Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-02-17

in ahead. As / cant touch with lineal
figures the skirts OF Job. must admit
that my patience is growing somewhat
threadbare on the above question, though
/ fought ~ earnestly for the debt proper
as any man in Virginia. And why Main
ly on account of the strange aud suicidal
policy Of the bondholders and agent
venture TO assert that there is not n
parallel case on record. Here is q State
coming out OF war that stripped her OF
everything save her honor. her indus
tries OF every kind were not only conf
pletely parnlyzed, but her children with
one stroke OF the pen deprived OF thou
sands OF dollars OF property. Homes
Gesecrated, and though with bodies still
bleeding with wounds, and hearts sor-
roved on account of the lost loved ones,
Phpnix-like they rise from the ashes OF
their troubles and offer settlement that,
all things considered, the world can't
beat it in point OF fairness and honesty.
Aswell as striving and struggling not only
10 educate her own white children,
but those OF race who invariably
turn their backs upon their bene-
factors in every important election. But
this offer is not only contemptuously
rejected, but with heroine heart they
exultantly exclsim, We have broken one
leg OF the old mother and will break the
other this fall If she dare not come to
our terms. q, Temporal! y, mOTcs
so with both of her legs broken she is
bound to lie helplessly upon her back,
then how dare you have the aiirontery
to approach her and say Pay me all
thou owest. thus I'm forced to exclaim
in the language OF the brilliant Cicero,
Qn0Mdia abUtcre, Oh, bondholders, CT
agents, nOstra pOtentia QUem al
mem seSe efrGtdfd .jdctobH GUdacia.
Don't the herculean efforts OF the
old mother and groans and sui
ferings OF her children move thee?
ly way Of illustration suppose | owed
thousand dollars, and was getting $500
salary, and the creditor continued to 90
to my employer and beg him to cut my
wages 80 every month Though he told
him | owed Hmm AID he complied.
Could you blame me for taking imme-
date refuge in house OF bankruptcy
TO escape the heartless Shylock? NO.
Now amt the old mother doing all she
possibly can ? Ain't her best citizens,
headed by her gallant Governor twho
has lsd aside his gubernotorial slippers).
meeting and conierring together and
pledgiDg todonothing that will diminish
/ the revenue stream that they may meet
ell Obligations when, on tue other
/ hand. the AGENT 4 Co. sre doing
all they can 10 cause it TO run
dry? .Vr0jic dJcU! Still, with
n depleted Treasury, you require
her to surrender tie last pound OF
/ flesh. or wo will publish You TO the
world as wanting III honor. and thus 10
all we can to drag you still lower by di-
recling the stream OF capital FROM her
borders. It you were to step up hero
ami listen to the whistles from five mines
in a radius OF four miles and furnace
and rs many moro few miles farther,
you would say with Bill Arp that that
can't be did." No. sir with her noun
tains growing with the wealth OF mine
rails, her rivers bearing upon their placid
bos0ms on uncons cious though incon-
ceiyable power, and her bills and valleys
ever ready to yield abundant harvests,
she can laugh aud mock at your threats
and impudcnce, though the debt were
kicked over the seven stars and
lodged behind the moon. But | ask
with all seriousness admitting that the
coupOn attachment 20 lie n blunler as
well as a ml-fortuDe) is 1t right or honor
able or calculated 10 encourage us 10
meet our obligations TO turn our guns
mon Us and FIRE until our Institutions Of
learning aud everything else are com
pletely destroyed? and are we TO he
hlamcd il we are thus forced to repair to
bomb proof house, where your angry
darts will only rebouudagA you? NO.
So lar a. I'm concerned I'm wiling that
ii the Governor mad the powerto appoint
half a dozen such leyel-headel. plucky
men os DR.. Kuiner is, thus eliminating 1t
from politics SO as to no longer be q
hobby for any party TO ride into Office
on, and let them settle it forever and
ever. Amen. In conclusion. / Say TO
Friend Patteson to lay on lay on, and
if he will tell me the difference between
a know-Not and Do-Nothlng Demo
crat, I'll give him a rope OF sugar
Then let them go to work at once and
in earnest, or we may become heWers of
wood and drawers OF water. PELEG.
Blue Ridgc Springs, Va.