The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-04-16
NOW GO FORWARD.
Suspend the Work of Doing SOmt -
thing to Something and Try to
do Something for Something.


The Concord Tribune hopes
"to see the Legislative nominees
stand for political rest and COM
mercial advancement, together
with an open and pronounced
opposition to the spirit of re-
forming everything and every
body-everywhere and all the
time. Unless Ne mistake pub
lie sentiment this expresses a
very general wish. The rail
roads have been reformed and |
under the shot gun agreement |
arrived at with them last win
ter are entitled to be let alone |
for a aNhile-we don't quite so
much mean that they are entitled
to be let alone as that the peo-
pie are entitled to rest from
the warfare upon them whi1 h
has hurt them quite as much as
it has the roads. Next month
prohibition will be voted upon
the State, and thus moral re-
form, in so far as liquor is
concerned, will have been ac-
complished. The railroads and
John Barleycorn being thus
effectively dealt with, and tn, re
being no other offenders con-
spicuously in sight, it would
be we'll to suspend the work of
doing something to something
and address ourselves for
awhile to trying to doing some
thing for something-for in
stance, for North Carolina.
Let US, therefore, have nomi-
mated for the Legislature this
year, men who are for things in
preference to men who are
against things. There is a re-
port that the State Treasury
will have deficit this year of
r 5000, 900 to $3.50, 100. There
| is nothing alarming about this.
: 1t is the glory Of the last Legis-
lature that it was liberal in az
preparations, and it di dnot ap
propriate a dollar to an unwor
thy object. 1t only prove S
, that the demands upon tie
Treasury, as upon that OF
= every State that is growing am
increasing in enlightenment:
are growing in geometric ratio,
and that therefore We need to
get In more property for taxa
ton, induce the investment OF
more capital in North Carolina
j instead of crippling or driving
= out what We already have an;.
= which is CO ntributing its share
of revenue to the State Trea>
: ury to be expended for the pub
lie benefit. Property is not, d.
E some of the newspapers au'
public speakers would have u
believe, an unmixed evil. v,
y need taxes for many purpose
B.. and they cannot be had excep
d from property, real, persona
and mixed. This tax money i
, dis sbursed with an even han,
n and the poorest man in tn
State, the man who does no
contribute a dollar to the pub
+ lie revenues, gets part of th'
,e benefit of it. It folio vs. tina
., the more property the NOR
, taxes and hence the greaterpub
tic benefit, and the argumen
-, that for the general welfar,
=, property rights should be con
of served and property interest
q enlarged does not need to t.
- elaborated.
ID An appeal for upbuilding VI
Is destruction is an appeal to sell
=. interest. It is time that th
people of North Carolina shoul
=, have done with obstructionist
~ and turn to those policies ths
b. mako progress; that they see
, q out for legislative and othe
offices men who "stand for p
litical rest and commercial
of industrial, agricultural and {
AS- other advancement"
A"0 In conventions held last we
I'D the Democrats of Yancey a.
his Mitchell counties instructed the
Ills delegates solidly for Lock Crs
der for Governor.
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