Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-04-09
ELEVEN YEARS OLD.
How swift the years roll by!

journalism, and yet the unerring
annals of time record that it was
just eleven years ago to-day-on
Tuesday the It'll day of April
1SS5-that the first issue of
the GoLDsBoRo ARGUS APP
peared. What those eleven years
hold of effort and success in sus-
tanning THE ARGUS in correct
principles is a sealed book, COM
pretended in part, perhaps, by
some, but known in full only to
him who still sits at the helm and
has counted the mile posts all
along the course.
To-day is the beginning of the
twelfth year of THE ARGUS ca
reer. Such anniversaries in a
progressive town like Goldsboro
are gratifying to chronicle, if for
no other purpose than that they
give the people occasion for pause
to consider the progress they have
accomplished and the successes they
have achieved with the passing
years, by which they are made
sensible of the city's commercial
and industrial growth and given
courage to persevere:-and only
by keeping everlastingly at it can
anything permanent be accom-
| plished.
When The ARGUS first started,
eleven years ago, it was a small
affair compared with THE ARGUS
of to-day; but such is the history
of most newspapers the country
over. All the influences that 90
to make up the life of a great city
are mutually dependent. The
newspapers could not have grown
as they have without the stimulus
and support afforded by the active
competition of modern trade, nor
could this trade ever have devel-
oped as it has without the aid of
the newspapers, through which it
makes its daily appeal to every
household. From the time that
the newspaper, from a mere organ
of political opinion addressed to
a few men, began to grow into a
daily magazine of universal en-
lightenment, claiming the atten-
ton and interest of everybody, it
opened the way to a method of
advertising that has changed the
whole aspect of retail trade.
Thus it is meet and appropriate
that we should call the attention
of u many readers to-day to our
advertising columns, and at the
same time thank our home mer-
chants whose names are to be
found there for their generous and
public-spirited patronage.
1t is with pardonable pride that
The ARGUS contemplates its rec
ord. 1t has always endeavored
to do the right; to be right in its
opinions, and has maintained the
integrity of its convictions. 1t
has persistently tried to uphold
the right and condemn the wrong.
1t has constantly striven to create
and maintain Il public sentiment of
liberal and patriotic citizenship,
good morals and respect for the
laws of the land. 1t has contrib
uted by suggestion and argument
and cash, so far as it was able, to
the advancement of the best inter
ests of all classes and conditions
of men,. 1t may have yielded,
now and then to the impulses of
friendship or the spirit of har-
mony, but no opinion has it ever
expressed or withheld through
fear of the consequences. No con
sideration of self has ever pre-
vailed with THE ARGUS against it's
allegiance to the best interests of
its people.
The ARGUS is proud of Colds
boro; of the untarnished integrity
of her business men, of her growth
with its own growth; of her fu-
ture; proud of the confidence it
enjoys of the people among whom
and for whom it labors, and who
best know and appreciate it, as is
evidenced by the unwavering and
generous support it has eve re-
ceived.
And so THE ARGUS opens its
new volume to-day, entering upon
its twelfth year, happy in the pos
. session Of the spiritual and ma
terial sympathy of a community
whose people r made of heroic
stuff, and walk, with heads erect,
upon the mountain ranges of indi-
vidual and public rectitude.
In the glorious years of pros
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