The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-19

as gecoi .d-cass matter under act OF Con-
eress Of March 5 1874
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s. JNDAY, MARCH H. 1911.
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orr. mTuNrrN AZ THE doom
a IL spa1ch from Washinston says
Chat W asst Virginia wishes 10 roorcra
lilo dol = case. Seven million dollars
With j, uTorcst IS q hig SUM 10 pay
and tho whole debt question has open
ed Zip gain a line OF though, liow
easy it would have been TO have
ayoided ali THIS d!ncul,y II West Nir-
gina an Virginia could have lived
together in units 4 remarkable look
BY prof ,ssor Charles II Amber,
Of Randc lph Macon college. Sec
,ionalism in virglnia.' SHOWS !. TIE
reasons hat led 70 the hna ais
memberme1 I Of tile TWO States Fun
inmentalIy. West Virginia and Nir-
gn!a we're opposed To each other. The
coal mines he salt mines. The agricul-
tural aud for est resources OF the West
ern part Of 1 his state all cried out FOR
railroads. but the planters from tho
IidcNater fca red TO build these new
means OF Ii Accommodation lest
West Virginia, should become tribu-
terry TO Baitimo re, and while the lead
ers from the IL 70 sections Of the Old
Dominion haEe;l, d and quarreled over
this problem an, debated the advis-
ability of railroad OF canals the spirit
a separation tool I root and grew. II
IS also worth noti cling that the Baiti-
more and Ohio WA 5 built TO Wheeling
and later on 10 Pai kersburg, and that
Tie City Of Baltilno re became the me-
tropolitan ana the distributing centyr
for the great terrii CRY embraced In
West Virginia
Had Virginia span its money in
carrying the railroad from Richmond
10 Charleston over the lines the G. &
Q, now follows ard fror u thence to Gin
cinnati and the further West, II seems
absolutely certain that the state Of
Virginia would have gal: ned Immensely
In population and wealth. land that the
City Of Richmond would have livalcd
the prosperity OF It's 81 ster city in
Maryland Blindness ant | sclfshnesa
have never been the peculit " attributes
OF any one age, and for II time the
people of Virginia at lars Will pay
tribute to the narrowness OF those
who refused to link toeetho the East
and tho West by a great tn! cough line
OF railroad. To-day Richmon has the
oPportunity to recover in part the
ground which has beon lost s. long. =
road from Richmond to the Northern
Neck would tap 4 territory in 4 hich re-
side over 10000 people The business
Of this territory alone an,o, lnts TO
nearly sioooo,ooO, and the RI sul,ing
benefit TO Richmond would rum in the
hundreds Of thousands annualA $. All
these facts are admitted ana cinon-
strable. 1t only remains for r.i,. tlinond
.tn SO an and possess 4 land VII ch no
one else could take from il, and Rich
nlond should. a.. {, ..Svha, is $1,000
70 city OF the wealth Of Rich nond +?
rs far back as the latter part ( (. the
seventies when Richnond was lust
rccevering from the poverty az d dis
ticss Of The Civ!l war. its e. liens
nndertools 70 control the + ,c.i ,nond
ana Danvnle system. witch Il ,oy ihe
southern Railway, for the Sc /. pnFp> ,sc
81 giving R!chmond prep. raiigoac
eolnectioas with the south, ..,.houst,
'ho main Line Of that road ~as NJ i-
slstrly carried ~ yay Of Lyncnou re
emo caarlottesv!lle WI the far-siIh' ted
wisdom end tbs couragcous nnsz &c ing
OF Richnlond citizens thirty years. ago
vas cary adding to tie wealt b ana
comfort and growth OF this col IN .un
i,5. ard when in 1890 .iohn X Iron
N!liiagns brought through III sea-.