Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-05-29
FUTURE OF MILLION AND "A HALF
DOLLAR POWER DEVELOPMENT.
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way. i am rather @ that the
Southern railroad wants me for an
attorney. The Southern Railway Co.,
has NOT got money enough, or willing
to pay me to take a fee from the
Southern to stand in the way of the
progress of Western North Carolina.
The Southern can not employ me to
get in the way of the progress of my
own country. If they want to turn
me off for that let them turn. | don't
get money enough from them to make
me a hireling or to keep me from be-
ing a citizen.
1 want to ask where some of your
folks are? I will ask if you have not
stood by the door and babe people
good bye when they were leaving to
get employment, to go to the factories
down South. The flower Of the land
going away. Why? Because the
country was not building up. You
nave seen families going to Spartan
burg and Greenville and other places
to work in the factories. where they
have not been long until stricken with
fever. malaria and typhoid. How often
have you gone to the funeral OF your
people who have gone away from nome
seekin employment?
If this great dam, this great rail-
road, and this great country is built,
[ want to know if you wont see your
kin folk and neighbors coming back,
and see the factories rising upon these
hills, and this country and county
covered with cotton mills, wood mills
and everything electrically will run,
and this country will be the Eden, and
you will see college and universities
and everything that prosperity bfings.
Decide this thing for Bob Oates and
the monopoly and it will "a farewell
forever, goodbye, to the opportunity of
this country.
Am talking sense or NONSENSE?
What are your Impressions? What
has all l have said to do with this
issue? Not a thing, but it is the other
view of the picture they draw.
We will get up to the first issue:
Can the property and rights of the de-
PENDANT company in it's location No. 2
owned by it and sought to be con-
demned by the plaintiff be developed
as a water power or used as such in
connection with or in addition to the
power actually used by the defendant?
Can it, Mr.. Oates He says No. Why?
He says he started to build one and
found it couldn't be done to an adj
vantage and he came back to Hender-
SOnville and put up a steam plant.
That is what the facts argue.
Has Bob Oates got a water power?
No. What is the land he has got
worth? Because if he has not got a
water power, he has nothing but the
land. You are not going to allow him
anything because he will use it for a
block. You are going to be fair and
honest, and do him right, but don't pay
him for anything except what he has?
Approximation? 1t would beat the
people on Wall street, the people who
are putting up the high prices, Hayne
and others who Icornered the cotton
market. He is trying to make a cor
ner, and one strike here and one there
and Oates would be a millionaire. He
is making a corner on us. Are we
going to let him do itffor the pitiful
fearful appeal oeyou to have mercy
and take care of him and keep these
people from coming here with their
capital? Here are peopleggoing to
give things who ask nothing, who have
paid 100000 for one tract and $40, 1000
for another who are asking no bonds,
asking no contribution.
If the people of Henderson county
will stand together and avail them
selves of the opportunity, we will have
a grander country than Switzerland.
That thing was called Appalachian.
What does Appalachian come from?l
II seems like iSeomesnfrom the Alps
We have many people who have
travelled, who have been in the Alps,
and Switzerland, everywhere, who
have been heard to, say that the !on-
portunities Of western North Carolina
are greater than were the opportuni-
ties of the Swiss.s wesfAA
Do no injury to any man, do good
I'd all, be just, honorable enterprising
everything that aI 5countryman
ought to be to his country.
Take care of yoqprpi eopntr8-
men, don't let your ,c~oqntrymen come
from somewhere else and get hold of
the advantages ana opportunities that
we have m~ade30}Bob Oates did not
build fHendersonville. and Henderson,
county. He came because he wantedi
to come. because he saw, am Qpportuh
itytto sell lights ssHe2sofd sHgntsJahd
wants to sell them alone, wants to haves
a monopoly. Are you going ITO cut
your own thrusts239ibHI su0Y1oX
Charlie nomsI is ssn1art. / don'ts
know how to answer his argument
when he says Bob Oates agreed tog
ray $4,000 for lone, side, ofIthe, creek,
and that helWodld 1fef us $4,000 for
ours. Where is the money? If BobEI
has got $4,000 and can make SUCH
an offer as that he, does NOT need your
sympathy. Has he gof it?9ifs donstsI
know f01 yia .00,f9 9f3t0d ono
You have got a horse that you paid
$3.50 for, and he is worth it, you think.
There is some tadkiRbput the 444atter
and 1 say to you what did you pay
for that horse?' You-say $3.50, and
I say well, sir, l will give you $40h
for his head" WhatAYou10 thataYa
ter power be it we cut itjn two h
the middle. Don't you think Bob was
awfully smart. HInheghad bought that
for $4,000 we WotldIhaHe to give him
nearly $3.50. 900 because a horse can
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