The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-04-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
Philadelphia has had fearful
scourge of typhoid fever Come South
is the only hope.
The Spanish Government must en-
joy a feeling of great relief when they
think of having transferred the war
with the PHILIPPINES to the United
States.
Speaker Reed says, "when one is
elected to the presidency he goes to pri-
son for four years with the additional
possibility Of assassination And yet
Inc thinks it desirable to 60 to Jail aud
run the risk
The very rich people of this land are
said to own one half the wealth of the
country. and yet only pay SO taxes
where 500 is paid 10y the other half.
And yet am income tax is denounced
as unjust.
\ lady was taken from the fifth story
of the burning Windsor hotel cluichiug
a small dog i'm her arms Ruling pas
sion strong to the last. She may have
left diamond but not the dog
Auumber of leading Democrats Of
The State have united i'm call for
meeting of brother Democrats i'm Rich
mond on the nth of May to discuss the
subject Of the election Of United States
Senator by the people. 1t will be an
important meeting and should be large
ly attended. No Hanna, nor Quay
could ever get into the Senate by the
vote of the people No creature Of cor
poratiom or trusts has any business
there.
"In trusts we trust" What a sirik-
ingly illustrative cartoon the Rich
mond Dispatch had on that subject
recently. Messrs Mckinley, Hanna
IL Alger are made to "chuckle" over
the outrages of the monster. And yet
the Acknowledgement Of the Govern
ment says he is powerless to prevent
a continuance of the wrong, and init
mates that the States are helpless too.
How about the people?
Mr. Mckinley appeared in a straw
hat on the 18th Of March. OF course
ne wasn't in Washington but "away
down South in Dixie ~
We are surprised to learn that Cor
man had gone to "hock" with Croker
We had classed him with the "true
blue" Democrat. May be he wants
to become PCT Of the Baltimore Sun.
he is headed in the right direction if
that is his object.
A discouraged editor asks the follow
ing question: IF Bob Ingersoll in
sists that there is no hell will he state
what becomes of the man who takes
the paper three or four years without
paying for it and then tells the post
master that he does not want it?"F
If Mr.. Cleveland should see fit to
write with ingratitude as subject it
would be feeling production.
Mr.. Carlisle will feel at home with
Croker. He has abandoned old friends
aud gone in search of Others who prom
ise gold rather than glory.
"Its what we need IN politics" says
the Richmond Dispatch, people who
talk to them-elyes.
There may be iNe JeliefSnnian DEM
ocratic (?) dinners in New York during
the month Of April, with plates rang |
ing from one to ten dollars.
Miss Astor pays a London chaperone,
a so-called countess, SO, 900 for the sea
son. Miss Helen Gould goes it alone
aud spends her money on useful and
helpful objects.
We are not gaming victories over
the Fiilipino-, only driving them into
he interior where they can live and
fight for u century.
Mr. Watterson says the two elements
IF the Democrat party can no more
nix than oil and water. How about
Reed and Mckinley, Alger and Roose-
'elt, Teller and Hoar?
now TO MAKE BUSINESS.
The Business Mems League Of Attain
3, Is answering this question in a bu.
iaes- way.
The first effort is to bring the would