Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-04-03
The appropriations Again.

9th ult0. which we take pleasure in
transferring to our columns by way Of
doing the fullest justice to that gentle
man and his school. We cannot, how
ever, pass the card uDnoticed,
First, says General Smith, the ap.
preparation is just now what it was
twenty years ago, viz: $4,000; and
further, in that the other $4,000 is but
one of six annual instalmeuts which the
Legislature has agreed TO loan to the
Institute.
This IN no wise contradicts our state.
ment that the appropriation to this
school was increased from $1,000 tC
s25, ZOO, unless there be readers Of sc
little knowledge ofsuch matters as tc
suppose that the principal Of this six
annual lnstalment loan Of 100000 will
ever be returned TO the treasury.
There are abundant proofs in General
Smiths reports TO show that much i'm
provement upon past years must be
had before he will be able to pay this
money back.
So much for the truth of the state
ment we very succinctly made two
weeks ago. Now for the facts rcclted
to justify the increase Of annuity.
Says the General: Hunter burnt the
buildings in "a, which were rebuilt and
would have been paid for but for the
panic of '73; and this destruction was
Invited BY the gallant conduct Of the
cadets at New Market.
All lamcntably true. And the Gen
cral touches sensitive and responsive
cord when he refers to the eight dead
and forty-eight wounded left at New
Market, by that corps.
But suppose we undertake to pat a
dollars-and-cents value upon the hero
.sm and blood Of the Southern soldiers
in the Valley, and to reimburse the
people whom Sheridan, after Hunter,
visited with the torch. All Of our mill
burs would cry out for appropriations
and every farm.feld invite annual loans
to restore fencing. Hundreds ofiamilies
of helpless wsmea and children toiling
for subsistence might we'll demand com
mutation in l0cre for 4 dead husband,
father or brother.
Say the great standard bearers Of
commercial integrity, we must be just
TO oar creditors before being generous
to ou~selrss. Free schools for the poor
the orphans Of the martyrs whose deeds
and death have iouud no place in a
"MemOyiap' volume-are a luxury"
to be dispensed with. Say these same
men, tie tax upon the restored mill
must BE- increased and the assessed
value Of lands augmented 10y artifice.
to preserve the honor and glory which
depend now upon the payment Of a
debt doubled up by bribery and fraud in
a so called contract that stnks IN the
nostrile of men not yet so thoroughly
subiugated by either the malignant
Hunter or the brigand Sheridan as to
Law all the traditional and historic and
still existing manhood of Virginia at
the feet Of the Puritan, aud learn all
their lessons in integrity, morality, re.
ligion, and State-dcyotion from The
witch burners OF the last century. the
.-...-..... ..,~-.;~te of 1900, the traitors Of
1912, the Black Friday thieves and
panic producers Of 1928, the gold gam
blcrs Of to-day, and the expert authors
Of all our ills and woes from the begin
ming Of their systematized bride raids
upon incompetent and irresponsible
legislators Of the reconstruction era.
We say, without malice to the In
sttute, if the State can give and Gov
ernor Holiday approve $4,000 appro-
priatiOns to such school in cOnsdera-
ton of Hunters raid and the panic Of
'73 or the valor Of the cadets at New
Market, in the name OF all the dead Ct
Virginia we would appeal for pension
to the widows as an obligation rising
high over any bond promise We would
appeal for the education Of the number
less fatherless, and we might with equal
Justice demand that the burnt districts
should b. cared tor by the legislature
instead Of being taxed to build up a
waste place at Lexington. Justice
saws, if the wailing and want and
misery and poverty and war suffering
are to be pleaded at the discussing place
Of our revenues as sett-Ofs to demands
upon us, then in the name Of the blind
goddess, withdraw the tax gatherer from
the Valley. nj least.