The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-04-19
THE PRESS.

THE PRESS.
C0unIEE-JoURNAL: Mrs. Lease an(
Mrs. Cougar arc to engage in a lie
bate somewhere in Illinois this month
The place and date should be an
nounced long enough in advance t
give the -colnbatants time enough
to move out.
New York Sun: Governor Green
halgc, Of Massachusetts, suggest
that April 10Th, the new holiday, b'
called Patriots Day. This is al
very we'll, but there ought to be an
other holiday to be called Orators
Day, on which Governor GrccnhalS'
and the rest Of the great orators could
exhibit their proficiency. And il
should be national holiday, 50 that
act only Governor Grecnhalge, but
GovernorO 'Fcrrall, William Jennings
Bryan, Tams Bixbv, and all the
other honcymouthcd sons of speec!
could be heard at once. That would
bring rain if anything would.
New YoRXTnlFs: Mr.. Edwin .Atkin-
son and other statisticians have lately
expressed the belief that the pension
roll has already passed its point OF
greatest expansion, and that we shall
now see from year to year a dmlnua
ton in the annual appropriation lol
pension payments. We observe that
General John N. Palmer, chairman
OF the Senate Committee on pensions
does not except this view. 1t is
true, he SAYS, that the old soldiers arc
dying at rapid rate, but their sons
daughters, widows, and other repre-
senatives are left to draw the boun-
ty to which they were entitled when
alive.
CLEVELAND PLuSDEALEr "Thcre
is something rotten in Denmark, y
and in Kentucky. Phil Thompson 5
defense Of his client, Col. BreclSen-
ridge, is reeking with filth and false
hood "The trail of the serpent is
over them all" His own confession
and that fhis client are one and the
same. lie has right to defcud his
client, but ne has no right to defame
the name Of honest and upright
manhood. When he undertakes to
claim that all men are immoral; that
all men have lived and are living the
same life that Col. Breckenridge has
lived and which his defender, Phil
Thompson, acknowledges he has
lived, he states that which is as false as
the foundations Of hades. The world
is not made up of libertines.
BiRMsGnAM HERALD: y h e
work of inducing immigration to turn
Southward was a lively business for
a short time in lSS6-7-S. After the
election OF Mr. Harrison, it was prac
ticalv suspended. Following the in
auguration Of Mr. Cleveland, as by a
common impulse among the South
crn people, it has been resumed. Al
ready it is becoming effective. The
tide is turning, slowly, it is true, but
surely, and there is no reason to
doubt that the next few years will see
many thousand Northern people, es-
pccially those of foreign birth, be-
come tilers Of Southern soil and ar
tisans Of Southern workshops.
At the approaching State com
msrcial convention immigration has
the leading place upon the program,
and will be presented by Mr. Henry
Foudc, President Of the Mobile Com
mercial Club, aud also agent for the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad in the sale
Of It's lands. 1t is hoped and believ
ed that the outcome Of d discussion
by the best informed men in the
State will be some permanent, prac-
teal, strong organization, to pro
mote the cause Of more white folks,
for that is the plea Of immigration
which SO strongly recommends it to
rs al.
Commissioner II. D. Lane was in
Birmingham yesterday and has all
his arrangements about completed for
his trip North in the interest of I'M
migration There is an awakening
all along the line, and the moral ef-
feet Of tie States coming to the
front will be incalculable.
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