Tho Progressive Farmer, August 28, 1900.
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 3.
tion of wealth except skill and train
ing. We have every variety of- ma
terial to work on in agriculture, hor
ticulture, stock-raising, mining,
commerce and manufactures. We
have abundant labor to work with,
but we lack" skill and training to
make our work efficient.
New England and the Middle
States early learned that wealth
comes from . (handling the finished
product instead of the raw material.
North Carolina during all the years
of her poverty has handled only the
raw material, selling it to others to
gain the profit that comes from the
finished product. There must be a
change; otherwise we shall remain
poor forever. Worse than this, we
shall become too poor even to live ;
we shall be ground to powder by the
relentless and irresistible forces of
modern industrial competition. To
us industrial training is an absolute
necessity. Our boys and girls should
be sent to school under a compulsory
educational law. The school term
should be increased to at least five
months a year. A better class of
teachers should be secured by an in
crease of pay. Courses of study
should bo arranged, of a practical
' nature, looking as far as possible to
ward agricultural and mechanical
pursuits. The Agricultural and Me
chanical College for -boys and. the
Normal and Industrial School for
girls should be provided with suffi
cient dormitories, recitation rooms,
machinery and other equipment to
accommodate all the boys and girls
that will come to them. Let these
things be done and North Carolina
in another generation will take her
old place near the head of the col
umn in the sisterhood of States.
A good beginning has already been
made in industrial education. Our
College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts is now training our boys to be
machinists, mechanics, electricians,
chemists, truckers, fruit-growers,
dairymen, stock raisers and manu
facturers. They are in great de
mand. Many of them are called
away before they graduate. Our
supply of skilled laborers and of well
educated civil, mechanical and elec
trical engineers and mill men is
scarcely equal- to one-tenth of the
demand. New enterprises through
out the State are steadily increasing
the demand. Skilled labor and highly
educated engineers are imported
from other States, and are doing the
work and reaping the rewards which
belong to our own boys.
The accommodations at the College
are insufficient for more than one
half or one-third of the boys who
are seeking industrial education.
Last 'year we turned off nearly a
hundred. We need dormitory room
for at least 200 more than we now
have. We need a textile building, a
chemical building, a biological build
ing, an auditorium, an armory and
gymnasium; a library building with
halls for the literary societies and a
building for veterinary surgery. It
is commonly supposed that the State
is spending large sums of money on
our College, but this is not true. The
State appropriation is enly 110,000
annually.
The State owes it to her sons, espe
cially to the boys on the farms and
in the work shops, to provide ample
accommodations for their industrial
education ; to equip the College thor
oughly with all facilities for educa
tion ; to reduce the expense of educa
tion to so low a point that families
of ordinary means may find it avail
able to their sons ; and to provide
opportunities for labor and self -support
in order that bright boys with
out any property at all may be en
abled by their own efforts to be as
fully equipped. for life and to make
as good a start as lads more blest by
fortune and inheritance.
FECM JACKSON COUNTY.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
We held our July meeting with
Sylva Sub. July 14th, 1900. We re
elected our old officers as follows :
President, S. H. Queen ; Vice-President,
A. Bumgarner ; Secretary and
Lecturer, T. M. Frizell ; Steward, J.
A. Williams ; Chaplain, A. J. Long,
Sr. ; Doorkeeper, J. M. Wike. Our
meeting was small but enthusiastic.
We mean to live on so say we all.
Fraternally,
T. M. Frizell, Sec'y
This report was received some time
ago but mislaid. We hope Bro.
Frizell, who is arway prompt in
sending reports, will excuse us. Ed.
Passing resolutions and not carry
ing them ' out in private practice is
foolishness of the most foolish kind.
THE TBUSTS AND THE END.
By John Brisben Walker, in Cosmopolitan
Magazine (Published by permission).
Very curious have been the many
expressions on the subject of the
trusts during the past year. .1
quarterly dividend of twenty mil
lions of dollars for the Standard O.l
Company, and nearly forty-two mil
lion dollars profits for one member
of the steel trust Mr. Carnegie's
end of it for one year are facts
sufficiently surprising to startle even
the deaf and dumb. Either of these
fortunes continued at this rate would
shortly gather to itself all the wealth
of the United States and shortly
thereafter might command that of
Europe as well. It is a very simple
problem in arithmetic. Nearly all
sorts and conditions of men unite in
declaring the danger which lies in
the trusts, and ithe most delightful
suggestions are made regarding the
methods of curbing them. Presi
dent Hadley of Yale suggests that
the heads of these trusts are im
proper men, who should be socially
ostracized. But this idea is evidently
not fully shared by all college presi
dents, because in the "Mail and Ex
press" of February 17th we have
headlines reading this way : "Brown
Alumna? Dine. President Faunce
Makes an Address on the University.
Doctor Schurman Also Speaks ; He
Pays a High Tribute to Andrew
Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller."
"Brains," Doctor Schurman is
quoted as saying, "can make money,
but money cannot make brains. One
of the greatest problems of the day
is presented by the inequality of
wealth. I begrudge no man his
twenty or thirty millions a year
without considering some other
things : Has he increased the wages
of his employees? is he using his
wealth in a way to benefit the peo
ple? If he is, he is abenetactor. All
honor to Andrew Carnegie as long as
he uses his money in such fashion."
If President Hadley had in view
the social ostracism of Mr. Carnegio
and Mr. Rockefeller, it is quite ap
parent that it would be difficult to
carry out the scheme without the
co-operation of his distinguished
colaborers in the field of education.
Other' thinkers, after wrestling
with this difficult problem of what
will become of us if the trusts go on
eating up the wealth ot the country
with such avidity, finally get down
to the conclusion which deserves to
rank with President Hadley's. "If
we have publicity, the problem will
be solved," thev say. Yet we have
publicity now. Everybody knows
the actual facts ; there is no dispute
regarding the conditions ; nothing
that could be divulged could be more
startling than what we now know ;
all are agreed, and evidently some of
these gentlemen have in mind that
old fable of the cat and the mice. If
the cat only had a bell on her, they
would be comparatively safe, they
argue. Ting-a-ling, a-ling, a-ling,
and everybody, they imagine, might
dodge out of the way. But the
trouble is that not everybody can
dodge. Pretty much everybody has
been hearing the ting-a-ling for
quite a while now, and with no other
result than that they are compelled
to sit still to be presently gobbled
up. This gobbling process has now
got to a very interesting stage. It
is now up to the millionaires.
The other day some of the largest
capitalists who have themselvos
been conspicuous in this line of work
heard the ting-a-ling, ling, and look
ing around discovered that the
trus : were bearing down upon
them ; at least, so the public press
gave out at the time of the , Boston
failures and the squeeze in New
York surface railways.
But the gentlemen who are almost
equally divided between social ostra
cism and publicity as a remedy for
trusts, are, ostrich-like, simply pok
ing their heads into the sand and
kicking their heels in the air. They
refuse to recognize this scientific
truth, that the trusts are in the
direction of good organization.
Trusts are doing away with the
wasteful methods that have come
down to us from barbarism. They
are taking the oil business and the
iron business and a hundred other
businesses and bringing them under
that perfect organization .which re
sults from one clear brain exercising
imperial power in the domain of
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Mr. Carnegie is right, when they say
that the world at large is benefited
by the trusts. It is the trend of the
times; it is bringing accurate think
ing and thorough organization to
bear upon the great problems of pro
duction. The advantages of this
process have now been so well learn
ed that the evolution in organization
can never stop. Its formulas must
be applied to every process of life
until they are reduced to a scientific
economy. The President Hadleys
and the advocates of publicity might
as well fix this thing in their minds
first as last. What we call the trusts
are simply the latest development of
organization of the methods of pro
duction. Because mankind at large
has refused to study these problems
of organization and a few individuals
nave mastered the science, those few
individuals are reaping all the bene
fits. It is not part of this discussion to
here go into the methods under
which those organizations havo been
fostered by national legislation. It
is a mere incident of the situation.
Four chief points present themselves,
and only four :
First. The trusts are in the direc
tion of scientific organization of the
methods of production.
Second. Nearly all the benefits of
these magnificent organizations, now
go to a few individuals.
Third. It is contrary to the best
interests.of the public and dangerous
to a republinan form of government
that these profits should continue to
accumulate in such enormous per
centages. Fourth. How are we going to bring
the benefits of scientific organization
into the hands of the many instead
of the few?
A hundred thousand of the best
brains of the world are today en
gaged on this problem. Most of
these brains are those of men who
have begun life by believing in the
system of individual competition.
Therefore they turn away now from
any true solution of the difficulty.
They , exchange such valuable sug
gestions as 'those regarding social
ostracism and publicity. Why? Be
cause they do not wish to see the
figure of governmental co-operation,
which looms up as the only barrier
to individual accumulation.
A man whose father was one of
the great operators of Wall Street,
who controlled so many millions that
he was able to wreck or .make great
business enterprises, said to the
writer recently at a dinner that all
investment was becoming doubtful ;
he did not know where to put a dol
lar. All classes of enterprises were
so largely at the disposal of manipu
lation in the street, one day depress
ed far below par and the next raised
far above, always with a like pur
pose, the one of serving individual
interests, that investment in securi
ties quoted on the street had become
a lottery. It was in the power of
four or five men, by manipulation of
the stock or by starting a parallel
enterprise, or by any other of the
numerous methods so well known, to
make or break literally anything or
anybody. Here were the methods
of- the father being applied to the
son's disadvantage. Greater whales
had appeared in the seas which were
capable of swallowing the sharks ;
the sharks were in jeopardy.
No well-informed man in the busi
ness world of today but believes that
with two or three hundred millions
at his disposal, a brain as able as
some of those now in active carers
nlay in turn attack and crush nne
leading business interest alter an
other until even the millionaires may
be swept from the field and prac
tically all the wealth of the country
concentrated in one great corpora
tion. It is lucky that the first man to
perfect a science of business organ
ization should also be a man whose
impulses carry him in the direction
of education. The same means that
build great universities might 'yiist
as deftly merge the republic into a
monarchy. Any one who is at all on
the inside of affairs in New York has
hourly proof of the endless influence
which money exercises over poli
ticians, the press, educational insti
tutions, and even the ministry itself.
A hundred thousand apologists of
no mean intellectual capacity are al
ways at the beck and call of a hun
dred millions of dollars, together
with a less army of viler minds who
stand ready to tear down the best
and noblest if by so doing they can
earn a fee. '
Here we are then. -- v:
Eighty millions of people under a
form of government which may be
denominated a republic tempered by
the use of money at the polls, up
against the question of the distribu
tion of wealth- Let it go on upon
present lines, and in ten years more
not all the intelligence of the nation
can provide a remedy. And is there
any remedy today? One only
governmental ownership. Buy out
these great interests; pay them at
a fair price an extravagant price if
need be, but buy v them and turn
them into the hands of the, people to
manage for the benefit of all.
Ah! the people! I hear you say
that they are crude and stupid and
corrupt and will not manage well.
Perhaps. Undoubtedly the manage
ment of many will never equal in
economy of management the man
agement of one brain. But then,
economy is not( the sole purpose ;
and if it costs more to manage, let
us bear in mind that this additional
cost will be represented by salaries
of the many.
We have no civil service capable
of administering such things? I
grant you. We have never had oc
casion for a civil service. Our postal
affairs and our collections of customs
dues are comparatively unimportant.
A little better or a little worse does
not concern the average man. He
would scarcely cross the street to
help better the civil service. But if
the streetcars were under the control
of the civil service, if the great
transportation companies having in
charge the safety of his person and
the prompt delivery of his freight
were in charge of the civil service,
how quickly the public interest
would be aroused. Then we should
have a civil service in reality.
I challenge any reasoning mind
taking up this subject without re
gard to past prejudices to arrive at
any other goal than public owner
ship. "Social ostracism," "pub
licity" they are the feeble cries of
children. Let us brace up and look
the situation fully in the face. Either
it must continue, and it is every
moment growing more like an ava
lanche, or it must end in public
ownership.
LATEST N0BTH CAROLINA CE0P BULLE
TIN. Cotton is holding out well only on
stiff clay lands ; all other crops have
unquestionably " deteriorated very
much ; the rain of the 16th caused
some improvement in places ; a large
number of correspondents state that
cotton bolls are very small and are
opening prematurely, and lint from
such cotton cannot fail to be short
and inferior in quality ; fresh blos
soms are not forming and shedding
continues. All reports agree that
the cotton crop, once the most prom
ising crop in the State, has "been
materially cut short by the drought.
Picking has commenced, and the
first new bales have been marketed.
Young corn throughout the sec
tions where showers occurred this
week may yield a fair crop under
future favorable conditions, but
generally the corn crop is now very
poor ; much fodder has dried up com
pletely before the ears have matured.
Tobacco is ripening very, fast, and
the late crop is not good ; cutting
and curing have advanced steadily.
Peanuts, sweet potatoes, and rice do
not seem to be doing well, though
refreshed by showers here and there.
Gardens are practically worthless.
Summer apjles have been sun-scalded
and have dropped considerably ;
winter apples also are poor, and on
the whole the apple crop is inferior,
though many counties west of the
Blue Ridge report a full and fine
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