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TheWeekly Recorder ?UBLIBHKD VSBT WKPSMDAf ' rrr lit ... I 1 t 3 11 J 3 I. -.. gima. ne present ine name ox - iiiuaineuus i wiev pamas wucu tor Mi. sr. A. bdkoxdsqjt, Fillers nd Wrapper last year as Proprietor ! the Edmondson War I they do thia year? Don't they re i bonse at South Boston, Yit, He u gelate tlteir prices by the aupply o known by the whole trale ia every I the grades they use? , Are they not PBIO OF8DB8CRimO J One Year.in Advance, Bix Months. $150 75 i THE WEEKLY'S THIN AR GUMEHTON THE PKICK OF CUTTEK9. Thb Ricordkb does not propose to notice the billiugate effered as argument in the Dollar Weekly's article," but shall show that the prices of Cutters on the Durham market average higher than they did last year. Our former article was confined wholly to the price of Cutters on the Durham market." Oar assertions have not been contradicted, they cannot be disproTen. He tried to get proof to the contrary nut ntterlv failed. He then rashes off to other markets and secures testimony of a few speculators and plug manufacturers that Cut ters have" declined on their market Our object in noticing his rile mess at first was to show that the Dukes were paying good prices on the Dur ham market, and that W. Duke was the best man that eyer lived or died mN. C. That our market was just what we have always claimed for it, the most uniform and best market in the world. Webster of fered testimony and proved that as to Reidrville, Winston and Dan vilie, our assertions were correct. Come Webster, don't be a hypocrite any longer. Come out like an tonest, truthful man and advise the farmers to sell their tobacco in Dur ham where there is no decline, where prices are uniformly high. He ha utterly failed in his half page stuf to contradict a single as sertion we made. Even for argument sake, we ad mit that Cutters have declined on all the markets. Nothing would have been more natural since there was fully one fourth of the 18S9 crop Cutters. No grade of tobacco has ever held up in prices when there wv such an abundance of that grade produced. Buyers always regulate prices by the supply and demand. There is no other safe rule to goby. Then it is a remarkable fact that Cutters should have remained so high. A leading Richmond specu lator informed us that prices on Cutters had held up remarkably well. He has bought hundreds of thousands uf pounds. Mr. W. L. Walker, who has been in Asheville the past season says, it is the opinion of the Asheville deal ers that Cutter have sold higher on that market than usually. He has bought over 100,000 pounds of Cutters. Webster s attacks on Mr. Duke are too malicious to call for any ex tended notice. Duke's reputation is so far above the attacks of a dema gogue that it cannot be harmed. Below we give some testimony on the Durham market. We have heretofore confined ourselves to prices on this market, and assert again that our facta have not and tannot be difproven. on take into xoBsiaerratrca p supply, they are selling re ly high. I find they art bet-, ified than they have been in sectioa; he is a pieneer in the to bacco business, having engaged U it twenty years ago. He is not only a warehouseman bat a big speculator m leaf. He says: ? "I do not hear a particle f com plaint among the farmers; as te priees ot Cutters, they are. selling well, as high as any other grades. When too take into WMidemuoa the large markablv ter satisfied than they many rears. My business taxes me to quite a number of the markets and I hear no complaint from any one against the eigarette combina tion, except what 1 learned was in Webster's Weedy. They- uoald buv Cutters mach cheaper than they do. They often make bids on their own bids., I regard the 1889 erop as one-fourth Cutters which makes the supply very gieat, and has here tofore always caused great decline in prices of those grades when there was an abundance produced." Now if the above don't convince every one except this braying dem- ogogue, who presides oter the col umns of the Dollar Weekly we will give him another dose, which may not act as Smith's Bile Beans. In fact, we believe his soul and body are steeped in the essence of slander, meaness and malice to such an extent that reason, tacts and the truth cannot penetrate them. gaarded by supply and demand? But let's see how the Dukes have acted on the Winston market. From Oetoberlst,18S8toMay 1st, 1880, their - psrcnases averaged $19,80; from Ocieeer 1st 1889 to May 1st 1890, $20.77. 'This shows they paid in Winston ninety-seven cents in thnhnndxed more the past tobc- ce year than they did the previous yea This was done in the face of the last that there has been fully one pound in four of Cutters sold during the time they ran prices up We do not believe there is a tobac co dealer in the country, who will net say that when there is a full sutplv of any one grads on hand that prices on that grade decline. Tet the exception we have shown in faver of the present prices on Cut ters is anprecidented and without a parallel in the history of any to- baceo market The hooks of the warehouses iu Durham show that the average prices paid by W. Duke Sons & Co., en this market from October 1st 1889 to May 1st 1890 were upwards of $20.00 per hundred while the trices said from October 1st 18S8 to May 1st 1S89 den't reach $18.00, Now this fool-mouthed brayer wants to known if 'Thi Recorder Even the eloquence, logic and bibli-1 thinks the people are foots?" By CAM. W. A. LEA, of the Parrisn Warehouse Com- .. a if pany sati: I nave Been in ine warehouse business in Durham ten ears and farmers are better satis fied with prices on Cutters thaa they have ever been. Not with- MaudiDg fully one-iounn ox ine HVJ rrop were Cutters, the prices since the beginning of the tobacco year Lave averaged higher than at any time since 1 came to Dsrham. As compared with other grades of tobacco t atters ere much higher in proportion, except prices on Wrap pers. 1 Late recently visited many see tionsiu Chatham, Alain an ee, Or ange, Caswell. Person, Uranville, Wake and Durham counties, but have beard nt complaint against tie cigarette manufacturers, W. Duke Hons & Co., and the American Tobacco Co. Being ea gaged in the warehouse basinets, tbe farmers would naturally hate complained to me bad tbey been dissatisfied; bat on th? contrary, they frequently tell tne that Cutters are Utter looked af ter than any of the other grades, that is tbey are better pleased with their prices on Cutters." Again, we coae forward with nn cotrottrtable proof from Old Tir- cal lore of Sam Jones can ' have no effect upon hint, but leaves him tbe same whini"g,snepingfsllow. We now give the testimony of the farm ers champion. Their chosen leader. The one in whom they have implicit confidence; the one from whom they seek advice on prices on tobacco as well as when to selL We select me. joki w. ropa. the manager of the Farmers' Alli ance Warehouse in Durham. We expected to find him (judging from the fallacious article ia Webster's Dollar Weekly) cursing himself hoarse because the Dukes were rob bing and stealing the farmer's to bacco off their warehouse floor. One wouldhavthooght if there had been any truth in the article written by Webster that friend Pope woald have secured enough farmers to have driven the Dnkes front the hallowed soil of Durham. That they would have been thrown, fac tory and all into the deep sea, Oae would have thought that if there was afaraei ia the "Bright Tobee- ca Kelt" of North Carolina, who had been swindled oat of his hard earn ings, had been robbed of his bright Cutters that complaint wonld have been made to the Farmers' AUianee manager and the whole 60,000 Al liance farmers wonld have taken steps to have them punished ss high way robbers. But sash was not the case. We asked Mr. Pope what he knew about the Cotter erop. He said: "Last year there was a big flier crop and priees were very low, sell ing from 13.00 to $5-00. This year Snces are much higher Because the emand u greater than the supply, i Farmers have no cause to eomplsia at prices paid for Cotters. I hear no eompiaiui now Kauu n ci garette combine. Last fear there was raised the largest erop et Cut ters 1 have ever seen and I have bees ia the warehouse business for thirteens year. Cutters are selUng as high as other grades en the Dur ham market considering quantity." The Weekly tayi: 'We assert it as a fast that this trust could not and would not have been formed if Mr. Duke had stayed out of it, and it is idle for him to say he did not intend to red ace the price of the farmers' tobacco, siace he has doas it." This, we claim has not beea ions on the Durham market, and oar ob servation goes te show that It has aot beea reduced on any market by Mr. Deis. Lot's sea Winston. The Weekly qaotes from P. H. Hayes i Co., Ft J. Eeyaolda A Co., who say Cutters have decline from II to SO per cent His witnesses are pro miasat plag maaafactnrers, who buy millions of pounds of fillers and Wrappers, but bo Cotters. Tbeirop taloa ae to Cutters most thee be takes as eae who "does aot know macheboat the case." Bat right kerf we wonld like te ask tar Wi. no means, lney are tair-niinaea sensible citizens except tbe snapping dsmogogical monstrosity who pt ev ades orsr the slanderous shet called -Webster's Dollar Weekly. It will he long after Gabriel blows his hem and the arch enemy of the good people of North Carolina is east iafej outer darkness, before they eaa be fooled into believing the vile, naliceoe stall which falls from tbe pea vf the Weekly's editor. He rants and howls himself hoarse over the dear people and thinks they are be lieving tbe vile charges he is at tempting to cram down their throat. 8am Jones says: "Once one of oar little boys ran np a stair-wsy, sailing his little brother, and as he said "Buddie Pant," something up stairs echoed back "Buddie Paul! ' So ran down to his mother and said, "Mamma, what is that upstairs that said ,Baddie Paul' every time I said 'Beddie Paul' and his mother ex plained it by telling him it was the echo ef his own voice." Now Webster has beea ia his eeaetam yelliag'Wsehington Duke is robbing the farmer,' and the echo coming bck "Wash Daks is rob bing ths farmer." He continues to yelL Bst alas! some stray visitor will some day convince him that it is oalv his voice .echoinar back his w malicious charge. After the political conventions are laid this political dead beat will be convinced like one of Sam Jones' penitent. "He was agonising; the preacher went np to him, trying to encourage him. He finely exclaimed, MI am not oneof the elect I am one of the reprobates, I feet it all over. This wilt be the predicament of Webster before theHIdes of Novem nor. This same follow ssys no shew the enormity el his (Dokes) profits from the Wast, subtract foor, cents front every pound of tebeeco wbicb he bays, aad he eaves tbe modest little sua of 1318,000 where dees it some fresaf Ket out of ths leaf !! era, bat oat ef the farmers of this seo tion.w Vow let's figure a Utile, edroiit r,g forargnmeote sals that Mr. Dole does not pay as maoh per year en 7,300,000 pends of tibscce as saint fw speculators and plug manufac turers thlak tbey are wvrth. Let's nonpar! the prices of cotters before Mr. Dole bejaa the maoafaetare of tatters aad that he pays bow and see if his robbery as Webster C tlls it has not provsa taefieil te the far atom. Before he bop a to menufaa rareeiferettes ths average price was 111,00 per Bsalred, Lr ostlers till 7,100,000-1781,000. Now tbs aver SfS price Duke psys oa this samo aatoaat Is 130,00 which is $20, a 7,-100,000-11.440,000 which shows that ha psyi the farmer by msnuf . tarlBgeigarsttes $639,000, This pertamisf all is ared for ol ask the farmers in all senousuess if tbey desire to drive the Dukes from ths State. Surely they do not. If Mr. Webster is sinoere in what he elaims why don't he advise the farmers to sell their cutters iu Dun ham, Instead of Beidsville and Dan ytlle, where they have declined so uoh. Right here, we will say that wo have for years claimed that Dur .. . . . i ii ham was ths oest iodmoo manei, and paid higher prioes than any other. If thia aroh hypoorite should bo arrsigned before .ths farmer a in North Caroliaa. they would, with oaeurunimtus voioe, exclaim: "De part ye hyp writ, demogogu e." Rome of the best juJgds sty, mat ssasiiy there is soil on tbs bright to baeoo markets ia Virginia aad North Carolina, 100,0)0 003 pun Is, of ihis amount tnare word usually 12,030 000 pounds of ti itieri. f i u tua last erop wa 35 pjr cent' short, which ldives the araiU&r ruai In the tw j State's lst yer 7501JOJ0. fho agree that one tourth of this. is cutters, which woald make 18,750. 000 pounds of cutters ; showing that there is a surplus over what ia needed aud what u usually raised, of 6,760 000. In the face of these facta it is somjthin unheard of in tobaceo eireUs, for cutters to keep up in prices ae tbey h tve done Wo have ihown that the Dukes, nuWitbsiaua- ing .bis grat turplus w. ich is enough to supply the dtuianl for at lea: 9 maths of neityear if anoth er pouud should not be raised, have actually p.iid about oue out nu riu ihepoiiui fora'lfiey h.ve bought. Again when the awiag pri.e on all the tobacco raised in North Carolina and Virginia U ab -ut 12 ceuU per pound, the price pai l by the D..ka will average 8 cenu ia the t-ound ore than the aversga p:ke if t: whole cr p. It is natural tu .t tLe farmeis will turu tanr 6tUain to ra'wiog t'uat trade they ceo get t .e most aouey fW. Hi tha VV . J I Bco' process they ctu rue over one bait of taeir crop cu'.ters. No mauufao torero have duue m re U put up tbe prices of tubicci tl sa iLe men Vf e'. iter w Uh.s dr.tea from the Stjte. his fellow aeaiu sys. " The tobacco belt did without the cigarette fao torus far many year." Yes, thet d without the cigiref.e vata, they aJse g t an aterge tt 11 cents per pound on cutters. This shows the consistency of his arguments, tbe fl- scy of his lrgic, the hypocracy of his position. The Weekly again says : "ne warn Ifr. Duke that be had as well try to darken tbe sun with tbe smoke of his cigarettes ss to try to bull-dose tbe btelligeat people of North Carolms." Well, bjw really, who has tried to bull-doze tbe people? Not the Duke, taey hate followed tbe even teasr of their ways, worked bard, maasjted judiciously and bats the confidence ef every intelligent, sensible lean, woman and child, in herth Caroliaa. In sptaklrgof Wasbioeton Duke we quote a few extracts from a lei ter wn'tea .the Bute Chronicle b Qen. James M. Leacb, oneof tbe oldest trustees of Trinity College Oea. Leach sajs: "It 1 weie akrd who is to-day the greatst and nvl Bserul mas in North Carolina, I would answer, Washington Duke, ef Du- kam. Vt. ti. t'rat en, wbofo nano represents a great deal, did more fr the dotation of the great maiss than any man of his d ty, and Wash met a Duke by bis friendly gift to Trinity ColKgo is fuilboring tbe d sign of Dr. Crateo. 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