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

OF all the idiotic things we have
seen which is characteristic in the
extreme is a circular the Republl-
cans have gotten out, headed, "Look
on this picture and then on that, .
with two pictures, one looking very
iubilant and the other serious, sup
posed to represent the looks of the
Democrats before and after passing
the resolutions protesting against the
placing Of coal, iron ore and lumber
upon the free list. The picture re-
minds the Posr of the Republicans,
the way they look now, smilinSly
simple, and the way they will look
after Judge Morrison is elected, like a
chicken with the gaps.
The Posi- has heretofore RETAINED
from commenting upon the capital
the Republicans have made out of
these resolutions, as the object for
which they were passed was 80 plain
and SO simple that any half-witted
man ought to be able to understand
them. The Democrats who voted
for the passage of those resolutions
are as true and as loyal as any ln'thc
State. They have served their par
tv and their State when many weak
kneed members would have signally
failed, and are serving the party now
The Posi- opposed the passage OF
the resolutions because it did not be-
lieve nor does not now, in Democrats
messing up with Republicans in par
ty affairs, Republicans had no bust
ness there and should not have been
admitted. But then the Posi- desires
it distinctly understood that Democ-
racy, and that is what Democrats are
supposed to believe in, is
equal and exact Justice to all, and
special privileges to none" Upon
that principle, breathing as it does
the fundamental principles of all free
institutions, and Of all liberty, which.
when transgresscd, corruption, inla-
my and revolution result.
Now the Democrats who protested
against the placing of coal, iron ore
and lumber upon the free list, if we
Judge them by this principle of De-
mocracy were right. Their object,
and it is we'll understood, except by
a few ignorant political tail enders,
was that so long as a tariff was alb
solutcly necessary to be levied, no
one industry should be Disseminated
against in favor of another; that the
tariff should be equal and adj valorem.
That, carried to individuals, no man
should be taxed more than another.
That is Justice, it is right and is the
very fundamental principle upon
which Democracy has been built.
The men who favored these resolu-
tions were opposed to the industries
Of New England and the north being
protected and those of Virginia left
out. That while they thought Re
publican protection was fraud, a
gigantic robbery by one class of men
from the great mass of the people,
that if any duty was to be levied each
section and each industry should be
placed upon an equal footing. There
is absolutely nothing III the circular
except lot of stuff assinine in char
acter. 1t is, however, about on a par
with the other arguments of the he
publicans which are soft as putty,
pure demagogcry and utter absurd
nonsense.
The PosT would not have dignifi-
ed the circular with its notice, eX-
ccpt that it has pledged itself TO
expose to the best of it's ability dur
ing this campaign, the fraudulent
tactics of the Republican party.
The party must indeed be
rotten from tip to stern and from
head to foot that attempts such sharp
practice and Yankee tricks as this.
We don't knew who got them up,
nor neither do we care. but we can't
imagine amy man with two grains of
sense being guilty of such an absurd
ity.
The Young Man and Democracy.