Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-03-09
THE STATE DEBT.

10 the Editor OF the Aterdndrad Gdzette'
Boyce, Va, March 8.-The adjourn
ment OF the legislature presents great.
er danger than the fact that our pres
ent constitution was carpet bag work.
The overwhelming democratic me jori,y
is great temptation to make demo-
c,atic, rather than peoples constitu.
ton.
II this be done it will surely fell
of ratification, which l would consider
a calamity.
To avoid this the rule should be, The
best man for the place and place for
the best man.
The mes, important question is the
payment Of interest on the State debt,
VnRinia's Nemesis, still an unsettled
problem and sD unknown quantity,
and is not made TO conform to the body
of the times. When interest is low the
State pays high. This should not be.
The State should pay low when money
is chesI; interest should be a txed
quantity. The debt can and ou hit to
10 re.uuded 10 a new bond bearing
low rate of interest, conforming to the
governments rate. To do this the
State should provide debt tax corre-
spending with the war tax aud sppli-
cable alone to the payment of this debt.
Then you ill see Centuries and Bid.
dls bergers fly to the new bonds.
The convention should ask Congress
to enlarge the jurisdiction OF the United
State Court, go that the State of Vir-
einia could compel West Virginia to
pay her equitable share of the old debt.
Many goo1 lawyers think now that the
court has jurisdiction, but neither party
will run the risk OF the proceedings.
There is no reason why Centuries
should have an ascending scale OF in
terest. To have such questions fsrely
cor sidered and correctly and promptly
disposed of, the democrats should send
slcn meu as Msrshsll, General Gr0ner,
Judge Christian, Hughes, Paul, Phle-
gar, Ccump, Crtcher, Senator Daniel,
Senator Martin, Governor Tyler. Mon.
t4eue, Swanson, Hay, Holmes Conrad,
Conrad KowDslsr, Professor Whiting,
Nit. Johnson, Walter Tay lor, and others
by the score.
Let every class OF business industry,
mechanical and otherwise, be represent
cd, so that their property rights will be
protec ed.
There are some men indispensable,
such as General Payne, Colonel Tom
Smith, Phil Strother. Wood, Bullitt,
Carter, Tom Harrison, and many other
men of affairs; men grown gray by the
ask kmsster, "Experience;" gray In re-
igion, gray in law, gray in love OF
country, gray in American idees and
Virginia principles, gray 10 the love OF
the peoples rule, rather than the divine
right OF Kings TO rule; men too high to
be mean or low enough under any cir.
Gums sDces to att'ck class on account
Of ther color; men who reverence in
! ttlligence, love Nirture, morality and
religion, men like those who signed
Virgnia's first constitution, men who
would fSht for q right rather than
| tolerate wrong. patriots who love
Virginia, her people, her homes, her
history and love Of country above
everything else.
1t is no time now to run amuck Of
Congress. She has placed chip on her
head aud is asking somebody from the
South to knock it of. For Gods sake
don't do 1t, let them take care OF Porto
Rico, Cuba, Philippines, ship subsidies,
King worship, corporation love and
trust obligations and like Sambo on the
deer stand: "Sam, why didn't you
shoot that deel2" "Lorl msssa, just let
that deer lone, he jump so high he kill
himself" LARAAKAR.