The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-06
civ Hall LabOrers.

lIGHMOND. ' 4. tcD. Dc
Dear TTNrYS-ln your issue of to-day /
was asiOnished at the narrow mindedness
ofthe writer Of an article headed, "City
Hall Case" where he takes you 10 task. for
,nticinating with jly. the advent during
1891 of - 900 mechanics from the North.
The writer goes on % suppose what will
bapDen If an mechanics, regardless OF poll
Tics. are welcomed.
Now do not take this up because | am
a mechanic. for am not. Neither because
/ am "a Republican. for am not that either;
bat / am a Northern man by bigth and
citizen Of Virginia. and what Is for the best
interest Of the state j. what interests me
most. Now ! have seen for the longest
time that politics has been one OF the ruling
curses Of Virginia. one of her principal
drawbacks. IL is not politics that Virginia
want. but business, and whatever party,
class or condition Of men bring the most
business % Virginia il the class that ought
ro he welcomed within her borders.
Had tine writer of that article stopped to
consider how many thousands OF Southern
people. regardless of their political views
IT nativity. are to-day earning their daily
bread in tins city and through the entire
state i'm the employment Of Northern enter
pri-es that are established through the en-
tire south. / hardly think he would have
n.uupd such au article. ANY well inform
"a man ina Virginia knows that nearly every
railroad i'm the STATE and in the South
is owned and controlled 10y Northern
men and Northern capital. The
same way with a large majority OF the man
uftctori.s and they also know. # they de-
sired % be informed, that majority OF the
cauital that has been brought % the south
since the war and useu 10 build up thc
waste places has been brought here 10y
Northern men of Republican principles.
[ am sur. had these men stopped
o inquire about the political views
IF parties seeking emplOym mt Of these en-
ierbr.cs very few S0uthern-b0m ueopie
would be holding the thousands and hun
dred, Of thousands of lucrative places
among these wealthy corporations that are
doing so to-day. ! am also afraid tnat d
only Democrats of the North were invited
ID come south and help tO pour money into
their Golfers their treasury would often De
empty and the country throughout the
south would soon become bowling wilder
ness. for it is "A wel-kuOwn fact that most
of the wealth of the North is I'm the hands oil
men who are Republicans.
Business men at the North DO not stop o.
INQUIRE uiO the political status Of me-
chanic when he wants Job done; what IN
torests him the most is the competency 10
perform the labor he wants him 10 DO and
10 should Dee the same way IN the south, ana
doubt not that il is, or soon will be the
case among all good business men.
A.. to Northern mechanics all being ke-
pu.licans" ! think lnoy are very equally
divided as % political faith. The writer of
this article happens % De IN a position 10
know hundreds of Northern people who
have settled in the south since the war ana
can tuthmlly say that very few oi my
Northern acquaintance Vote the Republican
ticket minority 90 them having changed
their political faith since coming south. Ny
friend. do not mix up business with politics.
D. Will not work. II o. docs it, is "a poor rule
that won't work both ways. BUSINESS.
II our correspondent viii read second
time this article 90 which De aliudes he
Will find that 10 WAS written in an ironical
spirit. and that it- author really leans To- the
side which our correspondent supports.
This article was intended as p ea,antr
iu the form ola rcducti0 ai absurdum.-
Editor of IHE TIMES.