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Mury Reporter
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FEBRUARY 21, mi.
OPTIMIST WHERE HE IS RIGHT,
AND WHERE HE IS WRONG.
In the lust issue of the Reporter
our friend "Optimist" himself
confirms the conclusion reached
by the Reporter several weeks ago.
to-wit.. that his letters in former
issues of the paper in which he
tried, first, to establish the prop
osition that the American Tobacco
Company was the farmer's best
friend, and the Standard Oil Com
pany a great benefactor, and later
repudiated this untenable position,
were pure rot, and not to be taken
seriously.
But in his last letter. Optimist
affects to take high ground, and
with much socialist platitude, dis
cusses the trust idea in the ab
stract. While he has already ad
mitted that it is a bad thing in
specific cases, yet generalizing, he
declares that tbe trust principle is
a good thing and advises the farm
ers to adopt it. Now we will agree
with him that tbe farmers ought
to adopt it. We have always
preached this, this fighting of tbe
devil with fire. Yet, when the
farmers adopt the trust principle—
forming a great big "Optopus."
and all hands getting into it this
does not by any stretch of fancy
;.iean that the farmers are admit
ting tbat the trust principle is
right. They must adopt it ns an
expedient. For their trust would
be in the nature of defensive
measures, a kind of antidote for
the poison of the American To
bacco Company. Your trust was
organized for purposes of unjust
advantage, discrimination, dicta
tion to legislatures, oppression of
the weak, influencing of law, co
ercion. Theirs must be for mutual
protection against a giant monop
oly, and for preservation from a
common evil. Yours was con
ceived in iniquity and born in sin;
fheirs would be the natural and
spontaneous ebullition of the prin
ciple of life-preservation. Yes,
you are correct, Optimist, when
you advise the farmers to get in a
big trust of their own, and this is
a last resort for the children of
the soil, in their desperate efforts
to save themselves from the danger
of your trust principle.
You have been driven from your
specific allegations, but one can
see that you still have a hankering
after the good of your old friends
the American and the Standard,
though you can't bring up any ex
cuses for their being allowed to
live. You say that we say that
trusts are all wrong because the
Supreme Court decided that the
Standard ought to pay a big fine in
Texas. But you misquote us there.
We said trusts are bad because
under your '"good trust principle"
the Standard cleared 700 per cenf.
in Texas. You allege that the oil
consumers aro paying 2 cell's a
gallon muri! fur oil since. And
this is am ther showing of tin;
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Condensed Statement of Condition of
The Bank of Stokes County
At the Close of Business February 5, 1909.
RESOURCES: LIABILITIES;
Loans and Discounts, - - • $50,705.92 Capital, $ 111,000.00
Overdrafts, 48.48 ; u . u _ o uu
Banking Houses, Furniture and Surplus, 87-88
Fixtures, 3,342.72 Deposits, 100,531.8(5
Cash 51,307.62 •
$111,404.74 $111,404.74
We Want YOUR Account, Whether You Have Much
to Deposit or Little. '
I stupendous power of your "good - '
! monopoly, and au additional rea
son for kicking it out of the State.
You state tbat because Bryan was
defeated, tbis means the death of
j competition. Here you have
failed to grasp a very palpable
fact. For the Nebraskau without
any doubt in tbe minds of all
reasonable people was defeated by
tbe tremenduous opposition of the
Standard Oil Co., the American
Tobacco Co., and other immense
combinations, who beat him
because they knew he was against
their "trust principle,"' and would
if elected be in favor of dissolving
all outlaws of commerce, and send
ing the offenders to the peniten
tiary. They decreed his defeat.
He was defeated. Witness the
power, the dangerous power of
your trust principle. Don't you
know that the Standard Oil Com
l>any called upon the Governor of
Pennsylvania for the appointment
of two Supreme Court judges who
would be favorable to its depreda
tions, and the Governor did
not dare refuse, but obeyed like a
little tin soldier. Just think of
the bold insolence of your "good"
Standard Oil trust principle, when
it can lay its black hand on the
sacred judiciary, and squeeze out
the life of the law itself. Does j
this argue that your "trust prin
ciple" is right ?
No, Optimist, dear, your "trust
principle" is bad. vicious, danger
ous, fatal. Let it alone.
MEW CROP CONDITIONS.
Time For the Farmers to Be
Considering Fertilizers and Learn
ing to Do Their Own Mixing.
Sandy Ridge Route 2, Feb. 20.
Messrs. Editors Reporter:
The time is drawing near for
pitching another crop, and from
indications another large crop of
tobacco will be planted, unless the
dies or something prevents the
farmers from having a full supply
of plants. The beds are now
burned, and the farmers are dis
, cussiug fertilizers. We should not
j lose our better judgment and buy
jan over-supply before we plant a
'full grain crop.
j I want to relate my own ex
| perience for the last two years. In
: the year 15)07 plants were very
scarce, and I was a long time
j planting my small crop, and the
■ plants were then so common I was
disgusted with the prospect. But
I worked it well and gave it all tbe
, attention possible, and when the
Oliver and Chattanooga Plows, Harrows,
€
Cultivators, Garden and Field Fence,
Barbed-Wire, Hoes and Harrow-Teeth at
ROCK-BOTTOM PRICES.
The Following Goods At Cost:
RANGES, GUNS and 2 Buggies.
When you want Hardware, Harness
and Paints, Come to See Me.
A. S. MITCHELL
Walnut Cove, N. C.
THE DANBURY REPORTER.
real horn worm Benson came, you
bet I bad uiy bauds full. 1 believe
it was tbe worst year I ever saw
, for worms. I cured tbe orop fair
and it weighed well and sold for a
fair price. Tbe next year IWS I
tried to increase my crop fifty per
ceut.. and lay aside tbe quantity
of laud, bought 50 per cent, more
guano, and tried to work for the
same quantity of increase iu
pounds, proceeds, etc.. with the
result of 85 cents less for tbe latter
I crop tlian the former, and I dare
say if the crop of horn worms had
been as liberal in 1908 as the for
mer year, they would have de
voured my labor.
It is time the farmers should be
considering their fertilizers and
learning to buy chemicals and mix
I their own fertilizers at home. By
so doing they can save thousands
iof dollars iu freight, hauliDg and
mixing and have a much better
filler by using their own barn lit
! ter or rich dirt. I am confident
our local Farmers' I'nion here (of
about 70 in number) will use over
I one hundred tons of fertilizer this
spring, and in one hundred tons
of 8-2-2 thire will be 42,000 lbs. of
dirt filler. We will figure the
first at $3.60 per ton on this dirt
and we have paid out $7,560; then
figuring tbe hauling of same home
at $3.00 per ton we have $63.00
for hauliog tbe common dirt,
while tbe price we have lieen pay
ing for the mixing is doubtless
far more than both the freight and
hauling of this worthless dirt.
UNION FARMER.
The Famous
Stag
Brand
Paint
is the Best and Most
Economical Paint
in the world.
When in need of
Paint call or write
W. H. CLINARD
WINSTON - SALEM, N. C.
The Largest Paint and
Wall Paper Dealer in
the State.
WEMMMiai
FERTILIZERS OF
REGISTERED __
F. S. Royster Guano Company, Norfolk, Va.
Shapiro's Sample Store
419 Liberty Street.
tls the place to buy your Clothes and Shoes.
To our customers and friends in this section, who have
been dealing with us before, we need no introduction. Our
record for the past Seventeen Years in tbe city of Winston
speaks for itself. Our success in business can be attributed to
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Some of the very best people of Stokes county have
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The Best 3-Back Cane Seat Chair Made at Only 50c.
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