Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-19

release Virginia from all obligation to pay
any OF the West Virginia certificates. The
holders Of them can well affort it. But the
bill also binds the holders aforesaid to "ac-
oept their ratable part of the amount re-.
covered"
BY Virginia From West virginia..
The idea is held out that Virginia is going
to recover something; and thus the certifi-
Gates are "bulled." Again: Virginia is to
sue West Virginia! And somebody is to
put up ten thousand dollars! All this is
wreng; all totally wrong. We haven't the
patience to write about it."
From these statements it will be readily
seen that 'erratic James is having cousid
erable trouble in convincing .the Virgins
Democracy that he is the financial Moses
they have been looking for to lead them
out OF trouble. Nevertheless, it is not be-
yond possibility that he may be able to get
some legislation through that will give him
o foothold in his present scheme.
The people behind him are evidently
willingto put up
A Reasonable Amount OF Money
to push their plans through. They have
already subsidized a portion OF our own
State press and purchased the services OF
some Of our own State officers, and will
the same means to secure help in the old
State. With q beginning once accom-.
plished there in the. direction indicated
the programme already mapped out for
this State will doubtless be pushed
with redoubled vigor. That programme
contemplates the educating of public SEN
timept up to a point which would sane
ton the payment OF larger sum to the
holders Of deferred certificates than that
mentiT ned in the estimates OF our last
commission.
have recently seen a map said 10 have
been prepared by Mr.. Mason during his
employmentas tax commissioner by West
Virginia, entitled, "a map OF West Nir-
bonds issued by Virginia" The map is
we'll gotten up and represents our State so
full of turnpikes and ave nues that it looks
like birds-eye view of Washington city
at the first glance, but it would take fox
hound to find the originals OF some of
these thoroughfares so plainly portrayed
on paper. l think if Virginia haI built
all the roads that Mason has put on that
map we would owe her about billion.
Ills u Little Tough
on US that We were paying James three
dollars day and expenses, travelling
around the State as tax commissioner, in
order to let him get up that map; but as
work of art * is worth the money. LII ii
could be tackled on the wall at Castle
Garden we would have no further need Of
an immigration bureau.
Ii there is anything that freshly ar
rived immigrant likes it is plenty OF good
roads, and Mason has provided them. The
immigrant never would think Of the vast
burden of Indebtedness which the claim OF
Virginia would entail upon him and Iis
posterity when he looked at that map of
Msson's and saw that he could hitch up any
day and have his choice Of turnpikes from 4
Hancock to Mcdowell.
Seriously, the map is good deal OF
A Snare and Delusion,
and the whole plan, of which it is part,
has aroused considerable disgust here.
While there is no objection to fair calcu
lation OF Indebtedness on each side and a
statement under the constitutional pro-
visions, there is feeling of strong oppo
sition to any organized plan devised BY
citizens and officers of our State TO misrep.
resent the situation and embarras West
Virginia by exsggerating her possible liza
bilities. at would be part and parcel OF
this same scheme" said a wide awake
West Virginian few days since, "if this
same syndicate should undertake to elect
Legislature that would carry out its pro-
iect and undertake to issue bonds for an
inordinate amount to take Up these certif-
Gates, and it would not be out of place
next winter to pass constitutional
amendment making any settlement de-
pendent upon final ratification by the
people" Ian.