The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-26

THE "e;lver craze" used to die about
once week but the gold, bug newspa-
pers now acknowledge that 1t is about
the liveliest ghost that walks.s
The member from Patrick has the
ilege. he proposes 20 tell how four bar
rels of "Moonshine" got into his cellar.
WHAT'S the matter with the boys?
Twenty Offices to Ill at the spring cleo
ton and less than ten candidates before
the people Have official honors loHt
their charm or is public Office no longer
private snap?
LET US have sure enough telephone
system or none at all. A telephone sys.
tenn that reaches less than Ave per cent.
of our people ia not worth having. We
have twenty thousand peoplel and two
hundred telephones.
ASK any man of good horse sense
what he thinks of Roanoke, and he
will tell you this city will never enjoy
genuine property until we get the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad and get
back some OF our old time hustle and
push.
RING up central" and ask to be con-
lnected with some OF the most prominent
business houses in Roanoke, and you
will be informed that "they have no
-'phone;" and then you feel like you are
paying forty dollars for ten dollar
whistle.
THESE are tough times on the poll
keep his mouth shut. howl for the gold
standard or pronounce for free silver.
The average politician wants to do the
thing that will secure him a job, hence
his dilemma.
The European papers are filled with
whole pages of Instructions to the United
States as to how this country should
conduct itself with reference to the
Cuban troubles. The pencil showers of
Europe are full OF suggestions, to say
nothing about impertinence.
EVERY statesman from Hamilton to
Blaine who has left his mark indelioly
stamped on our history, was an advo-
cate OF the free and unlimited coinage
of both gold and silver Sc primary
money. In those days the people ruled.
Now. the English nabobs,s assisted by
&heir plutocratic American allies, rule.
TWENTY FOUR dollars a year for bust
neEs Offices and eighteen dollars year
for residences for telephones is what the
people Of Roanoke can afford to pay and
are willing to psy. Lei us make strike
for these rates. Theze rates would
double the number of telephone sub
scribers and double the value Of the sys
tenn to each subscriber.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railrol d
would give US another outlet to Chicago
and the Northwest. another outlet to
the coal fields of West Virginia. to the
cities OF Washington, Baltimore, Phtla-
delphis and New York, another outlet
to Richmond, Norfolk and the Atlantic
osesn. The Chesapeake and Ohio is
only twenty miles away. Still we
slumber, and in our semi. wakeful mo
ments call our burg the Magic City"
IKE TINES has stated that the retail
price Of 2.240 pounds OF Poe hon .as coal
in Richmond is 81. while the retail price
of 1000 pounds of Pocahon.as cosl in
Roanoke is 81 40; that Richmond Ia $50
miles further from the Poe ahontss coal
mines than Roanoke; tina. Pocahontae
coal costs the Richmond dealer s. IS Ger
ton Of 2.240 pounds. Will some adyo.
cate CT the coal combine please tackle
thea3 fguresp
Hard on General Butler
BosToN, Mass, March 25- General
Butler's military career WAS severely
scored to-day when the bill providing
for the erection OF an eques .riau or
military statue OF Butler came no ba-
fore the ommittee on ways and means
at the State house. Colonel Livermore
said the idea bordered on the ridicu-
Ious. Thousands of men in the arm
would have been just as good and Ell
Client military com manders at Nav
Orleans. Several others spoke In the
came line.