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Factory Hands and Fari LaiHirers (From The Atlanta Journal Masazinc, Decei^^^^jO. IfW) By Bishop Warren A. CandJei’^'^ No grood man can be indifferent to I children on the fai T-in the South are the conditions and wants of poor peo* | in dire distress aiwP*#^ Hiring in de- ple. ' plorable living conc^ona, whereas The godly man will always feel a the mill help are satUtoHiH and are so sjmpathetic concern for the needs of much better off than nMy were on the day laBbrer and the wages which the farm until there is oi^ one ens- i compensate him for liis dr.:ly toil. ^ wer to this propaganda o*v)hedding 4 God is on the side of t'lc faithful j tears for the ‘poor mill toilers and honest wage w )rkcrs. The ! the South’, and that is, the f^reon Holy Scriptures abound in passages shedding the tear is wanting to which reveal the interest of our Hoa-1 lect’for the benefit o^ some labor venly Father in the men of tiil and and because of the jealousy by aoma which command b/other)> dealing the New England mills as to tlm with them on the pai t of tb/<u who cess of Southern mills.” employ them. Our people living on farms are the The law ghen through U^ KJt re* sufferers of the heaviaat bardetu at quired honest and f.romp ;)Hy';ient this time, and they deserve the great- of wages: “Tho i >halt noi defravd est sympathy and the most generous Lhy neighbor, neither rob bin;; the wages of him that J5 hired .^iia'l not i Massachusetts w«r« Uie most conronon [ the jirofits thJk may he ‘derive i li mu j coiisiderations given far their aale ^ it. > ^ i ' '^^H<~e^re”a few of there are wrongi prevalent in the. , ^He.e are a few of those advertise- cotton mill^ by all means they should -.1 r' , i**® corrected I5y the owner* of t^e • em*b7r .nd t^ slates in^hich they are ” ‘To h<> «!Or n A liv^ 1 V -J r-- I Englanders owning mills j Ifi f ^ South and Southerners assra:;-! ‘‘ ‘p/cm thrinden..nA /cK * ) this. But they will! ...u n™,o® * ‘*®^*"‘**”‘ Chronicle, resent the intermeddling of outsiders actuated by doubtfdl motives. ' I 66 6 is a Prescriatioa far ( Colds, Gnpps^ Fin: Bilious Fevet .and Mahris^ It is the most apeedy remedy hsMI WHAT DO March 9, 1780; ‘‘ ‘To be SOLD, for w'snt of em ployment, an exceedingly likely Ne gro Girl aged sixteen.’ ‘‘P>om the same paper, March :J0 of I and April 6, 1780: . ’ . ‘‘ ‘To be SOLD, very heap, for no other reason than want of employ, an I exceedingly active Negro Boy, aged'^ likely Negro Girl, aged P. S. JEANES DO? A \— MRS. MARY T. MANGIJM me t'crl like I was smothering to d( uth. ■‘(■on.iti|>a!;(.;i hitluMcd me a great deal, and I’m sure was i'nu.>ied i)y a sluggi'*h livi' ■, .\.. . ir.edicine 1 could find woiilil b'dii me more thgn just temporarily. "Recentl. n\\ iiuulier vi.siUal me and got me to ti,v .''oiVgo;,, which hail done tht .“^ame f >i .no ,1 c '.ri eat anythiirg I want, e'vt n < a’,h..„'o. without a sign of ‘abide' with thee all nish;* u.nfl ♦h? morning.” (I..eviticu.s xix, Lt.) Again the Mos.tic law say ,; “rhou shall not oppress an hired servant ; that is poor and needy, wh.'ther he be of thy brethren or of thy .sManger'^ , that are in thy land within Lhy gate.s. .At h'.s day thou .shall give htni hiy hire, neither shall the sun go'down uffion it; for he is poor, and .sclteth his heart upon it; le.st he (*ry again.st thee unto the Lord, and it j)i* '>'1 ‘'fi*'* thee.” (Deuteronomy, xxiv, M, 15 ) T*be prophet •Malachi clasHeS- the gr(»ssest immoralities, any wrong to a wage earner, and denounces it in the slronge.st terms: “I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, help. They build’and support their j'*'''th ft.’ own churches and schools. They have no recreation halls and swimming pools. What they make is sold in a “ *1*0 "free-trade market,” and what they buy In enhanced in price by a protec tive tariff. But no propaganda is put forth on their behalf. Upon this phase of the subject the Talladega (Aja.) Home speaks point edly, and with minleration, as follows: “In recent years considerable pub^ licity, clo.sely akin to propaganda, has been given to the alleged low wages of the Southern textile industry. Vet lendent Chronicle, Decetnb'er 8, 1780: 1 Megro Child, soon expected, bree^, may be owned by any to take it, an^ money Continental Journal, An Advance Showing Of New Spring "From March 1, 1 an , extraordinary likely Negro Weh^, 17 years old; .she I can be warranted to^ strong, healthy and good-hatured, ff|m no notion of freedom, has been ahj^jra useful ^o a Farmer’s Kitchen and Mairy, .ind is riw lri':lg<•^.i< u I’ilD t(i wiirk and t n led my < feel like a ;ie\ woman. .Mangum, 1117 WDlf N. C. Sadler-Owens riiarmacv. .\gi i Adv. 7^/ord to the wise IS SUFFICIENT * We Are In a Black Business But We 'Freat You W'hite. New Year Greetings put my liver and ag.'iinst the adulterers, and against inslipatmn, I fal^e swearer.s, and against those that .Mis. .Mary oppie.ss the hireling in his wages, the .St., Durham, widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside stranger from hi.s right, and fear not me, saith the I/ord of Hosts.” ( Malaehi ili, 5.) I bese tea hing.s of the Old 'I'e-sta- ment are e.hoed in the Lplstle of .James, the poster brother of our Ixird, when he condemns rich men who have ;ir! ! hold ill-gotten gains; "Hehold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your field.s, which iSM>f you kept l»ark li.v fraud, erieth: and the cries offhem whit h have reaped have (Enter ed into the ears of the Lord fif .Sab- aot h.” ( lames \, 1.) lint wh.ie these and other .S rip- :.ot hi 'iicalv (iod’s tender care fi r the (l:iv lal'.ircr, the divine law is not le - I I'liMia I tig in i'e(|u!ritig jiHtive :o u!l eliis.ses arul e .nditiiT. ^ of iftiMi. Whi'M'toie it IS said. ‘ Ye shall do no ii: .glitc a,1 ..s ^.ulguie.il; ih hi -halt not ic.-iie-l the person of the I)(i(,r nor honor the person of the migiity; hut in right eousne.ss shall thou judge thy neiglihor.” (I.e.'i.ieus xix, 1.5.) With (iod neither want nor wealth ik permiti,-! to deflect in the slighti'st degree the judgment from justii'e. ■ It is to he feared that .some of our overheated “reformer.s” have not t obeyed this prec«‘|)t of the divine law. during thht time milt after' mill has I been built in the South without the nece.ssity of importing foreign labor, and with no difficulty found in secur ing native white laborers a.i employ ees. i “Bearing in mind that the.se mills have no earthly power to force people to work for them, it follows that their ,e(ii|)loyee.s have come to them voUin-' Xarily and in order to better their elo- ri' mie condition.' | “It is common knowledge that Southern labor is recruited from the farms, and, therefore, if, as it is charged, textile wages are low, it, must follow that the returns of the Southern agrieultiiralist are still low er. "( onsidering the matter then in its hi oader economic aspect, the critics of Southern mill conditiun.s .should not he eveititig all their efforts toward cre ating a .still further di.sparity between iPilii;Crial and farm labor, but rather ■ h'Hilil la- emleavoring to c )rreet the tri.jhh a. i:.< sourct.. If the economic pM Idem - lit the .Southern agricultural- ■ ! . an . then any ills which lu.t iX.'t HI the cotton mills will uu- loiiiaticady correct themselves. "In the criticism of Southern tex tile wages frequunt raferencea are, made to liigher elxtile wages in New Kngland. This disiiurity is not as great as is usually indicated, because of the extremely low house rent of Southern mills, usually with water and lights given free and coal sold to the employee at cost. But even ‘ without taking into conkideration these requisite.^, there ii nothing like the not known to havt* any %riHiig, b.K being w'th Child, whick c'^iy cause of btlkg sold.’ ” Some of the advertisements A pulsive.to the last degree; bot show how cupidity is ahl^-to co compassion and to cornipLcoiuclence. And the propaganda now prosecut ed against the textile industry of the ^ South may be expected to'proceed for These lovel.v Spring Frocks are in Prints, Crepes and Geor gettes in smart new shades. They'are delightfully new in color as well as style. It will be a pleasure to show ,jfou. ConleJJ!tM^al^ m I tillANDMOTHER'S ibREAD Jifci7c "tegc i BLACKEYB PEAS No. 2 Can lOC nE3 KlDNEy BEANS No. 2 Can loc SPAGHETT KARO SYRUP No. Blue Ljtbel ft ('«a No. 10 Can A hiigful of good fortiDK'. j)ro.s|K*nt\ and .''iticorosl wi.Hhes' for ID.'IO i.'< our .simero wish for our friiMids and cu.Ntonu'rs. \V<‘ ta!vi‘ this opportunity of thanking tho.^o who co.-itrihulod to the succo.-.s of our husiiu'ss, during tht' jtast yt»ar. W’o hoiH' thesi' pK'as;int relations will cou- tinui*. Pin S COAL CO. rdophont* Nc. 7.') r: They have c tndemned the mill ttwners <iisparity between textile wages in of our section with indiscriminate u ul New England and the South as there unsparing denunciation. is between agricultural wagesTn .New It i.s (juite poHsil>le that the owni^rs Kngland and the South, and managers of some cotton mills in “In ‘Crops and Markets’ of the De- the South deserve cen.sure for their partment of Agriculture for July, heartless dealings with their opera- farm wages in the state from .Maine lives; but I know of no such case. On down through Pennsylvania averaged the contrary, I am bound in justice'to! fd.57 per day, while in the states ofi applaud the methiajs and means em- North ( arolnia and South Caro’ma ployed in all the cotton mills I have Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, visited with reference to their dealings ' farm wages averaged'only $1.15 per With their employees; they are more day. . ' ihiHi humane; they are fair and gen- "We .'tubmit that those who are gen- I lous to a di-gree. uinely intel»>.^ted in the South and the These mill men, in so far as my welfaie of her citizens sh luid first ili* knowledge extends, provide churches reel their el forts toward an improve^ HI the mill sections, oflvn erecting, in enmomic status of the farme ■ rather whole 01 in great |)art, more than one than the textile worker who in reality ehuix h in u mill village in tinier to >■'' nothing more nor le.ss than a farm- ftSe 63e READY TO SERVE cans AKER HITS i 25c ft o'CLO BUTTER > EGGS Each Egg GuBTBIltt doL 49c CampbgU*! Tomato Soup 3 cans COFFEE tjlc lb. 45e FANCY CREAMERY Cut Freih From the Tub CHEESE Rich mild CreRmy ■ »■ 27#, • Run-Down 'About seven year# ago, I waa all run-doivn, worn-out and never fnlt good,” aaya ^ Mra. Harry Cantrell, of Cape Girardoau, Mo. ”A chair would be mor# welcome any timo t>mn my work. ”I waa fto tired when I would aria# in the morning. In- 0tead of being reftt- ed, I felt terribls. ^At last, mothar told me to take Cardui, and I did. After the firat bo^ tie, I could tell a <L Tereooft, and when I had taken llv# bottles the ti.'ed feeling wee all gone, i flit like ft diibrani ptntm, CaxdaL I er, wh.i, him.self, has improved hie" economic status by going ’i the tot- ti n mills.” That this propaganda, in the .nain. 'ssues from New England is no long er a matter of doUbt, and it.s motive is manifestly more commercial in its inspiration than compas.sionate in .its am. By the Hrcsisithle operation rf ec<>n< mic laws the textile indu.stiv is y left behind being forced .southward. Very worthy men from New England are coming^ "^er\e the denomiriatioiia! preference* i f the operatives in the mills. 'I hey provide also school buildings, lecieation hulls, swimmuig jiools, e,c., for the blessing and eomfort nf ,he people whom they employ. They draw their help from the neighhoring farming districts, an.d theY oiMTatives aie in most la.ses far better off at the mills than they were on the farms which they them. nien from New England are coming Speaking to this p.iiiit, the- writer with il, impelled by their finaniiuWn- of an article which appeared recently teles.s. But some df their former, :r the .Montgomery (.■\Ia.) Advertiser neighbors and^fidends are alarmed I’y 1 did not misatale the facts when among their going to the South, and carry- other things he .said; j ing their mills with them. ‘‘He»’ce j "Being president of a country bank those teals” lor the mill operatives in' that loans principally to farmers, and ’ ^^i^thern mills. j also president of two small cotton New England has long had the his-! mills, 1 am in po.siticn to speak wLh toric habit of reforming the South, .some degree of accuracy as to the and generally it moves to the work un earnings of farmers and mill help. der mercenary motives. Such, waft the “The help employed in our mill viL | case in the matter of slavery and the lage is entirely liKal people from the sieve trade as shown by the fftctft re farming class of people who had nev-| corded in the renuerkartiic kfeli snv er seen a cotton mill until our cotton titled ‘‘Notea on the History ftf mills were built. They are living in'wy in Mftasachusetts,” wiilten by better houaes and under better living i George H. MoM<», ,a New Eni^laiider. conditions than they ever dreamed of Janies Mftdieoft, In the coliTej^tioa before these mills were built. Oad of I which framed, the Federal Conatifcu- the glrla, around 18 years of age, will I tion, pnopoi^ the pi^ibitton ol the make more money during on* year trade at oace; bat the pn^odal i than the whole family of aix or seven' ^hs defeated by the votes Mftd leader- would malfe on the farm. ‘TheBe people; >hip of the SnglaBd atatea and have better clothe h^er food, het- fthe jpeoMbitien poOtponed until ter living' conditions and 410 to spend) twenty Veank-4n orddlr that the Naw it \o QUAKER MAID i.. ■f OVEN BAKED cans 25e FLOUR / AAF ,Or Self-Riaiiif A 9Se CORN looa EWand lOa Peoa TBNDF.K TASTY No. t Cana STRiMfiLESS BEANS No. 1 Can lOc medium GlinBN LimaBaaMi ISe r»5e ^kraat;&* jWcb Bentam ■ ISe GaMromla Yellow Cllna 2Sc Iona Brand where they had poaaiblc 1 cent whenl6^^<^ tfades might have thne they ttved on the farm.** 4 The sa y witl jUipipaiit of the =^v«rioek;tlMi^|boNB>ft on and kia s#$e ft^e erbre«||ondent goes rith reference to i iiaiload their eksee property m ! 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