Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-12-22
Salisbury, NC, Dec. 42d, Is
HALL THE CONQUERING RE.
TURNS.

HALL THE CONQUERlNG RE.
TURNS.
Mr.. Hicks has a large number
of friends in Spencer and Salis.
bury who are glad that his OK
perience is at an end and who are
az loyal to him 40 ever.-Salis.
bury Post.
There is little or no difference
between wishing a thing and ex.
pressing 1t, but there is consider
able difference between assuming
the responsibility for an expires
sion aud trying to make it appear
merely as the sentiment of others,
but, so far as expressions and tn,
assuming of responsibilities 60,
numerous principles of right snd
wrong follow, and, in the fna
analysis, it is rather diff cult 70.
u man TO be found on both sides
of the same proposition, 1t has
not been long since this same pa
per (The Post) spoke of the mayor
of a near by town, one of the all
round most contemptible mel
THE WATcHMAN, and many other.
have ever known, as a High
toned Christian gentleman" and
with his awful picture Haunted ii
in she face of the decent men and
women of Salisbury. SALISBURY
ans and Spencerians, the many
honorable, virtuous and truly
christian mon and women who
make their homes in these places,
deserve far more consideration, IL
fact it is q grea5 injustice, if not
deliberate insult, for them to | {
ignored while the criminal, i'm
moral and brazen faced lepers o,
society are played up in the pub.
lilo prints in terms that can only
preperly be applied to the right.
eous. Whether intended or not
this is the sum total of the mat.
ter.
Who're is the honest, modest
gentleman just home from the
penitentiary who wants his name
spread before the pubic in "box.
osr''.type as though he were a cor
quering hero? Aud where ts the
paper who has 80 little regard for
the proprietor as to do such q
thing? Sslisbury's the place
The custom of greeting oonvicts'
return homo has never before been
exercised in North Carolina save
by Negroes, end this even has Leel
r undly denounced by every rep
utsble citizen and paper in TIT
State No one save a brazen faced
ready to commit other
crimes can~ reasonably look for
like a hearty reception.
The WAToHMAN does not set it.
salf up as a dictator, or leader,
morally OF otherwise. far from it,
but it frankly admits that it is
jealous fer the good name of its
home town, for the good name of
Its home people, for the good name
of the good men and women who
have adopted the place as their
home, for the institutions of our
for she reputable business
IN serests of our town and for the
customs, friendships and high
of society that obtain here,
aud for the many noble Christian
Of our people. We see
these things and more. we admire.
appreciate and can co Operate ful
ly with their every effort to reach
greater heights, yet the road that
leads On and up is not without
its snares, temptations and at
tacks by the enemy; the eLemy,
a broad and ever expanding
view of rank weeds is before us;
from the short comings Of
bhs fool to the most diabollcal
conduct of satan himsslf, whose
attacks On tt citadel of Right
sousness never cease. Subtle, cum.
mig, sneaklng, threatening, bull
brazen. day by day he plys
nis attacks. by writing, printing.
of mouth and example, aud,
it is only by a like vigorous and
persistent defense that the fort is
,ot overwhelmed, Let's On with
he fight, thu nation will not be
'wspt from it's N >orings by the ny.
,hs lated citizen nor will Sails
:
When a community permits tho
criminal and immoral to cocupy