Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-06-03

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Mr.. Bryan has not yet succeeded
in getting a prominent place in the
army. He will hardly be offered g
choice position.
With full supply of balloons and
aeronauts, and with submarine vessels,
we ought 10 be able to find Crevera'S
squadron and dispose of it.
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The insurgent army of Cuba seems
to be growing smaller, as we get
nearer to it. 1t viii not however,
vanish altogether before we get our
army over.
Spain is evidently becoming tired
of war. She has no hopes Of final
success, but wants to protect her
national honor. An effort to arbi-
trate the present difficulties, it is now
thought, would be gladly received
not only by the government, but by
the mass of the people who are suffer
ing the effects of continued war.
May we not hope that the difficulties
may be adjusted without the sacrifice
ola large number of men, (which would
be almost certain, if we should have
an extended campaign in Cuba.
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The fact that the products Of the
farm have greatly advanced in price
during the last - months and that
our farmers are realizing remunerative
pay goes far to contradict the argu-
ments of the free silver advocates
who, two years ago, contended that
it was impossible for prices to advance
so long as gold was standard of
value.
To the thoughtful men, their ar
guments now prove ouly that they
were wrong. and that it was FORUM
ate for all of us that they were not
successful.
Whether caused by scarcity in
foreign countries, or by war, it is a
well known fact that prices will be
regulated by the law Of supply and
demand.
Another fact is also apparent and
it is this, that so long as our people
are in a prosperous condition, or
believe themselves to be so, parties
contending for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, for fiat money, or for
an unlimited issue of greenbacks, can
not, and ought not to, succeed.
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War is not now what war
was with us 35 years ago. Now
business is transacted as usual. Those
who chose to 60 to war went and
their families suffer the anxieties
and inconvenience of the absence and
dangers of members. 1t was very
different with us in the civil war. 1t
was not then those who chose to 90,
but all who could were compelled to
90. The narrowing scenes of war
were Immediately before us. The
reverbearting sounds of artillery fell
upon our own ears. The long lines
of wounded, going to the rear passed
through our own streets. At night
when our women and children re-
tired it was with apprehension Of
rude and heartless swakenings before
the neutrality-suspicious. which
were too often realized. There seemed
10 be no rights of private property,
the laws were silent and everything
was at the mercy Of lawless bands.
The means of the wounded and the
burial of the dead became familiar
even to the little children. We then
experienced all the horrors of war.
We saw our homes, our churches and
our barns committed to the flames.
The struggle at home was not to do
business, to make money or to acquire
property, but it was to preserve life
amid the devastation around US. Now,
we are only suffering as did those
who secure in their distant Northern
homes, were urging on the war
against us.