The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-07-29
Western Ideas,
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II, as some persons expect, Mr.. ARTHUR
shall veto the river and harbor bill, he will
do great wrong not only to such vast in
terests as those involved in the proposed
Improvement Of the Mississippi river, but
TO such lesser interests as those involved
in the Improvement Of the James, the APP
pomattox, the Rappahannock, and other
rivers in Virginia. He will do double
wrong to the South as a section. Here we
get little or none OF the money paid out
for pensions. We pay in the impoverished
State OF Virginia alone more internal-rev-
enue taxes than all New England put to-
gether but we get next to nothing back.
The sums appropriated to works Of internal
Improvement in the South constitute
almost all that this section has hithereto re-
ceived as an Offset TO the immense drain
made upon her resources by the taX-laws
OF the United States. ii now those apprO-
priations are to be withheld by this Repub-
lican Administration, we shall be poor in
deed. High taxes are oppressive even
when the money collected is spent among
the people from whose pockets ii is eX-
tracted; but they are an intolerable bur-
then when the money is not spent among
the people from whom it is collected.
Mr.. ARTHUR cannot be ignorant OF the
state OF the country at large. He himself
has recommended to Congress the improve
ment of the Mississippi river. Yet he is
expected to veto bill providing for carry
ing out his recommendation because it APP
propriates a hundred thousand dollars to
the Mattaponi or some other river that
"bloated" eastern bondholder" knows
nothing about. Very well. Let him go
before National Convention Of his own
party upon that record, and he will be dis
tanced by Mr.. BLAINE, who is not silly
enough nor sectional enough to veto a bill
for the improvement Of the James merely
because the people In the rural districts OF
Maine never heard Of that river.
By the way, II Mr.. ARTHUR vetoes the
river and harbor bin he win do great SER
vice to Mr.. DAWSON and the other BLAINE
Republicans in Virginia. Mr.. BLAINE /,
the Republican ABoS BEN ADHAN. Hi
name leads all the rest f" in every Repub
can National Convention. 1t was so in
1876 at Cincinnati. 1t was so in 1880 al
Chicago. We do not mean that he was
nominated; because everybody knows that
he was not; but that in both those conyen.
tons he was Earl WARWICK, the king
maker. He even defeated General
GRANr-what no other living man could
have done. SO 1t will be in 1884. WICK
HAN, DAWSON, COCHRAN, WMLoUGHBY, De-
EENDoRf, CALLAHAN, and the rest Of the
Straightout Republicans in Virginia will
find their candidate master Of the situation
in the Republican National Convention.
BLAINE may not get the nomination him.
self, but he will name the candidate.
ALI this by the way. What we started
to say was that the people of the great
Mississippi Valley will not allow party
which vetoes river and harbor bills to hold
possession OF the Government. Eastern
and New England ideas cannot much
longer keep this mammoth country In lead
ing strings. Both parties must nominate
for the presidency Of the United States
either western men or eastern men with |
western ideas as TO what ought to be done
with the vast revenues Of this country Of
hffy millions Of Inhabitants. But, then, Mr..
Arthur cannot be blind to the facts Of the
case, nor TO the impossibility OF his nomi-
nation for reelection should he veto the
liver and barbor bill And SO, after all,
We are not yet ready TO admit that Virginia /
not to get this year aiy money for the /
Improvement Of her rivers and harbors. Ii