The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-06-03

ongrcgation compare to-day with the
Little crowd that assembled for humpie
worship in the days OF q? We had bare
feet IN summer at Sunday-school then'
eyeI 10 fourteen years old How many
Of the boys to-day at that age go bare
footed in Nottoway2
How many carriages (modern) were IN
Nottoway in the good old days and now
many nice turn-Outs can you gather there
to-day?
DO you remember Willie Gregory and
his visit TO Nottoway bringing with him
the envy OF all the county 80 veloci-
pode2 ! do, and / shall never forget how
my mouth watcrsd with a yearning for
one ride on II (the hope for a vcloc.pede
was not INDUCED in too far from the list
Of Nottoway county p0ssbiliues). Ihat
was i'm the good old days; but | will ask
you TO tell ne how may Nottoway coun-
~ boys to-day are riding wheels that
cost from 5000 20 $1,000?
Handsome residences now ornament
lots which were used for our ball grounds
in the good Old days, villages, and cities
now occupy our old chinquapin %
groves. and the entire county shows
prosperity far in advance OF the stand
stll days when you and 1 We're boys. Tell
me. then. how you can account FOR the
change and IL u is not true that the whole
country is more prosperous, has more
comforts and Improvement and progress
ttan We knew in the good old days CT
Is and before?'
Would you be willing TO exchange the
present for that past2 We had free sill
Yer then. We had the famous and in
famous trade dollar" then, and / re-
member how everybody put their own
value on IL as per the latest report
from some one who had heard what IL
WIS worth that day Did free silver then
show YOU and me evidences Of prosperity?
If not. then you cannot strengthen your
cause by referring 10 that day as me
time 20 look back TO as the good old
days OF 70 and before"
Go farther back TO '43 and ask any man
I'm Nottovay county or Richmond. If
tobacco was not worth half as much as
IL is now. and II they did not give ten
times as much for calico and cotton
goods as they do to-day. | suppose to-
bacco was cheap, I know cotton was
vcrth three cents and calico forty cents
a yard Why was this?
The sight that came 10 my personal
obversation when I'm Mexico wouli make
YOU stop and think before going iurl her
with the silver doctrine. The MeK can
gets about fifteen cents per day Tor ms
work and is raio in Mexican silver none
worth more than ours in welenI ana
he is asked two prices i'm every store IN
Mexico. one IT, Mexican and another Iiice
I'm American money. and our no ley
n ugh lighter than the Mexican i1on'y
will buy over a third more than IN Nr5.
/ know this for l have been there ~
tined it and seen what | speak )t. lney
/ have free silver in Mexico, ana thsy rave
Gcprec.a.ol money
The Mexican band we engaged Tor the
/ F-.it pa.ace last year brought with u I'm
/ soo Mexican dollars: and for courtesy
We undertook TO get IL converted mto cur
money for them. We could not exchange
it two for one. and finally gave II 4 p a
| had fob Nobody wanted money made by
a government who would turn ii loose ON
tho public anG say II will not acK 1owl-
edge or redcer my own coin"
Tell me how free silver would restore
the loss 10 business confidence; Row
would free silver give you more m-ney
dan You earn by hard ticks. How wor'd
the coinage of silver free give YOU more
mcroy when you have not one onn,e 10
be coined. Through what channl ID II
get to tic common people after all II II
| in tine world is coined2
Tell me why you prefer % release toe
government from an obligation 10 redeem
the money IL stamps. nj face value
Tell me how the coinage Of rl The
metal on earth, gold, silver. copper a. u'
mjrun and lead. into money will In
crease values. how will &c effect the sup
pl-- and demand Of products? How VIII
ff benefit anybody except the politician
who Is riding 80 as a hobby and fraud.
/ and most of them are dishonest IN heir
advocacy of the measured and the small
silver districts who clamor for 1t as a
selfish idea.
When You do. not TIN then. will ] go
with Won 10 Uncle Sam and say 'coin
all the silver YOU are called upon . con
free. and I viii not ask you 10 redeem II
! if its value as money depreciatos. mt
be sure 10 put "in Cod we trust on H.
for then we may have 10 turn from you
TO our Maker for protection and The re.
demrton Of funds we have worked nlrd
% accumulate"
Rut &C. sa false God they "sick" you on
10 and ask you to chase. I would as
soon believe that the extract OF polecat
was sweet Incense. as 20 think that itee
/ silver was best for the welfare of tho
| country. II is the most colossal fraud
cvcr perpotratod on a people II smells
to Heaven it is infamy incarnate.
/ Cleveland and the channels or com
mcrce IS my only hope OF equity in th'
result az the money problem. Commerce
will use no more money than II needs
AMI by the gods. &c will have what lt'
necessities require Take an the money
on. OF the world and we could still de-
viao "A means 90 swap corn for cotton anc
sad-ir0ns for soap.
wonder after ALL that II whatever
IS used IN exchange by the swapoers 8.
nor good money. though 10 he the shirt
tai Of the populist. and what VIII no
answer this purpose is bad money
though IT DO the gold Of Ophir or the
pearls OF India.
cold is the money OF the world we
have all of both moneys we need so LEI
IL stand ond let's turn our guns on The
real cause Of the present commouon II
the commercial word-tho demagogne
tho professional aeitator-destroy him
and YOU res ore forever the confidence
we need between man and man. th'
confidence uDon which all good govern
nents and people operate and with whicf
there viii always be a common prospect
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