Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-23
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A GENERAL REIMBURSEMENT.

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A GENERAL REIMBURSEMENT.
This readjustment in Virginia is only a
part of the REIMBURSEMENT going on with re-
gard to the Federal debt. That debt has
to be settled otherwise than with regard
to the views and wishes of those who hold
it. On one side you see tramps and COM
munist meetings. They are all wrong, but
they are evidences of the terrible suffering
and distress prevailing. On the other side
you see unfeeling capital-not property
holders, not the farmers, but cold, hard, un-
feeling capital. Between these two must
come a middle party which will keep these
two extremes apart and save the country.
That middle party is the greenback party
(%applause). l have heard il as coming in
as a rumor from the country that l am in
favor of the division of property. God
save the man who put such a thing in my
mouth Qaughter). 1 never said such a
thing IN my life.
Mr.. Paul then went into a narrative OF
the scarcity of money. When came back
from the army, he said. in 1865 1 came in
a suit of Confederate clothes. 1 had a
good brother who sold a colt for $3.50 and
lent the money to me to 60 to the Univer-
sity and study law. 1 had pretty hard fare
there but l had plenty of pluck and l got
through %(applause). There was plenty of
money in those times. But since then the
greenbacks has been funded and the govern
ment has drawn them in by bonds, and now
in Virginia we have only So per head. This
$40 bill l have in my pocket Is my share
and two other mems besides. One plan.
proposed for this is to take the tax off state
banks, and start them, the chief merit
of a state bank being that you can't circa-
which it exists. The right plan is to issue
greenbacks and pay off the two thousand
millions of the public debt, then issue no
more bonds and then you make these bond
holers of to-day money-tramps looking for a
place to invest their money. Its all folly
about if a man has a thing he can get
what it is worth for it.. The people have
wheat, land, horses, cows and muscle and
they can't get anything for them because
there isn't the money to pay for them
The speaker had a little SIS stable to build
and he had so many offers that he just put
off building it to keep from making any
body mad (laughter). BE wanted money
fixed in the constitution as Interchangeable.
France has $50 per capita for her people,
while if the whole public debt of the
United States was paid in greenbacks, it
wouldn't give $44 per capita to her people.
He opposed the resumption law, and want
ed the national bank law repealed-those
national banks which ask II per cent a
month, and want more security than an
honest man feels like giving (applause).
He wanted the United States Revenue
laws done away with, the laws which per-
secuted people for little offences, like an
old negro being asked by a traveller where
he could get a drink said: ''FO de Lord l
can't tell you, eff 1 does dem Rebenue peo-
pie hab me up for selling liquor wid'out
license" (great laughter). The speaker
announced here that he would close, but
there were repeated cries of ego 3D."
He said there was n thing he wanted
to say. Some of his friends are saying
..you are in one office now John and [ want
you just where you are," and another
would say, 'John your time hasn't come
yet" Well, 1 notice if a fellow lays on
his back and waits for his time to come,
when it does come somebody steps up and
takes it (great laughter.) AS to my pres
ent Office 1 can go down to Richmond next
winter serve my three months and go right
over to Washington (cheers.) 1 claim TO
lave done more to build up REIMBURSEMENT
in this district than any man IN it and the
Adjusters won't be mistaken if they choose
me to 60 to Washington Ia voice-We'l
send you there tooD and I give my past
record as a guarantee for my future.
THE MEETING FOR PAUL.
Resolutions were introduced 1. An
nouncing John Paul as the choice of the
people of Rockingham for congress 2.
Complimenting him for his bold, fearless
and energetic advocacy Of Adjustment and
greenbacks. and recommending him to the
people of the other counties of the dis
trict, and 8. Pledging the use of all honor
able means to secure his election. The
resolutions were adopted withou ut a dis
senting voice.
The meeting closed with some remarks
by the chairman. He held the ground that
the government could make paper of value.
He gave it to the 'bloated bo~ndholders''
which was loudly cheered. He repudia-
ted communism and said he didn't want
to divide his neighbor Ghiselin's property
and his neighbor Ghiselin didn't want to
divide his, but the old gentleman forgot
to remember that worse men who listen to
these teachings of violated contracts may
tramp along the road and divide out both
his and Ghiselin's.
The meeting adjourned at 8 O'Clock.
II. Z. T.
. NOTABLE FAMILY SEA is IN LUNEN
BURG.-A Bellefont correspondent of the
Richmond Estate" says:
In my rather clrcuitous line of travel +
passed through many grades of soil. One.
will seldom see prettier land than the old.
"AtKinson'' tracts, owned in former years.
by the influential family of that name, not.
M of whom now lives in the county Of
Lunenburg: A number of the men of this.
family have risen to d1stinction-among
them, DR.. J. M. T. Atkinson, President OF:
Hampden Sidney College, and Bishop At
kinson, of North Carolina. But the lar
ger portion of the country is in original.
growth, one stretch extending in an un-
broken line for fifteen miles. The oak bark
and sumac, to be seen everywhere, would
appear sufficient to tan the leather for the.
shoes used for the State.
The hills near the banks ofthe Meherrin-
Of the "Whittle" place, probably the most.
onarkah1a homo in SOuthSida VIRGINIA.