Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-02-18
IT HAS COME TO THIS.
THAT P-URCHASABLE CLAUSE

LILA O1OO1A O4lAO ~
Which the Raleigh News & Oh
server Sees Fit to Incise Int
Its Editorial of Yesterday
Discussing the Lease CUES
ton
Our good friend the Raleigh
News & Observer falls short in
many particulars of a great news
paper-which it doubtless aspires
to be-and in it's failures to size
up to the standard of its praise
worthy ambition it is often guilty
of Lositive faults. But it is moi
the mission of the ARGUS in jour-
nalism to groom the News & Oh.
server, otherwise, we would have,
we fear, an endless task, and un-
interesting columns, as well.
But just one of the fragrant
faults of the News & Observer,
wherein it falls short of greatness
as a newspaper, is that it seems to
have arrogated to itself the pom
derous task of doing the thinking
and setting the pace for the mi
nor (?) craft of North Carolina:
and hence in its hurricane discus
sion of the n. G.. r. r. lease to
the Southern with which it has
been belaboring the public of late,
it delivers itself, in its editorial
columns yesterday, of the follow
ing gratuitous insult to those
papers in the State who believe in
u~pholding the integrity of the late
Democratic administration, and,
that the State should honorably
fulfill her vested contracts:
zone thing is certain If this Legis-
1ature refuses to permit the courts to
pass upon the lease, it will do so in the
face of the unpurchasable press OF North
Carolina"
Now, the ARGUS has always,
throughout its entire journalistic
career, accorded to it's contem-
poraries, of all shades of politics
and opinions, the virtue of con-
sciencious conviction, and has
never judged one of them by a
lower standard of morals than its
own. But, as we have already
said, the News & Observer falls
far short of a great newspaper in
many particulars. and this is one
of them.
The ARGUS has reviewed, as we
thought, fully and from all aspects,
the proposed bill to abrogate the
lease of the Southern, giving our
reasons for opposing the bill,
based on law and logic, ethics and
economics, as we understand
them, and we have yet to find a
man in this community to differ
with US in our views, and we are
sure they are not sspurchased";
and we believe that Gov. Carr,
"Sid' Alexander, Maxwell, Fries,
and those other honorable and re-
spected gentlemen who constitute
the Board of Directors of the n.
G. r. r., and who made the lease
to the Southern, eel not only
unpurchased but s'unpurehasable. "
Consequently, we feel that we can
stand in the midst of this com>
munity, and in snch company as
the aboye eminent gentlemen, and
express our views unterrified lest
the News & Observer may per-
suade the dear people who peruse
its columns that the ARGUS is pur-
chasable.
In the meantime, after months
of preparation, and with the con-
centrated intelligence of the News
& Observer, Gov. Russell and
Judge Avery brought to bear in
formulating the aforesaid bill,
amendments have been "accepted''
and accepted and accepted, until
there is little left of it now, as
shown by the above clipping,
mere than a mere proposed rule
of the Legislature to test the lease
in the courts-and this preroga-
tive existed before and still rests
with the General of the
State, had he seen and should he
see fit to exercise it.
"And there you are"