Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-10-18
THE KlCKERS.

differently from @hat Others think
20 necessarily q "kicHer." When
th- funding bill Of 1871, measure
iidagh1 with ruin ID the farmers
aul Deop!e Of Virginia was passed,
We sounded the alarm, aud Tor
years We fought, our readers know
how vigorously, to keep the shack
els of the English bondholders
from the limbs of our people. From
Gen. MahOne's position Of influence
in the legislative councils of that
day, it is evident that he either
aided, or, 10y his silence, acqui.
esccd, IN this measure which load
ed our people with burdensome
taxation. For years, we fought
vigorously against the united eff
forts Of the English bOndholders
Aud their friends IN .the state
Finally Light dawned upon US.
The RIddieberger bill passed the
Legislature, became a law, ran the
gauntlet OF State and Federal
courts and proved to be the delly.
erer Of the people from cDpre ssiye
taxation. SO soon as 1t became
certain that the law would stand,
taxation was reduced aud we
breathed more freely. The Demo
cratic party, that had fought Us Bit
terly all along the line acquIesced in
the settlement, and to the lteadjus.
tiers belonged the victory. Gen. Ma.
houe had spoken for the measure
and seemed to rejoice with US in
the final triumph. 1.-THE debt is
settled" was the cry that cheered
our cyerwOrked and OYertaxed
people capital poured into the
State. towns and cities sprang up,
and prosperity once more dawned
upon the old Dominion.
Every body reioiced at this state
OF affairs, out IN tue midst of our
rejoicing, a cloud, at frat not larger
than a mans hand, was seen In the
heavens aud ;he dark shadow soon
threatened the brightness that
shone around us. Gen. Malone
whose personal ambition knows no
bounds, in order to advance his
own private ends, determined that
the work that had been accomplish.
ed by the Readjusters, after years
of bitter struggling, should be IN.
done, and i'm order to accomplish
this purpose, united with the bond
holders against the people and IL
now cndcay0ung 10 uvrt upon
their limbs The shackelS OF most
abjrct seryltude.
Can An honest Readiuster who is
true to as stIte and to his people
follow Gen. Malone into the
British camp and tnrn his guns
upon his own home aud his own
people We can not aud ze will
not do it. We will stand by the |
Rlddleberger bill to the end, II
not how much money !
British bondhOders may offer to
have it destroyed.
You may call us "kickers," but
the wo does not frghten U.S.
When tnr patriots Of the Revolu- |
ton demanded freedom from APP !
presslvc British taxation, they |
were denounced AZ "rebels," and |
lha British Government endeayOr.
or,d to dlsperse them, but patriots
were not terrified by the obnoxious
word, but fought az "rebels' and
won as "rebels" and made the cpl.
tibet 80 glorious that every true
American has a peculiar love for it.
If to fight for the Riddleberger
bill which our people sustained BY an
overwhelming majority makes "a a
"kicker," we will be "klcker' 30
long az the enemy of Virginia and
her people attempts to destroy that
bill and reduce ~ to state Of vas
,llage under the yoke Of a foreign
syndicate of bondhOIders, with
icn. Malone rs the state agent
aud general supervisor.
We stInl upon this question
usi where We have stood for years,
aud If every ReadjuSter, in Shen
indoah county, who fought 80 no.
bly, aud 80 calamity for the princl-
pie that removed oppressive taxa
non from our lands, shall turn
against us, and, for mess o pot
age sell his birth right aud take
shelter in the camp of the enemy,
" shall stand firm, uph gliding the
OF the Rid1leberger bill
20 the last. The Rsadjusters OF
were not terrified by
he tauuls and brAvadO of the
Enemy, but stood frm until their
cause was victorious. viii they
low turn their backs upon the
for which they fought,
seek shelter behind the British
ion, and at the command of Gen.
Eahonc, Suppliantly bow aud ten
Ter their land aud their homes az
pledges to the raplcity of the for
,ign bondholders and the greed OF
IN ambitious leader who seeks pro.
notion over the dead carcusses OF
llS friends and followers .? We
ann0t, we will not believe it.
Gen. Malone favOrs the English
proposition for a
of the debt. To accept
. !