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

MADE famous by the surrender of John
ston at hat place. The soldiers OF
Sherman's army returned to their
homes carrying with them some of the
wonderful Durham tobacco which
they had used to smoke the pipe
Of peace after the surrender. 1t had
been manufactured in an old barn near
Durham and was as fine tobacco as is
grown in the world and the soldiers
carried home with them as much as
they could carry and then when hey
had gotten home and were out of to-
bacco, they wished some more and
they began to write to Durham for
tobacco. Then it was that Buck
Blackwell, Jim Day and Wash Duke,
three men of enter Prise and sense be-
gan to manufacture this tobacco on
a larger scale to meet the demand
which the war had created. Pretty
soon General Julian S. Carr, then a
young fellow, just back from the war,
became a partner Of Mr.. Blackwell
and Mr.. Dukes SON became asso-
ciated with him and other men began
to manufacture tobacco in
The demand grew and the Durham
Bull was known where North Caro-
lima had never been heard Of and the
Duke Of Durham was more famed
than any duke in any kingdom. The
business grew and all these men got
rich-gOt rich in the field of Ameri-
can enterprise and American competi-
ton. Every dollar they made, even
to the million, vas just as honest
money as any made by anybody any
where in business in the open field.
AS they got rich, they spent more and
more for advertising, for perfecting
their plantss, for enlargement: they
sent agents to the isles Of the seas
and to all the countries Of the world
and wherever men smoked tobacco in
cabin or palace, they praised Durham.
There are men in Durham and in
North Carolina now with much latent
business genius who have brains and
ability to do just as big things as Buck
Blackwell, julie Carr and Buck Duke.
Why is it that no such genius in the
world in tobacco has come forward in
this generation of younger men? It
is not for the lack Of brains, it is not
for the ack of genius nor of ~resourc
and ability. 1t is because something
like twenty years ago, having made
millions in The tobacco business, the
genius of Mr.. Buck Duke conceived
the idea Of becoming the Tobacco
King of tn world and by association
with such men as Ginter and other
men who had made money in the to-
honao ~-l -11~ ;-$aro-fr ~
trust that should become a mighty
Colossus and bestride the world-to
monopolfze for themselves all the
profits in tobacco from the plant to
the smoking. It began first by an
organization Of the Richmond and
Durham and Baltimore interests and,
in time, by reason Of the control OF
the cigarette machines that almost
monopolized the cigarette business Of
the world, it's unsatisfied NAV began
to take into itself all the smoking to-
bacco and plug tobacco interests IN
America, but the dream Of the kings
of tobacco was larger han any con-
tinent. They wished world wide sway
and world wide monopoly. Competi-
ton between the American Tobacco
Company and the Imperial Tobacco
Company Of England forbade the com
plete and perfect fixing of the price
the farmer should get for his tObac-
co, and with great ability and %esour
: the American Tobacco Company sWal
lowed up the Imperial Tobacco Com
, pany of England or made such ar
engagements with it as to make it prac
, tically one concern, thus giving thi
mighty monopoly virtually the contro
t of smoking and chewing tobacco am
cites made from American to
bacco in the world, civilized and IN
! ! civilized. It would seem that with thi
q mighty power, which gave then