The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-17
RApPAHANNocK COUNTY.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.l
,..A ssfssuIY 1 n Va Sent nnahnrl 10 1914

! AaissvILLg. Va, September II, 1878.
The nomination or General Johnston by
the Richmond district has done honor to
Richmond. Those little fellows who think
they have done graceful thing by getting
out OF his way are like the mice that scam
pered rs the elephant passed. The General
was the true Fabius OF the Confederacy,
and the impression Is gathering strength
TINT he had no superior amongst the great
military lights of the late war; IL indeed,
considering the necessity Of the Fabian
policy, he had his equal. Whilst going to
Congress can add nothing to his fame. Rich
mond has added to hers by this evidence OF
| appreciation OF tho old hero. a
Money seems TO be the all-a5sorbing topic
Of the day. 1t has been so since was a
small boy. The people must have more
money. The Wing wants it to- "ccver the
earth as the waters cover the great Deep"
| The Dispatch thinks that is "too much Of
good thing" In the little county Of
| Clarke, where she "hG!iEon' days of my
youth were spent. the greatest tinanciers
are those that never had 4 ten-dollar bill,
and never viii, unless greenbacks "fall in
showers two feet thick" am rather OPP
posed to so much money. 1t might have
the same effect as upon an old countyman
whom the conscript officers could not find
| during the war. The war over, lie married
very large fortune; whereupon he was
Immediately promoted Thy "boot-licks ~ to
| the rank OF colonel. This Immense
shower" would make us all brigadiers.
am opposed to any plan or system that
makes millionaire OF q fool as we'll as a
| wise man, whether it be by imposition upon
the credulty OF manageable young ladies
with fortunes, or the falling OF "showers
I NJ t-rCen hacks two feet thiCk.N
| have been reader of the Daily Dis
patch for eight years. On the question Of
| finance, as upon all others affecting the in
terestS OF the people. [ have been struck
with it's conservatism. Its prudence and
moderation are known Of all men," AS the
Dispatch says, we do not want a mutiplica-
ton by the million OF scraps OF paper with
the stamp OF the Government to increase
the wealth of the people. This may all be
done, and the people become poorer every
day. What profit is it to the poor man,
who, with one third added to the price OF
labor. has TO pay one half more for articles
OF consumption? The rich may be able to
stand imitation, and the Indefinite mullipl-
cation OF promises to pay III an irredcema-
bic currency; but the poor man, who gets
his hali-dollar day, will not find wages
keeping pace with the geometrica ratio in
which prices will advance upon the treaclI-
crouS tide OF imitation. The whole cry is Il
.delusion and snare" What the country
needs is muscle and energy. With these
stTon" powers, allied with confidence, the
country will begin new march OF pro-
grc>S. The great trouble has been a lack OF
confidence. Every contemptible demagoguc
has contributed to Il disturbance OF the rcla-
ton between labor and capital. Now every
fellow who has few thousand dollars, par
ticularlv il he did not attain to wealth by his
own brain or energy. is ready to imagine that
4 man without money is in sympathy with
communism. The labor OF the country is
denoraiZed BY the insane nope Of multi
plying the comforts OF life without the only
method which can legitimaIcly produce
them. The position OF Tie Dispatch is the
true position. It's position in regard to the
State debt made for ii many friends, and its
attitude respecting the great national ques-
ton Of the day is making it a power in Fir.
ginia. Confidence is gold, the rains and
sunlight OF heaven are silver, energy, in
dustry, and integrity, il they do not even
tuate in "showers OF greenbacks two feet
thick" will form basis upon which the
Government, il need be, can enlarge the vol
ume Of the currency to meet all the necessl-
ties Of the situation. Z. NJ. l..