The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-16

stitntions. This course Of individual econo-
nv will sooner bring-in fact, is the only
thinq that will br;ng-about change Tor
the better The change must be brought
about either by this means or by some great
disruption and commotion in our polltlcai,
financial, and governmental alla;rs-as wise
men let us choose the lesser OF the two evils,
If economy may be called an evil. w.
The Conservative Party and the State
Debt.
From the Norfolk Ledger.1
TO support 4 man simply because be is
debt-payer or a repudiator is to mix up
State and national issues in most unjustl-
fable and unnecessary manner, and cause
excitement and division in tue Conserva-
tive ranks without any benefit whatever to
the State at large. We think this whole
question should he kept out OF the congress
sional canvass. 1t does not belong there :;
but in State elections it should be onenly
discussed, and there we take our stand be-
side the Slate, and will not support any
man for office opposed to the honorable pay
ment of our debt.
from The Petersburg Post.l
fuckers nomination by an almost unanl-
nous vote is assured. The debt question
has nothing to do with the fight for'Con-
eress. Funders and reidjusters both vii!
20 overheard on such an issue.
AS is indicated by the fact that in Buck
ingham county public meeting endorsed
Ran. fuckers course in Congress and
Ficklen's in the House of Delegates. In
another article the Post, in view OF the
determination OF oncpaper to vote for none
but readjusters, and OF another paper to
vote for none but funders, says:
What is to become OF the candidates fol-
Congress, especially in this (the Fourth)
district? -.'
Let us see.
AS member of tue Senate Captain Hin
ton was one CT the lean minority OF four
who voted last winter to increase taxation
to pay the whole debt OF the State dollar
for dollar. OF course that made HIM 4
funder Of the strongest type, and accord
ing to the theory OF one paper all OF the
:. readiusters and grecnback men of the
district, and everybody who is opposed to
increased taxation, would have to vote
dead shot against him! On the other hand,
suppose q regular forcible "readiuster y
should be nominated? Then every funder
t-'N'SNs
would have to vote against him.
+ So that in either contingency the Con-
sentative candidate in this district Will be
compelled to go overheard. Hinton will be
defeated because he voted forincreased tan
alton and is bottom-dollar man, and
the other candidate, whoever he might be,
would be defeated because he IS ''read-
ulster and a greenback man." Who ever
heard Of such an agrarian political doctrine
as this promulgated anywhere
from the Petersburg Appeal, 15th.l
The State is entirely right, OF course,
with respect to forcing the State-debt Issue
into the canvass for congressional nominees.
1t is true the question OF paying, scaiinS, OF
reSdjusting the State debt is not likely to
come I'D in the Congress Of the United
Statas for discussion OF action. and it might
therefore be hastily concluded that to stand
right on the subject was not an lndlspensa-
HE condition in a nominee OF either party.
Rut when we come to consider that the
principle affects the honor, the credit, the
prosperity, and the destiny OF the Common
wealth, it is clear that Conservatives cannot
afford to take up man unless he gives a
satisfactory account of himself in this re-
spect. The logic is unanswerable on moral
grounds, and not only with respect to the
public debt, but as affecting number OF
other matters of interest to the voting
public.
Here, for instance, is the great question Oh
securing proper observance of the sab
bath. Beyond doubt, a large number OF
good men and prominent citizens OF Viz
Sinia are scandalized by the loose manner
in which the consecrated day is generally
kent. In some countries there are very
rigid regulations, which prescribe penalties
for all sinners who fail to attend church, OF
who transgress any part of the revealed law
in the matter of the Sabbath. The import
ance OF having this great question properly
DISPOSED OF cannot be denied by any lntelll-
gent person. It may not come up for con-
sideration in Congress, it is true, because II
any legislation is pertinent or desirable in
the premises il ought to be bad OF the State
authorities. But the same thing is true OF
the debt It is on the ground that both are
great moral questions that we hold thal
every member Of Congress should answer
his catecbism correctly under both these
heads.
(. No less observing Of instant attention ano
decisive action is the great issue OF totai AZ
stinence and prohibition. II Saul sic" MS
thousands and David his tens Of thousands,
how many thousands have been laid low oy
King Alcohol? Physicians, morallsts,
statists. statisticians, humanitarians, wives,
mothers. q suffering world, have long
been demanding that the problem Of
putting an effective stop to intemperance
sball he solved. Several States have tried
the experiment OF prohiting, under heavy
nenalties, the manufacture and sale o!
LIQUOR. The whole subject Is full OF inter
est and of moment. 1t is not likely thai
Congress will be expected to act upon 1t
or to express any opinion in regard to it.:
but the people cannot afford to send rep
resentative to Congress unless his views or
this great moral abstraction are fully known
| There is, too, the knotty complication o.
Chinese immigration. There are people
who. believe, on the authority Of ancien
prophecies, that these barbarians are thu
Cog and Magog from whose invasion 81
much ruin Is to be expected In the latte
day. The workingmen Of California art
certainly opposed in the most earnest man
ner to permitting any more OF them to yisi
these shores to hoodwink innocent gentle
men like William Nye and to ruin the PEG
ple with cheap Chinese labor. Are W,
likely to be bothered with coolie labor ii
Virginia? Not much, though there one
was gentleman in Danyiile who threaten
ed TO import several shfp-loads OF then
from Hong Kong mp the Dan river /