The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-15

likewise paid twice as much for eight
hours work as Virginia farmer gets
for eighteen hours work, and ten times
as much as this farmer can afford to pay
his hired help. Protection Dies pro-
tect and that's why We detest protec-
tion," continues the News. "ltprotects
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island and Connecticut at tho expense
of Virginia and North Carolina, Georgia
and Louisiana.
1--WE have no sympathy with Carno
gle, no sympathy with his 1918 per day
Hungarian rioters, and none with the
cruel, thieving system under which
both subsistcd at tho expense of every
other interest in this country.
Carnegie and his well-paid workmeu
arc in the same boat-they are all for
high protection"
Let there be light and there was
light, and it comes from source most
uneX pected. indeed, this editorial from
the News is the most unique piece of
journalism thus far launched upon an
expectant public. In fact, we begin to
see through Glass darkly, and soon
will he lead us within the veil" say
ing, hope, in his next editorial: My
dear readers, permit me to announce my
thorough conversion to protection l
have arrived at the conclusion since
nv editorial of July 10, 1892, that we
need some of the Carnegie kind of
manufacturing plants in Virginia in
order that our workmen may got from
S9.75 to S3.3 per day. and the owners
Zone OF whom would like to be which,
would also become dictionaries and
therefore put on more "airs" than even
Carnegie. Now, my dear readers, it is
simply question of who is protected.
used to think that protection was
pernicious; in fact,,I called it some very
hard names in my editorial above re-
ferred to, such as cruel. thieving and
the like, but. my friends, 1 hope you
will accord me the privilege OF chang
ing my mind, for | want to be honest
and advocate those things which are
best for you and me-" especially me.
"Protec ton protects, that's certain, for
said it and must have been inspired
when gave utterance to that great
truth and bodily courted criticism from
my best friends in the saying.
u Il didn't think when wrote that edi-
torial that should so soon be immor-
talized in my own estimation and that
OF the Randall Democrats
ut neverquite dawned upon me before
that you and could just as we'll be
protected as Carnegie and his Hun
garians. was living in the past and
had not awakened to the great fact that
we are no longer an agricultural and
pastoral people, but by virtue of our
great coal, coke and iron products, and
our splendid railroads, furnaces, rolling
mills, pipe mills. stove works, machine
works, and hundreds Of kindred indus
triesi by virtue of all these, similar con-
ditions to those existing in Pennsylva-
MIA and the East, that we we're destined
to become some day comm unity of
Carnegies and protected prosperous
workmen if the same laws under which
these men grew and thrived, were ap-
piled to us in the development of our
great natural resources.
IF it only wasn't for the name aud
that internal Force bill' 1 think I'd
be Republican. but, my friends, we
mus whisper in the ears of the aspiring
candidates for congressional honors
that they must be more business like
and not permit tradition to govern their
minds; they must do some thinking like
Sam uel j. Randall used 10 think. the
noblest Democrat CT them ALL the man
who wasn't afraid to adopt good idea
because an opponent advanced it"
How would that kind of an editorial
read in THE TIMES? Don't you agree
with me that such utterances should be
the logical outcome of the contribution
of July 10th? e. A. P.