Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-11


"flush times" will be. ripe, and cur
rency and idluncss will be more
abundant than anything else in
this country.
In the second place, when one
who has been Democrat permits
his views 10 drift 80 far from Dem
ocratic mornings as to embrace a
heresy like The Sub-treasuyy scheme
a scheme, If put into practice,
that must either result in increas-
ing the governments indebted
ness, or cause it to levy and collect
taxes from all classes in order 10
loan it TO farmers at . per cput.-a
scheme that would authorize the
government to hold liens u.ion tie
products Of majority OF farmers,
and deprive them of tbs liberty to
dispose Of the same until q certain
amount of rgl-tapi3m and legal in.
veStigation are gone through with
Il scheme That would make tho air
hot with the curses Of those per
SONS who happened not TO be able
TO prohtiiJiy throw tl,air surplus
products upon lie market when
the time cHne 10 reap another
crop-wo fear, when these and SD
many other objections that could
DO named are not readily seen,
that it Is useless to argue with him.
We do not know from whom lhis
Sc!"mo rinanItct. but we donbt
not tha5 Republican is its faith
er, as il smaclls so nnirll Of the
class Legislation Tor which that
party is rcSp0n3ih!c.
W" are honest wlitn we say that
tho suD-trcaSury scheme is dan ger
Gus to the welfare al tie people,
because it proposes to setiurc the
farmers 10 step into tho same sovC
of traces out Of which they whip
ped the Republicans last fall after
eight years Of hard lighting. The
farmers cannot afford to surrender
the country ny to those who preach
such a doctrine, oven though They
have control OF tho lines. And
what is more Important, they can
net carry along with them on such
an Issue the masses OF the people
who have been intloctrinated vii tn
the principles Of equal rights to
all and special privileges Ia none.''
We would like to know what
those producers propose to do with
their sub-trcasury certificates, on
which they have received, when
the succeeding crops are harvest.
cd aad il is found that tho world
managed 70 get through the year
without consuming at the prices
demanded all Of the stuff piled up
government arcl,0uscs. Tho lin.
it for which The money was b2r
} rowca has about oxpirej M rcin.
sovernme,ptrSl0an. VIII any cue
gH#rGaico that the surplus-in.
creased by reason Of other coin.
tries selling lower than tho st,l,st'i
price established by our warehouse
system will bring rs much money
as the sum borrowed Z There vii!
be found many farmers who will
not pawn thciy crops to the GOV
eminent, and theSe will he able 10
sci. at much shorter notice than
ohoso who have 10 wait ant;l gav-
crnment officials examine into AID
issue ticket Of release for tho
thing pawiel.
We have ever been and still are
in hearty elbow touch with the
welfare Of the agricultural classes.
We know from our own expo-
riences with his occupation how
unproiilable has been his toll ior
years, and we have helped in our
tecblc way to command from the
county That consideration OF his
interests which he has Il right to
claim under a government framed
TO promote equality OF rights. We
have hattlcd TO bring abont rec.
ognition Of his right and freedom
to sell what he produces in the
highest market, and to buy what
he wants iii the lowest market.