Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-11-24
SHALL OUR BUSINESS MEN
COME TOGETHER FOR
COMMON PROGRESS,
Or Shall Each One PIod on For Himself
Alone, and Be as "a Reed Shaken By
the Wind' in the Desert of Lost
Opportunities?
A few days ago the ARGUS had

men and the progressive citizen Of
Goldsboro on the civic virtue of
unlty-unity of purpose, unity of
action, and ACTIoN-in the fur
therance of our common interests
in the upbuilding of Goldsboro.
We pointed out the manifold ad-
vantages of the recent great Dem
ocratic victory in North Carolina
as bearing on BUSINESS as well as
law, civilization and society, and
presented to the business men OF
Goldsboro the opportunities it
holds for US as community and
the advantages that this city and
section might derive if these op-
portunities be properly and
promptly improved.
A week has passed, and if we
had hallooed into the sepulchre
of the dead and waited for a re-
spOnse it could not have been
with less results than has at.
tended our call to the business
men to organize-to get together
for their common weal-for
Goldsboro's upbuilding.
But the ARGUS is not disgrun-
tied, nor disappointed, nor dis
hearteued nor dispairing. eknow
that the seed has been duly sown
and that the germ is living, that
only climatic influence, so to
speak, has prevented it's swell
ing and bursting the soil. The
ARGUS is not an untutored sower,
nor impatient of results. The
acorn waited from the sturdy
oak, and falling to the ground,
looking up sees how far off the
clouds are and the arms that
Graded il; but the patient years
that come and go while a Genius
ry fades lift it up to giant size,
and in its spreading branches
the birds nest and sing and the
storm king finds heroic resist
ance to his wrath. So are the
seeds of progress planted and do
cities grow to greatness, not in a
week, nor a year, but in decades
and centuries: yet each genera
tion should contribute it's share
of p-ogress-What of us? Shall
we mark an era in Goldsboro's
history?
There are number of public
spirited citizens in our communi-
ty who have ldbored with the
single purpose of upbuilding
Goldsboro. There are many who
have appeared not to care much
about it, and who have joined
the procession reluctantly, or
have stood by the wayside and
watched the band wagon pass.
There have been few hero lead
ers, and many who were lags
CARDS to greater or less extent,
unmlndful Of the unspeakable
benefits of unity of action. There
have been a score of valiant and
devoted sons struggling for the
material advancement of the city
whilst a whole regiment have
slumbered in the low, green val
ley of supineness. needing moi
the efforts to capture the fortress
upon the hill top of material ad-
vancement.
There are a few men in Colds.
boro, a very few, who have re.
sponded with alacrity to every
call for progressive work, whe
have toiled TO plant the STANDARD
of progress high up the sides O
that steep whence Fame
grand temple shines afar": bu
they have not been adequate1,
supported; often they have beer
| left to their fate, and more thar
once they have been driven bacl
disastrously.
! The time came long ago fo
Goldsboro to get together. Spas
modic efforts in that direction hav,
been made, but no real, sincere
honest purpose has asserted itself
except on the part of the honore'
few-the public-spirited ones VIII
have kept their lamps trimme
and burning, and sought as bes
they might their way to the sum
INIT upon which the golden glo'