The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-06-06

decision. which held that the Amerl-
can Tobac was a trust,
Chat is, it was an illegal com bination
in restraint of trade, and II mao
been guilty Of intimidation, and that
it must adjust it's affairs in accord
ance with the Law or be denied the
light of interstate commerce and go
into the hands Of a r~eceiver) The
News and Observer printed an article
on What Would Durham Do IN
which this paper stated that Dur
hams wonderful growth was due TO
the mighty impetus in the tobacco
manufacture by Independent tobacco
concerns which were begun by jim
Day, Buck Blackwell, julie Carr and
Wash Duke. Before ever the tahacco
trust was dreamed Of. Durham tooac-
co was being sold under III shadow
of the pyramids of Egypt, had drawn
forth q iet.tr of appreciation from
Lord Tennyson, a been smoked IN
the palace Of the Emperor of Turkey
and was being rapidly sold in all the
islands Of the sea. This came about
under the rule OF competition by
manufacturers who started In bust
ness with only a few thousand dol
lars Of capital. They put all their
earnings back into the usine and
if there had never been a obacco
trust, the individual enterprising men
In the business in Durham and those
who would have Joined them would
have developed the trade equally as
much as It has beer developed by the
trust. Indeed, the word DURHAM"
having obtained worldwide fame,
was the biggest asset in the smoking
tobacco and cigarette business.
Where Durham has now two gigantic
trust plants, under competition and
fair trade it would have a score, and
where under the domination of It's
tobacco business by the trust it has
grown to less than 10000 people. it
would have had $4,000 under compe-
tition, and the young men in Dur
ham and about Durham would have
a as fair a chance to enter the bus
mess or their own hook a. either the
Blackwells or Dukes or Cars had
just after the War.
The editorial above referred
to on what Would Durham Do?''
has been widely discussed and met
with wider approval than any edi-
torial that has appeared in The
News and Observer in this decade.
Not a few wise and sensible people
~ ,~1 ol% f n,rhoro ha11o v,r;f+nr
the editor words OF approval Of the
spirit and temper OF that article. But
~ contemporary, the Durham Sun,
unconsciously blinded by the power
and glory Of the tobacco trust and
naturally SO much interested in Dur
ham that it fears any change, does
not take this view Of it. Indeed, it
says that if the tobacco trust should
be dissolved and the tobacco business
restored to the old time principles of
competition Durham would, in a
short time, be little more than the
wayside water tank that it was not
so many years ago. The suns long
editorial gives the views of those who
think the trust is responsible for
Durham's growth and progress and
that it's dissolution would be followed
by a deluge, and is as follows:
The Destructive Mania.
1.-THE esteemed News and Observer
devotes two columns in the Thursday
issue to painting a picture of the mag
nificent city that Durham would be
and the immense prosperity that
would overtake other North Carolina
cities if the American Tobacco COM
pany was destroyed and the business
Of tobacco manufacturing would re-
vert to the small factories conducted
by single individuals.
'If the theories of The News and
Observer were carried out Durham
would in a short time be little more
than the wayside water tank tina
it was not SO many years ago. The
world business that Is conducted in