The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-05-24

watch on them, They are not Sec
tional, though they are modified by
sectional interests. That which
passes for supreme folly at New York
goes as superior wisdom in the rural
West, and that which III the South
or West is set down as the devils
own. device may be urged as the per-
lection of finance in Boston.
Taking it altogether, the South
has displayed no unusual susceptible
ity for being swept off its fset by po-
litical fads. Populism has never
succeededin obtaining strong hold
in the South outside of South Caro-
LIMA and Alabama. The agitation
of the silver question before the re-
peal Of the Sherman law disclosed a
strong Southern sentiment TOR sound
money. Communism is almost un-
known, and scarcely Coxey squad
has been recruited in The South. The
harmless rawlings of Alabama kolb-
ties is the nearest the section has
known to anarchy. There are no
laws nor is there any dominant pub
lie sentiment anywhere in the South
to make invested capital insecure.
The disposition to regulate corpora
tions has not gone far in the way OF
restrictive legislation i'll any South
ern State as it has gone in Massa-
chusetts, Ohio, Illinois or New York.
On the contrary, corporations do not
believe in fiat money, it does not leg
islate against the Legitimate interests
of any industry, it protects the obli-
cations of contracts, it does not send
petitions in boots to Washington, it
docs not preach paternalism nor
spout anarchy.
1t does believe in just distribu-
ton of the burdens of Governmental
sound money, silver as we'll as gold,
in the rights of the masses and in the
wiping out of all special privileges .
fthat is heresy, it is wiser than any
orthodoxy that floats it.-Courier-
Journal.
Missouri. Georgia, Alabama, Ten
nessee.
The news in yesterdays papers
from the four States named indicate
a restless and disturbed condition of
the public mind land once more warns
the Democrats that they have ga
hard road to travel" The fact that
the Democratic party stands by the
administration in Alabama and not
in Missouri must be accepted as proof
which cannot be gain-said that the
administration is not as strong in the
affections of the people as all good
Democrats would like for it to be.
In Missouri the monomcntallists or
go!d-bugs were defeated in the State
convention by an overwhelming vote
-342 to 100-and the members lost
their heads while the band played
Dixie" 1t was recognized as a
southern victory. Wall street and
New England were at least supposed
to be at the back of the faction that
cast 10 votes against tho silver res
olutions, which. as we have said, re-
ceivcd 342 votes.
The Missouri platform declares for
ga tariff for revenue only" and
against the Mckinley bill. tits gen
orally conceded that the Senate tariff
bill has several protective features in
it; but the advocates of the tariff
plank of the Missouri platform were
perhaps pleased with the catch-words
"a tariff for revenue only" and de-
termined- to use those words. Or the
the convention may have intended to
hint to the President and Congress
that they must not go too far in their
efforts to satisfy and sugar producers
and the men who mine coal, iron-ore,
&C., &.
The Missouri platform also favors
an income-tax. OF course, this feat
ure of that platform will not be &C
ceptable to the Democrats of the New
England and Middle States. The
only inexplicable fact connected with
this matter is that the President
should be in favor of an income-tax,
Notwithstanding his surroundings.
There will be some revelations in this
behalf before long, we expect.
The Missouri Convention gave
President Cleveland and the Demo
cratic Congress credit for repeating
all Federal laws interfering with
elections in the several States. 1t
was, no doubt, a mere accident or
oversight thatlsthns credit was not
given to ga Democratic President" as
we'll as to ga Democratic Congress.
The most significant fact in the
history of the Missouri. Convention is
that although that body declared
against: farming outq to national
banks the right toiissue5 circulation
before it, not one word was said in: