The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-30

Greeting its many thousands OF readers and the
people of North Carolina from its own home
again after the destructive FIRE which on AprI
"a Of this year drove it forth, The News ana
Observer thanks God and takes courage that
this good day has arrived IN its history.
1t is not in a completed building that the men
and women who make this paper are at work.
for carpenters and painters, and electrical men
are all about US yet at work, but the enlarged.
ren,odelled and generally rejuvenated building,
with an increase in its modern conveniences, IS
being occupied and work IS going on IN It. There
Will yet eiapse some weeks before all that mas
been destroyed by fire will be replaced, and the
entire News and Observer family be in fixed
quarters, yet this is so far accomplished today
that we are happy because Of it.
Looking back on the months which have toll
lowed the fire and the vicessitudes which have
been met, there is one u%ppermost thought, that
If the goodness and kindness and generosity which
have met us on every hand. The fire, which IN
it's greatness of havoc, swept away the accumu-
lation of years, brought US in richness a deeper
and higher appreciation Of friends and friendship
and gave to US knowledge of friends whom we
did not know we possessed. And great has been
the forbearance of the patrons of the paper, who
knowing of our crippled condition have given
loyal support, while many others have enrolled
themselves in the list of subscribers of The Old
Reliable"
Today The News and Observer greets its read.
es in a Special Edition number, the second it
has issued since the fire, The first was its
annual Educational Edition of August 10, and
today comes the Back Home" and "Just Freight
Rate" Edition, the first in an effort to aid in the
educational And moral life of the State the
present with the purpose to be Of service in the
work of adding to the material growth and pros
perity Of North Carolina and to secure justice to
all the people from the transportation companies
by bringing about an end of freight rate discrimi.
nation which has for years on years hampered,
harasSed and set back North Carolina. And The
News and Observer is glad that in this Back
Home" edition, in which there is set forth how
unjust and unfair and discriminatory are the
! freight rate charges of the railroads, there is also
the ghnmer Of the light Of the coming day, which
will be a better and a more prosperous one for
North Carolina, brought into existence by the
just demands of a long suffering and patient
people, who are working out their own salvation.
updaunted and unafraid. And it is with an ad-
monitor to the people that there be no let I'D
in the fight, that the issue be pressed till full and
complete justice IS obtained, that The News and
Observer greets them this morning. All will be
we'll in North Carolina if the people keep on
guard. and it is this which we emphasize today.
as in the past, for with this the condition we have
no fear of the future. An aroused and vieilant
public is the safeguard Of the nation and the
State, and North Carolinians are showing that
they are aroused as never before, and that there
is to be no peace till the sovereignty of this great
State is fully recognized and the people, in all
sections, are given justice, full and fair and CON.
plete, by the railroads which do business in It
Two-cENT PASSENGER RATE