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

puDilc service corporations, should be
free to the exercise of their business
just as they please with no Limitation
except that thy shall not injure others,
shall not take from the mouth of la
Dor the bread it has earned, shall not
destroy competition and shall not by
a monopoly close the door of oppor-
tunity to others who may wish TO en-
gage in that business.
The proper government regulation
would mean a ike price. Is the
Sun ready for that? The term proper
government regulation" as employed
by the trusts and Mr.. Roosevelt is to
turn over all control 10 the Federal
Bureau. hen the trusts, by the ex-
penditure of their money, in the car
rying Of elections, could often name
the officers of that bureau who are to
egulate them. The railroads have
often made the Interstate Commerce
laws ineffective because they have
m the regulators who are to reg
ulate them. Does any man doubt
that if the government should control
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trust that the trusts and the allied in
terests would be able to name the
officers who were to regulate them ?
This would be the most dangerous
power ever put into the hands OF any
administration. 1t would destroy all
initiative and individual effort and
would give US all the evils Of social
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Durham need not be alarmed. The
Trusts and the big interests are go
ing to do everything in their power TO
pillow around the stump" and, even
after the decision Of the Suprerce
Ct ush monopoly and open the way ID
competition. It will take some time
to do this, but if at the end of the
eight months the tchacco trust should
honestly obey the law, get rid of all
The factories it has bought up in or
der to make a monopoly, the morning
sun that should rise on such a day
would be the brightest day that ever
dawned in the history of Durham
| since the soldiers of Sherman's army,
who got a taste Of Durham tobacco,
began TO send back to Durham fol-
more Of it, and thus began the great
! Obacco industry that built Durham.
The trust having monopolized the bus
mess, now old the town in a vice
and causes most people of that
community to feel hat the to-
bacco trust car XII or make
alive. It is a deplorable condi-
ton for free men in any community in
which one individual has the power
to make it grow or stifle 1t. 1t is a
greater menace when some trust has
this power. Give Durham free com
petition in the manufacture and sale
Of tobacco, and men OF capital there
and elsewhere will build up corpora
tons as big as the Duke Company and
the Blackwell Durham Company be
fore the trust was organized, and in
stead Of it's present population Of 15,-
600. Durham will go forward with
leans and bounds. Better than all:
Durham folks will breathe free AND
know there is no Big Stick held over
their heads to crush the town if it
dares to offend the trusts.
The Sun errS. Durham Will never
| again be a small "water-tank' place.
The name Durham" in obacco is the
best trade mark in the world. With
a fair chance and freedom from in
timidation and destruction from the
tobacco trust, Durham will make more
progress under competitive conditions
than it has made under the restrictive
and selfish power of the tobacco rust.