The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-16
nI1E HINES RICHMOND VA AUGUST M 1910

TIMES II .1SP lL:f
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: SALARIES Of Senators md Rep.
lresentativcs should be reduced
/ to $4,000 the year. The perduisitesso
Senators and Representatives, should
jbe cut in half The clerks In the De !.
4 partments should be reduced In nuns
! Der and made to work longerA hours.
4 Tie sessions Of Congress- Should be
Limited to ninety days. The apl,ropr.i}-.
I5ations for the Army and Navy should
be, cut down. and could be cut down,
l.it is believed, without destroying TIE
Eetfieiency OF the service. Mr.. Aldrlch
II has said that 1t would be practicable
Ito save the taxpayers s3o0.0oO,oo0S an an
nually by administrative reforms. nnd
Mr.. Taft has appointed commission
to devise plans for reducing tho cost
of Government. The Dristows emo
lCumminses and Delivers and all the
brood OF Republican statesmen have
been playing the World Power pusi-
ness all these years, and they Will
have to do something more than
peach" on ono or their Oldest pals boz
fore.the people OF the country will be-
lieve In their good faith.
IS Just the same, wo are glad to find
them quarreling among themselves
Once the cohesive power of public.
plumber is we'll broken among the Re-
5publicans, and there may be some
chance for the honest Democracy.
TIE MARKET FOR CHARLESTON.
Why do not the merchants OF
Charleston. South Carolina, buy their
goods in Richmond? They could find
here all the latest things in dry goods,
boots and shoes. hay and grain, cleo
trio fixings, stationery. and confectionsn
and obtain Just as much "accommoda-
ton" from our enterprising dealers as
they might require. They would also
find in Richmond really the best
hotel in the country, and a number OF
cheaper places. II they care to save
money, and string Of tho finest
vaudeville houses in the land. They
would moreover. be able to make
their annual outing to Richmond at
far less expense than they can go to
New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Tren-
ton, New Jersey: Terre Haute. Indiana,
and Chicago, Illinois.
II they are looking for high art,
we've got 1t. II they want to meet
nice people, we've got them. If they
want to go to church, We've got the
finest churches, excepting the Scotch
Church, and possibly st. Michael's, and
the best preachers in the country. II
they want to take a swim in fresh
water, there is the raging James 1--WE
would say for their information that
1t RACES more above the railroad cross
ing and below the railroad crossing
than 1t RACES at the crossing, ceptin'
when the water is high). and II they.
long for that sticky feeling that every
body who would like to feel clean
would like to get rid of, it is only a
SuOil run uOWU the real ocean at
Norfolk or to Buckroe Beach or to
Primers Point where that old and
confirmed INSTRUCTOR, E. B. Stahlmann,
OF Nashville, Tennessee, used to have
his Office
Besides. being able to get better
bargains here and larger stocks suited
to the Southern trade than anywhere
else, and cheaper freight rates, the
Charleston merchants would be able
to meet in Richmond some real people,
who say syarden and cyar and beer
for bear, and pam for parm and
cam" for earn, and who would eat
shrimp If they had them and speak
gullah II they could. What we are
after, particularly, is to establish a
sort OF modus yivendi. or II anybody
In Charleston can't understand that
trading acquaintance at least be-
tween the great Wholesale houses OF
Richmond and the dealers in Charles.
ton who must get their hay and grain
and breeches and frocks and things
from somewhere, Let them come to
Richmond, the heart of the South.
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