The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-07-26
a candidate for Congress

from Tie fourth district Will be held
at Burkville ON tbs Both inst.
Among those whose names have been
mentioned are Mr.. r. ". Thrope, Of
Mecklenburg county, and John NJ.
Langston and Scott Wood. Wood
is the editor Of the Petersburg Her
aid, weekly newspaper published
here in tile interest of the colo-ed
race. From the way lie talked it is
likely that if the convention nomina-
ed him he would accept the nomina-
ton.
DO the Laws Bear Equality Upon
The laboring mans only true
friend is parties like the Times, who
demand that the laws Of the land
shall bear equally upon all. Then
the laboring man will get his rights
and that is all that he or any other
man can properly claim. Richmond
Times
No intelligent person-ho may be
. working-man or otherwise-can
consistently claim more than "that
the laws of the land shall bear equal.
ly upon ALL" But are the laws o.
the land equal, either in their enact
ment or administration? Does the
editor Of the Times believe Sin his
Utmost soul" that such is the case?-
From the Richmond Star.
The editor of the Richmond TINES
"believes in his Utmost SOUL that
the Constitution Of the United
States, which is the Fundamental
law of the entire land, is framed Sc
as to bear equally upon all the peo-
pie of this land. But the editor OF
the Richmond TINES not only be-
lieves but knows that the acts OIL
Congress which have established a
protective tariff in this country and
which have limited the privileges Q!
banking to those who do the bust
ness under a charter from the United
States Government. are yiolators o.
that equality of the laws that the
Constitution commands. To that
extent, then, the editor of the Rich
mond TINES "believcs in his inmost
soul" that the laws do no bear equal.
ly upon ALL But if the protective
tariff laws and the laws which con-
fine the privilege of issuing notes to
national banks were repealed the
TINES knows of nothing in our sys-
tenn in which the laws fail to bear
equally upon all.
1t is the fashion of the day to rail
at the laws as being unequal because
some men are rich and other men are
poor. We don't know whether the
Star belongs to the class that does
this or not. But the TINES cannot
listen to such complaint for a mo-
ment. Such a condition of things is
the necessary and inevitable law OF
the human race IF rich men &C.
quire their wealth by their own
shrewdness, enterprise and industry,
and without any aid from laws made
to forward their interests at the ey-
pense Of others, the rest of society has
no just ground of complaint. Indeed,
it is for the highest possible interest
Of society that they should grow rich
in such way. But if the law max
ing power gives one class ofthe pop
ulation an opportunity to get the
better Of other classes Of the popula-
ton by protective tariff laws and
laws contiscating their natural rights
to use their credit freely, and men
get rich through tho operation of
these unfair and unjust laws, then
We admit that society has a right to
complain, and we "believe in our
honest soul" as earnestly as the Star
can that in such a case one set Of
men are robbed in orderE that anoth-
er set Of men may be benefited by
the robbery. If the laboring man
knows his true interest he will join
the TINES upon this platform and
close his ears whenever Debs come
around him with insidious sugges-
tons that he is injured by the fact
that some other man is rich. All
that he has right to demand is that
protective tariff and banking laws
shall not give that other man an I'M
fair advantage over him.-Richmond
Times