The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-13
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State Wide Prohibition.
The people OF Virginia are claiming the right
To vote on the question Of State prohibition,
and they have right to demand of the Legis-
azure that this privilege be granted them. in
the elections next fall let them call on every
candidate for the Legislature to say In advance
whetner he will vote in the body, II elected to
submit this question to vote OF the people. II
any man says he will not and thus sets himself
up as superior to the people, or II he hesitates
10 declare himself in favor of such measure
cut MIN out and put up some man who will
need the demands of the people. Accept moth
ing from any candidate short Of plain,
sons of the General Assembly requests have
been sent to the body for the passage OF an
enabling act under which the voters may have
the privilege OF expressing themselves upon
this question. In one way or another. through
some sinister influence the privilege has been
denied There are not lacking Those who say
in obedience to the demands of the alleged
boss In Virginia politics Circumstances seem
to Indicate that there Is foundation for this
claim The liquor interests of the State have
been the strong adherents of the ''b..s" and
they DO mot support any man who is not IA
Vorabie to themselves. 1t is even alleged that
the so-called Democratic fusionsts In Norfolk
countys corrupt alliance are all supporters Of
senator Martin in his contest with Congress
man Jones The State Democratic committee.
dominated by Senator Martin, has more than
once favored the fusion element in Norfolk
county, in opposition to the regular Democratic
committee. This being the fact. it looks very
much like the boss has been using his power
over the Legislature to pander to the liquor
interests in the State, and induce the Legis-
lature to refuse to pass the enabling act de-
manded by the people In like manner II has
refused or failed to pass any measure providing
State primary law II the voters will call
upon any candidate next fall to declare himself
upon both OF these questions and vote against
any man who does not favor both, and Is will
Ing to so declare himself In advance OF the
election, they can secure the adoption of both
measures. The people alone are supreme, and
can defeat the bosses who oppose the measures
for which they ask, whenever they will and
tho bosses know it. With all their organiza-
ton they will come down off their high horse
and be very submissive when they discover that
/ the people are In earnest and mean business
Roanoke Evening World
argument by Fpithet'
/ In his address to the graduating classes of
Columbia University. President Nicholas Muir
ray Butler called this IAN age of irrationalism. -
and declared that argument by epithet" was
one of It's ruling forces
In that these sentiments impressed the neces-
sty of thinking upon the graduates they
were happily conceived and we'll spoken. And,
to an extent they are justified. The Ameri-
/ can people, ever given 10 extravaganza in speech
he held, had caught up the habit of phrase
making. and OF expressing in short, pithy and
sometimes over-emphatic sentences views that
should. in justice to issues and principles be
l given a more careful dressing.
! But had President Butler gone Just a little
farther he must have acknowledged that the
average man-and woman--is thinking read
/ ing and observing to-day rarely In our his
tory. The printing press and splendid facilities
for distribution haye made all three easier
Educational tendencies in newspapers and mag
azines have helped the movement on.
The average Ia to-day less given &c
accepting his convictions predigested and more
often demanding the right to reach them by
his own mental processes. So that IL the are
is, In few respects. impulsve and irrational
it has its compromising tendencies. Faithful
ANALYSIS will show that they little more thar
counterhalance the features to which Presid ent
i, Butler makes objection.-Atlanta Constitution
4 Hail. Poet OF June
4 AS mop brows cheerily, with the
knowledge that Jacksonville is the coolest spo
on earth, let us stop q moment and greet the
for one thing. why spring poet should get hi.
muse tuned in summer, unless 1t be case Of
confessional frenzy In that case. We freely
= forgive him and bask In the following:
Il The month of May, the harbinxer Of sum
mer. has departed. and the month of June, the
month OF summers solstce, has Ane
now giant Arcturus reigns the suns Of
night. and blue. beautiful Vega Ia queen OF tn,
darkened armament Into the west like som.
shining sdereal mirror descends bright Venus
while golden Jupiter attains his meridian al
hour before Queen Venus sinks to her rest
After midnight rudy Mars rises upon a drows,
world. and toward sunrise yellowish Saturn Il
to be seen amid the domain OF the constella
t ton Aries. At present King Sol awakens ear
Her and earlier, during the first part of June
and on the 22d day he enters the constellation
D OF Gen1ini and the sign of Cancer, At presen
he rises about 4;20 A. NJ. and phines upol
the awakened gipries OF nature. upon Choir.
3 Of bird and brook. upon vegetation and folia9
OF country and suburb. May and spring hav,
indeed departed, Juno and summer are ono
more visiting U.S.
We are glad that the two gentle ladies' ar
"in midst and at the top of their career
!, AS for Arcturus and his starry brothers ant
sisters and step-twins, we dsdain their atti
tude.
. science, which some day may be named /,
superstition tells us that their account tn
sun RACES angriy hot-not because II ts Jun
and summer. That may be comfort to many
and. In the meantime. let not look at tn
MISUNDERSTANDING Times-Union.