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ceera of water for t heir task masi*1 tCM S. tlit* oligan hy of office holdt ers, who hold supreme and sovereign swav bv grace of is-i* •* t thonest ( led ion laws. It may be t * unci »h, frlt; queiit ly asked: whatI redress have the people? How i-1 can they throw off and free them-t selves from t he galling yoke of s ring rule? These are quest ions - more easily asked t hnn answeredOar able, and usually astuter I xII contemporary sees, or thinks ite sees, the way to‘‘the promised l* land ’ along the line of a consti-t* tutional convention. l»ut inmg acontaeond'uVC vsmol oicarrviinagiring gely Hex of a Inon a ipedo j 1 he ciview of the litter hopelessness itVI-ex presses as to any improvement in the-character and personnel c of future legislatures elected nn-I, der prevailing laws and existingi conditions, we are at a.I ss tor perceive upon what the hope is . hinged, that a constitutional . convention chosen under the It same laws and t lie same condi-v lions, would be composed of adifferent or better class of men than those who composed the? last, and as our contemporary ,f very naturally and justly fears,' ■ •/ i/ •; •/will constitute the next Legis-t lature. If under the present and the prospective condition of af-s fairs, the people are powerless to select men worthy and com-potent to fiil the high and responsible position of law makers it seem to us that it is “hoping against hope to expect that a convention chosen under fire eisclv t In* same condit ions would H prove different from a legislativehod v chosen in t he same manner and under the same circunistan-I. ces. If t he Legislature has prov* lt;m to bi» only the mouth piece of i*- the machine, what reason haveis rigilike tlvert iet he w opera ship.IThe liand clt;Thein veint lie siI'M isote'r in belowas its st arte tin win and tlcovenWheninVIts-*s we to think that a convention elected in the same way wouldlt;• tshsI-1be composed of better material, or be more representative of the true interests of the commonwealth? None that we can perceive. Weshould rat her expect to ii find a convention thus chosen t ; to be but the counterpart of the ° late Legislature, the organ and• itool of the bosses, whose highest1 aim would bcto rivet more firmly * •,, the fetters that bind and make II slaves of t he masses.it to v the e throu the rlt;low s i sa me air on final Thepedoacquii1 he fathe 11jected1 ake i it ha? sueces t lie a ila vo rWhiUt or peithe t»/.il amd(MUOIIt 'brief it ions conevi}m ii*eISubmarine Mininq And Torpedo Warfare.COilIK'( f11 view of the widespread in-*' tcrest in torpedoes and stibma-s rine mines which has been owak-it 4iti.nl I k \ t I w k 1 tl vt*i n it* n i\ / » V 4 » i £ kliighl \of thebor \torpeibulk v %/its lahave Iing diat tein latinclwouldby a loft t t he wj have boardIM iso gible 1 inconc plant
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Lawrenceville Brunswick Gazette
Lawrenceville, Virginia, US
Thu, Mar 10, 1898
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