The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-28
CONSISTENCY.

The Dispatch accuses the Radicals" of
inconsistency in supporting the funding
bill last year, and fayoring its repeal this
session. All such criticism Of men or par
ties falls harmless before the stern fact, that
the funding law was dangerous in principle,
and impossible in practice. The people dis
covered this, and demanded its repeal. 1t
was not party measure, for which Rerub-
licans were responsible, as it was not in is
sue at the election preceding its passage by
the Legislature. individuals voted for 1t OF
both parties, and the opposition to it would
have been helpless, but for the fact that
majority Of the Conservatives voted with the
Republicans. We care little for CoNsIS-
TENCY, but we want to be right Arrays.
We protest against this attempt to mix
up questions of finance and local state in
terest with party politics. The state that
is cursed with such puerile and bigoted
politics will never prosper. Let us fight
our battles like men in the open field, and
not seek to shelter ourselves among the
homes of the people, and hide behind the
women and children when pressed by an
adversary. @
When questions Of national politics are
in issue, we are partisans to the bitter end.
But when issues arise, which involve the in
terests that cluster around every hearth
stone, which affect the education of the
children, the food they cat, the clothes they
| wear, that brightens or darkens the home,
relieves or burdens the men and women OF
this Virginia, shortens or lengthens the
hours of toll for them; when such ques-
tons ayi4se- W G know neither party, sect OF
clan. .......
| We throw aside every weight of pollti-
cal difference, and strike hands with ererg
man who is honestly laboring to help the
| people. We pity the man who cannot
break the shell of prejudice and put off the
party collar long enough to do This I; whose
heart never swells with that generous love
of men as men, that rises and flows over ii
disinterested effort to help others. Fol-
him the heavens are brass, and the earth j:
desert, barren as his own poverty.
stricken soul.
Such man ought to be banishcd tt
Alaska, or some other region as cold ant
desolated as his own heart. There is but Oh,
place fl for hin, and that will soon b.
abolished, when the exhuned mummy of ;
dead Democracy, shall no longer need |
public Snowman. We inaugurated tin
fight upon the funding law, not as part
san, but as an independent journalist, and a
citizen Of Virginia, interested as much il
its welfare, as any advocate Of that law
We have been gratilied in seeing goo
men from both parties rally upon common
ground and work together in the interest 0
the people upon this question. 1t has bee
most cheering example Of Independent
legislation, and is full of good omens for th
future Of the State. The majority of til
, Legislature have acted upon their homes
Judgment in the matter, and the peopl
will sustain and commend them.
The Dispatch will not scare them by as
, sociating their action with ''the Radicals.
E Names have lost their power. When
man is hungry he viii not refuse goo
t square meal, because the cook can't rea
I French, and his apron is not quite lmmac'
: late in its Whiteness.