The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-09-18
Some Fairy Stories Regarding the Reforms
Hubs Work,
THE SOUTHERN SILVER MEN HONEST.
Tho Real object IL Educntion and
BiHcd Into Niiiions How IL
Spreads Information Initncncc
and Scope OF the Work.

commercial journal Of this country, and
Ats statements show that the Reform
Climb, instead of having millions of dol
lars, which it is spending for corrupt
purposes, really has small fund which
it is spending for educational purposes.
1t is, in fact. supplcmonting tho work
done by our schools and collegcs-or
rather it is doing work that they should
have done:
A Texas paper is manifcsting great
distress over corruption fund of ST.
800, 600 said to have been raised by tho
Chamber of Commerce or tho Reform
Club, or ench Of them, for tho purposes
of seducing the south from its loyalty to
the long suffering and down troddon
''whito metal " This money, it repre-
sents, is being disbursed 10 secure tho
control of newspapers and to buy votes
for sound money candidates for legisla-
lures and for congress
This corruption fund is u nero night
mare. 1t does not exist. 1t is as basclcss
as the cargo of gold that Ernest Seyd
was declared, III II Colorado affidavit
to have brought from London and used
III brlbing congressman to commit "the
crime Of 1879" Children and savagcs
easily believe III fairies and spooks and
the supernatural III various manifesto.
lions, but why will grown men, who
wish to be reputcd Intelligent and scnsi-
bic, disgrace themselves by repeating
such nonsense?
Tho Reform Club has not yet succeeded
,,s-s, a
quito all ii has raised. All its disbursc-
ments have been i'll support of it's publ
cation Office, except tritlc that has de.
ireyed tho expenses of some public meet
lngS. Tho Chamber of Commerce com
mlttoo has probably raised less money,
and its expenditures have been Of tho
Gamo general character.
Tho Reform Club hus bought or hired
no southern paper. Much less has it
bought or hired any southern politician.
The belief iii the Reform Club is that
the southern silver mon,are honest, but
misintormed, and. that any attempt to
Influence them by money would DO flu
tile and resented as an insult. Tho
southern papers that are printing tho
literature issucdiby the Reform Club arc
doing ii because thcy believe or their
readers believe III sound money. Tho
matter is supplied TO them, and they
print 1t If they wish it. and it does not
cost them anything. But they are not
paid 10 print it.
The Reform Club has issued more
than ! 800, 0S0 copies of the 0 numbers
of its regular publication, Sound Cur
rency, IN editions varying from so, 600
TO 3po, 900, according to the adaptable
1ty ct the various numbers for popular
readiaS. 1t'has supplied "broadsidcs, -
which have. been folded into country
newspapers and issued Us supplements to
$50 PaSera, having an aggregate circula-
aton OF 2SS, 2lO, which gives an average
OF Soc- This is getting sound currency
titeraSuro into The hands of the farmers
i'll thu back counties, who see only one
newspaper and do not often get 10 pub
dc meetings. This is getting back of the
local boss or tho leading politician to
the'soVerelsn voter himself. OF thess
papers 920 arc published i'll the southern
EFates, Including Kansas i'll the south
western group, and these papers have an
aggregate circulation of 1853, 600 and an
average circulation of 74l. In the mid
die west and northwest these supple
ments are used by 81 papers, whose aver
nge circulation is little moro than
1000.
Sound currency literature already set
and stereotyped, what is called plate"
mattor, has been supplied to and used
very freely by sos papers with On aver
age circulation of 400 and an acgrc-
gate circulation of 724, AGO, and of these
there are in the southeast and southwest
@o0, with an aggregate circulation of
@el,o a large supply of cartoons
has also been prepared and is being
Heely used The majority of the publ
cations Of the club have been illustrat-
ed, and less than a third Of them have
been OF that literary or statistical char
acter which is supposed to be unaccept-
able to tho average man The publica-
fIons, as q whole, have been Of yerv
popular character Their numbers are
summed up as follows:
Sound Currency series. $50 coo
protoslde' pages $50 90
Ila'e matter pages. ...............25O 500 COo
i'epilhIS ana miscellaneous documents
through supply huroau.. l25 O0O
speecbes OF Carlisle and othnrs, nat IN
Guiding the much greater number
lately furnished at the expense Of
other parties. .........,... aOn nm
A~i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 9, lU7 90
The influence Of this work on the
pubic sentiment OF tho south and west
is already npnarant frho l;..