Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-05

good. But suppose each strives
to show the other the better way
by example. There is then a
generous rivalry in good deeds
and each improves himself with a
chance of improving the other
with the reasonableness of his
views of life and action. Two
nations, in a like contest, must
pursue the same plan. want to
refer to this when | come to speak
of Imperialism later on.
"Our nation must, and is in a
position to, solve almost all the
important problems of the age.
| want my country to solve them
by force of example and not by
brutal force.
owe must have some rule
as in mathematics, we have rules
for fundamental operations like
addition, subtraction and so on.
If you learn how to weigh a ton
OF coal you can weigh all coal.
If you learn how TO measure a
piece of land you can measure a
larger piece, may even measure
the earth. So | believe thee is a
rlue in every public Equestion. |
am perfectly willing TO acknowl-
edge that | may be mistaken in
what | think to be best, but | am
more concerned in finding out
what is hest than in finding out
that my plan is best. In advocat-
ing the adoption on the part my
country of the plan of noble and
inspiring example set up before
other nations rather than blind
adhearance To brutal force. I'm
not selfish for | have To live
here. | have children whose flu
ture is affected by the laws and
institutions of this land. I'm not
like the Scotch woman that said ;
"l'm open to conviction, but I'd
like to see the man that could con-
vince mep'
| Mr.. Bryan made some reference
to the principles he had advocated
in 1896 and in answering the ar
Iguments then put forth by his OPP
Iponents, used severe language,
but as quotations from others, gen
orally Republicans, "because, "
said he, 81 don't like to say hard
things of those who differ on pub
lie questions, but ! don't mind
lquoting others who do say pretty
rough things of the policies. II
Iyou believe man is wrong don't
denounce him. If he is in well
and you want him on hill, don't
abuse him. Try to raise him from
the well and set him on the hill.
In my heart of hearts ! believe all
men are equal-not in stature, size
or mental or moral qualities, but
in his rights before the law, or as
| Thomas Jefferson said, Il believe
in equal rights for all, special
privilege to none So, Andrew
| Jackson thought that under "A just
form of government men must
differ but when a government
goes beyoud this and makes the
rich richer and the potent more
Ipowerful-then it oversteps its
lawful bounds and becomes no
better than a despot;sm.
The speaker contended that
Federal taxation was more unjust
than our local taxation. Taxes
on consumption" he said, "taxes
the poo, man with large family
more than the rich man with a
samll family" The speaker illus
trated this with the sugar tax. He
said he thought in 90 the rich
| Democrats would not leave the
party because of the income tax
and that the poor Republicans
would come into the Democratic
party even if the rich Democrats
went into the Republican party
He found out Che said) that he
didn't know the rich Democrats
as he does now and that he know:
the poor Republicans better now
. than he did thenl
Mr.. Bryan paid his respects tc
= the Supreme Court decisions il
! regard to the income tax, and one
} of the Judges, who said that in al
5 emergency this decision woulc
rise up to enbarress the Republic
: and in the late Spanish war this
had been the case. They couldn'
7 touch the income of the rich, bu
I had to go elsewhere for revenues