Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-09-30
The STATE PRESS.

THE office of which Jas. f. osburn
is the postmaster. late Snickersville.
Va. Is changed to Bluemont."-Cul-
pepper Exponent.
This may be taken as additional
proof that laughter is close to the
fountain of tears.
The Farmville Herald, advocating
compulsory arbitration. says:
Capital should not be sustained in
wrong doing. nor should labor. The
coal of earth has beer, stored away
for lighting and warming homes. and
no mad owner or mad worker ought
to be allowed to lock the doorways to
natures benefactions. License is one
thing and law very different thing.
No man should be permitted to use
his own to the hurt of his neighbor.
Money is not more valuable than
muscle, but each should he under con-
troll of law in n country of law"
This is true enough. and it does seem
that there should be some way to
conserve the rights of the public, but
we are inclined to share the view of
the Washington Post that no man can
be forced TO work for stated wage
and no employer forced to pay stated
wage-not in this country.
The Blackstone Courier thus serves
notice on the Governor:
1T is an undeniable fact that the
Democratic voters of Virginia are de-
SirouS of a convention, and they want
1t as soon as possible. They have per-
mitted its being sidetracked for the
Presidential election, but we mistake
their temper If they will permit it to
give way to anything else. That with
them is now the most important thing.
and il they are to be trfled with they
will be heard from. For our part we
give fair warming"
The Northern Neck News grows hu-
morous at the expense of Hon. James
Monroe Stubs. Republican candidate
for Congress in it's district. 1t seems
that Mr.. Stubs has promised, If elect
ed, to "kneel to every committee of
Congress and to President Mckinley
till he gets what he wants." The News
says:
1T would no doubt be a novel and
delightful experience for Mckinley.
who for four long years has knelt at
the shrine of Hanna, and offered in
cense to Mammon and Myrrh. Frank
incense and burnt Offering to the
trusts. to be thus adulated. Politi-
cally Mr.. Stubs would be Il very oasis
in the desert of the administrative
obedience. manhood restorer.' TO re-
deem the degeneraCy OF Executive
cringing; a bird in The solitude sing
ing And then to see Mr.. Stubbs do
ing his patent double action Open Sc
same act at the doors of Congress
sional Committees would be a sight
for the very gods
1.-The Richmond News is a better
newspaper than the Atlanta Journal
Consequently, we cannot see why the
$4,000 mark should not be soon at
tanned. '-Richmond News.
We should say that the main OBJ
stacle is the modest and retiring dis
position manifested.
1.-The position of the Baltimore Sun
now and four years ago may aid the
Rev. John Jasper greatly in his theory
that the Sun do move. "-Staunton
Spectator.
incidentally, other things in Mary
land are moving; don't let that get
away from you.
Cuba is run by the President; his
word is law. Porto Rico is in a like
plight. and what has Congress ever
had to do with the Philippines? If this
is not Imperialism. what is it?"-Bed-
ford Bulletin.
Benevolent assimilation, manifest
destiny, plain duty. the spread of civil
ization-any old thing that fills the
mouth and fits the audience.
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