The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-08-03

their party has been given the reigns of
government.
E. c. Benedict, the Presidents person
al friend, says sit is time the country got
back to constitutional money by proper
| legislation, and gave the people gold and
silver money, only He would have no
paper representatives of money at all, ac-
cording to reports. The question arises,
what coinage ratio would Mr. Benedict
have-1 to 16, the legal proportion, or
| to IS or 30, the market proportion? AS
| he wants an ''honest dollar, E" he, of course
must favor the expansion of the silver
as, under his plan, there would be no
gold or silver certificates or any other
sort of paper money, we would have to
use the coin. But for convenience the
silver coin, even though it is intrins-
| cally worth only about So, is already too
| lage Under the proposed scheme $40
Or S12 in silver is about all that any
man who is not an athelete could carry.
| This Benedict plan won't do.
What is the use of the mills of New
England and elsewhere advertising their
usual Summer vacations as shutting
down." on account of Democratic tariff
reform? They can't fool anybody.
Some of the Western Banks are trying
! to closing-up trick to boom silver and the
Republican high tariff manufacturers
suspending work on the eve of a Con-
gressional session to scare off tariff re-
form. All, these are foxy fellows-many
of them. Follow Bre.r RABBITS policy
and sleep with onaeye open for Bre'I
Fox. He's $500 beast ''-Norfolk
Landmarks
All the Southern States are DESTROYS
that immigrants shall be attacted to
them, and yet immigrants avoid the
South. Ask them, ask half million of
them, why.-N. Y. San.
| Never mind about why; they can go
on in the other direction; they are hurt
ing themselves more than they are hurt
ing the South. The time will come
when the half million will be seeking a
tarily turn their eyes Southwark. The
Southern State which, concerns itself to
secure the foreign immigration now
coming into New York is without
wisdom.-No1tolk Landmarks.
There is now being circulated in New
York paper called Die Bramdfak1e-
the Flaming Torch-an anarchist sheet,
edited by Alexandria Berkman, who is in
the Pittsburg prison for attempting to kill
Mr.. Prick, of the Carnegie Steel Works.
Think of the insOlence of such an enter
prise. What land of freedom this isl
Yet who shall say that it is not better to
let these irebands flame until they go
Out, or until open acts of crime subject
them to the State prisons or the gallows
their natural and manifest destiny.
Mr.. Powderly denies that he is to re-
sign as General Master Workman of the
Knights of Labor, though statement
to the contrary effect has been scattered
broadcast over the country. AS to the as
sertion that he would be a lawyer he
does not deny that SO emphatically but
owns that he has read great deal of
law already" and cannot say what he
may not do in the future. Mr.. Powder
ly, to his credit be it said, has frequently
counseled orderly methods.
A few days ago one of the 'sleading
financiers, y so often quoted in the pap
ers, was talking to reporter about the
Danville receivership and remarked that
the Erie road was about the only stable
railroad property in the East. The
events OF the last two days would tend
to prove that this particular ''leading
financer" was talking through his hat.
Deducting the time spent at GRAY Ga
bles, Buzzard's Bay, Chop Tank and the
Village Postof1ice, President Cleveland
cannot devote much attention to the
business for which he was engaged last |
November. This fishing business seems
to be more important than the financial
situation.
The horror in Auburn prison connect-
ed with the electrocution of Convi. It
Taylor was probably due to the bune.
ling by those in charge of the appara-
tus. but it was none the less sickeninp
and deplorable for all that. Hanemen
and electrocution officers have no rinht
to bungle. . -
The estate of the late A. J. Drexel
OF Philadelphia, foots up about $50. 600,
600. The bulk of it is left to his imne-
date family. A number of Charitable
and personal requests are made. h, +
the main part OF the estate goes to his
children.
The New York Press gives notice that
sthe old soldiers will not be plundered
with impunity.' Well, who has Threaten.
I'd to ''plundern the veterans? Pension
.eformers MAINTAIN that the plunderinp
8 the other way