The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-20

IL you'd JUST consent 10 stay " hes
your Observation-Disclosures were"
When you, gentlemen, eomo 70
committee properly powdered, pig
tailed and snuff- bosed. when you
again discuss embargo and whether
or no wo shall purchase Louisiana,
then will we, TOO, return to where
our great grandmothsrs were.
Who Are the People
was, In November. nj the dinner
of the National Municipal League
which was meeting then m KIN
mond. The after dinner speeches wef"
excellent and insiructNc. The secre-
;ary of the Municipal League con
graduated US and the country at large
on the indubitable fact that the poo
pie were awakening To sense ni
their responsibility, that they were
going to- this polls Ia larger mum
hers that they MeTa-to -eiscl- ieAeeE
men and BASS better Laws that the
people were awake at last, ann that
we really were going to have At last
"A government of the people, for the
people and by the people. sat and
listened. but kept on thinking. Fhe
people. the people are doing better
at the polls. 'You mean ! thought.
-niiaA the people. ar pesh"ps- %"
trtr-.-ts frat tou really Hre the people
and We are only things
The secretary sat down amid ap-
plause. Another gentleman rose ne
tatked we'll and eioauentiy Of De
nlocracy. 1t had not failed, il wouin
not fail. Il have about come, ne
said. ITO that place where believe
In universal suffrage" ! sat and lis
tened. but | kept on thinking. 80,
thought You don't mean uni
verSal suffrage, You mean hemi-
spherical suffrage. Or perhaps You
mean that you really are the NM
verse. and thar we are only chaos.
There were other speeches and very
Z nod 0nps They We're all IN the iihe
II an extension OF Democracy. They
all advocated getting The people to
the polls by every means under
heaven short Of bribery. i sat and
listened. but ! kept on thinking. Peo-
pic---the penplc--citizens ---Demoeracy
get the people to the polls-~-of tho
people, for the people, by the pee
plc-~and all the time they just meant
men
/ looked at the women about me.
and | got to wondering what We were
anyhow. In the person of my for
bears / had been In Virginia a long
timc-more than two hundred years.
In their persons ! had gone through
the Indian wars, and the ReXolutton-
airy war. and the war of 1917, and
Tire Mexiran war and the great war,
In their persons | had heWed down
the primeval forests and planted the
soil | had laid roads and founded
towns. had brought commerce, |
had tt1fg cauHts and tuifdcu railroads,
In their persons ] had spun and
wu' IN and hrewed and batei end
kept the Indians from he Goor and
kept the wolf from the door IN their
+ rsons | had saved and managed
and nursed and taught and borne
citizens TO the State and kept alive
the fires OF civilization. I had been
in Virginia almost ever since there
was Virginia. In my own person
had tried to serve not only my OWL
household hut. rs best ! might. "a
serve the State. But I was not mum.
bercd antong the people Of Virginia
The ~icllian fruit dealer and the Rus
sian tailor were all right. They knew
the needs oF Virginia. They were
people. II seemed to me. sit
ting there, listening to those fine
broad clothed gentlemen, that I was
the allen.
Taxation Without Representa- ton.
Since my early twenties / had beer
seif-surportine woman. ! owned -
house and some land and some bonds
/ had earned every penny that went
to their purchase. My two sisters
and i lived together. There was ~
man in the house. Had he been there
he could not have stood for me, h.
/ being one human being and an
other. But as ii happened there wa
no man In the house. | paid quit,
/ heavy amount In taxes In the city
! State and country. Every ten year
| | paid tsiderably more than tet
thousand dollars to the state Of Nir
/ ginia. / was never asked, or per
/ mitted to say. how l should like M
! tax nancy spent. / might want {
/ schoolhouse. but say as loudly an'
! often as | pleased that ] wanted Z
| schoolhouse, my voice was nere
| counted. I might not want som'
| other expenditure. | might think i
/ foolish, even harmful. But | was no
! asked what ] thought HAeHt H. ne
! did | speak would my voice be count
( ed. l gave. part of my earnings ever.
/ Year 10 common fund, but / mign
( not say how that common fun'
should be porioned out: what w
should buy with IL and what W
/ shouldn't. | was counted In when i
came Ia contributing counted OH
when 1t came to deciding. Poo
yle-~the ple--juftice at last II
the peonie---of tho people, for tn
people by the peopie---the Ameri
T can revolution T. Pluribus tnum-
taxation without representation /
tyranny eoVeruinent derives its jus
powers from the consent of the gov
! erned-~"Gise. mo liberty or give n
death,"--aud in The city where Pat
! rick Henry spoke those words I Wa
not people, was only "A taxpayer
Men Of Virginia. II is not honest
| Men of tirritia, u IL Not Honest
Chivalfy, We hear that word Yer,
toften nowadays, and often we hear i
from the litIs of those who would b.
hard pat To II Ia give a definition o
ehi1alrS.
There are three knights that doarI
s7Rts,f4d F.; i5pvp 10 sec come riding int
The no(d Ana the name of the frs
Is Knowledge. and the name ~ tn
secnnd is Wisdom; and the name %
the third is Justice
Growth of Suffrage,
az OLD, in the political realm. Their
MIS- tia king, Men and women, ~
oppressed rs, and. mon and women
we bowed our heads ana did his tasks
Then certain strong men callei
yAareHs -aHest, and they wrested por
tion of his power from the king Tha
WITS A&eji; IA y4S hsttar that Il teH
should lie politically free than tina
in,at enc should he So. Bu; now TIN
king and the barons oppressed tn
rest of as, meu as weil as women
Men and women, We bent our head
a l.11 .Giy . l.