Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-16

red to sayors more of petulance than
logic, We are content that it shall pass
fer " hat it is worth. The Nashville
Am-rlean. as Is right enough, takes
the wenderous tale aud eoDyinces
itself that it is all true. Without
assuming the championship Of Clarks-
vile as a tobacco market, we modestly
ask both those Journals for the speci-
fications upon which they base their
assumptions. tits aself-eVident truth
that facilities for shipping to the
orth-eastern markets have done much
to equalize localities as points for re-
ceiviug and shipping the staple produc-
tions of the country. In this respect.
Nashville has not the slightest advant-
age over. Clarksville-their facilities
of river and railroad being precisely
the same. But, as a tobacco market of
long standing and world-%ide reputa-
ton, and as the centre of tobacco
district famous for the quality Of to-
bacco grown around it, is is not unfair
to claim for GAINESVILLE decided ad-
vantage over competing point in the
South west. 1t has all the financial
facilities it desires for moving the
crops; it has safe and ample storage !;
perfectly reliable warehouse men, In
spectors and Samplers; it has every
season enough of home and foreign
buyers to absorb the entire crop, and
they are men Of means, experience,
sound judgment and ultimate acquaint-
ance with the tobacco trade of the
world, and they will bear us out in
the declaration that no market this
side of Liverpool shows higher av-
erage of prices than GAINESVILLE.
We make no war upon other mar-
kets and censure no man for his pref
erence for one over another, nor call
in question his motives for such pref
ereuce. All We ask is fair fight
the weapons being truth and the logic
of facts. We claim for GAINESVILLE
some advantages as tobacco market,
but if those who raise the weed be-
lieve that Nashville offers superior
ones, it is their right and their inter-
est TO patronize it. 1t is also the duty
of every Nashville paper TO uphold
aud advance the interests of the city
by all legitimate means, and it is our
duty to do the same for GAINESVILLE BY
simple statement Of facts-when
these fail, there is an end of the argu-
mtnt.
The more conservative opponents
of the Ohio platform seem TO have an
idea that the imitation contemplated by
that profession of political faith,
means merely striving to food the land
with greenbacks as though they were as
worthless as waste paper. The plat
form demands currency enough to
meet the wants of trade. Every SEN
siLle man knows that there is not
enough in circulation to supply that
demand. and that the currency must be
inflated to that extent. or trade must
shrink within the limits of constant
ly contracting circulating medium To
compass this imitation, the platform
proposes to. obliterate the national
banks. take up and cancel their notes.
issuing therefor an equivalent in green
backs, thus swelling the volume of
currency to the extent of the locked
up bank notes, which are placed be
yond the reach of the people by means
of the high rate of interest and the
impossiblesecurity demanded for loans.
Is there any wild imitation in this pol
icy2 Yet the bondholdcrS assert that
there is, and their chief effort is to
create the impression that the policy
Of the Democrats is to make currency
so plenty that any man can get hat
full without any other consideration
than the asking for it. If it is infa-
ton to make the currency adequate to
the business of the country, We are for
that much imitation, and treat with
contempt the charge that the Ohio
platform asks Ioran avalanche of paper
money, the very excess of which must
make it worthless. People who are
frightened out of their wits by such a
clumsy scare-crow, had better seek
shelter under the wings Of monopolieS,
and find out their Jolly by invoking
the charity of the worshippers of the
golden calf.