The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-02-02
A Way to Build up a Town, and
Way to Destroy it.


Tadtsman has the following and we
respectfully commend its careful
perusal to every citizen and business
man Of Henderson, The brakeman
says:
People in the Eastern states often
wender at the rapid development and
growth of Western cities. They can
not understand it. In the older cities
every man is on the lookout for his
own personal interests, but in the
West he must do the talking for his
own town. If he does not have faith
he must talk until it comes to him.
In the recent work to establish pack
ing house here the board of trade
rooms presented the appearance of a
political headquarters where two
prominent candidates were running
neck and neck tor some important
office. Among the advocates of the
enterprise is required a long pull,
strong pull and a pull all together, and
that is exactly the way they pulled,
In speaking further upon this subject
an obscrvant exchange says:
We use the word loyal in a general
sense as pertaining to the country, but
it is applicable to almost every phase
of life, We may be loyal to our coun
try, to Our wives and lovers, and We
can be loyal to each other in our bust
ness relations. The greatness of our
country, the happiness of a people and
the success in our business relations all
depend upon the loyalty of the indi-
yidualS
Upon our loyalty to our town de-
ponds its growth and prosperity. Each
city and hamlet has its advantages.
A loyalty to those advantages is its
life. First, we must ia our tradition
and buying patronize those trades and
business in our city instead of going
to neighboring or distant towns. We
are obliged to do this, because if our
fellow citizen is doing his duty by US
he is patroni-ins US in our business or
calling. If the clothing merchant goes
to another city for his stoves, the hard
ware man is justified in going to the
other town for his dry goods. Should
such things become general in any
| one town the dissolution of the town is
not far off,
In no other business in city more
than in the newspaper and printing
business does this disloyalty show it
self, and no other business in the city
can be or IS more loyal to the town
than the newspaper or printing office.
Should newspaper tor even a short
time ignore the interests of the city
in which it is published, a cry and a
complaint would go up from every
hand. If we will for moment stop
to consider the injustice we are doing
when we are going off to another to
purchase our comforts and necessities
if we will consider that we are disloyal
to those that have joined with us tc
build up community, we will not dc
SO unjust and disloyal an act. We be-
come traitors to those who are Loyal
to us and to whom we are under obi
cations to trade and traffic.
There is another form of disloyalty
to city which more quickly and Ger
tainly saps its prosperity and retard:
| its growth, that is, to live in one cit,
and have interests in another. Thi:
is keenly felt when these cities are
rival towns. Choose ye whom yor
will serve, for ye cannot serve both
Each individual has right to trans
fer his allegiance from one community
to another, but it is his duty to let al
parties concerned know just where i
belongs. A man who lives in towr
for no other purpose than to suck from
that town his wealth and his fatness
and all his wealth goes to benefit somt
ether and perhaps rival town, is wors'
then traitor. He is a vampire
which, while sucking the blood Of it
victim, soothes its wounds. He GOV
ers up his acts with words of loyalty
while in his heart he is workin!
for some other city and will sacri
flee the one to the other and the bust
ness men Of the one to the benefit G
the other.