Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-01-31
LIVING QUESTIONS.
WHAT THE PEOPLE THROUGH THE
COUNTRY ARE TALKING ABOUT.


Gaynor's Decision that the Brooklyn
Roads Must be Operated; Women for
Reform in Philadelphia; Americans
Not as Rich Englishmen.
The opinion of Justice Gaynor
in Brooklyn laying down the
public obligations of the street
car companies has excited an un-
usual amount of comment. If
the companies cannot get men to
run the cars upon the terms they
offer, in Judge Gaynor's opinion,
They must either offer such
terms as will secure men or give
up the franchise to some one who
can. The first and primary OBJ
ject of granting the franchise is
to serve the public. The secon-
dory obligation is to the stock
holders Of the corporations.
The New York Tribune says:
Judge Gaynor is exactly right
in his statement of the duties of
the Brooklyn street railway
companies. In the mandamus
issued by him yesterday he
plainly declares that the corpOr-
ations may not, like individuals,
suspend business at pleasure.
but tt at they hold public fran
chises and may not cease to per-
form their duty as public car
riers for one hour through any
motive of persona gain. 1t is
their business to get labor on
such terms as they can and run
their cars. If their men will not
work at what they regard as
reasonable wages. they must get
others Immediately and give sat-
isfactory service, or else make
the best bargain they can with the
old employees. It will not do for
them to plead that they cannot
surrender to their Workmen' S
demands When they accepted
a charter from the State and ac-
quired from it its most sover-
eign hight of eminent domain,
they made subsidiary their right
to make money, and took upon
themselves as their first duty
the work Of giving adequate and
constant accommodation to the
public regardless of expense.
Justice GaynOr says that, with
the police of the city and 1000
soldiers preserving order, he
cannot believe that the company
is not protected. The claim of
Violence he holds, lis not legally
made out Therefore, the rall-
road must show cause why it
should not be compelled to run
it's cars.
THE WOMEN ARE AT WORK.
The Philadelphia Record says:
"A correspondent suggests that
if the women of Philadelphia
should take up the fight for
Pattison it would help the cause
wonderfully. They did good
work in New York" he writes,
and would help to defeat the
combine here This suggestion
is an evidence of the earnestness
which pervades the community
on the subject of cleaner govern
ment, but it deserves to be said
in this connection. in justice to
the women themselves that,
they had taken up the fight for
the reform which Ex-Governor
Pattison's candidacy typfed long
before the nomination of that
gentleman. In fact, they were
the first to come out aggressively
for cleaner streets, pure water
and other substantial fruits of
good government, and it would
be less than justice, therefore, TO
doubt that the choice of such a
standard bearer has given them
new zeal aud devotion to a cause
which means not less for the
womanhood than for the man
hood of Philadelphia-the cause
of public health, of public morals
and of public economics. "
THE REFORM REVOLT IN PHILA-
DEIPHIA.
The Philadelphia Times says
I'm all the various battles in
behalf of municipal reform, there
never was one in which so many
thoughtful persons have revolted
against the dominant power of
the city as in the present contest
for Mayor. There have never
been two consecutive battles for
reform in this community in
which the same men came to the
front and bore the brunt of the
battle, and in every battle the re-
formers have been confronted by
men who were their associates in
previous struggles for better
government. The average re-
former who bows to the sudden
impulse for better government is
often satisfied with the kicks and
cuffs of a single campaign, and,
there are many who after one
heroic struggle fall back into the
ranks of the party procession.
"Within very few days there
will be a deliverance by the re-
form organization in this city,
made up chiefly or wholly of Re
publican business men. demand
ing municipal government on the
exact lines of Governor Patter-
sons letter of acceptance. He
has given the keynote for the
contest against the contractors
and jobbers who Rave m anaged
to gain the mastery of the Re
publican organization. The peo-
pie of Philadelphia are prepared
for revolution, and every indica-
tion is that the flood tide of re-