The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-08
Wayside Chats With
Old Virginia Editors

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Tho Houston Record-Adv ertiser agrees
with The Times Dispatch in It's Vows
on the unfortunate affair at ST. Johns
College. Maryland. Were We on the
jury to try tho young man." 1t says.
the verdict Of not guilty would be
written without leaving tho fury box"
Tho Stanton News approves the
plan OF having street cars stop on the
near side of the street. IF tho Rich
monders will go to Washington and
soc how successful ncar-side stopping
is. 1T thinks, they will certainly adopt
it," Richmond is going to adopt 1t.
Glory DO! Here's n paragrapher who
hates u pun. It's the Halifax Gazette
man. who says: I'VE do wish they
would hurry up and eliminate Hucrta.
it's getting awful hard to write squibs
about him without punning," Same
here, but. then. what would the Pc
tersburg Index Appeal and DanviIle
Register do7
Here's ono that Is not worried
by the Coloners talk Of Democratic
depression. Apparently This is not
going to be Il good year for tho
calamity howlers," says the Peninsula
Enterprise. 1t Is not. but, then. what
Is poor returning discoverer to do.
He must have some excuse for running
for tho presidency. But listen further
to the Enterprise: Hardly less dis
turbing, from the q. O. p. viewpoint,
is the unaccountablo and scandalous
performance of wool. 1t had been pro-
claimed from Dan to Beersheba that
tho enactment OF n Democratic tariff
would ruin tho wool growers and close
the wooden mills The dread Demo-
cratic tariff bill was passed, the noto-
s~1xz I,,l. II tnl.
emasculated. and the bars were let
down for heecy cloud OF foreign
pauper wool And rs result have
American wool-growers been ruined.
have the textile mills shut down. and
have thousands of honest American
workmen been thrown out OF employ
ment? On the contrary. the answer.
as we gather from our exchanges. is,
instead of closing our wooden mills.
free wool has given them fresh
Impetus. and American manufacturers
are showing themselves we'll able to
meet all foreign competition. AS for
the wool grower, he is getting a higher
market price for his product than he
received year ago under Schedule
X And, strangely paradoxical rs 1t
may seem, tho consumer Is benefited
by lower prices for the finished pro-
duct" All OF which seems to be true.
but that doesn't fcnze tho calamity
Apropos OF the talk OF extending
the tracks OF the Richmond and Rap
pahannock Railway to Urbanna, tho
Southside Sentinel suggests this: Lets
call meeting at some central point
along the route. invite all the live,
wide-awake people from the counties
and from Richmond and see what can
be done. VIII the Richmond business
organizations undertake such a plan?
y railroad from this section to the
capital city would he worth more than
all the conventions to be held within
the next twenty years" What say the
other newspapers of the counties
through which the road would run?
What say the Richmond Chamber OF
Commerce and the officers OF the rail-
way?
Stnunton Is soon to be free Of dust.
We are Informed by tho Harrisonburg
News-Record. and the people OF the
Valley metropolis Will not have to in
hale enough real estate TO make a
Shenandoah Valley farm" If that is
true we could almost wish to live In
Staunton. II we did not prefer Rich
mond, dust plagued as she is.
The Mathews Journal Is proud of the
decision of the voters OF westville Dis
trict to improve the school facilities.
I'VE regard the result on Saturday
as a vindication OF the intelligence
OF the voters OF the district" II says
The intelligence OF any community
can be accurately gagged by the In
tcrest of its people In public educa-
ton.
1.-THE next meeting of the United
Confederate Veterans will be held at
the capital of the Lost Cause" says
the Fincastle Herald, and the Rich
mond people propose to make IT the
greatest meeting In the history OF the
organization" You have the right
dope. Brother Minter. Come along to
It with Colonel Phil Brown.