Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-07-23
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SUNDAY. JULY %. 1899.
BE JUST AND DO RIGHT.

The Virginian-Pilot has its preju-
in favor Of truth. right good. and also
in behalf of the victims of falsehood,
wrong, evil, of whom Dreyfus, in
France, and Schley, in the United
States. are conspicuous individual ex-
amples. But for all that the Virgin
ian-Pilot honestly endeavors to be the
friend Of all men, and when it assails
a man or party il does so without hate.
OF any personal feeling Gas far as pos
sible). and Is wholly animated by an
Unborn hostility to wrong and II desire
for right to prevail, for the good OF all,
including those who are in the wrong.
Wrongs either right themselves, or
take ample vengeance; but in either
case. unless through the concession and
cooperation of the wrong doors, the
immediate results are terrible for all;
and 1t is the knowledge of that fact
which SO long suspends judgment in
this world. Yet judgment comes. sooner
or later, and 1t Is only the more hor-
rible the longer it be deferred for any
reason. That is II lesson taught all in
telligent persons by universal history;
and the wonder is that men will persist
in depressing, robbing. or otherwise
doing injustice to other men in face of
ing I'D wrath against the day of
wrath" and making the account the
heavier against them.
The Virginian-Pil is unfeignedly
anxious for wrongers and wronged, and
we cannot see for the life of us how it
is that the wrongers do not compre
bend that error and Injustice cannot
dominate forever, but must be brought
to bar ore day with all their accumu-
lated sins on their heads. The very
success that runs hcadlong to excuses
Gas that OF monopoly and money is
now doirg) should warn some men to
beware of the temptation: and espec-
tally is this true in the great games of
life. where gambling succeeds only
through its moderation,or by quitting in
time. Whether in cards, or rouge ct
noir-in games of skill or chance-he
who does not know when to stop, what
ever his luck" is sure to come to ruin:
and IL the game be one of fraud. it is
sure to end in violence,-with the mob
In fury at the heels OF the sharpers.
Who does not perceive to what life
and all its TEMPORAL and secular con
Germs have come? Politics. foreign ana
domestic. from the ward TO the arena
Of empire; business. from pcddling to
worldwide commerce; and all enter
prise, speculation and competition from
the merry go-round to inter oceanic
railroads and canals:-all everything
and everybody in active struggle for
the almighty dollar, are involved as
gamblers in games that engross all
capacity and skill. engage every energy
and talent, absorb all the interests.
affections and aspirations, in the one
sordid pursuit, with success or failure
pauperism or tabled riches. finally de-
pending on Il freak o. chance: whle
money and MONOPOLY Selling their
"chance," rush in. armed ana heeled,
and are sweeping the decks by fraud
and force.
That is the situation as it is in this
country; and as all distinctly see.
though some may pretend to put a diff
ferent Interpretation upon it,-as some
stupidity pretend that gold monopoly
the monopoly of monopoics-and the
scarcity OF money and contraction Of
the currency are beneficial to the gene
raj walSare which they destroyed, and
tho restorcrs Of prosperity that they
blighted! But there is no end of knaves
and fools and their Inventions.
Friends and fellow.citizens, on both