Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-06-09
THOSE RESOLUTIONS.

We do not know that we have ever
read in current newspaper literature
a more witty, appropriate and whole
some ~caricature than the communl-
cation in another column of this is
sue under the above heading, from
Beaufort, n. q.
1t is written IN pursuance OF a re-
cent meeting he'd by some interested
citizens in Newbern, at which Messrs.
G. r. Thomas, recently of Beaufort,
aud F. NJ. Simmons, recently OF
Winston, aid Nathan Tisdale, were
appointed a committee to express the
feelings of the meeting-the desire
of its leading spirits for "the Of
fices"-in a batch of resolutions,
which were duly introduced and
adopted. And in order that our
readers may the more readily com
prehend and relish the pungent hui
nor Of our Beaufort correspondent,
we copy from the resolutions afore-
said, in point, as follows:
"WHEREAs, Craven county is the
owner of a large amount of the capital
stock OF the A, q N. C. Railroad, to-wit
about 1900 shares thereof, for which it has
paid and is paying one hundred cents IN
the dollar as evidenced by the heavy taxes
paid by US on this account for many
years past and which we will have to pay
for nan years to come,
Resolved, That outside OF the interest
which a people always have in the public
highways which penetrate the section IN
which they live, We nave n feel in this
property the additional interest OF joint
ownership, purchased and paid for from the
hard earnings Of all our people, and fair
representation in its management is a
right which no State administration can
Justly withhold from US,
Resolved, That the right to manage our
own is admitted by all men everywhere
and while this property does not belong to
any county or person, 1t was built n IS
owned chiefly by the State and some OF
the counties along its line and we declare
it to be u fixed opinion, that the State,
possessed as it IS under the charter, OF SUI
preme power IN the selection OF President
and Directors of this road cannot fairly
use that power to practically exclude these
interested counties from participation III
its management and turn it over to COM
mittees which contributed nothing to its
construction and owns no part OF It's
stock.
Now did any one ever read, seri-
ously, such stuff as the above? What
do those "Newbern, Newberne, New
Bern or New Berne" resolvers want,
anyway? They admit that this road
"does not belong to any county or
person., that it "was built and is
owned chiefly by the State and some
Of the counties along its line, and
yet it charges the State with all sorts
of harsh things-as they, the ere.
solvers'' see them. It would be very
interesting to the curiosity of the
people If those "resolvers' would
specify just what they do want, fol
IN truth and in fact Newbern has
most everything now, and does cir
tuallg less than any other section on
the line for the maintenance of the
road. She has the shops, the offices:
the Secretary and Treasurer, the
General Superintendent, the Master
Mechanic; and other officers of high
and medium and ordinary rank: two
members Of the Board of Directors
&c, &c. SC. &c, and yet she doe
most of her transportation by water
except when she cant help it.
The covert shit" at Goldsboro il
the concluding lines of the abo7'
resolution is too palpable to be en-
tirely ignored; but while Goldsbor'
has none of the paying offces-ane
does not seek any, the road coult
hardly run a day without Goldsborc
She is its mainstay She feeds tn
people who are employed by the roa'
in its shops and various offices il
Newbeln by the steady patronag
she gives to the road.
But again we ask, what do thos
"resolvers want?