The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-07
SOMETHING WE ARE GLAD TO HEAR.

The endorsement by the people OF Rich
mCnd OF the movement to eXtirpate gam
bling dens and force the closing Of bars
on Sunday has. outside of the gamblers
and their ass )ciates and friends, oeen al
most unanimous But we have met with
no endorsement Of it that gave us great
er satisfaction than that by the Junior
order United American Mechanics.
While we know that the Junior Order
of American Mechanics is not a labor
organization, yet 1t is so largely COM
posed of workingmen. and represents in
terests so closely allied TO them. that the
resolutions it has adopted, commenting
the course OF this paper in its efforts
to secure the observance OF the laws
against gambling and Sunday side
door" bar-rooms are particularly agree
able to The Times.
There Is no man so much interested In
this movement as the workingman. IL
gees without saying that everything he
values sets it's face against the gambler.
But he equally wants the lawless
bar-rooms closed on Sunday. The
workngman. above all things, wants
laws that bear equally upon all
men. and he wants those laws
enforced after they are enacted. 1t is
a mockery to him to enact law and then
leave the community free TO obsy II or
rot. as it pleases. Laws are Of 40 value
TO him If this is 10 be tie result of en-
acting them. The workingman is deeply
Interested, therefore. in demanding that
the law. whatever ii may he, shall be re-
spectcd and obeyed by all.
1t has been the effort OF some
people to create the impression that The
Times is hostile to the interests of our
working people and is especially devoted
to the interests of the wealthy. The
charge is an odious libel upon The Times.
but he Times has never heretofore
deigned 10 notice it, The present, how
ever. is an occasion upon which it is
justified in referring TO It.
Whoever has read the editorial articles
Of this paper must know that The Times
advocates the supposed interests O: no
class The Times stands for one law FOR
all men. Its doctrine IS that the laws
shall bear in exactly the same way upon
the I.ch and the poor. upon the hisa and
the low, and that the law, whatever II
may De, SndH De respected anu ObtNtu by
all alike The Times demands that In
constructing the laws the interests of no
man or set of men shall be consulted.
to the detrmont of other men;
but that they shall be so framed as TO
secure just recognition of the rights Of
all.
But whilst The Times will not swerve
one iota from the rule Of justice for ALL
il can frankly say that its sympa thies are
with the poor and the weak rather than
with the wealthy and the strong But
there must be no mistake about II. Sym
pathies are one thing. rights and du-
ties are quite another and while
ITS sympathics 30 out to the poor and the
weak. il would not trench TO the extent
OF one hairs breath upon any right pos
.essed by "A rich man. 1t insists abso-
lutely upon the rule OF justice which
shall protect the poor man in what is mis-
but which shall equally protect the rich
man tn what is his.
Returning. now, 10 the resolutions with
which we commenced, we repeat that II
| gave ms peculiar pleasure 10 see that the
| Junior Order had given this endorsement
| 10 The Times. Ii proves that they know
their real friends. and that the babblers
and demagogues have been unable 10
| cloud their vision.