Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-03-06

bill by Senator Sale and the Congress
man letter on the same subject at
( tempting TO influence legislation were
uo.h shot a. the Same time and at the
same mark; while both missed because
OF the TACT that they shot a blunder-
ouss instead of choke-bore gun. Too
much scattering and the object shot at
was so hard that the shot bounded hack
and .peppered the whole "sbootin0
match. Some even flew over in MIDI
1leSeX, and one stray shot crossed the
ooSom OF the NOBLE Chesapeake and
Embedded itself into the anatomy of
me editor Of one of the newspapers of
the glorious me-too-ring there. and I
have never heard so much bowling over
trying to pick out shot in my life.
The News editorial poking fun at His
EXcellency, Governor Swanson, for paw
ing over one-fourth of his salary to run
the Maury on junketing trips durin0
the jamestown Exposition is lust sim,
ply garbled misstatement of the facts
and shows up very badly, when il is gen-
orally known that the Governor issued
a statement last fall to the effect that
he had the Maury five weeks and paid
all OF the expenses, crews wages, coal
and provision bills and every one of the
expenses incurred in that time, which
" Y1,OO Oh anu winch sum
ne had turned over to the Board of
FISHERIES. noticed too that about all
OF the Tidewater papers except the
News printed his statement. That looks
strange Tor the oystermens' friend to
90. The News is also familiar with
that part of his Excellency's statement
winch said that he paid it out of the
$5O, 0OO appropriation allowed him to
entertain Foreign and distinguished
guests as host of Virginia at the Expo-
sltlon. Moreover he said that he found
that he could give better satisfaction
ana do 1T cheaper by using the Maury
In great many of his social functions,
which statement he proved by return
ing TO the treasury about half of the
appropriation, which he could not have
done had he had all Of those functions
on shore, which would have
cost considerably more. The Com
modore Maury saved the State
or Virginia several thousands of dol
lars during the jamestown Exposition.
Now any one with n grain of common
sense will know that if the Maurv had
been policing at that time (when IL
costs between $500 and 81 900 per
month to run her) that the Board of
Fisheries fund would have been some
81, 2OO less, but instead of that they
had over 81 300 to run the boats in the
tall when mostly needed. So that YOU
can very readily see that instead of
poklng fun at the Governor and Board
Oh flsherles II you had any desire to
amelorate the condition of the OYSTER
men you would praise and not censure.
BUTT looks like the consuming hatred
held by some people against Chairman
Lee Will cause them to try and beggar
every FISHERMAN and his wife and little
children If necessary to down him.
Another editorial slurs at Mr.. Lee
counting an investigation. l know
that Chairman Lee is ready at any
time to be investigated by his peers.
but not by packed jury of the "yclept''
'Blllingsgate" ''fell swoop" type.
Mr.. Editor, those fellows remind me
OF the fellows who never smelt powder
during the civil war and who occasion
ally are rearing and waving the bloody
shirt and hollering war and WE, and
if fire cracker goes off thew nearly
preak their necks seeking cover. Oh,
they are brave, over the long distant
phone; yea, verify.
There never has been q time since
the days of our Saviour that a man
arose and tried to better the condition
of his fellow man that certain crowd
OF Pharisees did not try TO cruelty him
in some way, and unfortunately this
condition will exist until ''Time is no
more
Had our forefathers listened to the
whining cry of the few Tories of God
save the King" instead of Patrick
Henry's cry of .'Give me Liberty or
give me DEATH" we would still be
slaves. If the people of Tidewater,
aye, OF Virginia, listen to the few
Tories VIdaNuotot hn
God save our hide and down Med.
Lee, instead of the patriotic call of
the Board of Fisheries, "Give us a rea-
sonable amount of tools and we will save
millions to the State, and our oyster
people from starvation" Tidewater
goes into serfdom.
AUNTY SPEC