The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-21
An r,rOUnAGING REVIEW.

AN ENCOURAGING REVIEW.
We print In another column an article
taken from the New York Evening POST
entitled. THE outlook for Sound Money,
that gives great comfort 10 all well-wish-
crs of this country. We are forced to
thus divide our population. We do not
:, can to say that all men who would de-
grade our money are Intentionally
enemies of their country. But their minds
arc closed TO the light. hey are I'M
able 10 see what 1t is they would bring
upon her, and they are seeking to DO her
all the harm that ner most savage foe
could possibly inflict upol her. We are
forced, therefore, 10 class them with the
enemies of the country. The article IN
question then is one, We repeat. that
gives great comfort TO all well-wishers OF
Their coutry. It shows thai the popula-
ton OF the States that will vote in 1896
for sound money is 34.H5,OOO, to 2j22,DO
in those that will vote for free silver
that the sound-money States have ac-
cording 70 the last census. capital of all
Kind amounting to S, O65, 10000, TO $9iS,OW,-
600 in the others. and that they have 25
votes i'm the electoral college. TO lG7 in the
others, with q doubtful. We entirely
agree with the Evening Post that the
great remembrance of population and
wealth that the sound-money States con-
tain is bound to rule the destinies OF
country. Frothy windmills like stewart
and Jones. OF Nevada, with rotten
borough that they call State at their
hacks. may churn words out of their
,noutbs and vex the echoes with their
nonsensicai yeiis. But when business is
TO be transacted somehow or other 1t al
WAYS turns out that the noisy Vaporer
with nothing at his back, Is left upon his
tripod. declaiming OF his wrongs while
the world goes along with its affairs III
the company of those who have sense
and something to put up.
We see very well that the issue he
tween property and agrarianism Is TO be
fought out in 1896. But we have no fear
for the result. A great nation like THIS,
Just entering upon the first stages OF us
natural life, will never suffer its destihles
to be ecllpsed by the thOughtless' utlh-
formed and fanaticai of it's population.
Those who have something and desire 10
SOC q rule of equal laws under which
every industrious man may acquire prop
erty and be protected In its possession
and enjoyment will never allow the
sbiftless. the ignorant and the idle TO
despoil them of what they have, and end
all possibility Of more, being acquired
They will control the destinies Of this
land lust as surely as that the day OF
trial comes.
# Is interesting 10 note that the Even
ing Post includes Virginia in the list OF
States that it puts down for free silver.
Now. we wish to say, and to say with
great denberation, that u Virginia goes
for a free silver man for President IN
1906 it will be because she is carried that
way by frauds in elections.
We take II, the situation in 1896 may
probably develop thus. The delegates
from the South and from the silver States
will probably nominate as the next Demo-
cratic Presidential candidate a free-sil-
yer man, upon free-siiver platform. We
apprehend that the Republican candidate
will he for sound money, upon sound
money platform. If the issue is thus
maze in Virginia. and we have a perfectly
fair election we have not the slightest
doubt that Virginia will 20 for the Re
publican candidate. The Republican
party n Virginia will show its full
strength in a Presidential election, and
there are others who are not going TO al
low themselves to be dragooned into
voting for a proposition that means the
destruction of everything that they have.
NV the terrors of the word "Republican-
ism"
The great bulk of them are Democrats
of the truest type, but their democracy
is not of the kind that sets up cheating
in elections and debased money as the
tests of party loyalty.
We declare, then, 10 the world, that
when Virginia is set down as one of the
states that will so In 1896 for free sill
Yer. there Is q reckoning without the
host. If she goes for free silver, cheating
in elections will carry her that way, and
not the ballots of her voters.