Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-07-31
,@.adxtePs Prophecies.


Sifs-.A friend yesterday asked me
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 series Of prophecies.
Prophets of evil in the Old Tesla
mont were generally true prophets
but those men were inspired. My
most excellent frienb does not claim
this divine foresight.
The day after the surrender Mt
Appomattoz, when millions on mil
lions of what was called money dis,
appeared from view, and four fifths
of the Southern people awoko from
their slumbers without n dollar of
good money in thcir houses, It was
thought many would starva. This
was great mistake. In going back
to the "old paths thsro ma ybe some
friction, but it will be Temporary.
MIR. Axtell will get Mr.. Millhisher to
make him many thousands of bags,
and pay his employees in "ffty.cent
dollnra," aid they will be be satisfied.
MIR. Axtell says he v ill be com.
PEELED to dismiss hundreds of his
men on his toad, but railroads can't
be worked without men, and | oues
ton whether in these hard times he
has surplus on hand. 1t Would
show bad management.
The loss predicted to depositsrs
In sating Bank -!sspecnIassa. There
ie n great deal more elasticity in Fl
nanc;al matter than we Imagine.
| have been hearinH for fifty years
financial disast following presi.
detinl elections, but not one has
come TRUE. God governs the world
financially Us we'll as physically, and
He has fixed boundaties to mails
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 large place"
Trabe must and shall be free is the
divine decree. The people elected
cleveland four years ago, and they
will elect Bryan in '9G. They are
learnidg rapidly under the greed
and rapacity of gold bugs that there
is to be an end to bloated wealth and
and gripping poverty of honest good
mon. We want and will have a
"fair field" We will get it honestly,
not by bludgcons. but by by Ballots.
God is the anchor of honest poverty.
and he will protect it in an honora
bile struggle. We hate and trample
under our feet French communism.
1t is of Hill; as 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? 1 remember the
history OF the party almost as far
back rs 49, I remember when odd
liickory'Sremoved the deposits from
the Natiohal BSns in Philadelphia,
and bankers thought the world
would come to an end.
This fnanciul question is 70 new
Question. I certainly don't pretend
to understand half of it, but we
nave all learned something. ] have
learned that we need stable curren.
cy of silver and gold. or founded on
SILVER ana Sold, and regulated and
endorsed by tie United States and
respect everywhere. Gold is not
currency in reality-not running
among The peopie--but it is piled
up and unused by the great mass of
people. Silver is as fixed and set.
tied in this country as @orking
mans working cfnthes. 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 poSsfons and the
''homesn will be closed. II we are
to live Of borrowing they may not,
bit we propose to dig PIP 6uf silver
and dGy them ID ~coinp ii heed BE.
Mr. Gxtell don't like MI. Bryan's
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