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

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most of tobacco development is d..
and whose Dor makes possible -
cry dollar that the u
are reduced by trust methods T.
condition Of practical slavery. Otr.-
engaged in the tobacco business
Chose who would not be satisfied t. =.
newer Of wood and drawers OF va.
tiers for the trust)-except a few score
Of we'll paid men employees have been
destroyed without money. &C 10 arv
iowa where enterprising men started,
to manufacture tobacco and see ,ba
abandoned buildings, and follow tho
wrecks and bankruptcy and poverty
and blasted hopes due to the policy q,
the trust to buy out all the Concerns
that a built a large business or 70
destroyed without mercy. Go 70 any
processes of absorption, the trust has
bought out many plants and paid
price for them that the owners were
willing to take, but nearly every con-
Germ that has sold out to the trust has
done SO under duress Take for cx-
ample. the P. n. Hanes Company Of
Winston-Salem, one Of the biggest
plug manufacturing concerns IN the
country. n owners did not wish to
sell and could not AVE been induced
to sell if conditions had permitted and
they could have been sure OF a fair
erful trust. Its owners saw that IL
they fought the fight to a finish. the
mighty power OF the trust, with lis
ruthless methods would make the light
one in which their business might 10
bankrupted and believing that discre
ton was the better part OF valor. sold
out for a large sum to the trust: but
the tobacco trust could never have
bought out the P. H. Hanes plant IL
conditions had existed in the tobacco
business as they did before the trust.
by gradual processes, crushed most
competition.
The Sun says The News and ObSer-
yer engages IN "a pitiful lamentation
from the Sitting Of individual effort
and enterprise that results from the
large organization" It is "a pitiful
thing" In a country like America,
where the early pioneers fought for
the right to think as they pleased and
to carry on their business without be-
ing sandbagged or slugged as the to-
bacco trust sandbags and siugs all
competitors whom it desires to destroy
or buy, that individual men and en-
terprise in the tobacco business have
almost been destroyed. The very ar
gument OF the u proves the cruelty
Of the rust 1t has driven men or
ability out of the business and COM
PEELED them to accept employment
with 1t or to go out Of the tobacco
business altogether. 1t is true, as the
Sun says, that whenever they will take
a position, 18th individual manufac-
turer whose business was absorbed by
the company could secure "a posi-
ton with the American Tobacco Conn
pany," but most Of these tobacco men
preferred a fair chance in a fair field
to build up their own business than
to become employees of the trust. The
policy of the trust has been, and it has
been a shrewd and a wise policy, that
whenever they would decide to crush
a concern or buy it out, to offer as an
to the owner to sell it to
the trust. that the owner should have
a position and keep on with the busi-
ness at a good salary. The tobacco
men Of experience and ability COM
to sell out did not wish to go out
Of the tobacco business that they had
learned. The tobacco business was their
profession. their means of a liyeli-
hood. If they declined the offer of the
trusts to work with it, they had to
quit the tobacco busine esq and start life
over again and they were forced to
accept the salary given them by the
trust or go into another business. 1t
Is a pretty serious thing for a man,
n has built up a fine business to
turn aside in the middle of life and