Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-09

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Republican and then let him say
who is misrepresentihg facts. We
repeat, and have called in the Re
publican as % witness to the truth
of our statement that promises
were made by and in behalf OF
Gen. Walker and not one has vet
been fulfilled.
Our neighbor, the Tszewell Re
publican. denounces Mr.. Sewall this
week for Inconsistency in making
charter contract in gold, but if he is
inconsistent what is to be said of the
Republican, when it makes an adyer
Using contract, which reads Payable
Ill Silver Coin-CL.NcH VALLEY News.
In the first place we would like to
know how the News knows we have
made a contract payable in silver
coin. If we did, however in what
kind OF silver coin is it payabl. +?
Certainly not in coin under free
Unlimited coinage law for individ.
uals. The silver we have contracted
for is rs good as gold, because it is
based upon gold 1t is not the mon
ey Of Jno. Smith or Bill Jones or
Sam Brown who bad their silver bull
lion coined at the government mint
free of cost. Oh no, 1t is the gov.
ernmen"s money, coined from bull
lion purchased by the government,
upon the coinage OF which the gov
ernment of the people has realized n
profit, and which the faith OF the
government is pledged to make as
good as gold. We are glad the
News has raised this question. 1t
gives the lie most conclusively to the
campaign faleehood SO ;ndustriously
circulated by the Bryauites that the
Republicans were for doing away
with all money but gold. We would
like TO make any lumber of con
tracts payable in the present silver
money. but hope we will never be
fore d to make one pavble in the de
preciated free coinage of silver dol
lar that the News is advocating
against its honest convictions, no
doubt. The News man is more OBJ.
fuse than we thought him, or he new.
Ell would have published it to the
world that Il Republican paper is
willing to make contracts payable in
silver money.-Tazewell Republican.
We really had no idea that the
editor of the Republican would so
display his ignorance rs to make the
statement in more than one article
in one issue that silver is redeemable
orhased on gold. But it seems as if he
will try to make people believe such
stnff whether they will or not. The
coin, the contract, above referred to
was made in, was the same we will
have under free coinage of silver, and
you cannot destroy the value of the
silver dollar just by saying it will on
ly be worth SO cents. So long as the
silver dollar is stamped by the Unit
d States, so long will it continue
to be worth one hundred cents: AS
to the Republican party not being
IN favor of the doing away with sill
YER money we have only to call the
attention of our readers to the fol.
lowing extract from the Republican
platform adopted at st. Louis, and
we would advise the editor of the
Republican to read it carefully SO us
not to be fooled into making any
more such statements as is contain
ed in the above article:
Money-The Republican party is
unreservedly for sound money. IT
caused the enactment Of the law pro
viding for the resumption Of specie
payments in 1879. Since then every
dollar has been as good as gold. We
are unalterably opposed to every
measure calculated to debase our
currency or impair the credit of our
country. We are, therefore. oppos
od to the free coinage of silver ex.
cept by international agreement with
the leading commercial nations OF
the world, which we pledge oursel-
YES to promote, and until such agree
ment can be obtained the existing
gold standard must be preserved.
All our silver and paper currency
must be maintained at parity With
gold, and we favor all measures de.
signed to maintain inviolably the
obligations of the United States and
our money, whether coin or paper. at
the present standard the standard
of the most enlightened nations of
the world.
The News man may be obtuse,
but the editor of the Tazewell Re.
publican is the last man to call in
question the sincerity of our, or for
that matter, anyone else's politics
THE DISCOVERY SAVED HIS
LIFE.