The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-16

u IN
RICHMOND, VA, yVEDNE
s|ofti,c best inland cities of the centre
.llsouth.. and that Roanoke. i,tgtlle com
Hing decade, is going TO grow indus
ItriallS ana commercinlly{tn a fnailnci
THAT will Utmost nstoul,d.' 11tcltnond
Twill also stare In the benefits Of the
ICnnal, and 4 the deeper the James River
| the more 1t will thrive.
THE fredericksburg Free Lance Is
ldellglited that the oil5blll was defeated
instlle Legislature, "in view Of the fact
that the people OF Virginia are paying
about as mitch tax now as they con-
Ivcnlently can
The Alexandria Gazette says that the
present Legislature Is regarded as
the weakest body that ever assembled
In Rtchnlond to enact laws to govern
the State That is rather hard
statement, and we do not think that It
is justified by the record the Lcgisla-
ture made. IT ought to be Judged by
what It did that was good. and not by
what It might have done that was bad,
and II is only fair to say that It did
not make many, IL any, serious mis-
takes.
Tho expense OF administering The
criminal laws OF the state exceeded las
year by $4,000 the appropriation made
for this purpose. The Alexandria Ga
izcttc says: ,5
rOnc Of the main reasons given for
calling a Constitutional Convention a
few years ago was to reduce the legal
and criminal expenses of the State, but
this object seems to have wofully
failed.
criminal expenses of the state Is to
reduce crime in the State. II there was
no crime there would be no criminal
expenses. Besides, in comparing the
present expense of managing the az
fairs of this State with the expense Of
other years and long-ago times. 1t
ought to be rccollected that Virginia is
"a larger and richer State than ever
before. 8s
Isn't 1t strange that the Norfolk
Landmark doesn't speak to us any moro
MS we pass by? There will be business
have dug the James River deep enough
TO move the Norfolk Navy Yard to the
Capital OF the State
There is some talk in Petersburg
about "a bigger and better paper" and
tho editor of tho IndeX-Appeal tells the
people there how they can get 1t and
how he will help them to get 1t by putt
ting into it every dollar of that papers
income excepting only fair living wages
for the man who is making 1t, and
then he speaks his mind very clearly
and very scnsibly to the Knockers. who
what Petersburg needs in this way
without really doing anything to help
1t along. 1t is remarkable thing
that every man thinks that he could
make "a bigger and better paper" than
anybody else ever made anywhere.
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II Postmaster-General Hitchcock will
only consult us about his appointments
In this State we could pick out enough
Democrats Of right sort to fill all
Of them with great credit TO themselves
and much advantage TO rhe Govern
ncnt. The first thing HitcncocK ought
% try to do In all the Southern States
md Northern states and Middle States
and par}fr
u the sea is to break every Republican,
machine he can find into smithereens.
In that way lies the safety or the
country cunt and the glory of the flag.
What's the use OF living unless you
I've in Richmond? How can you live,
IN fact. how can anybody live outside
IF Richmond. upon when every goo
lath set Ills seal and said, distinctly
that there is no other place in the
no other place that
should be mentioned in the same brea tn
Dr. the same linotype?
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IN MIR. Tafts new bill to regulate |
me railroads 1t is hoped that he will
insist upon the theory that business is |
business and that there is no more
1arm IN swapping newspaper space for
passes than there is in swapping money
for votes. Not that 1t akcs the lea st !
Inference to us, because We don't dol
business that way: but because there
are SO many of our contemporaries
down f in South Carolina who ought to
travel more than they have been able
20 do in the last two or three gears
treaty seems much longer than tina t.
q their ediflcation. a law against an
exchange OF the nature we nave suE-
ses 1 Is a law against education.
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the first Easter dream we have seen
vas made of straw and had all descrip-
Ions OF posies, tho most or them mar
suerites, scattered plentifullygov over the
,roWn, with various vines hanging
Town her back. following the.sidca OF.
ne llt poet Cone Of those who has gotten
nto&the Hall of Fame In rev York;,
20 eNcellently expressed in the line,
And the golden hair was hanging
Town her back This is so much bet
::enIr ana more humanc-likc than wear
ne dead birds on ones headgcar.