Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-05-15
WEDNESDAY. MAY 10. 1889
A Warning.

A Washington correspondent reports Mr..
CoorkR. the agent Of the foreign boudhold-
srs, as saying that he bad Just gained coupon
suits TO the amount Of eli, 900 in Alexandra.
lie also said that about $4,000 Of State
taxes would be paid this year IN coupons.
The Dispatch Of Yesterday contained para
graph showing that even In Hcnnco county
coupons were being rendered for license
taxes BY applicants for licenses to sell spirliu-
Gus liquors.
The effect OF these payments In coupons
will be OF course to encourage the bond
holders TO continue their efforts to compel
the Commonwealth TO accept settlement
satisfactory to them. But in that event
what would followr Why. the liquor
dealers and all other persons carrying on
businesses requiring State licenses would be
forcsd TO psy twice ss heavy tax as they
now pay. II we were q county or corpora
fion Judge no person within the jurisdiction
OF our court would be recognized as a
proper person 10 sell liquors who bad tried
20 pay his license-tsx In coupons.
We have not cot through with our debt
troubles vet. The members OF the Council
OF Foreign Bondholders are confident that
the Supreme Court OF the United States will
next October give them such footing as
will enable them TO coerce the Common.
wealth into the acceptance Of the terms they
last offered, or even OF terms more uniayorp-
bic to her. We know not what reasons they
have for their confident expectation OF de-
cision favorable to their hopes from that
high court. We regret that there should be
found any Virginians engaged IN this work
OF encouraging our enemies to prosecute us
10 the last.
The debt OF the State Is utterly IN manage
able. II would bankrupt the State to pay
the whole OF II. The total. as we have again
aud again demonstrated, cannot be less
including The thirty millions which we pro-
fess 70 believe West Virginia will look after
thsn seventy or eighty millions OF dollars;
perhaps more. What is the use OF pretend
ing that we are not going TO repudlste any OF
It! How could we pay il all II We desired
10 do so. Aud IL we have got TO repudiate
fifty or sixty millions OF Il, why not insist
upon the RIDDLEBERGER settlement as
fnahty!
We use round numbers IN speaking OF the
debt. We omit the cents which General
MAHoNE included In his estimate Of the
smount which be would be willing to pay.
1t Is safe 10 say with Colonel SELLERS:
"Tbere's millions 10 It." But 20 have our
own flesh sud blood warning against their
mother State is deplorsbe. Why will the
sons Of such mother treat her as the cou-
pon.tenderers do?
OF sill the people In the world the liquor
dealers should be the last 10 use coupons.
When the lOcal-opiion election was about to
be held IN this city hundreds OF votes were
saved to the side of licensing liquor-deaers
by the assurance given 10 them that no cou.
pens would bs used in paying for those Ii
ceuses. 1t is too bad for q man to get from
the State so valuable privilege as thst Of sell
ing liquors and then refuse to contribute
n single dollar towards keeping up the court
which granted him the lIcease towards sup.
porting the public schools; towards main
tanning the asy lums for the insane, and the
institutions for the education OF the deaf and
dumb and the bind; towards Furnishing
crime; or towards any good objects. Who
can think of such conduct without feeling
of Indignation