Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-06-05
THOUGHTS, SELECT AND ORIGINAL.

destroy all rights ana privileges
If there are any small boys who
want to scalp Indians, they are
advised to emigrate to New Mexico
and begin on the Apaches.
A Georgia defaulting bank presi-
dent recently cut his own throat.
The doctors think he will recover
but that the depOsitOrs will not.
Mr.. Cleveland should reconstruct
the weather bureau on the ground
of the offensive incapacity of its
chief.
The postmasters all accepted the
situation the week after the cleo
ton, but they are by no means re
signed yet.
fla man empties his purse into
his head, no man can take it away
from him. An investment in knOwl-
edge always pays the best interest.
On no account should a pOliti
elan ever be allowed to speak at
soldier memorial services. Politi-
clans make the wars.
In olden times ambitious men
conquered nations by the sword
nowadays they do it by bonds,
hsury and corporate monopoly.
Justice is the true ground for
every man and every corporation
to stand on. 1t is profitable in this
life and in that which is to come.
Professor Riley says the seven
teen.year locusts, whose visit he
has predicted, are harmless to
growing crops and do no injury
except to the twigs Of forest and
fruit trees.
Secretary Bayard would have !
done we'll had he had his reputa-
ton spOnged by his tailor before |
he took it into the State depart
ment.
How it must surprise the many |
employees in the various depart
ments of the national government
10 find so few rascals among them
Turn 'em out.
1t is an i'll wind that blows no
body any good, and the loyal Irish
men are making the best of the
administration on necessities Of the
Gladstone ministry.
The legislatures of some States
are emphatic in the demand that
Bogus butter shall go. 1t they let
the butter alone a little while it
will be strong enough to go itself.
If those two cents had not been
fortunately found in the U. s. Trea-
sury after the count, there would
have been a sickening scent follow
ing the new administration.
1t is one thing to realize the
evils and errors of our social sys.
tenn, and another, and very differ
ent thing, to devise q practicable
and acceptable remedy.
There are two classes in this
country. These classes are at war.
The one fights to hold the fruit of
its own labor, the other to steal
them by law. The latter is on top !
at present.
Labor that is the very foundation
of our civilization, is a slave to in
corporated capital, which dictates
alike the service to DO performed
and the remuneration therefor.
The postal telegraph in England
is success. The common people
there send their messages to any
part Of the kingdom for less than
a cent a word. Why don't we
have such system in this country 2
Democracy teaches us that the
greatest good for the greatest mum.
Der is the end sought to be attain
Cd, and as the working people are
IN the majority, all laws and Ordi-
nances enacted should look well
to their interest.
The new Commissioner Of Agri-
culture has discovered evidence Of
mild mismanagement in the depart
ment. 1t is claimed there was ex-
travagance in the purchase of beat
seed when the country neither had
nor wanted any new varieties.
General Rosser has purchased
Rugby the residence of Joseph d
IL. Blackwell, near the University
Of Va, for $1,000. He gets imme-
date possession, and is having a =
survey of the house and lot made "
fer extensive improvements.
The Grange urges farmers to r
adopt the methods of their more v
prosperous and successful neigh {
bors and act together, to educate s.
themselves and to unite with ali Il
Industrial classes to protect them "
selves against the monopoly in. n
terests Of the country. b
If there is no honest money ex- &
cept that which represents coin, r
how is it that the banks are able to o
lend at this time two thousand v
millions Of money? There is not v
that much coin in the country. b
Have they not lent their credit 2 b
And if they can 'cOin' their credit 1
into money, why cannot the govern q
ment 'cOin' its better credit into