the next Repre-
sentative in Congress from the Ninth
District. | am certain the farmers
will not vote for a Democrat to go to
Congress and vote to cut the price
on tobacco, cotton, and peanuts. But
you say that -four and meat are so
high that the farmer can OF afford
to buy it. If the farmers themselves
onot make the flour and meat, pray
tell me, Mr.. baltimore, where it is
made, and do they not get higher
prices for hogs and cattle and wheat
than were ever known before? An
swer this, Mr.. baltimore.
Now, Mr.. baltimore, if you are
not going to start up your mills, do
not try to fool the people by telling
them that they can not get work
anywhere else, for it won't do you
any good, and you know it, Mr.. Lat
| timore.
do you think that I would vote
| for party that came within one
year of DISTINGUISHING me? | was
| Just old enough to vote in 1908. l
| could not have voted had l been six
months younger, because my father
was unable to provide me with an
education, and Democratic State
management did not provide the
public schools where | lived.
What l have been able to learn
since is due wholly to the system of
education provided by the mill dis
| trict. MILL MAN.
Henderson, June Is. 1910.
The facts and fguments stated in
these letters speak for themselves
and require no further argument on
my mart in SuDnorf of the view held