Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
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WHAT OF WHEAT7
Gold standard Tonics Are No Per
mRncnt Remedy.

Gold standard Tonics Are No Per-
mancnt Remedy.
Prior to the decentralization of silver
in 1873, the price of wheat was hardly
ever below a dollar bushel. It fire.
quently went up to two dollars and
sometimes considerably higher. On rare
occasions, as on the failure of crops in
this or In other wheat-growing coun-
tries, the price rose to three dollars a
bushel. In those days of silver and gold
no farmer thought of letting his crop go
for less than dollar q bushel, and all
other farm products, such as corn, oats,
rye, pork. beef, potatoes and, in the
south, cotton and tobacco, were worth
just about double what they have been
fetching during this period of the single
gold standard. There is not a farmer
whose memory runs back, 80, 10 or so
years but will confirm this statement.
In those days of bimetallism the farm
ers were forehanded; their farms were
not covered by mortgages and each
had, not only the comforts of life, but
money in his pocket; and so 1t would be
again If we could slip the yoke that the
gold standard money kings of Europe
have put upon our necls. All that the
country needs to insure real and lasting
prosperity is to etfback where we were
before our prosperity was bartered
away.
Neither II temporary scarcity of wheat
nor n trustridden tariff law will give
permanent relief. These are no moro
than stimulant to very sick patient.
They do not touch the seat of the dis
ease. Persons may pirate about prosper
ity as much rs they will, but 1t is mostly
sham, so fur rs the common people are
concerned. We must get ut the root of
the evil. We must retrace the fatal step
of destroying half OF the lawful money
of the country. This Ia reason, this Is
philosophy. Unless we reinstate silver
as lawful money, wheat will fall back to
half price again, as soon us the present
scarcity subsidies, and everything else
but gold will remain down and 20 low
er and lower. The only redemption
money, gold, will go up, until the money
barons of the old world can handle and
control 1t even more completely than
they do at the present time.
Thefarmers and producers must learn
1890 Ns'NA " 40 Ohig oiic W IuciT tcIu-
poral salvation, and that Is to get back
where we were before our fall. Any per-
son endowed by his Creator with q lit
tlo reason. who will use his reasoning
faculties, must see that these views are
incontrovertible. a little temporary
relief may come from time TO time, ow-
Ing to special causes; tonic for tho
sick person may afford little relief,
but the patient Is not cured, nor can he
be cured by any such means.
The single standard people propose no
remedy; they only excite our hopes by
administering tonics, and that Is ali
that has occurred thus far. There can
De no reformation or prosperity until
there Is cause for 1t, and no cause has
been shown. Sclf-delusion il more
pleasant than profitable. No good can
come from falsely proclaiming pros
perity when disappointment is sure TO
follow. If real prosperity ever comes to
fhis country, it. must come from q
change In our financial policy. We are
now in the firm clutch of the gold
manipulatorso OF Europe, andallrhe dol
lar wheat" we can raise will afford but
little relief.-Los Angeles Herald.