The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-22

Ing fault with everything. Now you We
got the people all stirred up until
they begin to think they ought to
have & hand In running the town.
Take this initiative. referendum and
recall you're advocating. IL you ever
thing they'd take the city and go
straight to the dogs with It.
Maybe they would" ! again inter-
polated, but they'd have q return
ticket"
mo they wouldn't. You can't
trust the people with settling bust
ness and government questions--they
amt Intelligent enough"
You didn't say anything like that
in your campaign speeches"
'Of course / didn't. You have to
jolly 'em in politics. but at the same
time the better element has to do
The real work"
Surely you gentlemen didn't como
UP here to discuss political economy.
did you?" / asked.
mo, We didn't" said Schneider.
I'VE came up here to serve notice
on you that you've got to let up
on this talk about five-cent fares to
the park
so the rest OF you gentlemen. as
well as Mr.. Street here. have some
OF that million dollars Of common
stock, have your" l demanded.
Some of them have" replied
Street. but that hasn't anything to
do with what We came to see you
about You know the street car COM
pany has agreed to build an inter
urban line to Mitcheilville. Well. Van
Dyke says they won't do II II they
are forced to make a five-cent fare
II
because It means thousands OF dollars
a year to US from the people between
here and Mitchellville."
will you please tell me-" ! asked.
what earthly or unearthly connec-
ton there IL between a fve-cent fare
TO the park and an interurban line
to Mitcheilville, which is in exactly
the opposite direction %
Van Dyke says that IL the Legis-
lature passes a bill regulating the
fare to the park 1t will establish a
precedent OF State regulation Of rates
on interurban lines. and that II that's
done the company won't be able to
raise capital to build the Mitchell
vile line
Van Dyke told you that. did he?"
Yes. and it's true too. Capital
won't be harassed. It's timid.''
come up here and call the Sun off Its
fight for five-cent fares?''
mo. he didn't order us: he couldn't
order VI to do anything: but Mr..
Van Dyke Is Interested in the pros
sperity OF St james and he asked our
cooperation to get the Sun to quit
this senseless agitation about park
fares. It's worth fifteen cents to go
to the park and back on Sunday
afternoon. and nobody would kick
about 1t II you didn't encourage them.
Nobody ever kicked before you start
ed all this row."
Doesn't II strike you gentlemen as
peculiar that Van Dyke should get
you to do this for him. 1 asked.
Why didn't re come up here himself
and put the case squarely to me? IL
his argument IL as legitimate as you
gentlemen seem to think. why didn't
he present 1t personality"
Why" explained Street in sur
prise. he knew We were advertisers
and would have more influence"
In other words, Van Dyke comes
and gives you q cock-And-bull story
about the tnterurban to Mitchellvtlle,
and then proposes that you attack
Us in the pocketbook for the pur-
pose OF forcing us to let him con-
hnue to extort excessive profits from
the working people OF St James: and
you fail for II. That's the situation.
as clear an II Van Dyke himself told
1t"
That's Just your sensational way
Of looking at it---imrugning mems
motives, as the Sun always does. l
Tell you Van Dyke>is fine man.
He was rised here and we've all
known him since he was boy.
He wants to nee St James grow. just
as We do, and we agree with him In
everything. He's one OF US. and we're
all working together. ! don't know
what Ii Is you fellows want but 1t
must be something awful big. the
way you're raising Cain. What are
you after?"
Readers"
'Humph. it's a fins way TO get EN-
Ito attack honest men,"
Now look here. gentlemen" said.
you are all wrong about us, just ~
we are all right about you-only we
know It and you don't Some day
you'll thank me and the st. James
Sun for raising Cain Van Dyke
II merely using you, playing the old.
old game OF drawing chestnuts by the
aid OF q pussy-cAt, with you for the
pussy. The interurban will be built
to Mitchelivilie when the street car
company is convinced that the busi-
ness in that territory demands II, and
not one minute before. All the legis-
iating you can do from now till
doomsday couldn't stop It II the COM
pany thought 1t was q good PROPOSE
tion. Capital Is not tinid, az Mr..
Street says Capital IL bold. It 10
tho boidest thing In the world next
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