Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-08-14

AA. i /. LEWIS MdISudu Cuc LuOot plOull'
nent Republican Of Orange Co., Va, has
gone over to Bryan and free silver.
The headquarters of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee will be at Chicago.
JUDGE R. w. HUGHES.
he WILL CHEERFULLY SUPPORT BRYAN
AND SEWALL-PARTY TIES
ABS0LvED.
From the Fredericksburg Free Lancet
s.~ ABINGDON, VA, July 25th, 1896.
A. P, Rowe, Jr., Manager of the Free La nee:
Dear Sir-I have no obj ection to max ing
known through your columns my feelings in
regard to what was done at Chicago in tine
late National Democratic Convention. That
action was the natural corollary of measu res
that have been in operation for twenty We Srs
and the necessary result of present fin RE
cial conditions. 1t was surprise to the gold
class. and to its newspapers, political ma ns-
gers and city, town and village prote GEES
who have so busily voiced its ideas, meas nras
and policy, for SO long time unoppOsell-
The Chicago platform is criticized for its
alleged embodiment of some of the ingred tents
of communism. There is, in fact, but one
issue before the country, aud that is whe ther,
or not there shall be gold only as the stand
ard of value and money of redemption. ALI
other declarations at Chicago were mere
distractions. The voting masses are thinking
of nothing but the money question, and the
Presidential election will turn singly and
solely on that issue. The majority at Chica
go were deeply in earnest on that burning
subject. and gave little heed to other provis-
ions of the platform. 1t was natural that in
the intensity Of their feeling on the main
question, in vast hall crowded with ten
thousand spectators they shonld have given
little attention to any Objectionable xlpress-
ion which got, probably by fraud, into, the
platform.
The radical and revolutionary poll ~ Of
gold money only, which was secretly and
stealthily i;laugurated in the United States
twenty years ago. had produced the most; pro-
found discomfort throughout all class IS of
society. except the gold class. This diScon-
tent was angrily demonstrated in the pro-
ceedings at Chicago. No wonder that 5ndi-
cations of incipient communism cropped out.
If the radical and crushing policy of gold
money only continues long. this country will
be filled with moderate communists. L abhor
communism in every form and degree; but I
much more abhor the agencies that produce
the execrable thing. The most potter ltial OF
these agencies is the policy of gold money
only; for the gold class practice communism
in its most dangerous form. There is
very little Of the gold in the civilized world
that is not syndcated. It is put into afflliat-
ed pools in all the money tires. and is
owned as common property by the syndicates.
The gold trust was formed in London long be-
fore the Standard Oil and Sugar trusts were
formed in America.
The example set by The gold syndicate is as
pernicious as the practice is contagious. 1t
makes other classes of people think o f
pooling their property of all kinds; and th g
seeds of communism ARE thus planted lin
American soil. What is communism but tt e
desperate effort OF the small property holdei IS
to protect their possessions from the a. Il
grasping power of syndicated money. The
Rothschilds alone control two thirds of tine
worlds gold, yet the gold class who thus
in decrsying the alleged adoption OF their OWL
policy by those who seek protection. from it,
and who are stigma tizeeaa as incipient COM
munists.
The voting masses Of this country aDhOr
communism in their hearts and tb ough they
may sometimes give expression to sommunis-
tic ideas, they will never so far adopt the
policy OF the gold class as to syndicate their
own property.
The intelligent people of our col ntry will
never tolerate the long continue nee OF any
policy put upon the country by a ny class fol-
its own especial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Every such
policy is necessarily ephemeral ere and will
sooner or later fall to pieces under the popu
lar frown.
The proceedings at Chicago wer ephenomen
al; but grew naturally and necess sarily out o1
the radical and revolutionary policy of gold
money only, which was secretly.i stealt lilly
and without the popular knowledge or con
sent instituted by the gold class liz 1873; and
has been quietly, diligently and remorseless
ly enforced ever since. 1t has produced an
all pervading indignation among AL classes
of our people save one. 1t has so,vn some of
the seeds of communism in our republic,
which has heretofore been free from the
abominatiOn. The growth of communism on
this side of the Atlantic would he disastrous
in the extreme and humiliating IN the last
degree to our pride of country. 1 have no
fear that the candidates who were nominated
at Chicago will sympathize in any degree with
any incipient manifestations Of communistic
anger which may have found expression at
Chicago.
The policy of no money but gold has para
lyzed our industries, deprecated all pro-
perty values. undermined wages, and spread
distress and dependency broadcast over the
land. The people are everywhere indignant
to an extent not dreamed of by the class
which put this baneful policy upon the coun-
try, Or by the newspapers, politicians, small
dealers, and petty bankers, who are industri-
ously preaching up the Ubiquitous policy in
our cities and towns. These various agents of
the gold class have separated themselves
from all relations with the voting masses of
with the popular thought and feeling.
The action OF the Chicago Convention was
a surprise to these strangers to the popular
sentiment. The election in November will
be greater surprise. The gold policy will
be voted out of existence by majority never
before known in Presidential elections.
The people at large are considering the
money question and that only. The members
of the Chicago Convention who represented
the genuine American septim apt in that body
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