The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-10-11
Railroad L, alton.
Thomasville Charity and {, dren.

inOmasVliie tnar1ty ana u dren.
One of the most sen,it and timely
editorials that we hssve read in
months was the leader i'm the Char
lotte Observer of the first of August.
1t was on the subject of railroads
and some excellent advice was given
to the incoming Legislature as we'll
as to the railroads themselves which
they would be wise to heed. There is
great danger that the spirit OF un-
reasoning hostility to railroads in
general, and the Southern Railway
in particular, will dominate the next
General Assembly. 1t would be a
calamity if nnwise, extreme and hurt
full laws were enacted that would have
tendency to check the progress the
railroads are making in North Caro-
lima or injure the splendid service the
people are getting. Passenger fares
are too high and ought to be re-
duced, but to cut them down to two
cents mile. as Mr.. ]. A. Long pro-
posed to do if he had been nominated
Chairman of the Corporation Com
mission, would be a stupendous blum
! der. If they can not make the two
cent rate in the North, where the
country is crowded with people, how
can they do so in the South where the
population is so much smaller? What
the reduction should be we have no
msans OF knowing, but that the rate
should he lowered we have no doubt
in the world. Right at this point the
Legislature will do we'll to calmly
and thoroughly consider all sides of
the question and pay no heed to peo-
pie who are foaming at the mouth.
But freight rates and the discrimina-
ton practiced against North Caro-
lima towns is the great matter to be
considered and corrected. The meth
cd employed by the railroads of
adopting prohibitory freight rates
between points in Our State is folly
and injustice, and the Legislature
ought to put stop to it. We don't
know why the railroads do this way
but they do, and have always done
it, and if their own self-interest does
not show them the better way, they
ought to be compelled to walk in it.
The Observer mentions a firm that
ships its manufactured goods to
Elizabeth City via New York in order
to get cheaper rate. Anybody out
side All insane asylum knows this is
wrong, and it is high time the rail-
roads were compelled to do justice by
the State from which they derive so
great revenue. 1t will require the
utmost wisdom to deal with this
matter of transportation, and it is
to be hoped that men who are blind
to the faults of the railroads as well
as those equally blind to justice and
reason, will be relegated to the rear.
and that men who are fair, honest
and just will control this difficult and
delicate situation. If ever we needed
Representatives ofstrength and cour-
age we shall need them in Raleigh
next winter; and the county that is
so careless of the rights of the people
of the State as to send little politi-
clans with hickorynut heads are de.
serving of censure for their want of
patriotism.
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