The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-06-10
Happenings Along the River.

for our -four barrels to be retilled.
Corn is looking fine. 1 have seer
great deal of it higher than a man
Mr.. James koon's watermelon
patch is due some brag. He has
plenty Of large young ones in it, ape
such vines. If the State Fair wal
in session and he could load up hiE
watermelon patch on the hind wheels
of my garden and drive her I have
doubt but what we would get the
first prize.
Mr.. J. A. Sutton, of Ops, Ark, il
writing me, says in breaking up new
ground on the Salin river, he plowed
up saddle blankets, bed quilts ano
every other imaginable household ar
ticle.
Mr.. T. B. Sutton, his father, has
seventy-fve acres in cultivation this
year.
Bud and Clawhammer have slipped
out ahead this pull. They have laid
away their goose neck rifles, loaded
and ready for the second round
while I am 81 oo ing mine quick and
devilish at the crab grass.
I sorrowfully note the death OF lit
tie Lula Belle, the daughter OF MIR.
and Mrs Perry Lowman, who de
parted. this life May IA. The beauti-
tiful flower was early transplanted in
the beautiful garden of heaven to
forever shed the fragrance of a re-
deemed soul among the sancti6ed
ones. Her earthly remains were in
tered in the cemetery at Macedonia
in the presence of a large congrega-
ton.
Not long since heard gentle
man remark that free silver was a
pure curse to the Union and all who
uphold may 60 along the same path.
I don't wish to carry on controver-
sity in these columns, neither is it
my wish to occupy valuable space
for a discussion on this matter, but
if you will kindly grant me the space,
1 will express my opinion and give
this gentleman something to feed his
thoughts upon. When silver was
demonetized in 1873, it produced a
money panic, but when partly re-
stored by the Blapd-Allison act every
industry revived and was set i'll a
thriving condition. The treasury
contained more funds than could be
used, but when the coinage of silver
was discontinued under the Sher-
man act, what happened7 Trade
Immediately began to become un-
settled. Dissatisfaction among the
producing class was verJ readily pro-
nounced as was evidenced in the elec-
ton of 1892. A money panic was
taking root and continued to grow
until there was almost a national de-
mand for the newly elected President
to call Congress together in extra
session TO enact some wholesome
financial measures by which the
country might be relieved as t
seemed that the whole thing was
goinginto running merchants failing,
railroads going into the hands OF re-
ceivers and factory operatives sus-
pended from work. In August,
1898, he called Congress together
and advised the repeal Of the Sher-
man purchasing act without anything
in the place of it. So matters got
worse. He Disseminated against
silver contrary to the platform upon
which he was elected, redeemed
treasury notes and silver certificates,
or, in short, caused it to be done by
the Secretary of the Treasury, in
gold only. Contrary to law he let
spectators draw the gold from
the treasury, then issued sustain
bonds to supply gold to
the gold standard to benefit
the money kings, millionaires and
Wall street gamblers and thus pau
perizing the laboripg class generally,
and creating an enormous public
debt unnecessarily. There has al
ready been much said concerning the
50 cents dollar, but let us reverse
the matter. Suppose gold was de-
monetized and silver remonetized in
all the gold standard countries, how
long would it be before the gold dol
lar would be the so cents dollal?
Legislation makes the difference.
There is scarcely enough of both
metals in the world to supply sufi-
cient money for the needs of trade.
1t is truly amusing to hear some
men talk about the intrinsic value OF
the two metals. Neither has any
l l TI,o,o ic on intrinsic