Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-06


'We cannot know how the immediate
CONFUSION will result for u.s. he oh
served to a near friend, as he was
planning his communication to Con
gress ut the extra session; but the
people will at all events come right,
and posterity will do me justice. BE
the present issue for good Or evil it
is for pOsterity that / will write this
message. And anxious to rest the
cause of Democracy on measures and
principles which would make its OK
pectCd defeat but Il transient one, he
recommended to Congress system
which not one public man in America,
had ever before venturcd to propose.
The system was strict recurrence
to the principles of the Constitution
and to the general laws that regulate
commerce."
Is there ono word in this para
graph that needs to be changed in
order to make what Mr.. Bancroft
wrote Of Martin Van Buren, apply
with precision to Grover Cleveland.
"All Americans who connected
their ambition with the old European
restrictive and financial systems"
says Mr.. Bancroft, 'hcard in the mes
snge tn" kncll Of that system. If the
country could, in its finances, follow
sound general principles, and avoid
interfering wit commercial pursuits,
class Legislation must come to an end.
The moneyed interest had compelled
the government to be its servant, to
loan to them its revenue, to connect
itself with commercial exchanges.
The principle of independence would
separate the government from the
hierarchy of moneyed institutions,
and arrest Mt its source the bnlcful
influence of monopoly. The govern
ment was to separate itself from the
business of the country" The read
er OF this will be tempted to turn
back to the title page to make sure
that he is reading about the Admin
istraLion of 1911 and not of the
Administration Of 1859.
"The contest between bank of
the United States and total scpa-
ration of the government from the
banks involved the question whether
the industry of the country should be
left to it's natural development or
subjected to artificial and selfish leg.
islntion." What other question was
involved i'll the contest between gov.
ermental partnership i'll certain So
lected industries and its total sepuru
ton from the business of the coun-
tryl
The independent treasury, which
President Van Buren fought for aud
secured, ''preventcd utterly the po-
litical union of stock jobbers and OPP,
ulent merchants and corporations
with the government, and thus favor
ed the purity and permanency of our
institutions" Would not this also
be true of the tariff reform, for which
President Cleveland fought =?
How nearly the following passages
regarding the campaign Of 1910
comes to describing the campaign of
1888: THE one party ). prodi-
gal of unbounded promises and of
misrepresentation, appealed to the
sentiment of sympathy and to the de.
sire of change; the other addressed
itself to the sober reason of the pco-
pie. Men gathered everywhere in
crowds to listen to discussions. The
Leading doctrines of political econo
my became subjects of reflection in
every village. But it was observable
then as always, that the feelings may
be approached more suddenly than
the intellect"
Who can doubt that the resem
blancc between the two campaigns
will be completed by future events
MIR. Bancroft says: "Fnr greater
numbers in proportion to population
appeared for the Democratic candi
date ut the polls than ever before;
and the hundreds of thousands who
took part did SO from conviction; and
before long the great and ever in
creasing majority applying alike the
tests of science and of experience to
the questions of revenue we're cor