The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, March 19, 1889. TRUTH AND ITS CONFIRMATION.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 275, 19 March 1889, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, March 19, 1889. TRUTH AND ITS CONFIRMATION.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s. Thy God’s, and truth’s.

Wk understand that our article on Saturday last gave Mr Weaver offence If it did we are sorry, for it was not our object to do so, and we tried to say what we had to say in the least offensive manner, as well as to leave unsaid a great deal which tended in the direction of our argument. But truths, no matter how distasteful to both the utterer and his listeners, must occasionally be told in the interest of the majority. If any confirmation of the justice of our article were needed, the events of the past week give it. Mr Weaver went away after the meeting full of energy and determination to push on vigorously in the interests of himself and the rest of the shareholders. We are not quite sure that he reached the springs, but we do know that as usual—he returned. There is talk of his intention to resign. We do not quite know what position he occupies, or what he has to resign ; that is one of the many mysteries in connection with the Company, but we can only say that we believe he would be consulting his best interests if he did resign, and allow some other person to push on with the work We are certain that in that way he will touch dividends much quicker than if he continues to rely on his own exertions. After the many years of unceasing toil and worry which Mr Weaver has put in at the springs, it is only fair that he should take a rest. Naturally, with the very large interests he has at stake, he does not like to intrust those interests to the hands of another person, but we are quite sure that both he and the other shareholders will find it much the best that he should do so. At any rate we can safely say that any assiduous person would act quite as rapidly in Mr Weaver’s interests as he himself has done.

He is so very careless, and apathetic, and dilatory about himself and his own interests that no other person could possibly injure him by their mismanagement of operations at the springs ; and with the assistance they would certainly get from the Minerva people, and with the supervision which Mr Weaver himself no doubt would avail himself of, his interests could not possibly suffer so much in the future as they have in the past. If we should not be thought very impertinent, our advice to Mr Weaver would be, since he does not seem inclined to push the test vigorously ; to stand on one side and let some one else develop for him that rapid fortune which he well knows now lies within his too apathetic grasp. Then we shall only be too happy to avail ourselves of his further assistance before we die, and are no more seen among men.