The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-11-01

that liberty, law and order will be
ours, and that the heel of the vandal
will never set foot upon our shores.
The young man has a great res
possibility resting upon his shout
ders. Coming to the front as he
does when the country is in a foment;
when old land marks are passing
away, when old principles and old
ideas are giving away to progress.
The conditions that confront him as
he enters mans estate are different
from those that met his father at the
same period years ago. We are not
just verging from the ruins of war
We are witnessing the greatest indus
trial development this country has
ever seen. We are witnessing the
drifting upon us unsolved great Pc
litical questions. We are daily wit
neesses of the immigration into this
country of tens of thousands Of for
eigncrs, paupers and criminals. We
see great fortunes amasscd by indi-
viduals. We are daily witnesses Of
body of millionaires buying mp the
Senate, the Congress, and owning a
great proportion of the wealth of the
country. We see that money be-
gets money and that the people in
the west and the south are crushed
down by the misery money lenders
Of the east. These and other ques-
tons he will have to solve. He will
have to bring to their solution pat
riotism unsclish and unflinching
With the principles Of Dem ocracy
for his bacon light, the old ship of
State will carry him safely through
the breakers. If he sailed upon a
Republican ship the breakers would
sink it in an unknown grave, and
the pillows would wash over him
signing no lullaby or refrain. But
with equal and exact justice to all,
and special privileges to none"for our
motto, we arc bound to get safely
through If we always adhere to
that principle, our country will be
respected at home and abroad. Our
people will be contented and pros
porous, and the seeds of sedition and
anarchy will not find a footing III
our soil, Let us pause for a moment
and see whittier we were drifting I'M
der Republican rule. Their great
hobby was and is protection. That
is special privileges to the few. That
principle was born with the party.
1t was a germ Of that principle that
caused the civil war. Its seed was
sown with the constitution. The
Republican party, whose ancestry
were representatives of royalty and
of Kingdoms in the old world, inner
ting their ideas and traditions,
sought under the name OF t'ederalists
to establish at Washington a strong
centralized government. BY the
patriotism of the Cavaliers of Nir-
ginia they were not able to carry
out their ncfarious designs. They
met at every turn Democrats who
were willing, if need be, to sacrifice
their lives upon the altar Of their
country. AS a result the Democrat
ic party carries under it's belt the
scalp of that party 1t could not
long stand before such principles as
the Democratic party represented.
The old whig party was the next
that tried its hand, and soon found
an unhonored grave. Next came the
Republicans and they have remained
thirty years, and why? Simply be-
cause it is the party that put down
the rebellion, and had twice the
voters we did. 1t was kept in power
by waving the ''bloody shirt and by
passing laws that would enable one
set of men to amass large fortunes.
who would in return for such legis-
lation contribute of their i'll gotten
means for the perpetuation of the
party that had been robbing the peo-
pie. But a campaign Of education
was begun. and an unceasing warfare
was wagcd upon protection, the rob-
berry was exposed, and the people
arose in their might and shook off
the shackles which had bound them
hand and foot. And after the pres
cnt election the Democratic party
will have added another scalp to its
belt.