The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1893-04-26
EIGHT PAGES.
EXCURSION AFTER EXCURSION.

"To-day Especial train of ten coaches will take
several hundred excursionists from Owensboro
TO Louisville at a very low rate. The primary
object Of the excursion is TO make money for
church society, which has chartered the train,
and excursionists are urged to take advantage
of the trip for the outing, ETC., but the date is
conveniently timed for spring shopping and the
majority of the people who take advantage Of it
will do so with that object in view. Thousands
of dollars will thus be taken out OF Owensboro
which ought to be spent here. This is but a rep
etition of what occurred last year and the year
before. Only the church societies that give them
and the Messenger profit by these excursions, so
far as Greensboro Is concerned. The Messenger
has made hundreds of dollars by them, but II has
always opposed them and it does so now more
emphatically than ever before. II does so for
the good Of Owensboro. II has observed what
an injury they have been to the town. The
Owensboro merchants have endured this MUS
tice, for policy's sake, but to their intimate
friends they have spoken with no little bitterness
on the subject. II is time for them TO assert
themselves and a few of them have taken the
initiative. II they will all unite in declining to
receive their freight via the railroad that sells
these cheap trains they will be masters of the
situation. The local agent Of the "Texas" gave
the assurance that after the excursion of to-day
there should be no further trouble Of this kind,
but yesterday the flaming posters of Clover
port church, announcing an excursion from
Owensboro to Louisville May 10th, were distrib-
uted throughout the city. The "Texas" people
should be asked to decide quickly whether they
prefer the business OF the Greensboro merchants
or the church excursion business. There are
three other routes by which fret ht is brought
to Greensboro upon equally favorable terms as
the "Texas" offers. Our merchants can thus
effectively protect themselves, and some Of them
have resolved to do it,"
The above article from the Greensboro
Messenger indicates aspirit of narrowness
which we feel the citizens of that town
do not, and will not endorse. To do so
would show spirit of selfishness that
would be unbecoming the temper and
good sense of any well regulated business
community. To say that a railroad
should be .boycotted because it runs ex-
cursion trains over its road, is to say in
effect that no business enterprise should
be sustained in the pursuit OF its legiti-
mate occupation. The running OF excur-
sion trains is practiced by all railroads
They are run by the Texas as they are
elsewhere, so in this there seems to be
no reason why Editor Woodson should
try TO array the merchants of his town
against this particular corporation. The
running OF excursion trains is matter
of business with railroads, and is as le-
climate as that of the merchant who
handles his wares.
Because forsooth few people leave
Greensboro to spend dollar elsewhere
doesn't justify an attack upon the rail-
road company. This is the case in all
communities, especially along railroads.
But suppose Mr.. McCracken should re-
fuse to run excursion trains into Owens
boro. Suppose during the week of their
annual fair or any other public occasion
the Texas would refuse TO run excursions
TO Greensboro, or give the public the
benefit of a low rate, what would those
people think of it? But this was never
done. The Texas has carried hundreds
of people to that city, who have left hun
dreds of dollars in the town, but for
which would never have reached there.
The road has been an advantage to
Greensboro merchants in giving them
cheap freight rate, which they could
never have secured by any other line.
Yet notwithstanding all this, editor
Woodson seeks to make war upon the
company through the columns of the
Messenger.
1t doesn't appear to us as the proper
thing for any one to do, to array public
sentiment against a railroad, first with
out good and sufficient reasons. The
Texas has been an advantage to the
country through which it runs, particu-
larry to Greensboro. Instead of us max
ing war upon these people who have
come among us to help develop the re-
sources Of our State and county, better
cultivate more amicable business rela-
tons with them.