Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-01-22
Misplaced Confidence.


The wall over their misplaced DON
fidepce of some of our Democratic
contempora aries that bolted the Chi
cago platform on the financial issue
increases in pathos-and in bathos,
also-as the days go by, The us.
ually astute. far-seeing, the cautious
New York Journal of Commerce was
one Of the first Democratic papers TO
desert tie faith, aud bow down be
fore the gilded calf that was set mp
at st. Louis by it's ancient enemies
But our esteemed Gotham coutem
porary has ever since the election
been slowly awakening to a realiza.
ton of the fact that it was complete.
~ hoodwinked, and its wall in con
sequence If that realization runs the
gawut from II high tencr ncte to the
pr ofundity of the fog born's lowest
emission.
In recent issue, in discussing the
supineness of Congress on the none
tary question, as illustrated in the
difficulty of getting a meeting of the
House Committee on Banking and
Currency, aud the activity of the
body touching the tariff, as shown in
the steady work of the Ways and
Means Committee, our contempora
~ breaks forth in the following sta
cato fashion:
|There is haste; there is energy;
time must be saved; there must be
new turiff law at tue earliest moment"
Then the journal moaus because
there is NO throng of currency re
forms in Washington. and asks these
questions:
Were tho promises of financial
reform that we Thought we had re
c, ived last summer fraudulent? Were
they made merely to get the whole
sound money sentiment of the coun
try. regardless of party lines, TO vote
for Mckinley and more tariff, and
with no intention of doing anything
about the currency. Has political
party secured the votes of the couu-
try under false pretences!"
To these questions we answ Ell yes
The very co iii ions Tia, j. + ml cites
as existing at Washington &c
and emphasize that answer.
But the Journal does not stop
here. In this sad strain it confesses
that it was befooled. aud 30 "a bitter
appreciation that the c..vrency re
form baby was stuffed with sawdust:
"But perhaps tLe mistake was
ours; the misunderstanding that of
the people of the United States who
appreciate the grave dangers of the
present currency situation and feel
just as a good many other people
prOfessed to feel last SUMMER, that
the reform Of the currency overshad
owed ali other issues. Perhaps the
promise of currency reform meant
nothing but that there should De no
free coinage law. if that were all
it was not worth making much of AN
effort for"
Truly, we have here q remarkable
and most humiliating admission.
We might be mean enough 10 say to
the journal aud all the other Demo
cratic papers that are now founder
ing in the low grounds of desI air
that we told them So But We vii
not. We would not drive the iron
deeper into their souls. We would
bid them look up--iook beyond the
Mckinleyism they helped 10 victory
to the people. We do not believe
the dominant party in Congress has
any idea of giving tho country cur
rency reform unless forced so to do
by an irresistible demand from the
masses, but we believe such a de
mand is coming. Signs of its APP
prOach are increasing every day, and
IT is acquiring strength from voters
who, like the journal of Commerce.
made the mistake during the last
campaign of accepting the promises
of the Republican party seriously
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