The Robesonian., 1909-11-18

| lfi SCOCh WITH Wnlcn 10 meet the
principal at maturity.
Any child that can read and
write understands this and that
it does not increase the tax.
1t is the plan of the govern
ment, State, and county, and capi-
tai and the people cooperating.
Bringing the farmer, the mer-
chant, the banker, the press, the
professional men and the manu-
facturer as taxpayers, q direct
joint participant in the net re-
suit of this road by the county
becoming, with the State, a stock
holder under the strong protect
ling arm Of the State so that
through the county commission
ers board, the farmer, the back
bone and salt of the earth, parti-
cipates in the transportation IA
cilities and becomes familiar with
railroad operations and gets Q
result that establishes friend
ship for the road that railroads
have not cultivated with the
best patrons of the road, which
, is the agricultural citizen.
II The reads control the city and
y mercantile interests and have
' catered directly to that patron
/ age. Forgetting, but for the tiller
! of the soil there would be. no
n merchants, but few manufacture
ers of raw material, for it has
:. been we'll said destroy the city
q and you can rebuild it, but de-
Il stroy the farm that is the artery
10 blood Of the nation and there
h can be neither city or farm"
" From the Tennessee line to
. Southport there will be nearly
ts 70, 900 voters that become joint
n stockholders in this road as citi-
g. zens of the counties through
th which it passes, and through the
va treasury of the State of North
bv Carolina every citizen in the
of State becomes a joint stock own
er in this plan. Hence, l have
a = called it, and its going to be, the
of peoples road because this stock
nd is going to the county instead of
- going as bonus or a gift above
anl a sound secured principal and in
or- terest that the capital furnishes
m ,on on the bonds that has heretofore
demanded 81 per cent of the
all, stock on which they placed nc
son m value but had controlled the
/ bat roads with a bond, using bonus
. stock af the legal title to manip.
NJ NV ulate the roads official manage.
ny No, ment. No bonus, no rake offs
hat are given from this stock, it il
the par and good as gold. Read Stat
On IN Auditor Dixon's letter in tn
tho m book that is being sent to tn
.;tv ; voters and you will see why, it i
,n1 because the State protects thi
~ ,ar stock from being drowned in wa
~ ter and from being absorbed b.
tho m fictitious inter I'd a w ms
WIN debts.
hot So I hope The Robesonian viii
it. give this letter space and if tn
10 ~ wv editor can show the vote for tt i
to tay road will not help rather tha
+u,e We retard his good road though
:, 'ood ! which every liberal man in Mort
NV ~ Carolina favors and if he ca
80 Nd show that Robson county doe
= - . . not need this road as bad as a
go : of the rest of the States hav
I '+od needed it since the State has ha
49, 80 railroad and ocean transportation
t;1a and that his county needs
et, ent, worse than the road needs hi
,ntn 1 county, and if he can show tha
@ nrn these five things or any one {
+h;a M them are not needed by Robeso
snao sn county and all the counties in th
~ State, then he must concede ths
~, - this great State-protected roa
! NY ~ being built largely by the peop
= 10 of this State and for the peopl
pio of this State needs Robson eoul
e.. ty worse than the people of tl
III III State and the county needs tt
tA anu road, and that it has been an e
ee'i 'es.G roneous lot Of legislative wor
elul 4 than has been brought into exis
L:ah : ence without dissenting vote
lnd lilcI the last three sessions of IL
aseu sse North Carolina Legislature ar
llrty ,,fa o+,,r;nn ;nd,,s+rx, nro ot;o,IIx1
unity tha I cta+a 70 ef Nor+h Earol;na .,
axes by the leading men who ha'
,lo Yer served the State in the highe
1ao. ~ positions believe that Robest
qa,- county and every county in tt
ue, State needs this road. And tn
,c1eo 9o co they might all understand it, al
wv have the light that / hope T.
mile hooLs with +besa l.Ws aro U ~
rould ] noss;no into tho bands of ou Nv
ma n 0nO voters tho+ +ho,, ,oo,, .