Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-09-22
A GREAT SPEECH.

A GREAT SPEECH.
Judge QuarIes Stirs up Buck
ingham Voters.
Hon. Julian M. Quarles, Democratic
candidate for Congress, opened the cam
paign in Buckingham this week. Ol
Monday, the day he made speech a
the courthouse. both the Democrats ant
Republicans had meetings and as thu
courthouse could not accommodate th'
crowd, the speaking took place outside
Senator H. D. Flood, s. L. Ferguson
and Editor Clements, of Appomattox
Hon. Beverly Harrison, of Amherst
Paul Petit and Hon. Pembroke Petit
of Fluyanna were among the visiting
Democrats present.
Judge Quarles, was given warm
cheering reception, and his rooms wers
thronged by the people OF the county and
surrounding counties, who assured him
Of their hearty support and co opera.
ton
The Judge was introduced by Hon.
Edmund HUBBARD, first cousin of the
Republican nominee, and County Chair
man Dr.. w. E. Pratt. presided over the
large meeting. In presenting Judge
Quarles, Mr.. Hubbard warmly commend
ed him, saying he was esteemed at his
home, the best place from which to learn
of a mans character and standing, and
declared that the people of Buckingham
would like Judge Quarles better and
be tier each day as they knew more of
him.
Judge Quarles opened his speech by
saying that while he came from over
the blue mountains in the great Valley,
it was always with pride that he recall
ed the fact that on the eastern side of
the Ridge was the place of bis nativity
and the home of his ancestors. He had
passed much of his life in this section
of the State 81 am Tuckahoe," said
he, "native and to the manner born, y
and your interests will be safe in my
hands,"
Colonel Hubbard, the Republican
nominee, had said that since the battle
of Manila the people must rise above
party, and then proceeded to speak for
the gold standard.
I don't rise above my party it's good
enough for me. Manila freed the
Cubans, but now we must look to De-
mocracy to free our own home people.
The issues now are those of 1896, to-
gether with the great questions grow
ing out of the SpanisE-American war.
Free silver was right in 1896; t's right
today, and all that has since occurred,
but goes to strengthen the position of
bimetallists. Today values are low and
times are hard, and the question is,
What's the cause and what is the re-
medy? insufficient volume of stand
ard money is the answer. But they at
tempt to explain away low prices. 1t
can't he overproduction, for the econo
mists tell us truly there is no such thing
as permanent overproduction there
may be an overplus one year, but short
crops follow. Nor is the downward
attributable to improve
ments in machinery, for the greatest
in productive machinery
took place between 184s and 1850, and
wheat was high. twenty-five years of
falling prices, continuous downward
declares that there is an in
sufficient currency.
Judge Quarles showed how by the
discovery of silver at Postoi, Peru.
wheat rose, the rise being only checked
by the revolutions closing the silver
mines, and, again, cited the impetus
that was given to the price of wheat
and farm products by the discovery OF
gold in California in 1916, which thus
added to the volume of redemptive
metal money. Prices then went up
from Is per cent to 80 per cent. Pros
perity, said he, can never come with
out rise in prices, and permanent
rise in prices rests on an increased
volume of standard money.
Colonel HUBBARD, my opponent, says
we never had two standards of money
Yes, silver was the unit of value, but
the currency rested on gold and silver,
as Thomas Jefferson said it should, and
in demanding silver at 16 to l we ask
for no new thing, but are but returning
to the currency of the Constitution.
Touching the great crime of 1873.
Judge Quarles shouted, silver was tax
en- away without your direction; why
should it not be restored at your direc-
ton?
We are asking for the best money
silver and gold, both at 16 to 1.
The income tax was intended to
equalize the taxation on rich and poor,
it's object being to tax property which
otherwise would escape its just share of
burden, and with telling effect he quot
ed Disraeli ''that property has its duties
to perform as well as it's rights to en-
joy." Five times the United States
Supreme Court decided that an income
tax was constitutional, aud then, in
1895, the court, as constituted, reversed
it's oft-decided, well-determined deci-
siops We Oupht to have an income
tax, because it 8 right, and nothing is
settled until it's settled right.
Justice Harlan, of the United States
Supreme Court, said that the effect of
income tax was that every
workman, artisan, and minister of the
Gospel may be made to contribute, but
the bondholder and the rent eater may
not contribute one cent.
The Republicans said, we want bonds
issued, and they issued nearly five hun