The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-12-07

solidation, are payable to d. 8. EICHEL-
BERGER, the retiring Editor.
The Presidential battle of 1896 began
at Washington Monday.
Congress and the grip have resumed
business about the same time.
The prospect for fine crop of winter |
oratory at Washington is first rate.
The fight for the U. s. Senotorship
from Virginia ia growing interesting.
When General Hancock said ''the tar
if is local ISSUE" he cooked his Pres
idental goose, but didn't he state fact?
Governor Altgeld will hardly pardon
the English authorities for stopping that
Anarchist meeting in Trafalgar Square
Mr.. Cleveland speaks briefly of the
tariff, hut he says enough to let us know
that the Wilson bill is not obnoxious to
him.
The Presidents message covers a great
deal of ground, but in touching Ha-
waii it also goes over great deal of
water.
1t would be strange if the Wilson bill
were slaughtered by the Southern Con-
gressmen, but stranger things have hap
pened.
Secretary Carlisle has selected E. Polk
johnson of Frankfort. KY, to succeed
J. J. Crowley as special agent in charge
of the Chicago division of Treasury
agents.
New Orleans is about to swap horse
cars for those propelled by the trolley,
and few months hence the Crescent
City will have about sixty miles of road
operated by electricity.
A new form of epidemic appears to be
spreading over Europe. 1t is species
of influenza, and is quite fatal in its eff
fects. We do. not want it in America
the grip is quite enough for us.
Shall the Nova Scotia coal trade be
built up at the expense of Maiyland and
West Virginia? is a question which the
Congressional delegations of these two
States need to ponder over deeply.
According to the official reports, Uncle
Sans army and navy are both Oil asub
stantial footing. Therefore, Americans
can afford to give little wider expires
sion to the sentiment of patriotism.
Attorney General Olnev comes of a
fighting" Baptist family. He is not
and never pretended to be an orator,
but he speaks with great force and de-
liberation, and as lawyer ranks with
the best at the Boston bar.
Students of the tariff question will
find several points of similarity between
the proposed Wilson bill and the Walk
err tariff of 1916. The country, if the
new measure is enacted, will be just
about where it was then as regards tar
iff legislation.
There is great political unrest in Eu-
rope, and the worst of it all is that the
trouble increases and grows intense
everywhere. Something will give way
after awhile, and the storm which has
been SO long dreaded will fall with awful
might, caring destruction in it's wake.
The Legislature of Virginia assembled
in Richmond yesterday "wednesday
Senator Jones and Delegate Withrow
fully look after the interests of this sec>
ton of the State. Governor McKinney's
message is regarded as an able State
paper.
The unwilling of the statute of Mary
Washington, mother of the Father of
his Country, at Lynchburg, Va, Satur-
day last. was notable event. 1t is en-
inently proper that the memory of
women to whom belong the distinction
of giving to the world such great men
should be thus bonored.
The West Virginia building at the
Worlds Fair has been sold to Chicago
parties for $3.50. The exhibits of West
Virginia at the fair will be shipped to
Charleston and placed on permanent
exhibition in the rooms of the historical
society. Nearly $4,000 of the $50, 200 ap-
propriated for Worlds Fair expenses
will be returned to the State treasury.
The Minneapolis Tribune complains
that ii the Hawaiian Kingdom were put
up at auction and sold it would not
bring as much AS it has cost American
newspapers to set up the stuff which is
contained in the press dispatches from
day to day regarding that far-off land
Yes, but it would cost reputable
newspaper something to leave out Ha-
waiian news these days, as the Tribune
well knows.
The business situation in Colorado is
not SO bad after all-nothing at all like
what Governor Waite said it would be
in the event of the repeal of the silver
bill. The Denver and Rio Grande Rail-
road is the commercial artery of the
State, and it's freight traffic is an uner
ring pulse OF Hockey Mountain prosper
ity. In recent address at a Denver
City gathering the president of that
road presented figures showing that dur
ing September and October 10000, 900
more pounds of precious ore were haul
ed ont of Colorado than in the same
period for 1899. This..is incontrovertible
evidence that Colorado industries are
not suffering; despite the demonetiza-
ton of silver, and it is also quite embar
RAISING to Governor Waite as prophet
Of evil.
One plan for increasing the internal rev.
enue that meets with general approval
is that of doubling the tax on cigarettes.
The present tax of so cents thousand
yields revenue of about a million and
half. That a tax of one dollar thous-
and would yield double the revenue is
not likely. since it would be SO heavy as
probably to diminish the sale of cigar
cites. This, is generally agreed, would
be gain that would quite compensate