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fOB-POU COUHTY HEWS, JOIIJ? CARNEQIK, PpHUSHKB.- yi)5Gp.IPTIQN RATES : Qqc Year, . . . . . ? . . j ? fi Six Months, . ' ...... -5 Jhree Months, t. .... ..... . .25 Qnf Monty, .......... r .IQ jl.Ay IN AlVANfE. v Subscriber! tq Tb Polk County NfHtS, art aUajv notified ljen . ftr-jr $uh- JHl scription expires by the appearanpe qf I jjf.pt cross mark on their paper. ifHVIlSDAY, AU6. 10. 1P05, utTOR B.ek: There appeared, in the ed- Itoriai column 01 a rccm mu 01 ;c 11 article dftquueing some of the most in- eUgent and houoriblj citixeim of Polk WHUyt Because they fleclincd signing a cer? Hty petition to be presented tq the. fpunty , commissioners. The article referred to fjijjried some of our csi citizens because they clajmed the right of Atiej-icaft c jtiaens o tfnlc fpr tljejnselyes, anj the jificle was uncale4 for, unenle TOan,) "djsqnoibV nd cgwy. In a, later issue pf tfie Slews i$ an editorial ltfUrfih intimate; jhaj thgse who sign a cer tah?petiiH artf t)oi)eanc hpe wbq refuse W. Jhf edit of the life ws not to throw tbpmjin!g of charity flyer bad. and, djsonest c itixens, but (o pursue an honest, honorable and gentlemanly course, and publish the nances of (he bad anc jshopc citizen? as the defamatory articles, hjch djsgraced the columns of e Iews, $9 that all may haye a Rearing. Vas not the articles referred tQ intended o intimidate and coerce t vter jrjuV s,gnfj (he petition? f the electric rqad scheme js gn, bonesf and legitimate onp, dqes require bolstering up at the expense of the reputation qf honest, respectable and intelligent cittern. . To say eieast, tbf denunciatory articles referred rAx, f"lTT7Cl v HE Ejyy i nSf aware that r it "denQunced and, villified 0l qwr bst CitenS tyause they elaiifte th right o American eitinj & tWnH f qr themelves. ' NeithMa fti Paer eyer said gn a certain petition ae hest and tftge WTO fefu 9 1P . are dihgnet., 1 did hgwever, irgfethe. signing q th Tulrbad ' DetitiQil in 'irdr that an election ' MiiCS S nSery cifeen " giS the privilege exercise th.1; right jf American citizens -' ay deciding the question through tlie , ballot ' box. We said then and say now, the only honesfc 'way to aeciae puunc quesuuxis is uy giving the people a chance to ex press" their views through thg ballot box, ' - .-' , According to ' 'Citizen" the editor of The JTews acted cowardly by placing "the mantle oi,cnnty' oyer otner men. 'Citizen, ' then, has acte d rayejy by piacing"the mantle of chanty " qyer himselt and not publishing his true name. Let 1 'Citizen pluclr. the feeam frqm pis qwn eye nrt. Whatever appears as editorial matter m nig paper can qe cra ted tq -the editor. The latter hajs no dictator. He owns h i s jqyvn soul and is not governed by any man or set of men. The Newsi ha3, failed tq find in its columns any articles that were ng-eritteTOniy. dishonorable andcqwardly.' heefqre, it is forced to fyHeive, that W articles in this paper looked 4 'ungentlema,niy," et t9 ' Citr izenVthey were but the mirror m w. he saw his Qwi &ure, Who wants, o, pajp a,xes cyn f ojo.ooo to go ft mnty.w0 ia vqfon want? tow ta on $25,000 to build a macadamed mAtX the purpose qf rid-. ingOYe W lryon, as nas qen SggesJd fey a writer feThe B? Ifujy uj with your produce f nd get it aboard the 'riectrfe 4.te'fS0W?fr09? e little end ofom,ewe to, h,e 1 he end of - ' .-. owjberel-socw rju . GreatSt what an .admjssiqnt Ever since tne eieccr yie s teitei oX-its wo- cordinrr the' local editor of Wi'zp: 4thi 'tother THE INTERURBAN, ELECTRIC RAILWAY Editor Pouc County News; WW "I wijj you please give me space in yoiir papej' o answer some of the questions asked in a certain article in the Tryon Bee, signed ''Citizens." In the 'first place, I want to say that the author of said article is, either not a practical rajlroad Ean or has hi Qwn gelfish interr ests in yiew, Now Jet us see if this is correct. ; ques. Is the proposed road ()f sunlcient importance to justify the tax payers in subjecting theinselves to oppressive tqxatiQn tq benefit tY9 towng ap "4 f W citizens? ans. In answer to this que$ iqn I qan afely say yes. 'But pray tell me if you sanj what two towns you have in view? If the proix)sed rqad is built it wijl ex tend all the way through the county, thereby opening up one of the finest sections of Western N. C. T9yns will jlah into ex istence, unpopulated sections will become settled, and Polk county can well alt ord to more than double her taxes in order to get a rqad through her bet sections. The Rrqperty owner can well affQrft t9 pay more, tax because nis property will worth tWe What iti vvithout the road, The laborer can. well affqrd tQ. pay more pol tx because he can make $5.00 per day while now he is only niakipg one, q Why do not the promoters of the schenie Qonyene pubjic meeupg 91 th citizens of the county, (not citizens of Henderr gqnvifje) and place before thm facts, figures apd reliable infor mation, not hearsay assertions and suppositions? a. To, this question I v beg to ay that such has not been the case. Ihe lrvon writer must have slept the sleep of Rip Van Winkle ; surely he remeibers now all rqlK county people were mgeci tQ attend a meeting in )lqmbus court House during the first part qf April 1905 for the express PUFPOge of discussing the prqpos.eii.eiectric vline, Has the Tryon writer fqrgotten the meet ings held in the town qf Henderr sonville, which meetings were all public and free and to which the people of folk were cordially jn? vited, many, of whom attended ; but only one from Tryon. Prav . w tell me citizens why did you not auend? The next question is same as question 2 and is answered abqye. q W--s not the scheme of Henderisonville origin and in ten ed to divert the trade of a port tion of Polk county to that point? a This question is perfectly absurd and goes tQ show that the propqunder is either trying tg scare the vqter? qr he is ignorant of his subject. Everyone knows that Hendersqnville does- nqt Want to go to the expense of con structing a road from Asheville tq Gaffney S. C. just to get the small amount of trade that would cqme from Polk, C The truth i s the citizens, of Pqlk will not hay to carry their produce to Tryon to sell it but will have a market at their door. This is what is hurting thq propqunder. q Are iqt some of the prq notors, of the scheme large pro perty owners in Polk county, and are, they pot desirous of unload ing their elephants on the public at the expense q the tax payers? a. To iis question, which Is perfectly laughable. I will ans- wer by asking the prqpounder Who it is that pays the" taxes! Is -x. . j. i " . " "" T it not me large property owners of the s county? .Then: if they a?e puahipg the road and the heavy tax (which the propqunder Of this questiqn thinks will follow the road;) Who, ought to kick? M it is gqqa ior the large tax payer it is good for the snall one. q now many qt the directors Q the roa.d are residents ojf Polk county; and what, may the x payers expect from strangers?: a I Wonder if tne nroDbunder of this question thinks he vill be able to prejudice some voter Kv tihis cuestAQn, I wnt 1 0 ask the ! gentleman how. many of the directors of the Southern railroad live in Tryon, and yet if it were not fop that road Tryon would be but a little more thana wild cat's den. How many of the Southern directors live in Spartanburg, Asheville, Greensboro, Charlotte tmd in fact in any of the Southern tqwns? Yet do we hear the citizens of these towns kickintr because they, have hone qf the directors? Of courge not. This writer ought to know better than to think that he can null a veil over the eyes of the voters of Polk county h? sueh stuff as this. This ajont? goes to show that the f ryon writer is only trying tP prejudice the voter, q It has been intimated that the tax, levied upon the road would pearly pay the interest on the bonds. This is calculated to deceive. The mere .interest on the bonds would amount to $6,000 Will the promoters of the rqad pieasq .snow now tne ta.x , ieviea upon the road would nearly pay this amount of money? - -a There is not a man now livs ing in polk county who will (if thjs $100,000 is voted) have to pay $1 of these bpnds, but should they have tq pay the .entire, $100,000, it will be much easier for them to pay that tax with the road than it is for them to pay what they are now paying with- qtt the roaq- J course, the tax qn the road alone will nqt pay the bonds off, but take the Wealth that the rqad will bring into our county nd the enhansed value qi property, togetner witn tne fine timbers which can easily bq put on the market, and this will twice yea thrice? pay off the bonds, q If the bqnd issue is carried, will it not give the county .com missioners authority for thefnext 20 years to Jevy, besides the tax es they by law already have they power tq levy, also a speciaj tax sufficient not only to pay $6,000 a yea,r interest on the borids but alsq about $4;000 a year the amount necessary tQ develop a sinjcjng fund sq s to pay the bonds when they mature? a What about this for a scare crow. It is so nice to have a nan cqme hre from the extreme north ard settle m one comer of Pqlk county, just as closq tq -the only piece qf rajlroad in the county as he could get without having cinders thrown in "his eyes." A man who dearly love the South and her poor people. and whQ i ready tq lay down the pill pquch and spend three weeks riding over the county for the purpose of informing the. poor citizens of the county that they may sometime have tq pa y $10,000 more tax each year for 20 years. If I were you I would rngve over to Cooper Gap or near the center of the cqunty where I could get away from thq pesty railroad. But tQ the ques tion. Yes, the cbh;missiqners might , have, the right to levy a special tax tq pay off these bonds, but do you know th&t out of 9 cqunties in N. C. 76 have voted bonds for railroads, some vqting as much as $300,000. I notice that the cqunties voting these bonds are counties yet and are far superior to Polk in wealth. I an told by the citizens, qf these counties that they can much more easily pay, the tax necessary to pay the bonds, than they could pay their taxes before they had a railroad. I am sure the gentle man knows that every cky and town that is worth mentioning is tqday bonded for half its ylue, and they are not-grumbling. The vftiter goes on with hs scare cro? by saying that the Cox estate pays abp,it one fourth of th tax of Polk county an,d that the;y giye in $250,000 in bonds in Polk cou,nty and that if the $oo,,ooo dol lars in bpns are vqted in' Polk that the Co estate wll seek sone other cpunty in which to lit here property. ow it is true that th Co estate gives quite a large sum o property in Polk county and it is further true that they pay a large amount of tax in Polk county, The late Col. Cox always cpn,sidered Polk county; his home and; at fcjis death owned quite a large estate in Polk county. This beinir his home of course, he gave in his proper- tjf to ?pAcpwy or at eaall the bonds, notes and monies, together with the-pro- ffl in the county. Col. CoX waa,lT,rintr his life time an ardent, De- liever in railroads and tried for a. number of years, to get a rpad through ' Polk county! and. I take it that his children still feel the same interest in the county as did their fatherand I know that they are men of too broad a caliber to shirk or attempt to shirk a . small pittance of tax that a $icp, 000 of bonds would impose upon them. n fact th,ink they will be in for the proposed road. q 1$ has ben urged that an electric road would beneHt the county, induce settlement an4 increase the, value of land. lUUwe wiUqsk, will lot the oppose be the result?. The first questisn asked by a person seeking a home is, "what is your tax rate?' ' a The answer to this question is that we can only judge the future by the past. In all the cases which I can now recall, in counties through which roads haye run, they have rapidly pome to the front, pro7 pery has increased iri value and people naturally drift to the counties where there are roads. About the rst question that a mari will ask, when he is seeking a homers, "What are your railroad facil ities and "hoiv far wll J have to go in order to ship and market my produce?'' I have had pxperice, as a real es,tte agent and in all of my experiance J have never had a man who was seeking a hpme to ask me concerning to tax rate, The. very first question is 'h,ave you a railroad close to the property you -have for sale?" -And 99 tinjes out of 100 if you tejl him you have no rpad he is lost tp your county, I aslj the question, why is it. that Polk county is cousidered a back mumber by' all "or, nearly a the other counties in the state? The answer is, ber cause she has no, rocid. I find that the majority of the people in the state think of the p,eppe pf Polk as being a slow lazy people. Why? JJecause she has drifted along in, e back groui and allowed her neighbors to excel! her. in railroad facilities. ' . We further notice that the Tryon correspondent says that the lands through which the said proposed rqad is to run is yery ppor and unproductive. This statement is untrue. The lands over and through which the pro posed road is, to run has a pro ductive soil especially adapted -to iruit growing, pme 01 the hnest fruit I have seen came from Whiteoak and Cooper Gap town ships; thousands of busheles of apples peaches and pears are marketed each year ,. frqn the lands through which this road will run tq say nothing of the potatoes, melons, wheat, rye, myiases, corn and cotton..; The soil of this section is especially suited tq" peaches nd grapes. You take Whiteoak and Cooper Gap and the soil is the : same as that around Tryon ancT I know that there are fruit farms around Tryon tht are paying handsome ly each year. Take such farms as W, T, Lndeys, Doubledays, Lamonts and others where they arq Qlqse enqugh tq the railroad to ship their fruit and such f aims . .. .. are Drmgiflg enormous prices. Every citizen i n Polk county knows that it woujd be the same way a a.lqng the proposed road, such.farms as a.re nqw almost Yforthless qwing to the fact that the owner thereof can't get a market would if they had $ road bring an each year, a handsome profit. All the way around the fountain from Chimney Rock to Tryon is unsurpassed for its firm fruits, potatoes and mellpns. Why should the Tryon writer try to misrepresent these things? uive us what is ours and we will J not ask for anything further. A want to ask the Trvon corrps- pbndent where it is that th people of Tryqn get 1J of their corn. a,R4 fodder f Is it not from the townships of Whiteoak Cooper (Jap and Columbus? - Day aiter aay 1 see Iqads qf corn, fqdr der, peas, pqtatoes and other produce, going through Columbus to Tryon, . Can all this come from "very poort unproductive lands??' ' q Why should trip Polk county, be. asked to votP bonds for the constnierm road that has not even been sur veyed or located? Who smuggled the special act thrnnoV Vu legislature, without thp ' .uc auvice qr consent of tho voters of Polk county? a . JLhAnswer to the. first m,M. tion xve will say, that no. one will be asked to vote without first Knowing ior what h ia wj, Thepropounder of this question Capitol JOSEPH NQKWUOD, Pres.. - J. B. HESTER, Cashier. JOSEPH NORWOOD, DREARLE GRADY, R. E. JOHNSTON, . We wjsh to arnoj;nce .the incorporatiqn aa fifganiaUon ?f The Bi k and to statf that we are now open for business. fee a dCep appreciation ! 1 support accorded us m. this organizaticp tfiitaA in 11c ' IiAivpucr rrrp f nr entail will -: 'y 1 " yqu to tle best of our ability. We cordially . .1 .... 11 mi BIG'CUT , We have just complete taking stock and find that we w too many goods on our shaves which we have decided to ohJm: at greatly reduced pnees lp order to make room for our r- fi -of goods. - llTA r . nv cixrxr Jaiw urn ttt417 T . 1 . I yr4, Calicos at A, , and 6cts per yard, good Jeans at" 20 and IS per yard, Flannelettes at lOcts per yard, and aii other drv oZ 5 in proportiqn. . - ' . Shoes, both ladies' and genes', at Ccts, $1.C0, $1 25 r $1,75, ?2 00, $2.50 and $2.75. These shoeomevfcol $1,25 to $3,00 per pair. 4 ' ?ola tor ge sure to inspect these goos before you buy ox VG1 lose a bargain. SVIH Dpn't forget that Qur line of groceries are always fresh the best that money can buy. ' When in Columbus we invite ypu to macc om- store hf in quarters whether yqu, want to buy anything pr not. No trouS tq show goods. ' - Thanking you for your trade the past year nd hopine- f or , continuance of the same, we remain. ' Yoiirs to please. Phpne INo. 13, IN FERIOR IP RI N f 1 K G J Like goods of an inferior quality, is a rimnt tft every l J business man. A piece of printing has a cheiip 'raw- J ged, slop shop look is neyer read but is, tossed into the waste o. basket as soon as received. The Bill Head, Letter Pead, 1 5 Envelope, Statement, etc.. that is not neatlv nrinWl 5 people to think that the merohani V.ho uses inferior printing P.rQbably deals in inferior merchandise, and so they purchase J elsewheie. Did you eyer think of that, Mr. Business Man ? Gt your - printing done here where h$ cpst is reasonable and the quality First Class. - P8LK COUNTY KEWS PRIfiTBKG HOUSE, Phone No. 2. CO w ...... ,.. . ....... ., m , a9aepaoAfaoec&90e6996eftr6 wmno have For aala by yont dealer. Insist on having the Granite State; take nq O t h A V If vnnr Cutting dealer should not carty.' a stock of these mowers, write ajid we will trivft VOIl "thp nrma pf lie nearest deal-. er mat does. The best is the cheap-;' est in th pti H THE GRANITE STATE MnwiMR uruiuc rt uih.j.u 11 U. MATtfTTTT than the products '-'of any other brand ! Besides several Gold Medals, they won the only Qrand Prize for vegetables at St. Louis Exposition. jg"If- you intend to Bfpee s Seeds, we will mail free our Compjete Catalogue p 178 pages, with beautiful colored plates and illustrations from photographs taken at "put h&oxa F ORIhook Fars, the largest Trial Grounds in America. Write TO-DAY I VI. A 1 LEE BURPEE & CO. Job Printing THE NQRTH. 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