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

OosES, UrAH, Sept. 30, 1896.
IN a. A T,roxpsoS

AOot fctteT Uuteu Oept 20 Is re
ceived. l note with pleasure that
you have free silver club in Taze
well aud that the club has a number
OF Republican members.
Never before has there been a
question presented To the American
people that 60 much concerns the
happiness of the home as the free
silver question. The issue is square
ly put. Shall we continue under the
present financial standard that has
brought distress to the great body
of people or shall we SO back to the
money standard of our fathers
whereby peace aud plenty awarded
the efforts of labor. Surely this is
no time to cling to party because of
party name or for such minor issues
as tariff and reciprocity Senator
Teller is right when no says that
bigger tariff Is not needed to revive
the tunes and that if the tariff is the
cause of the depression why is it
that in these hard times we have
bigger tariff than existed in tie
prosperous days of 1881
Prof. Hadley. who teaches mono
metallsm to the students of Yale
University, says that in Importance
the tariff question is a small tribu
tary to the mighty river of currency.
And after all these years of con.
tinuous depression in prices, after
the farmer has seen the price of his
wheat come down, down after he has
struggled to pay interest and the ev-
er increasing tax burden, after he has
become tenant upon the land he
used to own, he finally awakens to
the realization that he has been
hoodwinked al that both of the
national parties have been fawLing
and paying tribute to Shylock.
/ believe it was Marius in ancient
Rome who for ten years abandoned
all worldly association and living "A
hermit lite he diligently studied po
litical issues and pre- pared fully for
a mighty work. He then came forth
aud with gaeat power of eloquence
be championed tue cause of the PEG
pie and overturned the mighty Pat
ricians. ! think it is apropos &c say
that in America today another Ma
RUS has appeared to champion the
cause OF the people and his name is
William j, Bryan. lie comes ask
ing no favors. He attacks fearlessly
the oddities in all their autocratic
power. He dehes the gold power
that has so long been the controlling
factor of our government aud that
has so long been the vampire taking
the life blood of American industry.
Here in Utah there will probably
be larger vote for Bryan in proper.
ton than in any state IN the Union
and directly we hear but very few of
the fallacious gold arguments. But
they go to you in Virginia and hold
up i'll horror the fifty three cent dol
lar mirage and they speak of honest
money! Is n one hundred and fifty
three cent dollar an honest dollar?
Is the gold dollar honest that &C
cording TO the reliable authority of
Prof. +. A. Ross of the Stanford
University appreciates % per cent
yearly and adds an annual burden of
$500. 600, 000) FIVE hundred million
dollars to the enormous d, bit now
existing in America!
Yes you were rigt in saying that the
question must be settled by the
1 South and the West going together.
and | believe the combination of
these two great sections will be eff
fective. They have kindred interest.
The products Of both sections have
been driven down gradually in price
for % years aud the people are de
terInined to have no more of is.
The Chicago convention shows
that the people have awakened to
the true situation. Is it not time
that the people of this great nation
declared it's financial independel &c
of Lombord street, Is it not time
that the wheels of the gold jugger-
naut be blocked?
History teaches that the great re
forms of the world were wrought by
the determined masses and thatnoth
ing can withstand popular upheav
al. So today in the United States
the political battle is that of the PEG
Dle clamOrinO for their riUhfe ond