Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-01-07
THE RIGHT WAY

The Dem ocrats, National ano State, are
sqnarely meeting the question that is in
sle hearts CT the people of the whole coun-
ry-retrenchment. In the National House
OF Representatives a few days since Mr..
Holman, of Indiana, offered resolution
that lin the present condition of the finan-
cial affairs of the govern ment, no subsidies
in money, bonds, pubic lands, endorse
ment. or by pledge of the public credit,
should be granted by Congress to associa-
lions or corporations engaged or proposing
to engage in public or private enterprises,
and that all appropriations from the public
treasury ought to be limited at this time o
such amounts only as shall be imperatively
demanded by the public service" 1t was
adopted by the overwhelming vote Of 223
to 81, the Virginia delegation, doubtless,
having the James River Il Kanawha Canal
in their eye, voting in the minority, which
does great credit to their short-sighted-
ness. The largest bird killed by that shot
is the Southern" Pacific Railroad Of Tom
SCOTT, across the continent to ?ennsylva-
MIA, the secret history of which scheme,
when opened up, will be found fully equal
to the Crelit Moblier, and which improve
meht would benefit Virginia about as much
as railway from Norfolk to the Dismal
Swamp would benefit Waynesboro. The
James River & Kanawha Canal, which is
different sort of thing from SCoTr's
scheme, is our highest hope in Virginia;
h,t oaut nv xuo11 n
into the ground by corrupt and extrava-
CANT administration, very few of us expect
| aid for it at such time as this. Virginia
already pays out over 100000 yearly to
| the e. S. Government, and if that goes
into the schemes of internal improvement
laid out for it, and which are 80 connected
! by log-rolling that one can't be gotten
| without the other, our tax would soon be
$40 100000. We have gotten past the old
! idea that what is gotten out of the Cen
| eral Government is ''made clear" and the
| people Of Virginia are beginning to find
| that it comes out OF their own pockets.
| The idea has been industriously circulated
by our opponents that the Democrats, out
of National power so long, would cele-
brate their advent by profuse liberality-
liberality with the money that the reven ue
collectors carry out of Virginia and other
States every year; but this slaughter Of
| Tom SCOTT and the minor :nnocents has
exploded it. The country has been 50 sur
feited with stealage in the administration
of its affairs for the last ten years that any
party that comes to it with any solid claim
| TO honesty and economy as that given by
| the Democrats in the House last week,
will carry the Presidential election next
| year.
In State affairs Governor LETCHER has
moved the appointment of joint commit
| tee by the legislature to look into the cost
of the leg stature, judiciary, capitol clerks,
| and the State humane institutions,
and to furnish comparison of all these
| " it'll the cost in 1860, when our territory
| and population were larger. His purpose
as explained is, to cut down all expenses to
| the lowest limit and see where they are I'M
necessarily high.
The Democrats, National and State. are
| on the right track.