Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-07-31
,@.a5xteRs Prophecies.
EdHer of.the.Times:

tic read Mr.. Axtell's article in YES
terday,s Times. 1 read it twice
carefully. 1t is a very strong paper,
and if true would be most alarming.
But it does not contain established
facts, but is a series Of prophecies.
Prophets of evil in the Old Tesla
mont were generally true prophets
but those men were inspired. Ny
most excellent frienb does not claim
this divine foresight.
The day after the surrender at
/ Appomattoz, when millions on mil
lions of what was called money dis.
appeared from view, aud four ifths
of the Southern people awoko from
their slumbers without dollar of
good money in thor houses, It was
thought many would starva. This
was n great mistake. In going back
to the ''old paths" thSre ma ybe some
friction, but it will DO Temporary
Mr. Axtell will get Mr.. Millhisher to
make him many thousands of bags.
and pay his employees in ''fifty.cent
dollara, aid they will be be satisfied.
Mr.. Axtell says he ' i'll be com
PEELED to dismiss hundreds OF his
men on his toad, but railroads can't
be worked without men, and | cues
ton whether in these hard times he
has q surplus on hand. 1t would
show bad management.
The loss predicted to depositers
IN sating Banks epecnlatsd. There
is great deal more elasticity in Fl
nanc;al t.iatter than we Imagine.
| have been hearing for fifty years
financial disasters following presi.
detial elections, but not one has
come TRUE. God governs the world
financially as we'll as physically, and
He has fixed boundaties to mats
fdllies: He is leading us, in answer
to thousands of prayers OF widows
aud orphans, from under the task
masters of "trust' and combinations
OF gold bugs out into Il large place"
Trabe must aud shall be free is the
divine decree. The people elected
Cleveland four years ago, and they
Will elect Bryan in SO. They are
learnidg rapidly under the greed
and rapacity OF gold bugs that there
is to be an end TO bloatcd wealth and
and grinping poverty of honest good
men. We want and will have a
"fair field We will get it honestly,
not by bludgeons, but by by ballots.
God is the anchor of honest poverty.
and he will protect it in an honora
ble struggle, We hate and trample
under our feet French communism.
1t is of Hill, as I said day or two
ago in the Disptich. Mr.. Axtell
says he cannot ',abet the transforma.
ton of the Democratic party into
one of disorder aud misrule." This
Is another prophecy. Had the gov
eminent of the party been one of
misrule up to '73? l remember the
history OF the party almost as far
back as So, I remember when odd
Hickory removed the deposits from
the Natiohal Bank in PHILADELPHIA.
aud bankers thought the world
would come to an end.
This fnanciul question is no new
Question I certainly don't preteaa
to understand half Of it, but we
nave all learned something. I have
learned that we need stable curren.
cy of silver and gold, or founded on
silver and gold, and regulated and
endorsed by tie United States. and
respect everywhere. Gold is not
currency in reality-not running
among the people---but it is piled
up and unused by the great mass of
people. Silver is as fixed and set.
tied in this country as @crking
mans working clothes. A man who
would discredit silver as CURRENCY
has lost his reason, or is devoted of
observation aud understanding.
Mr. Axtell thinks that soldiers
will not get their pSSsfons and the
'homesT will be closed II we are
to hive oy borrowing they may not,
bat we propose to dig PIP Suf SILVER
and day them IN ~coinp Il heed Be.
Mfr Axtell don't like MI. Bryan's
speeches. fhave read them CARD
fully, and I ike them very much. /
think Know the man by them. !