French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-02

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can camp was the refuge of the ig-l
nolant and vicious in this southland, !
but ! never heard it so uniquely put.
before However, it is a SANDER on :
the mountain people. /:
If there ever was a great field for
a great exclusive daily democratic
peoples paper named -"THE NOUN
TANNER DEMOCRAT to take care.
daily of the good name, and the in;
dustrial upbuild, and the educational, :
and the legislative interest of West
eFn Carolina and the state that holds
is columns open without charging
advertising rates, to give the people
the opportunity that patronizes the,
paper, to discuss men for Office, and
their qualifications to fill the Office,
that field is open here in the Tenth. .
But little trouble would be ex-I
~perienced in raising $15O,OOO capital
to start it. Asheville has had to. put
UP in the last few years, nearly $780,
900 for her advertising work, that an
up-to-date paper run for industrial
and upbuild purposes, where it car
ries 5000 and 10000 subscribers, and
about $50 advertisers gets so per
cent of the space, that 80 per cent
who want news pay for. For such
a paper edited by a native born man,
whose heart bubbles over with the
sacred traditions of the people Of his
native land, and whose pride knows
nothing else but the upbuild and the
| betterment of his native mountain
country. He would have the coop
GRAFTON of every weekly paper
throughout the mountain section and
liberal daily in the state, and ought to
60 once a year into every community,
meet the people, look over the pos
sible industrial opportunities, and he
could make this mountain section, in
less than ten years, to bloom like q
garden of Paradise. And the members
of the Legislature, and the, members
of Congress would be selected for
their patriotism, their knowledge, their
ability and their determination to
have the best that state and national
law could give to this section. Do the
people want this?
Ninth Issue: 1 have a little map,
(send to me for it) showing a con-
nected up line from Winnipeg, Canada,
and takes up a proposed railroad line
from the Tennessee Caa1 Fields, via.
Knoxville, on across the state, split
ting wide open the Tenth district to
Southport, n C. Tennessee stands
ready for her convicts to help on the
line, and her counties to vote bonds
to help build the miles in Tennessee.
The North Carolina Legislature has
passed the law to utilize convicts in
helping to construct the miles in North
Carolina from the Tennessee line to
Southport. The North Carolina coun-
ties from the Tennessee line Ruther-
fordton have voted $4,000 per mile to
cooperate with the state and capital
to help build the line. The counties
on from Rutherfodton to Southport
will cooperate with state and capital
to construct the lines to tideWater.
The control of the receipts and dis
bursements of the income of the road
is in the hands of the Governor, the
chairman of the Corporation Commits
sion, and the auditor of the State of
! North Carolina. The power rests in
the hands of the Governor to award
convicts. The Coed Roads Boom hit
the state, and convict work on rail
, roads became unpopular, and capital
would not come in, and Willnotceme
in without the pledge that the Coy
ernor will comply be the letter Of the
law as it provides. So the road is
not yet built. This is not all that is
being done to make. the read safe and
| profitable investment for the state
and the counties, and secur in a bus
mess manner the settlement forever
of the excessive freight rates that is
new a tax of over SIG, 100000 a year
on the people of this state, because it
has no rate-basing port. It is now