The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-08

their countrys Eood"-at least. they
are no loss, without duties, ties. inter-
ests, affection for their own land. The
strength of Virginia. like the strength
of England, Is her intimate and un-
shakable conviction that there is moth
ing that can compare with Virginia.
And every one OF the Southern States
thinks exactly the same thing, sub
stitutlng Alabama. Georgia, Texas.
Louisiana, Mississippi and so on for
Virginia. of course, very naturally and
properly.
Fools Laugh.
There is a good deal OF cracking OF
thorns under the fools pots when vir-
ginians. GeorSians, Alapamians, TEX
ans, Mississippians, Tennesseans, Ken
tuckians give vent TO their intense
State love and pride. But what does does
What makes home? What makes an
! Individual? Love and pride. principal
| -, and nothing can take their place
nothing.
homa, lives there Twenty-Five years:
| marries squaw in an Episcopal
church, brings home six or seven emil
dren with eyes like sloes and skins n
| side, buries his squaw. in the family
burying ground, christens his HOOK oy
all the old well-known dear names OF
| his people, and. having made money;
as s'i II he had never left it, ne shows the
| saxon blood bond that has made the
! finest flower OF modern ctvllizatlon
| and built UP the empire that rules one
fourth OF the people in the world! he
West to make fortune and. having;
| made it, comes back and Is chrontcled
in his county paper as having re
sided In Kalamazoo forty years, ne
He never could or would. had he re
sided" there thousand years instead
of forty. His heart has never lett
| cd for certain good reasons TO leave
! his state ever took him away from the
exact middle of the sky anyway. lie
may be a senator, Judge. a railroad
he lives and dies a. dyed-in- the-wool
virginian always, only, altogether. for
ever and above all!
Il Not even the Swiss mountaineer
feels SO keenly the bitter pangs ofin-
durable lifelong Inconsistencies as the
virginian. And It is only the b 81 inc
that buffet with fate and fortune UNI
conditions. the wretchedness OF j,
when It spells failure 5 not SUCCESS il
creature with one drop Of my blood il
their veins! Why, If I had 1t I'd give
million dollars to see one of then
and hear the news from Caroline" on
OF them said. He was on the success
t1shed, shot talked listened. bloomet
ball that unfoids every Leaf when pu
d in a up again and Msn 0F aEsn gost Of
te nd p iii then Mhen as he sea left
Washington and the Southwest he wa:
seen to carry tin box under md MS arm arm
our people are both injurious ant
we'll bred. It was not until thirtS
years later that his kinsman learned
that he had taken away some of tn
ground and had said to his wife
Dear when die, remember that u
this boy is some virginian soil that
Mant sprtn1eSd e on H1ean and c tha
do a thing with people who SO love
o eSsar tteir Naive a' iand states ar,
like households. OF course we love
our own best, but inclu s., e, not i, ey 8
and, writer, always warmly believed II
States rights, and he says somewhere
THE careful preservation. OF the auto
nomy OF che american !, states. Aorti
opinion. the only guarantee for Thu
safety OF therepnblic"
state Pride.
Many. Northern people are actuall,
resentful OF our intense loyalty to on
various States, They think 1t somethinl
perfectly remarkable and incompre
henslbIe. but 1T is far more remarkn
bio to us that they don't feel exactl,
that we don't understand at al
These huge, enormous, scattered owe
thousands of miles. forty-siS State
or ours are liko a view from noun
tain top OF several countries, W
lltslaswh!te aattaseSo some capu