The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1896-11-11
THE ISSUE.
An Interesting Correspondence Be
tween two Brothers.


Hardin, Of Brandenburg, Ky. II you
can spare space in your valuable paper,
l ssk it to reply TO same. Following Is
the card:
BRANDENBUG, Ky, II -7,-'g6 i
feel that it is my duty as a brother 10
offer few words of consolation to you
and brother Sam Robertson Now il
this will not do l am willing and ready
to come and stay with you until you
both feel able to at least sit up won d
not eat any heavy diets. You should
| live mostly on tea and crackers, a little
chicken soup would do you no harm
after a few days. Read nothing but
sound doctrine, burn all literature that
pertains to anarchy. Confidence has
once more been restored, car works,
iron mills and in fact everything has re-
vived. / notice where 1900 commercial
men left Chicago yesterday with their
grips packed with goods. The good PEG.
pie have said they do not want free sill
yer. Hoping you will get along alright
and not relapse. Your Bro,
J. NJ. HARDIN.
Dear Bro.-This is in answer to your
card OF the 9TH inst. l desire to say at
the outset that there lives not Oh the
earth to-day single man who more
earnestly and sincerely appreciates true,
genuine, heartfelt sympathy than |, but
such sympathy as you extend is not APP
preciated nor admired, nor yet even
desired, for it is very easy indeed to read
enough between the lines to know that
it was intended in the same brutal, over
bearing spirit which moves some men to
kick an antagonist after he already has
him down.
l shall not attempt to conceal the fact
that the result of the late election, while
no great surprise to me is sore disap-
pointment. ] care not for myself only
80 far as am one that helps to make up
the population o. the United States, but
my sympathies are aroused for the labor
ing producing classes of people in this
American Republic, who must now for
four more years at least endure the
blighting effects of gold standard.
am confident you will scof at this, but
it is my honest conviction and besides |
beg you to remember about some people
who once went to the church of God to
scott and those same people remained to
pray. | sincerely hope you will keep
close watch on events as they happen in
the next four years, and if you are not
too full OF patizan prejudice, 1 fear you
are beyond redrmption) | am sure you
will see enough to convince you that no
permanent prosperity will come to the
great common people of the United
States until the British gold standard
now being pursued is overthrow and
an independent American financial pol
icy, such as is outlined in the late Popu-
list and Democratic platforms instituted
instead.
You scott now but il you are honest
and patriotic you will "remain to pray"
il you have an idea that the "free silver
heres'y," as you gold standard people,
who understand better how to apply
vile epithets to us, than you do, how to
answer our arguments, are pleased to
call it, is dead or even dying, you were
never more mistaken in your life This
is its first battle and when everything is
considered it made brave and excellent
fight. 1t is just cause and as such
must triumph for you know a great poet
has said, ever the right comes upper
most and ever is justice DONE" "Our
cause is one which appeals to the minds
of those who think and to the hearts of
those who feel, while the gold standard
when rightly understood appeals only to
those people who love money better
than they do the rest of mankind"
Your "few words of consolation" do not
console, for there can be no consolation
to true silver convert, when the fact
that every form OF coercion, intimidation,
bribery, money without limit, a subsi-
dised daily press and every trick and
arlifce that could be Matched in the
brains Of the shrewd and designing men
who had not the love or welfare of their
country at heart, the present gold stand
ard policy is permitted to be enthroned
yet while longer and during that time
will still further depress all true business
and agriculture interests. You say, "read
nothing but sound doctrine" l am sure
you are giving me advice you have not
followed yourself, else you would not be
to-day supporter OF the st. Lous plat
form on which Mckinley was elected.
Should l follow your next instruction
to burn all literature that pertains to
Anarchy, l should thereby destroy every
possible chance of ever being converted
to the gold standard, for in no news
papers and among no literature have |
found anything supporting Anarchy or
even drifting in that direction, save in
those papers and among that literature,
which advocated the gold standard dec
trine.
Here again can read your meaning
between the lines and / see that you
have adopted the stock argument of your
party, that OF villifying and abusing us,
which is not argument at all and as /
said in the first part of this letter. are
resorted to only because you are utterly
unable to answer our Arguments Let
me say 10 you that the doctrine / have