The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-07-04
The Valley Virginian.

We present the VIRGINIAN this week
to it's readers in an entirely new dress
from head to foot-type, rules leads,
dashes, display type-everything con-
ne .ted with it, fresh from the foundry.
We are about to enter upon very i'm
portant State canvass, and it is the pur-
pose of the VIRGINIAN to take an active
part in it; ito hew to the line, let the
chips fall where they may Apart from
the interest it will take in the develop
ment of the material resources of the
State, it will devote its influence to the
securement of a healthy political condi-
ton, so that the State government may
be in sympathy with and responsive to
the progressive forces to which We must
look for prosperity commensurate with
the vast material wealth in which the
Commonwealth, and especially the Val
ley, abounds. We must face to the
future and wisely appropriate the pres
eat to unlock the hidden treasures with
which nature has endowed this beautiful
and fertile valley, and stir the latent
prise to spring into active values. We
cannot be true to Virginia unless we
labor for her political and material re-
generation. We can no more rest con-
tented with sluggish, repressive, preju-
diced, inactive political condition, than
We can be satisfied with an Indifferent,
stagnant, inactive material state. We
must be abreast of the times in political
thought as well as material action. We
must measure up to the inspiration OF
the age in every respect and address our
selves to the work of the regeneration OF
the old State in progressive sentiment as
well as legislation.
The VIRGINIAN will be no laggard in
the emprises which point in this direc-
ton Its columns will be interesting,
we trust, both to the political thinker
and the material worker. 1t will con
denim what it may believe to be wrong
and approve what it may find to be
right, both in friend and foe, whether it
relates to politics or the physical progress
of the State. The people must respect
their manhood; must feel sense of per
sonal responsibility both as to political
and material conditions, and recognize
that upon them rests the future OF the
Commonwealth in the integrity of its
government, the honesty of its admins
tration, and the impress of its influence,
as we'll as its material progress and pros
perity. Virginia and all her great inter
ests have been too much under the domi
nancy of partizan politics. The modest in
teligence and worth of the people have
been made to cover in the presence Of
blatant and clamorous politicians. Pc
litical bosses have usurped the rights Of
the people, disregarded the interests o.
the State, and prostituted power to cor
rupt selfish uses There must be 6
change in this respect. The people
themselves must stand to an apprecia
ton of duty; to realization of theil
power and aspire to its exercise for the
rebuke of demagogues and the promo
tion of the public welfare.
The VIRGINIAN hopes to aid in this
ne of work, and to that end wishes it,
friends to come to its support by moi
only discharging their own obligations
but by inducing others to join with
tn IN in increasing its already large cir
cula ion, and extending its influence.