Goldsboro weekly argus., 1915-04-15
YOU HAVE MY ANSWER

"A 1ltIl0 DOy once uduc d uIdWluS OAAs
his slate at school and when he had
finished it and looked it over he wasn't
quite certain that those who looked
upon it could determine what it was,
SO he wrote under it these words:
"This is a horse" When our friends
Of the opposition to Goldsboro's pres
ent splendid administration lined
themselves up and looked themselves
over they weren't quite certain that
the general public of Goldsboro could
determine what they stood for and so
they adopted this slogan eve stand
for civic Righteousness" That settled
it! And they proceed to beat the big
bazoo and decry the deplorable condi-
ton of Goldsboro, and proclaim with
supercilious arrogance that all those
who profess to believe in the princi-
pies which we stand for and don't vote
with us are hypocrites-moral 1epers
in the community, unfit to hold COM
munion with true and upright men;
unworthy to exercise the inalienable
rights of American citizenship, or to
point men the way to higher things.
l understand have been reliably
informed, and I saw in public print in
the Raleigh News & Observer this
morning-that in the court house last
lnight-in our beautiful Temple OF
Justice, of which we are all SO proud,
my name-because for soothe I see fit
/ ic+v hot
has prospered Goldsboro along all
lines of development as no other ad-
ministration within my experience
has-my name was cried in approbri-
um by one Mr.. Ed M. Land-you all
know Ed. Land-don't know Ed. Land ?
Don't know Ed. Land! Well, be that
as it maybe told the people there
assembled last night that the Argus
the Go1dsboro Daily Argus-the
paper over which I preside-the pa
per that I founded thirty years ago,
and have sent into the homes of my
| fellow citizens daily ever since-that
the Argus does not stand for "civic
righteousness"-and 1 understand that
applause of that statement-th Argus
that I have endeavored all these years
to keep so clean!-so clean that the
mothers of my town as they gather
their children about their knees anG
teach their infant lips to lisp the frs
sweet words of prayer, might turr
from that sacred service and give then
their first lesson in reading from any
line in it's columns and not have theil
young minds aroused to enquire
Mother, what Isl Oh, I canno
write the world must still keep th'
/ Argus c1ean-I must regard my pur
: pose-I must consider the children O
the present and the future! But
Mother, what is embezzlement? :?
Mother, what is convict?
q Mother, are any Of my peopl
convicts?" And they can search tn
i columns of the Argus through all it
e files of all the years through whic
e my name shall be found at it's mas
e head, and search in vain for an ans
t wer or a name the mention of whic
Il might bring the blush Of shame
. their cheeks or a pang of sorrow
= their hearts. And when their home
. clouds and their hearts made sorrow
v full by the death of loved ones th
It Argus has come to them with sue
3, ,Nords of sympathy and succor as be:
e it might, whispering of the life beyon
n the "val1ey of the shadow" where "
le shall know our loved ones again. Ar
- yet the Argus does not stand, for civ
=. righteousness and higher uplift, b.
cause Mr.. Ed Land says so-and l
knows.
D. What is civic righteousness?
l. Are those who claim to stand fl
IS civic righteousness in Goldsboro CO,
d. sistent?
What do the evangelical church
require of their members? Is it n
forbidden them to dance?
Does not the Bible say che that W
not hear the church, let him be
thee as the heathen"?
Do not the ministers from their pr
pits preach against dancing? A
they needed?
Did not one of the ministers here
Go1dsboro, on recent Sunday, pr
o. claim from his pulpit that while on
twelve of his flock attended the pl
vious Wednesday evenings pray
meeting twenty of his enroll
1t; church members were at that We
II, hour attending a club dance In
city?
What is consistency?
These very church MEMBERSHIP
very dance attenders-these protest.
church members who refuse to t'he
I'D the church" "-applauded Mr.. Land i
night when he called the name of
editor of the Argus out in "smeetir