Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-01-21
A RAIL ROAD THROUGH sroKFs

A RAIL ROAD THROUGH STOKFS.
Under this caption Brother PEPPER,
of the Danbury Reporter Post, in his
issue of last week, expresses himself iii
the following forcible language con-
corning increased railroad facilities
for his county:
Yes we need and must have rail-
road clean across the county, and as
it is a matter in which all her citizens
are interested, and which will be of
more or less advantage to every tax
payer in the county, all should help to
pay for it. You say we are in favor
of piling on more taxes. Not SO, we
only want you to get the benefit of the
heavy tax you are now paying. Yon
say that you are paying no railroad
tax. Eth, you are not! does it not
cost you at least $4,000 more to get
your tobacco to market than it would
if you had railroad, and one or more
markets in your county and if you
had railroad the fertilizer used by
the county would cost $4,000 less than
it does from the fact that it could be
put down at any station for about the
same that it cost you at the depot now,
three days through the mud away. A
sack of salt would cost 80 cents less,
a barrel of kerosene oil $500 less, a
sack of coffee so to 70 cents less, and
so on upon the whole, our merchan-
disc would cost at least $4,000 less
than it does now, to say nothing of
dragging three days through the mud
to the depot and back, breaking wag-
ons, killing stock, exposing ourselves
to the weather which necesitates the
paying of extra doctor bills, which
things we cannot estimate at less than
$4,000 making a total for each year
OF $4,000, which we count nothing
more nor less than a railroad tax that
you are paying year after year, while
others are reaping the benefits, like
the farmer who pays enough rent every
five years to buy the place helives on,
at the end of fifty years the land is nc
nearer his than when he pitched his
first crop, though he has paid for ii
ten times over.
Yes, we must have a railroad, 10
tobacco county can afford to be with
out one at this day and not be impov-
ished. Times are not now like they
were twenty, or even ten, or eight years
ago. When the country was full OF
factories, all a farmer had to do was
get his tobacco ready for market
When manufacturer, or leaf dealer.
would take it from his barn door not
so now. Almost Fall the manufacture
ing is done in railroad towns, and our
tobacco waggoned two or three days
through mud or cold, to find buyer
We must have railroad, and tc
get it, must put the taxes we are now
paying to rich corporations and other
sections into It, We will not have il
all to pay either, the Twin City
Winston and Salem will help US, they
see the Importance of it, while they
can supply their immense tobacco
factories with all the tobacco they
need this year, they see plainly tha
with short crop, and every little vii
lage of a few hundred inhabitant:
springing into a. tobacco town they
cannot without better railroad facili
ties. Lynchburg, Danville, Reidsville
Durham and Greensboro, all on thu
| same thing and are building or pros
| pecting railroads into and through to
baeco sections. Nor is this all as re
CARDS the Twin. City, her wide-awuk'
| business smen see that even their i'm
/ mense tobacco factories, which do no
run more than seven months of tn
year and her hundred and one smalle
industries can not give employment t.
her rapidly increasing population tina
she may keep up in the rapid stride
she is making toward a geeat city, bu
| she must have an iron manufactor'
that will give employment to thou
sands of hands, and for this purpos
will want the coal, iron, manganese
fire clay, and lime of Stokes, as wei
the fine white oak, ashe, walnut, hiek
DRY and other lumber to run her eat
met shops, build cars, &c.
Yes the aTwin City, will help u;
if not Greensboro will, Danville
reaching out her iron arms for gu
products, while Reidsville is gather
ing her strength for the whole, Thi
is a fast age and tha county, town 9
city, that sleeps wiz get left, we ca
get help plenty, but we must bel
Yourselves. We can ask communics
tions on this subject from all over tn
county, especially from those who op
pose turning the 500, 900 tax that v
are paying year after year to our ow
sFadvata &c.
JUDGE CLARK ON GAMBLING.