The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-01-01
COOPERATION WILL BRING PROS
PERITY.

OF purpose. l"eie 1
must be concert Of action to accom-
plish the greatest results. We cannot
afford to be divided among ourselves
upon questions of public benefit. we !
must get together and work together
for the common good. And now, as
we are starting upon a new year 1t IS
good time to consider these things.
And let US not only consider but act
upon them. What the Raleigh EOen-
ing Visitor says below will apply to
Henderson as we'll as Raleigh. ltsays:
Christmas is over and 1890 will soon
lie numbered with the great past.
While there are saddening reflections to
which we could turn doubtless with
profit, the future is before US, and l:
we can stimulate energy among Our
people, augment self reliance In the
hearts of the dispirited, increase manly
business habits among our young
men and build up more aggressive
and general public spiritedness among
all our people we shall do a greater
work. What is needed as much as
any other thing in Raleigh is co-opera-
ton. We should not look alone to
the coming of outside parties to build
up our city, but unite ourselves in the
work. Let each mechanic make the
best arrangement he can to secure
home on such payments as by economy
and industry he can meet, and IN a
few years he will own it. Let each
clerk do the same. The young men
who is just floating around among
the girls having good time, with no
especial choice, will not always remain
in that comatose state with reference
to the girls, Off he is any accounD;cupld
will send his arrows crashing deep down
into his vitals and wake him up and
then he will wish he had home OF his
own. Right now while the wages are
small IS the very time to begin arrange
ments and to make payments on that
home. And even the poor fellow who
regards himselfas proof against cupid's
darts may find that home would be
very convenient thing to have, some
day. Very few young men who start
out with the idea that the present wages
are too small for them to save anything,
ever reach the time when they can
save for the future. The reason that
5 thousands of young men come to
naught, is because they start out and
continue to live without a definite OBJ
jeCt in view. They are always going
: to begin, but continue to drift on spend
ing all they can earn for present sho"
: and qualification.
A community in which all are &C
cumulatng little every week ano
month for the future is necessarily {
prosperous community. Let all who
can, aid the mechanic and the clerl
S in getting home, by offering liberia
terms for the purchase of homes. Tit
more liberal the terms on which small
houses for men of moderate income
can be obtained, the more reliable
e moral and thrifty will the working
e classes in that community be. Th'
h very best antidote for strikes and I'm
!, reasonable demands on the part Q
- thriftless employees is to sell then
: homes. Get them interested in tn
p prosperity of the city. The same
d true with reference to all employees
We know we are mixing things RICH
much-the ocular with serious bushes
r. suggestions, but these things abou
which we are accustomed to jest gen
orally, sometimes become very seriou
y questions when we least expect il
d Then it may be, we could wish tn
d young man had home; that he az
quired the economic habits that prac
! teal effort to secure home on sma
s wages is calculated to stimulate.
'r If we would have model commur
r ity let every man in it do just all h
IT can to elevate and assist every ofhe
man, then we should have the mo-
y attractive, the most prosperous an
~ the happiest community to be foun
K. on the continent. Let's try it a
f. through 1891.
WE sympathize with Mr.. ]. O. Fo
editor and proprietor of the 2zoin- CT
~ DAILY, Winston, upon the loss of h
- newspaper Office by fire. The burnir
>, occurred during the holiday suspense
~ of the paper, but it appears as usu
= this week, being issued from the Sem
10 mel office, which property Mr.. Foy r
Gently acquired by purchase. We {
rot know what his loss is, or wheth
*, Or not there was any insurance.
Of WITH the incoming of the new yea
S. there will be four new Superior Cou
Judges to begin their circuits: Ho
is Henry Bryan, of New Berne; Ho
,e Robert Winston of Oxford; Ho
m cIver; of Carthage, and Ho
do A. Hoke, of Lincolnto
=, ,tlemen bring to the benz
gritty of character, fine judici
and urbanity of depol
- Macs and Observt
blish be
ithern pr