Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-22

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Let the greatest good to the
greatest number be the principle
upon which our laws are made and
enforced, and the highest object OF
legislation will always be attained.
Every man who works for a liv-
ing on a farm, on railroad or else
where, is equally interested IN pro-
curing such legislation as Will
guarantee justice between railroad
corporations and their patrons.
Possession of land implies the
duty of living on it, and by 1t, II
there is enough to live on; then,
having got ones own life from it
by ones own labor, or wise super
intendence of labor, if there is more
land than is enough for ones SELF
the duty of making 1t fruitful and
beautiful for as many more as can
live on it.
After all the bourbon mud fling
ing about treasury robbing, it now
turns out that the count of cash by
the new Secretary Of the treasury
reveals a deficit of just two cents.
This all the loss after twenty-four
years of administration by one
party. We hope Mr.. Manning will
make as good a showing to his
successor four years hence.
1t is to be expected that the
Baltimore Sun will have Virginia
renegades to libel this state and
her people on the debt question as
one did in letter from Richmond
last Friday. But is also expected
that even such as descend to that
dirty work will have some little re-
gard for truth. In that letter 1t Is
stated that the readjusters " turned
out all the old officers and Judges
&c. This is a barefaced falsehood.
No Judge was turned out in any
county or circuit in the State by
the readjusters, Notwithstanding
all the circuit judges we're funders.
County judges we're elected at the
end Of their six years term in 1881,
and no other elections were held
except to fill vacancies occasioned
by death. The court of appeals
was elected at the end of their term
Of Office.
What DO we have a Legislature
for Year after year that body
meets. 1t passes bills, bills, OF
doubtful utility. 1t charters cor
porate monopolies for almost
every conceivable purpose. But 1t
never grapples with the vital sub
iect of taxation in which moro than
nineteen-twentieths of the people !
are directly interested, and the
same old, unequal, unjust system,
continues to grind heavily upon
the people, cripple their prOduc.
tive industries, drive manufacture
ing enterprise from the State, and
send our boys to the territories of
the far West. What do We have !
a Legislature for, anyway And
why will the people send mutton
heads to represent themT
Labor and capital are on see
saw; as capital goes up, labor goes
down. Usury is the force that
raises capital and sinks labor. In
proportion as rent and usury is
high labor is low, in such proper
ton the one is elevated and the
other depressed. In Europe these
forces have long been operating,
their effects are seen in the pau
perized condition OF industry and
the lordly exactions Of capital.
The latter having the wealth Of
nature in possession and the agen-
cies Of society at its bidding, is
master of the situation. Labor
produces all and has naught but
subsistence and kicks, capital
takes all the balance in the name
of that Internal thing called "rights
of capital another name for
wrongs oflabOr.
When Mr.. Baysrd was put at
the head Of the State Depa rtment
the Irish press and organizations
throughout the country spoke with
one voice their Reproduction Of such
an appointment. There was scarce.
ly league in the U. s. that did not
resolve against Mr.. Bayard and his
pro. English views and practices.
This Mr.. Bayard tried to allay by
appointing one Irishman, Kelley,
as minister to Italy, but from this
he backed down at the first shake
of the head from King Victor
Emanuel. Little did Mr.. Bayard
think that another volcano was so
soon TO burst forth under his feet.
lie has given offence to the Ger
man element by entirely ignoring
their people, and with a unanimity
Unprecedented the German press
are excOriating him. We give a
few extracts elsewhere. Poor
Bayard is a dead duck. How he
must wish he were back in the
Senate.
An occasional bourbon prOclaims
that the shoot into the republican
party prevents his being a readjus.
ter. Look back to 1877|79'SO'Sl
aud see if these same gentlemen
we're not iunders all the time. See il
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