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Sharp County record., 1897-10-22
NlreCtOry.
RELIGIOUS.

..binr at Methodist church first and thlrd
~ ,n each month. Rey, W. s, south
ssator. Everybody is invited to attend,
c,,ne At the Christian church Saturday
~ IRE fhe second Sunday in each month, 4,
.cs 4 MllhOll and d Batesvtlle.
!. i school every Sunday morning at
~ q IN Methodist church. Everybody is
4 = come C. j. WILSON,
Y -, ~ c,Ssraip. Secretary. Superintendent
Sharp County record., 1897-10-22

poor towards prosperity
AS a rule, wealth IS only
brotherly towards wealth,
and the poor mau feels him
self cut off from sympathy
with those who have the
power of winning money.
We may rest assured Of
one thing, namely, that the
poor in the future will IN
sist on being recognized.
If they are not recognized
if they are ignored in the
mad greed for wealth at any
cost to them----theT will
make the future a trouble
and terrible one for our
children and our children S
children.
1t is right to seek wealth,
provided you do so with the
purpose of serving God with
it. A man may be as mis-
erly being poor as beng
rich. These is no sin ii
! being, ,rich. in litself cotald.
cred; there is no virtue III
b Ell n G poor. Consecratc
yourself to God, be honest,
and seek wealth; then, il
It comes, make a noble use
of it. We need rich mer
in the church. We neet
such men to build our col
leges and churches, By
doing good with his money
a man as it were stamp'
the image Of God upon 1t
and makes it pass curren
for til C merchandise O
Heaven.
The way to keep none,
is to earn it fairly and hon
estly. Money so obtaine'
is pretty certain to abid'
with it's posscssor bu
money that is Inherited, o
that in any way comes with
out a fair and just equiv
alent, is almost certain TO g
as it came, The young r1a.
who begins by saving o iey
dollars a month aud rnrl.t''
increases his store--cvef
coin being a rcprcae1ta.'E
Of good, solid work bones
and manfuIly donc--stand
a better chance to spend Tn
last half Of his life in al
nuaace and comior. chan j.
who, it, his haste TO loeor
rib, obtains money Ivy dash
og spoc1I1rions or t6a dc
uu'ln Which ",u.
Sharp County record., 1897-10-22

It is almost an assured
fact that Mammoth Spring
will have a new bank by
November 1at. Either Of
The parties who are figuring
on coming here, have ampIe
.g1a# and viii Dcj in position
to d3 business on a footing
that will help to restore con
Gdence in such an institution
among our people, Nam
m9i Spr.aE Monitor
Sharp County record., 1897-10-22
SOCIETIES..

EVENING SHADE LODGE No. l4S, F. 4
W holds regular communications or
tbc ~ saturdy before lst sunday Tdsy IN IN eacf "a
|, Metcalf. sec'y.
ryrN1xG SHADE CHAPTER, No. y, 9
meets at Masonic Hall lst Thurs
Tfiay II, each mGnth, at O'Clock p; m;
MRS. KATEHUDDLESICN, W. M
!. WILLIE AULT, See'ty.
RURAL CHAPTER Ne: SO, R. A. Al
holds regular convocations at Masonic
Hail In Evening Shade, the Sd SATURDAY
JNO- 3. MoCALEB, II. P.
b b davidson. See.
BERSAR LODGE, No. 62, I. 0. 0
~ r nolds regular meetings every al
5i5NI ternate Friday night,
l.. 7. MEDLEY, N q,
.. D. Collins, Sec'Y. e---a
Sharp County record., 1897-10-22

Will open its Fall Term Sept T.
1897,
Tuition in Normal Department
per week, Scots; Tuition in Busl-
ness, Shorthand and Typewrltlhg
department per week, Sl'oo;
Lille Scholarship in Business
Dept. $1,000; in Shorthand and
TypewriJing Dept, 5000; Com
DIynod course 5000; board per
Heok SnoJ; 9umiohed rooms
r5t1 7OcDa. Lessons
,os ao. Af. rcaaon-
catalogue, Nd-
vhu Missouri Normal and
Uuauoga College,
springfield No
Sharp County record., 1897-10-22

SsAANN8NlZ<LI/ EVENING SHADE LODGE
~ 26&aX9D/~ No. 249O, X. of II
S%1I3ESN- meets first Tues
b \ }lkEls34"day nights n every
I'm a TtaSSSS W. Carroll SHAVER, D
S'WWrNV CD. Wilson Z.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
SILVER SPRAY.

The paramount issue-money and
more of it,
The silver cause is dead. Long live
the lively corpsel
The high price Of wheat and low price
of silver bullion suggests that for the
American people there is nothing like
the misfortuncs of others unless il be
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
Brown university trustees and other
goldbugs have come to see that 4 man
can be honest, have n level head and at
the same time advocate tho alleged re-
pudiation of restoring silver to its old
time prestige as money metal This
is one point scored. The admission has
not been willingly made, but the Amer
lean people are fair, and an aroused
public conscience sometimes does what
nothing else can. Browns trustees
have not been asked to accept or stand
sponsor for President Andrews eco
monte ideas, but any body of men must
know something of the weakness of
their cause when in any manner they
try to suppress the free expression of
opposing views. 1t seems that the
money question has come to be more
than mere economic dispute. \ prin-
ciple is at stake, and that principle
whether or not 4 free-born citizen shall
be guaranteed the right of the consti-
tuition, such as popular government,
free speech and common equity The
question is whether the poor shall con-
tinue to meelly submit TO being fleeced
by the moneyed classes. whether Nam
mon or manhood shall hold the bal
ance, and whether the oppressed shall
gradually be robbed of the right to
publicly air their grievances-their
only means of seeking redress.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
CONCERNING REPUTATION.

Ia JSStiEab'c When Applied to I'm
Just and Oppressive Conditions.
The cry Of "rcpudiation" and San
archy" SO pcrsistently INDUCED in by
the eastern goldbug press against the
advocates of bimetallism, may not be so
potent bugaboo as would appear upon
first thought. liquidation of unjust
and oppressive conditions is not with
out either precedent or justification in
American history. The dumping Of
that tea into Boston harbor and the wan.
Of the revolution that followed wore
cases Of "rcpudiation" which have with
stood the test OF time and adverse crit
icism. The abolition of slavery is an
other instance of the lIind which has re-
-co,ved the unqualified approval Of every
civilized nation of the world. Lepisla-
tive fiat can never make a wrong right.
and when unjust and Jliscriminative
laws have doubled the purchasing power
OF the dollar, while it's debt-paying pow
er has not been Increased in any de-
gree, ii is right in line with the sturdy
American idea of equity and justice that
so monstrous wrong to the debtor
class should be ''repudiated" by such
legislation as VIII correct the evil.
Eight-tenths Of the vast Indebtedness
OF this country was contracted under q
bimetallic system, and it is anything
but reputation when the debtor de-
mands that he be allowed to DISCHARGE
his obligation under the same financial
conditions. The bimet allist is not q re-
pudiator, because he proposes to pay
his debt with a dollar of equal purchas-
ing power with the one he received.
Nor is he an anarchist, for he proposes
to right his wrongs according to the
constitution of the government under
which he lives.
So far as the financial affairs of this
country are concerned, at least, free and
unlimited coinage Of silver-the bimet.
alhsm Of the constitution as it existed
prior to 1973-is the only basis of equity
between debtor and creditor.-Denver
Times-Sun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
The scRAMele For GOLD.
Europe Second De~t-A Worldwide
Prosperity Demands Silver.

Europe second De~t-A worid-Wide
Prosperity Demands Silver.
In u scramble for gold the Unite d
States is likely to eventually get the
most, because 1t is the richest and
strongest nation. II has more products
to sell than any other portion of the
globe, and for all surplus products gold
must be given in exchange. The drain
age of gold from abroad has already
set in, aud will continue so long Us we
are able to export more than we inn
port The value of exports, according
to tho lateSt aud corrected returns, was,
during tho fiscal year just ended, ST.
O32,0OO,0o0, while our imports of mer-
chandise for the same year, less reex-
ports, were of the value of but $745, O0O,-
600. The difference of $2S7, OOO, 900 has
partly gone to pay freights ON the i'm
ports and partly for interest and divi-
dends on foreign Investments in this
country, the remainder of IT. only hay
Ing been remittod to us In gold. Dur
Ing the current fiscal year our exports
thus far have exceeded those of the cor
responding period of last year and the
European demand for our breadstuffs
and other food products promises to ex-
tend tho increase through several
months to como Hence, not only has
the outflow of gold ceased, but n re-
turn of the metal has begun.
We are selling wheat and corn to Eu-
rope in enormous quantities and at
greatly enhanced prices.
The cotton. crop is beginning TO come
la. 4
at existing high prices will greatly in
crease the commercial indebtedness of
Europe to us.
The balance must be made good in
one of three ways, namely:
1. by sales of Europeans products to
us in greater quantity than usual; g.
by sales of American securities now
held In Europe; or. ,. by shipments of
gold to this country.
But. The sales of European prod
ucts to us have enormously fallen Off.
as the statistics of importations show.
2 There is little disposition among
the holders of American securities
abroad TO sell out their holdings at Il
time when every railroad here is re
porting increased earnings and an en-
couraging prospect OF still further in
crease in business
The flow of gold to this country from
abroad will continue long enough to
force the consideration of bimentallism
upon the attention of foreign nations.
NmetalliSm will become more nee
cssary for their welfare than for ours.
There cam be no worldwide prosperity
without II. amI bpnf>o ~ &c flo+tl,, a.,
cial question Is now the only live ques-
tom that is universally being discussed
by every civilized nation of the globe.
The darkest hour is often just before
the dawn--Dcnvcr Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
q LEAF FROM FINANCE
Qualities Arc Intrinsic, But Value IL
Only Relative


We have often heard II said that pold
ought TO be the only standard because
of its intrinsic fixed value. But there
Is no such thing IA intrinsic vaIue
Qualities are intrinsic: value Is n rela-
tlon between eXchangeable commodi-
ties, and in the eternal nature Of
things, can never be invariable. Value
Is of the mind. it is the estimate nlaced
upon salable article by those willing
and able TO purchase il. Flour is
worth up in the Klondike gold fields
$50 barrel; is that because of its
intrinsic value? Water has been sold
In the Arizona deserts at ten cents per
gallon. Was that it's intrinsic value ?
II that is the case, then what is the
intrinsic value of water In Lake Erie ?
1t is utterly impossible for any metal
to furnish an invariable standard
alone, any more than an invariable
standard of friendship. Value is in fact.
n purely ideal relation. Some of our
statesmen have gotten themselves into
such condition of the mind as TO
really believe that while all other prod
uctS, labor included, are changeable
In value, gold alone is gifted with at
tributes of immutability, and for them
TO believe this, amounts to sheer bias
phemy. Gold standing alone as the
best money of the world has fuctuated
so much in its purchasing power that
many times the commercial world has
been thrown into panic. This shows
the falsity of q fixed intrinsic value
attributed to it.-Buffalo Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
Gain fin silver Standard.

The Cincinnati Enquirer has talSeu
the trouble to have a large number of
men who are travelling all over the
country interviewed as to whether they
have heard anything of this fatal de-
cadence among free silver people, and
almost everyone of those interviewed
declared that they had not met q sim
gle silver democrat who had changed
his views in the least. Many of them
reported decided gain in the silver
sentiment, especially in republican
strongholds, such as Pennsylvania and
New York state. Let not your soul be
wearied, for the silver question is win
ming every day, Notwithstanding the
gloomy predictions of those whom the
wish is father to the thought, when
they say it Is dyingsopt. = sp :. isss
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
CHllD'S TALK.
Some Metropolitan Papers Can't Get
Away from Some Fool Notionr.v

Some Metropolitan Papers Can't Get
Away from Some "FOoI NotIons.~
a contemporary devoted TO the cause
of gold monometalNsm quotes from
the New York World, an able journal
which is fur from exempt from error
and prejudice on the money issue, TO
show the cause of the decline In the
prices of silver. The World saws:
This enormous and continued de
cline cannot be attributed, to manipuln-
ton, for there has been no sign of any
such thing anywhere. Nor can IL be at
tributed to n falling Off IN the East In
dia demand, for India has taken this
year Sla.3o3, 900 worth, against only So
$500 last year. Neither can 'demone-
tzation' by the oct of 1873 in this coun-
try be responsible, for we coined last
year 100000 full legal tender silver
dollars, or more than twice as many
rs were coined from 1850 TO 1873. The
main trouble Is that under cheapened
methods more silver Is produced every
year than the world wants, and, that
the demand for it in markets important
hitherto has recently ceased or greatly
declined.
The circumstances are certainly de-
structive OF all arguments for IN Mt
tempt by our government alone to re-
store silver to its place as money
metal at sixteen to one. The market
ratio Is now about thirty-seven to one"
This is simply child's talk. 1t is oil
OF piece with the old error of compar-
ing coinage of Late years with the coin
nge of silver dollars between 1850 and
1873 That trick has been exposed
many times, but New York gold organs
stick to it tenaciously. The effort is TO
show that the comparatively small
uumber of silver dollars coined in that
long period constituted the only silver
currency that was In circulation in the
United States. To earnest and conscien-
tions students OF the silver question 1t
Is not necessary to repeat the explana-
ton frequently made, but for begin
ners we say again that the great mass
OF the silver coinage of the United
States In the earlier days was IN frac-
uonal parts of q dollar-halves, quar-
tiers, etc.-and that these coins were
Of full weight and O legal tender. Half
dollars and quarters were better suited
to the needs of the people than dollars.
In addition to the United States coin
age there was vast circulation in this
country of foreign silver coins, which
under our laws were a full legal tender.
We may add that we are not arguing
the silver question; only making q
statement of fact that all students
should know. And we would advise no.
body. whatever his bias may be, to de-
pend for instruction on q newspaper
simply because it is published I'M a
metropolis.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
d CATECHISM.
Some Questions That Are Being
Asked, with Their Answers.

Question-Is it true that gold, in
greater degree than other substances,
possesses a stable value, unaffected by
supply and demand?
Answer-It is not true. Nothing could
be more silly than the melting pot"
test. So long as n certain amount of
gold can always be freely coined into n
dollar 1t must always be equivalent to
dollar, but, as we all know, the value
or purchasing power of a dollar may
rise and fall within wide limits, con-
ditioned upon the amount of money in
circulation as compared with the
amount of commodities in the market.
Give silver free coinage and the melt
ing pot test would apply to silver equal
ly with gold. The increased demand
for gold occasioned by the denial of
free coinage to silver has given an inn
mensely increased value to every dollar
In money based on the gold standard.
Q.--Is the cumulative theory of
money generally held by political econ
omists?
At Is. John Locke, volume ), page
40, says: For the value of money, in
general, is the quantity Of all the money
in the world in proportion TO all the
trade" The report Of the British bull
lion committee of 1910 says: can in
creased demand for gold and Il scarcity
of that article will make il more valua-
BILE in rela to all other articles. The
same quantity of gold will purchase Il
greater quantity of any other article
than it did before; in other words, gold
will rise" Ricardo, in his "Principles
of Political Economy" chapter ID, says:
"The demand for money is regulated
entirely by its value, and it's value by its
quantity" Gifren. in ~ Chapter in
Standard Money" says: In this sense,
to say that the quantity of money rcgu-
lates prices is only the same thing as
TO say of any article that is bought and
sold that its quantity is Il material fac
tor in determining its value"
Q.-What is a prime requisite of n
stable money standard?
A.-That the aggregate amount OF
standard money in use should increase
as nearly as possible in IN equal ratio
with the increase of other forms OF
wealth and the demands of commerce
Q.--Is the annual increase in the vol
ume Of gold money sufficient to render
that metal a stable, or, in other words
n just and honest standard of values?
At is not. Commerce has for many
years been increasing at the rate oi
more than six per cent. per annum
while the amount OF gold coin or bull
lion available for use In commercial
transactions has shown an increase oi
but 4 slight fraction over one per cent
Q.-Under bimetallism would tn,
present rate of production of both golt
and silver combined provide a sufficien-
supply Of standard money to keeJ
prices up to a scale that would proven
Il constant appreciation In the purchas
ing power OF money. detrimental TO tn,
owners of all forms of property saw,
money and credits?
At is not at nil probable that i
would, but the depreciation of prop
erty, or "uncarned increment accr1l
! ing to the owners Of money and credits
would be much less than under an ex
elusive gold standard-Gilbert Nc
Clurg, in Chicago Dispatch.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
1t is Thought by Many

when the Creator said to woman
lin sorrow shalt thou bring forth
children" that curse was pro-
nounCed, but the Joy felt by every
Mother when she first presses to
her heart her babe. proves the
contrary.
Danger and suffering Turk in
the pathway of the Expectant
Mother, and should be avoided,
that she may reach the hour
when the hope Of her heart is to
be realized. in full Vigor and
strength.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29

This figures up something like 3d.
540,O00,000 of legal tender silver, coming
value, now In use among the nations as
money. If silver continues to decline in
price and is discarded as money, all
this vast sum must go into the limbo of
nothingness.
Who Is to bear this loss? What is
TO become of the commerce Of the silver
countries-England's best customers
If their money is to be wiped out? Mex
leo has already put stop to foreign
trade for this cause. Must not all the
other silver countries do likewise if the
decline continues?
The great question of bimetallism
thus confronts the world In the most
acute form assumed since Germany,
France and the United States demone-
tized the white metal 25 years ago. As
the Springfield Republican, n golditc
paper, says:
This renewed breali in the bullion
market from the causes mentioned may
be fact TO rejoice over in its discour-
aging effects upon the reconciliation
movement in the United States, but
after that, what? Consider the situa-
tom Here are the nations of the civ
ilized and semicivilizcd world which,
with only one notable exception, have
become tied to the employment Of inn
mense amounts of silver as money. II
represents the accommodations of cen
turtles of faith in its perpctuity as n
stable and solid possession. But Mt
last, and for the first time in history,
fl,sD a
that the once precious metal has be-
come base and cheap and common, and
that the very bottom of the great none
tary stores in IT. has fallen out and
left them hanging high on the slender
peg of government fat"
Is IL not, In view of the facts here
referred to, more imperatively neces-
sary than ever before for the people of
the world to throw Off the shackles
with which they are being bound to
gold by the shylocks and security
spectators and restore silver to the
place il has heretofore occupied as one
of the primary money metals of the
world? The bulk of the commercial
and Industrial depression and, disasters
OF the last quarter Of n century are duo
TO the scaling down process of the gold
standard. and prosperity will never be
permanently restored until gold is de
throned as the absolute monarch OF
the worlds exchanges. 1t is Of vital
interest, therefore, not only to the
United States, but to the world, thatsil.
yer should be replaced where it. once
was. God speed the day! - Illinois
State Repister.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
INTEREST IS WORLDWIDE.
Fail in Price of silver Means I'M
mense Loss Somewhere.

The London Times discusses the fail
in the gold price of silver and declares
II TO be an argument against any at
tempt at international bimetallism
But Is IL not rather the strongest ar
gument in favor of the preservation Of
all the vast wealth now represented by
silver coinage, and all the commerce
that is dependent upon that coinage?
Here in n rough estimate are the stocks
of silver, aside from subsidiary coin.
held In monetary use by the principal
nations, as given by Mr.. Muhleman in
his Monetary Systems of the World: :"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

THE BEST SALvE in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfact
ion, or money refunded. Price %
cents per box. For sale by AT.
Hargrave.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
More Cruel Tbo0 Tho Graz.

Why is the gold monopoly more cruel
than the grave? Because the living
usurer smiles upon the death by starva-
ton which he produces, whereas the
grave is the final refuge of slaves of the
money power. - Silver Knight1Watch-
man. .-5. - fessi .r.., -. ". ~ ls.es
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29

Why should all issues be subordinated
to the money question? Because no
issue can be properly settled while a
money despotism is maintained and the
people are deprived Of the liberty of in
dependent action. - Silver knight
Waterman.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
The Difference

What is the difference between the
goldbuggery of Mckinley and Cleve-
land? Mckinley is q goldbug by con-
tract, and Cleveland is a goldbug on ac-
count of the lust of wickedness and
hatred of humanity. - Silver knight
Waterman.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
The KIonGiloe Craze.

By the way, If the wonderful Increase
In the production of gold should bring
revival of prosperity, would it not
prove the theory of the bimetallists that
our hard times is due to a scarcity OF
money Of redemption?-Denver Times
Sun
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29
JOHNSON & JONES.
Cleaners and Dyers.
MAIN ST., TAzEwE Va.

We. the undersigned, cheerfully
recommend to the public the above
firm to clean or dye all kinds of soiled
Clothing, for Gentlemen or Ladies, in
satisfactory manner.
STUART bowen. III. l.. BUSTON WAL
TER ID. BUCKNER. b. II. BAYLOR. E.
w. DoDD, a. T. HARGRAvE. JOHN II.
BARNES. GEO. r. SURFACE. VIM. c.
PENDLEToN' WIN. G.. Young. r. d.
HUFFoRD. JOSHUA A. LANDoN.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-10-29

The Boston Advertiser has discovered
that we have IAN embarrassing surplus
of gold" Congressman Walker must
be able to see things in the bowels OF
the earth.-Atlanta Constitution.