Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1912-04-10
PIONEER WORK AGAINST GOMAERCIALISA
GeoIgIans up in Arms Against the OestTuc-
tion of TaIIuIah Falls.
To the American People:

ders of the world an heirloom
which has come down to US from
the immemorlal ages Tailu!ah
} Falls, in the mountains of Geor-
gia. is today in the clutches OF an
iniquitous water power trust,
known as the Geosgia Power Com.
psny, which, in seeking to squeeze
unearned millions out of these
magnificent water falls Ill the
wonderland of Dixie, will rob the
western world of one of its richest
natural assets unless restrained by
the sovereign voice of the PEI pie i.
! This .soulless water power trust
having bought surrounding prop
erty, has selz I'd and seeks TO de-
stroy Tallulah Falls, in an upriv~
allied gorge Of the Blue Ridge
mountains of Georgia. This
queen of water falls belongs not
alone to three Gsorgians, but to a
hundred millions Of Americers
and to the generations to be,
whose vested rights are sacred.
Not Ole whit more 30 were the ark
of the covenant or the altar OF
incense. '
Tallulah's sky overhead is an
Inverted chalice of gold.
! Every tree on Tallulah's hill.
sides is choir-loft of music.
Every stretch of Talluiah's
landscape is garden incense.
Here the Father with prodigal
hand has bestowed His organ
tEunders and Majesti, robes.
Naught but corporatian with.
out soul would dare to defile a
sanctuary upon which Jehovah has
set His seal.
Even the obber barons of the
Rhine looked with solemn awe
upon the cataracts.
The iniqnitous water lower
trust which has seized the peoples
property at Tallulah, proposes to
set up golden calf whore even
the savage Indian worshiped the
Great Spirit.
This soulless water power trust
having seized property worth
more than fifteen millions Of
dollars seeks to perpetuate descfa.
tion at which even the vandals of
Italy would have hesitated.
They destroyed the temples and
arches and statues built by the
Caesars, and not the work of God.
This queen of water falls, which
has been seized by iniquitous
water power trust in defiance of
the laws Of both God and man,
vies in majestic beauty with the
fa1-famed cataract of the Niaga-
ra.
There is nothing to equal Tai
lulah iii the snow-white chain of
the great Rockies.
| 1t has been pronounced the
most wonderful Of scenic marvels
| by travellers who have explored
the Alps and the Andes, who
have penetrated into Asia as far
as the distant Hlmalayas, and
who have stood beyond the pyra.
mids of Egypt and beside the
oataracts of the Nile.
More weary of wing than Noah
dove, when fluttered Lack to the
windows of the ark, would be the
bird which today would seek tc
find in either hemisphere Of the
globe, spot where softer skies
encircle greener landscapes OF
grander robes hide richer
treasures than in the mountain
gorge of majesty of this the un.
rivaled Blue Ridge where Tallu
lah's God given song subduss the
puuy arrogance of man bringing
him face to face with the Mighty
Maker.
The pirates and vandaIs whe
today seek the destruction o1
Tallulah sneeringly refer to those
, who have buokIed on armor tt
save this richest natural asset O
the western world, as "maudlil
sentimentalists who are out O
place in this common sense age O
} she world Z"
Gcd help this old plane whel
sentiment is strangIed in tn
j, grasp of commercialism.
, Let the henchman and hirelipg
of "Big Business" beware hoy
they deride a term which is en-
deared by the most ballowed ae
sociations to the heart of the An